Creating a ProfessionallyResponsible Culture

ThroughPeer Leadership

Willow Misty ParksGraduate Assistant

Anderson School of ManagementUniversity of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM

• Active and cooperative

• Short cases

• Emotional impact/real people

• Analysis modeled practical application

• Emotional regulation and self reflection

• Anticipating consequences and type of challenges

It’s About the Audience

• Builds relationships

• Creates sense of community

• Adds credibility

• Can be powerful and pervasive

• Introduces Professional Responsiblity as a foundation for success in school, at work, in life.

Peer Leadership

• Approached—meet students where they are. – Embedded in many contexts, courses,

workshops and experiences

• Explore real-world dilemmas

• Provide concepts and tools

• Research-based

• Peer leadership and ownership of concepts

University Based Example

• Why things go wrong

• How things go right

• How to recognize problems

• Building professional responsibility through practice

• Skills for responding: decision-making framework, personal scripts

Know and live your values!

Central Concepts

• Not about work ethic

• Often question of values

• Reaching them where they are

Reaching Millennials

• A lot of smart people in the world

• The successful and the ones that achieve are the ones with the “whole package”

Messages that Resonate!

• Incentives and pressures can encourage poor practice, but does not change personal responsibility.

Apple or Barrel?

• Know and articulate your values

• Ask questions

• Read signals, be informed (rules, codes, laws, professional context….)

• Develop personal scripts for predictable problems

• Have disputes professionally

Work on Good Habits

• Temptation• Rationalization• Ambition and overconfidence• Group, peer pressure/pressure from boss• Entitlement, sense of• Deception (of yourself, of others)• Incrementalism• Embarrassment• Stupid systems

YPSG Career Tragedies

• Decision-making framework

• Asking questions

• Having disputes professionally

• Personal scripts

• Anticipating problems; preparing for them

Skills

Conclusion

• See the Young Professional’s Survival Guide for more great information.