CWRU Case Advancement Fellows- Professional Agility

Find your Footing Workshop so you can focus, find support and leave a meaningful impact on this world.

Brain Fresh Workshop

Find your Footing

Values + Purpose + Goals

How to navigate this uncertain world of rapid change, clarify your values, purpose and goals

You know how most students don’t have time to learn neuroscience strategies for focus and support for themselves and their teams to build a meaningful life, instead they are distracted and putting out fires all day.

We will make you a pro at finding your unique strengths, focus and motivation at work to leave an impact in your community and build a beautiful life.

Students want to be intentional and impactful while also living a beautiful meaningful life yet change keeps coming at a fast pace.

Every student needs to search for resources to help build their unique meaningful life while they also work and care for their families and communities during a time of rapid change.

Dr. Mary Rensel, a Neuroimmunologist, Mom of 4, Business owner and creator of simple actionable 9 point framework for empowerment and joy will share a simple framework to help you decide where to put your focus, time and energy and who you are during these tumultuous times.

Join Brain Fresh’s Find your Footing workshop, you could feel empowered, clear, focused and share it with your team as a contagious peaceful change maker.

It is still possible to be a joy filled peaceful student with an intentional 9 step framework to live in their unique skills, feel empowered to make a difference in their organizations and communities and share this with their teams.

With this rate of change, leaders continue to be overworked, overwhelmed, distracted, struggling, searching for resources to support themselves and their teams on top of living a busy life

So you want focus, support and to leave an impact professionally?

Imagine that you now have clarity, new tools and laser focus on what matters to you and how to get it done in 2025.

Agenda:

Introduction
Build your base, know yourself;
1. Core Value Exercise (5 minutes)
2. Professional qualities Exercise (5 minutes)
3. Calendar Value assessment (5 minutes)
4. Find your Purpose exercise (5 min)
Creativity boosters (10 minutes)
Navigate change with the 3 Bucket Approach to Focus and Saying NO (10 minutes)
Time saving Goals and tactics system (10 minutes)
Wrap Up (5 minutes)

Core Values Matter

Find Values that Speak to YOU!

Core Value Exercise

Core Values are your “line in the sand”, they describe your character.

Core Value List:

1. Read over the values below, look for the ones that “speak to you", the ones that describe your character or how you guide your decisions.

2. From the list below, choose and circle every core value that resonates with you. Do not overthink your selections. As you read through the list, simply write down the words that feel like a core value to you personally. If you think of a value you possess that is not on the list, be sure to write it down as well.

Abundance Acceptance Accountability Achievement Advancement Adventure Advocacy Ambition Appreciation Attractiveness Autonomy Balance Being the Best Benevolence Boldness Brilliance Calmness Caring Challenge Charity Cheerfulness Cleverness Community Commitment Compassion Cooperation Collaboration Consistency Contribution Creativity Credibility Curiosity

Daring Decisiveness Dedication Dependability Diversity Empathy Encouragement Enthusiasm Ethics Excellence Expressiveness Fairness Family Friendships Flexibility Freedom Fun Generosity Grace Growth Flexibility Happiness Health Honesty Humility Humor Inclusiveness Independence Individuality Innovation Inspiration Intelligence

Intuition Joy Kindness Knowledge Leadership Learning Love Loyalty Making a Difference Mindfulness Motivation Optimism Open-Mindedness Originality Passion Performance Personal Development Proactive Professionalism Quality Recognition Risk

Taking Safety Security Service Spirituality Stability Peace Perfection Playfulness Popularity Power

Preparedness Proactivity Professionalism Punctuality Recognition Relationships Reliability Resilience Resourcefulness Responsibility Responsiveness Security Self-Control Selflessness Simplicity Stability Success Teamwork Thankfulness Thoughtfulness Traditionalism Trustworthiness Understanding Uniqueness Usefulness Versatility Vision Warmth Wealth Well-Being Wisdom Zeal

3. Work in the table below; Group all similar values together from the list of values you just circled. Group them in a way that makes sense to you, personally. Create a maximum of five groupings. If you have more than five groupings, drop those least important. See the example below.

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5

4. Choose one word within each grouping that best represents the label for the entire group. Again, do not overthink your labels. There are no right or wrong answers. You are defining the answer that is right for you. Circle the one word that best represents the label for the group.

5. Read over the groups and the one that you circled as the label for each group, do these values drive your days? These values should be your core values or your “lines in the sand”. These core values build your character and help you with decisions each day. It is important to know your core values.

Core Values, write down the “labels” or core values for each group in the table.

1. __________________________________

2. __________________________________

3. __________________________________

4. __________________________________

5. __________________________________

Congratulations, you have found your 5 core values that are your “line in the sand” and are driving your decisions.

Are you surprised by the values that floated to the top for you?

Yes___

No___

Professional qualities that are important to YOU!

Professional qualities that are important to YOU!

Rank in order 1-9

rank from 1 (most important) to 9 (least important) nine professional qualities (concern, compassion, competence, advocacy, confidentiality, spirit of enquiry, integrity, responsibility and commitment)

1.____________________________________________

2.____________________________________________

3.____________________________________________

4.____________________________________________

5.____________________________________________

6. ____________________________________________

7._________________________________

8._________________________________

9._________________________________

Think about how you structure your days, are your core values and professional qualities leading your decisions and how you spend your time?

Calendar Value assessment (10 minutes)
1. Pull out your written calendar in your phone or planner.
2. Look at the last week of how you spent your time, do you see your values represented.
3. Write your core values again here to help you remember (brains need repetition)

_________________________________________

Think about how you structure your days, are your core values and professional qualities leading your decisions and how you spend your time?

