ISLE was actually a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be. Delatorro is great! He is fun and makes you participate in his speech. He is also a great motivator and likes to keep it real! His keynote speech was really good and he gave examples from recent movies of the different types of leadership styles and the pros and cons of them. He gave great requirements to have in order to be a great leader. One is needing to be a great follower. Also, you have to be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.
I went to the first session with Delatorro again because I was hoping to get the 12 important steps in writing my own ticket in college and beyond. I wanted to know his idea of the best way to succeed in college so I could share that not only with myself but with the freshman next year. Unfortunately he did not get through all 12 steps but he said some really great things. The main thing that stuck out to me was, there is no win or lose, there is only win or learn. You can't look at life as winning or losing, because every time you lose, you learn something from that experience. Learning will always get you closer to winning the next time and that is why one should never be afraid to go for things they want.
The second session was about icebreakers. I thought this session was really fun and I wish we could have had more time to learn more icebreakers. The one that was really fun was when there was someone standing in the middle and they have to point at three people and say "cow or rabbit or fire hydrant," then the three people had to perform an action. It was a great way to get relaxed with the people you were around because we had to do funny actions which probably put a lot of people out of their comfort zone. Icebreakers are a great way to open up and feel more relaxed with a group of people one has never met.
The third session I attended I did not like. It was about utilizing strengths but we never identified different types of strengths or how we could use them to our advantage. The ending of the day was great because my name was drawn for a prize and I received a twenty dollar gift card!!! Yay!
Wow! very interesting. Congrats on getting a gift car ^_^
ReplyDeleteWOW! you sound like you had an awesome day. The icebreakers sessions sounds like it was a lot of fun! Also, i would like to say I love the statement you made in the first paragraph, we have to be able to lead ourselves before we can lead others.
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