Your One Big LifeLeslie McGraw & Deb NystromWomen of Color Taskforce Career Conference: Transforming the Face of Leadership, March 2014

ConnectWhen have you dealt successfully with change, even when initially, it looked like failure?

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Agenda

10 Welcome & Connect

10 The Power of Our Stories

60 Antifragile: 5 Key

Practices

25 Open Space

15 Raggedy Close

Stories

“After nourishment,

shelter and

companionship,

stories are the thing

we need most in the

world.”

― Philip Pullman

5 Key Practices to Be Antifragile“If about everything top-down fragilizes and blocks

antifragility and growth, everything bottom-up thrives under the right amount of stress and

disorder.”- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Photos: Sponge, by rob.knight Flickr cc

Butterfly, by Deb Nystrom

Flexto Anti-FragileBeyond Resilience

Anti-FragileSome things benefit from

shocks; they thrive and

grow when exposed to

volatility, randomness,

disorder, and stressors

and love adventure, risk,

and uncertainty.

...Yet, there is no word

for the exact opposite of

fragile.

Let us call it antifragile.

Antifragile: Things that

Gain from Disorder -

ReinventIntrapreneur &

Entrepreneur

Mindset

IntrapreneurMindsetJob Titles

Professional Development

Navigating Supervisor Interactions

Conflicts of Interest and Commitment -http://spg.umich.edu/policy/201.65-1

Intellectual Property -http://spg.umich.edu/policy/601.07

Developing Your Online Presence/Reputation

The Four C’s

• Connect• Clarify• Commit• Care

AccessTo You

Your Online Presence is:

•Everything you say

•Everything you don’t say

•Your actions or inaction

•What others have to say about you

Your Online Presence is:

•Everything you say

•Everything you don’t say

•Your actions or inaction

•What others have to say about you

Multi-Network

SOCIAL Networking

SPARK

Conferences

Staff Classes and

Training

VOICES

Ann Arbor Chamber

Events

Volunteering

Yammer

LinkedIn

MeetUp.com

Private Online groups

Tweet-Chat (Twitter)

Google +

People Movers

Brand Pages

Everything

Happens in

Perfect Timing

What is Open Space

Technology?H. H. Owen’s

assumptions:

If the boss orders it, not

much will get done.

The best way to get

something done is to

give it to those who

have a passion for it.

Photo by nerissa's ring, Flickr.com ccc

Open Space Technology

Principles:

1. Whoever comes are the

right people.

2. Whatever happens is the

only thing that could

have.

3. Whenever it starts is the

right time.

4. When it’s over, it’s over.

The Law

of Two Feet

What

challenged

you? What

inspired

you?

What

surprised

you?

Reflection &Wrap-Up

AgendaWelcome & Connect

The Power of Our Stories

Clarify

5 key practices to be

Antifragile

Clarify & Care

Open Space

Raggedy Close

Care & Commit

What are your “Hopenings”

to be Antifragile?

References from today:

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