Leadership Academy Participant Guide – C5 RES VI – April 23-24, 2024

COMMUNITY 5 | RESIDENTIAL VI April 23 - 24, 2024

ASCENSION LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

Participant Guide

Community 5 | Residential VI

April 23 - 24, 2024

The following guide represents a summary of key ideas. Additional concepts may be presented. Presentations may be made available after the program via download as they become available.

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Ascension Leadership Academy Community 5 Residential, Session VI

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Introduction to the materials

PARTICIPANT GUIDE

This guide contains core content for the session, distilled from the presentations you will see throughout the program. You can use the exercises and notes logged within for reference as you progress through the program.

DAY ONE

SACRED SPACE

Tom Aloia and Jon Sohn

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OPENING REMARKS AND DIALOGUE

Joe Impicciche

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SPONSORSHIP CHECK-IN

Katie Thenhaus

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THE VIRTUES OF FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE

Sarah Reddin

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Objectives

• Facilitate individual and communal growth in virtue rooted in Ascension’s Values and Identity as a Catholic Ministry

• Integrate senior executive competencies and capabilities into experiential and reflective learning activities that are aligned with Ascension’s strategic plan and the ABIDE framework

• Engage opportunities to innovate and develop the skills required to deliver an unparalleled consumer, patient and associate experience

Outcomes

• Demonstrate a growth mindset through ongoing reflection on their practice of virtuous servant leadership

• Promote a culture of inclusion that enables compassionate, personalized care for all, especially those most in need

• Articulate the union of Ascension’s Mission and Strategic Plan as the foundation of and reason for all that we do

Faith

Rooted in transcendent mystery and the ultimate good

Rooted: established deeply and firmly

Transcendent: of God, existing apart from and not subject to the limitations of the material universe

Mystery: not a problem to solve, but an excess of realities to be discovered

Hope

Seeing clearly what is real and resolutely pursuing the good Ways to develop hope:

1. Moving from scarcity to abundance mindset

2. Practice humility

3. Give thanks – practice gratitude

4. Have accountability partners –who can speak the truth in love to you

For I know well the plans I have in mind for you— oracle of the LORD—plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope .

Jeremiah 29:11, NAB

Love

Embodying God’s own relational life and

compassion

Love as a leadership practice:

1. Model curiosity and wonder

2. Build authentic connections

3. Embrace our own vulnerability to learn

4. Demonstrate empathy

5. Protect and persevere

6. Trust

Being a loving ministry of Jesus as healer

Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable.

Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care which sustains and improves the health of individuals and communities.

We are advocates for a compassionate and just society through our actions and our words.

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VIRTUES IN ACTION LEADERSHIP REFLECTION PROCESS

Michelle Kohler, Sarah Reddin, Katie Thenhaus, and Tom VanOsdol

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Objectives

• To develop the practices and competencies for awareness of self and others to shape the action-reflection process in and through leadership, integrating the Virtue of Prudence

Outcomes

• Explore key moments of experience as doorways to the deeper story of who you are as a leader

• Inquire to reveal layers of meaning, motivation, gifts and blind spots to leadership

• Recognize patterns that enable and hinder leadership

• Discover Virtues that are active or needed

Virtues: A Summary

VIA Experience

• Reflection

• Share Key Leadership Moments

• Select Member’s Moment for Reflective Sharing

• Reading #2

• Clarifying Questions – integrating the Virtue of Faith

• Exploratory Questions – integrating the Virtue of Faith

• Heart of the Matter – integrating the Virtue of Hope

• Member Insights – integrating the Virtue of Love

• Gratitude, Prayer, and Return Instructionsintegrating the Virtue of Prudence

Ground Rules

• Engage with the Value of Reverence: respect for the dignity and diversity of life

• These are sacred stories of human beings not problems to be solved

• Double confidentiality – stories are not shared outside of VIA, or invited to be discussed more outside of VIA

• Silence and space are good – not to be feared

• Suspend judgment

• Practice self-reflection by drawing on what is going on inside you and developing self-awareness

• Group makes space for equal participation by all

• Trust the group and the process

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REFLECTIVE CLOSE

Stephan Masoncup

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Reflection and Conversation

What are you taking forward from today’s learning experience?

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DAY TWO

SACRED SPACE

Audra Pratt and Aaron Shoemaker

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ACADEMY JOURNEY: DEMONSTRATING

IMPACT PRESENTATIONS

Academy Members

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FINDING CERTAINTY IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD

April Rinne

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Objectives

• L earn how to open a Flux Mindset, cultivate the 8 Flux Superpowers, and boost your “fluxiness”

• Improve your relationship to constant change, uncertainty, and unknowns, including actionable practices for enhanced self-awareness and teamwork

• Get future-ready tools and techniques for you and your team to truly be in control

• L earn to see the future – including your future, and some of the “wicked problems of healthcare” – with fresh perspective and clarity (including perhaps a few surprises)

• S how up fully for work, your family, team, friends, community, and ministry – every part of life, every day!

Outcomes

• C onnect the virtues of faith, hope, and love to your ability to effectively lead, guide, and thrive in constant change, harnessing the framework of April’s book Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change

• E xplore and better develop one’s awareness of, their relationship to change and uncertainty: Not just how you “manage” change and the unknown, but how you show up for these things to begin with

• Integrate insights from Flux with Ascension’s servant leadership and ministry goals

• Weave together and highlight themes from across the Leadership Academy experience, both individually and collectively

Flux: 8 Superpowers: Unlock your Flux Mindset.

Run Slower

Manage your pace to be your best – for yourself and others.

Get List

Get comfortable with discomfort and harness not knowing.

Know Your “Enough”

Discover the foundation of true happiness and well-being.

See What’s Invisible

Learn how to identify your blind spots, broaden your perspective, and embrace the full picture.

Start with Trust

Unlock the single most important factor to thriving in uncertainty.

Create Your Portfolio Career

Design and own a successful, meaningful career that's fit for a future of work in flux.

Let Go of the Future

Recalibrate your relationship to technology to favor human connection.

Level up your relationship to control for better outcomes.

Exploring 3 Flux Superpowers In Depth

1 . Faith: Start with Trust . When trust seems broken, assume good intent. Trusted relationships are the new certainty.

2 . Hope: See What’s Invisible . When life feels blurry or the future is uncertain, shift your focus from what’s visible to what’s invisible.

3 . L ove: Be All the More Human . In a world with more robots, your key to thrive is to be all the more human, to invest in human relationships, and to use your humanity to help others.

https: // fluxmindset.com/ascensioncommunity 5

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REFLECTIVE CLOSE

Scott Herndon

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What have you learned about yourself as a

leader this week?

• Through our reflection on, experiences of, and learning about Faith, Hope, and Love?

• Through our shared learning about:

– Reflecting on the Academy Journey and the Impact it had personally and professionally on you

– Finding Certainty in an Uncertain World

– Practicing the Virtues in Action process

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Academy Blessing

As one community, Let us gather ourselves, Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, In the presence of God’s Spirit, Who dwells in and among us all. We offer the work, joy, Refreshment and learning of this day For the sake of those who are served By the good being done through us.