Monday, November 25, 2002

Woodbadge Syllabus I've been reading some of the woodbadge syllabus this weekend. Wow! That is an inspiring book. Somebody should take the lessons that are taught in it and write some kind of personal and team leadership book based on it. Here are the high points. Living the Values Values, Mission and Vision Bringing the Vision to Life Listening to Learn Communication Valuing people and Levereging Diversity Coaching and Mentoring Models for Success High Performance Teams Team Deveopment Model Team Leadership Model Tools of the Trade Project Planning Leading Change Decision Making and Problem Solving Managing Conflict Leading to Make a Difference Leaving a Legacy Those are the basic leadership skills and ideals taught. The Team Deveolpment and the Team Leadership sections are not in my copy of the syllabus because they are copyrighted by Ken Blanchard, and he wouldn't let the Scouts use those ideas and concepts (I didn't think you could copyright an idea, just a method) that they learned from his book. Even without those sections it is a great resource to remind me of the skills and resources that I learned and still need to apply in my own life. 10:14:56 AM    comment [] Weekend Diving This weekend Amy and I went and did some of our open water dives, working towards our PADI Open Water Diver certifications. We left early Saturday morning, around 6 am, and headed out on I-15 towards the dive site, Blue Lake, Utah. We arrived there around 9 am, got suited up and walked out to the lake from the parking area. We then did our first dive. It was great. There are a lot of fish, it was like swimming in a school of fish. When I tried to reach out and touch them they skitted away, but for the most part they were right in you face. After a bit of exploration we returned to the surface with a controlled assent using a rope. There at the surface we talked about the next dive. However, Amy was not feeling well and actually felt like throwing up so she didn't dive the rest of the day. The next dive we went down again and did a few skills. Then we went exploring some more. At about 32 feet down, there was a boat that was apparently sunk in the last few years. How do I know that? Well, it had a 2000 reegistration, and it was pointing straight up, with the bow pointing skyward. It looked like one of those big egyptian obelisks. After the boat, I praticed an emergency assent, breathing with an alternate air source. On the third dive we (when I say "we" I mean me and the instructor), went and did a few more skills, and then went exploring in a different part of the lake. There we saw another boat, this one was entirelly on the bottom of the lake. Underneath it there was a gap where I could see the bottom of the lake bubbling like a pot of boiling water. Apparently the boat was sunk over one of the springs! From there we swam around and discovered a hammer head shark sculpture, with something nearby that looked like an ancor. We then swam to an intermediatary platform and waited for a few minutes for our bodies to aclimate, and then we continued the rest of the way up. How far down was the boat? It was 52 feet down according to the dive computer. Since that was my third dive of the day, I was done. Overall It was a great experience. I just wish Amy hadn't gotten sick. We're looking forward to going to another place in December so we can both finish off the Open Water certification. Amy has three more dives, and I have one more. After we're done with those then...who knows what. Maybe we'll go for the advanced open water certification. That would be fun as well. 10:02:52 AM    comment [] Snow White and the Seven Dwarves I was talking to Kevin Bean here at the office about a number of things and one of the things that came up was that when the Brothers Grimm wrote Snow White and the Seven Dwarves they intended the seven dwarves to be representative of seven different personality types thast the chinese believed in. I'm not sure if that is true or not, but it certainally is an interesting story. 9:27:47 AM    comment []

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