Leadership for Change

This week's lecture was a little bit confusing, but Tamara Gray did make some really good points that I want to emphasize. I understood the source strategy of Personal Motivation. We can motivate ourselves or motivate others by allowing self discovery, creating personal experiences or vicarious experiences, and we need to end with an invitation. I liked that she talked about making a personal experience that will make you or the person you're influencing care about that change. When I really understand a cause that's when I want to join. In my English class last semester, for our research paper, we were supposed to do more for our reader by giving a personal story compared to a statistic. When we can create a vicarious experience, it makes the issue more personal. In this way we can "consciously connect to values."
Another point I liked was about goals and social motivation. When we really want to achieve a goal, we will tell somebody who will hold us accountable for it. We need to choose good people to surround ourselves with so we can harness good peer pressure. When you are with good people, you will feel more accountable to them to be the best you can around them. We can find strength in numbers.
This approach to setting a goal to change seems like a good way to harness your own abilities, use others in a good way, and take advantage of our environment (structure).


P.S. Love language - Service (I think?)