What values can you find in your calendar?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What professional qualities can you find in your calendar?

Find your Purpose Exercise 5 Minute Exercise

Name____________________

Role/Title_____________________

How do you do it? ____________________________

How do people feel after working with you?

People feel ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

Now turn this upside down

Hi, nice to meet you..

What do you do?

I help people feel ______________________________________________________________________

( How do people feel after working with you?)

How do you do this?

I do this by (your profession or passion) ____________________________________________________________________

Example

I help people feel empowered, hopeful and peaceful with neuroscience strategies

I do this by my profession as a Neuroimmunologist and through my business, Brain Fresh.

Creativity Boosters
1. Modulate your emotional state
  1. Deep breath
  2. Relax your jaw, shoulders and soften your voice
  3. Think about how you can help others on your team
  4. Notice your emotions
  5. Movement, rest, connection
2. I notice I am feeling…….
3. I am having a thought…..

1. Write down 3 emotions 3x/day x 7 days, get to know your daily patterns

2. Movement, gentle stretch or a walk can help increase the positive emotional state

3. Recalling a time someone helped you, gratitude changes the neural state to a more positive state and therefore the creative part of the brain can be more active.

Envisioning to help determine Goals:

Your values and purpose will help to determine your goals.

Your professional quality priorities will also help shape your goals.

Your emotional setting will help determine your goals.

We need to envision with all green lights, no limits, what do you wish?

We do not need to figure out how to do things, instead we will dream and set up our 3 bucket goal system.

1. Identify Goals

2. Intake, where are you now?

3. Identify markers or measurements of progress to your goals. What will help you get closer to your goals?

4. Identify what needs to change to achieve markers of goals.

5. List current thoughts and related emotions

6. Record goals, change list, markers and wins (new behaviors)

7. Practice new strategies and habits to get them into daily life.(look at goals and tactics each sunday, set yourself up for success)

8. Strengthen new strategies and use them more widely.

I have arrived, I have achieved said goal and the markers or measurement of the goal were clearly attained. See it like it already happened. What does it look like, who is there, where are you, how does it feel?

If I had to group all of my goals into 3 buckets:

_________________________
_________________________
_________________________

I will say NO to everything that does not fit into my 3 buckets.

Tactics, the microactions that get you closer to your goals. Think of stepping stones across a river to get you safely across to your goals. Each tactic is a stepping stone to help you safely cross the river.

12 microactions to get you closer to your goals

Goal 1
2
3

“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne

My Final Plan (Print out and keep at your desk)

I am amazing and ready to live in my strengths through focus and support so that I can leave a meaningful impact in this world.

My Core Values

_________________________
_________________________
_________________________
_________________________
_________________________

My Top 3 Professional qualities

1._____________________________

2._____________________________

3._____________________________

My Purpose .. is to help people feel ____________________________________

And I do this through________________________________________________

My 3 buckets to accomplish my goals:

1.__________________________

2. _________________________

3. _________________________

My 12 microsteps, 3 month plan, to get me closer to my 3 bucket goals. (Stepping stones)

Goal1
2
3

Notes

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Resources:

Values Assessment:

https://www.mededportal.org/do...

Strengths Assessment:

Clifton Strengths, 19.00

https://store.gallup.com/c/en-us/cliftonstrengths

https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/

https://hbr.org/2016/03/how-to-practice-mindfulness-throughout-your-work-day

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050718-095653?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed

https://edhub.ama-assn.org/steps-forward/module/2702556

Borg, I., & Bardi, A. (2016). Should ratings of the importance of personal values be centered?. Journal of Research in Personality, 63, 95-101.

Loehr, J., & Schwartz, T. (2001). The making of a corporate athlete. Harvard business review, 79(1), 120-129.

Shanafelt, T., Trockel, M., Rodriguez, A., & Logan, D. (2021). Wellness-centered leadership: Equipping health care leaders to cultivate physician well-being and professional fulfillment. Academic Medicine, 96(5), 641–651.

Books

References

Loehr, J., & Schwartz, T. (2001). The making of a corporate athlete. Harvard business review, 79(1), 120-129.

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Arnsten AFT, Shanafelt T. Physician Distress and Burnout: The Neurobiological Perspective. Mayo Clin Proc. 2021 Mar;96(3):763-769. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.12.027. PMID: 33673923; PMCID: PMC7944649.

Maier SF, Amat J, Baratta MV, Paul E, Watkins LR. Behavioral control, the medial prefrontal cortex, and resilience. Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2006;8(4):397-406. doi: 10.31887/DCNS.2006.8.4/smaier. PMID: 17290798; PMCID: PMC3181837.

Dee J, Dhuhaibawi N, Hayden JC. A systematic review and pooled prevalence of burnout in pharmacists. Int J Clin Pharm. 2023 Oct;45(5):1027-1036. doi: 10.1007/s11096-022-01520-6. Epub 2022 Nov 29. PMID: 36446993; PMCID: PMC9707850.

Websites:

https://www.aha.org/news/chairpersons-file/2023-11-27-chair-file-strengthening-and-supporting-health-care-workforce

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/impactwellbeing/professional-wellbeing.html

https://www.who.int/activities/promoting-well-being

https://hbr.org/2007/11/cognit...;

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/10/20/us-surgeon-general-releases-new-framework-mental-health-well-being-workplace.html

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/podcasts/beyond-leadership/leading-the-parade-generating-buy-in-and-support

I believe in YOU!

Mary Rensel, MD FAAN

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