Leveraging Points for Change

"Like sustainability, change is a process not an isolated event."

"Winning" conflict is impossible, but you can change the mind-set that leads to conflict.

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day." - Robert Frost

"Never mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden

 Learning Objectives

  • Identify and evaluate “leverage points” for making changes to more sustainable infrastructure, and
  • Outline your strategy for making the biggest change possible for more sustainable infrastructure.

Agenda

  1. Slides - Review of Class 
  2. Switch Model to Make Change
  3. ABET survey 
  4. Final exam

Course Review

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Visioning Change

Identify your vision. Based on what you have learned in this class (and many others) what do you hope to contribute to in your career. How will this make the world a better place? Does this vision address of the worlds biggest problems? What needs to be changed to reach your vision? 

Using the Switch Model to help realize your vision

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switch model handout Links to an external site.

Submit your career vision exercise

Assignment 

  1. SPOT, SPOT, SPOT
  2. Finish your flow project 
  3. O, yeah, If you have not already, please complete my SPOT evaluation - https://spot.tlos.vt.edu/portal

Resources

Switch  Links to an external site.