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Exhibit 13.8. Training Content: Exercises Used in Organizational Learning Sessions (Continued)
Session II
Developing Personal Mastery and Vision
Exercise I—Personal Mastery Exercise
This exercise will help you define your personal vision: what you want to create
for yourself and the world around you. This is one positive way to channel the
stress in your life to more rewarding and fulfilling endeavors.
Your Own Personal Vision: Steps in the Process
Step 1: Knowing what you want your life to be
Create your life plan first by knowing why you are here, often called your mis-
sion. Summarize your mission with using one word—your word-in-the-box. In
other words, what “one word” guides you . . . that you want to strive for.
Your word-in-the-box could be service, excellence, teamwork, peace, happiness,
or anything else . . .
Here’s your very own place for your word-in-the-box:
Step 2: Going deeper with our word-in-the box
Think about your word-in-the box and what that word means to you and your
life’s mission or purpose. Picture that word in three different environments:
• At Home/Your Social Life
• At Work
• Within Yourself
What would you need to change in order to bring forth/incorporate your word
even more in each of these three environments?
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Exhibit 13.8. Training Content: Exercises Used in Organizational Learning Sessions (Continued)
Take yourself forward in time. It is 2005 and your organization/department is
operating in a healthy, productive, and sustainable way.
–What is going on?
–How is it different?
–Why are we going there?
–How are we going to get there?
–What was it you and others did back in 2002 to achieve this remarkable
transformation?
–What creative tensions need to be resolved in order for this change to happen?
Note: This exercise was expanded upon from Session I and highlighted again in Session II to
reflect changes in thinking and to capture new participants.
Exercise III—Ongoing Personal Mastery Exercise: Do Differently
In order to start to initiate any kind of change, it is necessary to first identify
something that you want to change or do differently in your life. You can start
with a goal that you’ve been wanting to initiate, work on some “irritation” or
challenge that you’ve been experiencing, or just do something in a different way
to stretch your creativity.
This exercise involves three steps.
Step 1: Make some change ...dosomething differently . . . start on some goal.
Describe that experience:

department’s repair and maintenance reengineering effort and co-managed
the resultant process. He developed and implemented MIT’s infrastructure
renewal program and led it from its inception. Joe is a registered professional
engineer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and he holds a Bachelor of
Science degree in civil engineering from Lowell Technological Institute and a
Master’s degree in adult and organizational learning from Suffolk University.
Patricia Kennedy Graham is director of administration for the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology’s Department of Facilities. In that capacity, Pat has respon-
sibility for the human resource, learning and performance, and IT teams that
support the entire department. Additionally, she participates as a member of the
operational leadership team, the strategic leadership team, and the director’s
team for the department. Pat worked at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, a federally
funded research and development center, as associate group leader. Pat left
Lincoln Laboratory to be the director of administration for the Boston office of
Deloitte & Touche. Prior to returning to MIT to work in the Department of Facil-
ities, she was managing director at Surgency, Inc., a management consulting firm
specializing in best business practices and e-business transformation consulting.
Pat received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston College and Master’s degree
in administration from Boston University.
Dr. Carol Ann Zulauf is associate professor of adult and organizational learning
at Suffolk University in Boston. She also has her own consulting practice,
specializing in leadership, team development, and systems thinking. Her clients
span high-tech, federal and state government, health care, education, and
consumer product organizations. Her prior work experience includes being a
senior training instructor for Motorola, Inc. Dr. Zulauf has many publications
to her credit, including her newly published book, The Big Picture: A Systems
Thinking Story for Managers (Linkage Press, 2001). She is also a frequent
presenter at regional, national, and international conferences.
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