Lindsay Hunt

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Defining All Kinds of Minds Through LifePrep
Great Minds Dont Think Alike

• Lindsay Hunt

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• 100 years of psychology has taught us only what
  makes us unhappywhy not study and discover what
  makes one happy?

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Vision
Attitude Is Everything

• Defining our children's minds not just through
  standardize testing but actually finding what
  their strengths and weaknesses are. Focusing on
  their abilities and guiding them into the
  direction of success.

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• The goal of this project is to build on the basic
  concepts of the LifePrep, by utilizing the
  measuring system of the Kolbe Index, and the tool
  box of The Strategic Coach.

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The Concept
Its not who we are that holds us back, its who
we think were not. -Michael Nolan
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Life Prep

• High school students are primed to get into the
  best possible colleges or land lucrative jobs.
  Some institutions even call themselves college
  prep schools. The term is most often a
  euphemisms for college admissions prep. Why not
  life prep? Dont we need to prepare our kids
  for the tough demands of adult life? I believe so

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Vision of LifePrep

• To identify the students strengths, weaknesses,
  talents, and abilities in an academic
  environment.
• To encourage and cultivate weaknesses but to
  create a path for a student to pursue their
  strengths and passions

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Goals

• Self Knowledge
• External Knowledge
• Life Skills
• Service
• Vocation

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Self Knowledge External Knowledge

• To understand ones strengths and weaknesses and
  potential, not just for the teachers awareness,
  but for the student to understand as well
• Gaining the confidence needed to express
  qualities
• To provide new and more opportunities, not just
  college admission but for life skills

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Life Skills

• The practical skills needed to succeed at the
  highest levels in life.
• Potential Curriculum ethics, civility,
  etiquette, citizenship, ecology, financial
  planning, interviewing skills, brainstorming,
  critical thinking, reasoning, logic, public
  speaking, and business ethics

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Service

• Gratitude in action
• Given unconditionally
• Personal

Finding success through service
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Vocation

• To help students decide on a college and career
  that complies with their strengths weaknesses and
  ability
• Starting with internships
• Choosing an internships that will benefit the
  student in their future, not something that
  looks like fun.

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Goals

• Self Knowledge
• External Knowledge
• Life Skills
• Self Responsibility
• Service
• Vocation

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• The Measuring Stick

If you dont know where youre going, how ya
gonna get there?
-Anonymous
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Success is the freedom to be yourself
-Kathy Kolbe
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The Kolbe Systemby Kathy Kolbe

• Studies the innate ability of human beings. And
  helps people discover and use their natural
  instincts
• Has researched this methodology for over 40
  years, spanning over six continents

• Pioneered a distinct cluster of human
  behaviors that led
• to breakthroughs in the understanding and use
  of innate
• abilities.
• She has lectured and conducted reasearch in
  over 20
• univerities
• She has been asked to be a consultant to
  school districts
• and state departments around the country.

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The Kolbe System Vision

• To change the way people think.
• To remove them from the mindset that they have to
  accomplish something one particular way

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Kolbe System

• A system of aptitude tests that reveals ones
  strengths, weaknesses, talents and abilities.
• These tests provide different levels for
  different ages,
• -IF Index for younger, Y Index for
  teenage, A Index for 18 plus
• Does not show ones learned behavior or
  personality traits, but shows ones instinctive
  abilities. People instinctively want to be happy.

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The Index

• This aptitude test would be administered four
  different times during ones school career
• - Lower School
• - first grade - Y1 index
• - Middle School
• - fifth grade - Y Index
• - Upper School twice
• - freshmen year - Y index
• - senior year - A index

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The Index

• Teachers would also take the Index
• -Would take the A index
• This would allow students to be placed with
  advisors\teachers with similar abilities and
  strengths.
• Allowing more productivity and confidence by
  students in the classrooms

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The Toolbox
People talk about finding their lives. In
reality, your life is not something you find-its
something you create -David Phillips
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The Strategic CoachBy Dan Sullivan

• Has 25 years of experience as a highly regarded
  speaker, consultant, strategic planner, and coach
  to entrepreneurs.
• Coaching skills works to help entrepreneurs reach
  their full potential in business and personal
  lives.
• Books Focusing Your Unique Ability, How the Best
  Get Better, and How to be A Global Thinker

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Strategic Coach

• This is a program that provides a tool box of
  concepts to maximize ones strengths abilities and
  talents.
• Concepts such as The Unique Ability, The Time
  System and The 21 Day Gratitude Concept.

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The Unique Ability
Those on top of the mountain didnt fall there

-Marcus Washling
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Unique Ability

• Ask yourself what am I good at? What are my
  special talents? What do I like to do?
• Begin to discover your special talents and skills
  and try to work more in your area of Unique
  Ability and delegate or isolate yourself from
  the tasks you lack skill in
• Any activity you take part in can be categorized
  into four groups

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You have superior skills in activities you love
to do- more confidence
You only contain mediocre skills in these areas
and your skill level never rises
UNIQUE ABILITY
EXCELLENT
COMPETENT
You have superior skills in this activity But no
passion to do these activities

• activities your often experience failure,
  frustration, and stress. Activites you dread
  doing, because you dont want to do them

INCOMPETENT
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The Time System
Thats what freedom is all about-a chance to be
better
-Albert Camus
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The Time System

• Helps to break your day into three time segments
• Focus Time
• Buffer Time
• Free Time
• This allows you to organize and accomplish more
  tasks during the day. Also one finds they have
  more free time

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FREE TIME
BUFFER TIME
PREPARATION
REJUVENATION
FOCUS TIME
PRODUCTIVITY
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Focus Time

• Needs maximum concentration without any
  distractions to finish the most important
  activities
• Focus activities are things one wants to succeed
  in and what one likes to do
• Exams, tests and quizzes, projects and
  extra-curricular activities and sporting events

Focus Time 1
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Buffer Time

• Is used to break down and organize the most
  important activities
• This time is used for preparation
• to clean up messes
• Taking care of activities that are not productive
• -Example cleaning your room

Buffer Time 2
Focus Time 1
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Free Time

• Time for rejuvenation, and to do activities you
  want to do
• Complete separation from obligations and
  work-related activities

Buffer Time 2
Focus Time 1
Free Time 3
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The 21 Day Gratitude Focus

• Gratitude is an internally-generated
• capability, which allows an individual to create
  and discover an unlimited meaning and value in
  every situation and relationship in life
• -Dan Sullivan

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21 Days of Gratitude(service)

• Creating the habit of expressing sincere
  gratitude from an early age
• By doing this children will learn the values of
  giving (service)
• Also creates more productivity and happiness

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How Does All This Relate?

• The Kolbe System is designed to identify ones
  natural talents, strengths and weaknesses, going
  back to LifePrep, all of those concepts

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Action Plan

• 1) Form and Advisory board to begin process of
  shaping curriculum.
• - 3 Administrators
• - 3 Teachers
• - 3 Students
• 2) Adopt the Kolbe Index as the measuring
  system
• -Administer IF to LS- 1st grade
• -Administer Y to MS- 5th grade
• -Administer Y to US- 9th grade - A to 12th
  grade
• - Utilize results of the Kolbe Index to help
  teachers/advisor
• develop the best curriculum
• - match student and teacher traits/abilities
  for better realationships
• and higher productivity

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Action Plan

• 3) Adopt Strategic Coach concepts and Strategies
  as the tool box
• - Unique Ability
• - Time System
• - 21 Day Gratitude Focus
• 4) Target Date
• Fall 2007

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• Attitude
• Confidence
• Happiness
• Productivity

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• Listen to your dreams- those are the sounds no
  one else can hear.
• -Kobi Yamada

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• We embrace change as an investment in our
  future. We realize that there is always room for
  improvement in everything we do. We feel that
  the process of constant constructive change and
  improvement is the highest of goals and dedicate
  ourselves wholeheartedly to it. We look forward
  to the future with confidence, knowing that our
  past and present endeavors have prepared us for
  success tomorrow
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  -UDA vision