U-Inspire Leadership

The U-Inspire Leadership Program is a year-long, intimate and dynamic, two-way coaching/mentoring experience. Our Leadership team will be paired up with their partner for once a month 45-60 minute leadership encouragement sessions.

The year-long curriculum takes the U-Inspire student on an adventure into the depths of self-reflection to promote compassion, awareness and the ability to lead with kindness in an authentic, passionate and purposeful way.

Below is an overview of the 12-month journey. If you’d like more information about the process, please email Brian Cronin brian@udistrictpt.com

Month 1:
Kind Is Courageous

“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.” ~ Ameila Earnhart

~ Amelia Earnhart
  • Kindness Culture
  • Acts of Kindess & Kindess Continuum
  • Read Chapters 1 & 2 in A Case for Servant Leadership
  • The Daring Leadership Assessment

Month 2:
Love is Listening

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”

~ Theodore Roosevelt
  • Introduction to Listening
  • Listening Reflective Questions and Checklist

Month 3:
Listening To Ourselves

“Adversity reveals a person to themselves”

~ Unknown
  • Caring for the Mind, Body & Spirit
  • Stress = Demand > Coping Strategies + Perspective
  • Positive Coping Strategies
  • Courage or Discouraged Thinking

Free Mindfulness Training Resource: PALOUSE MINDFULNESS


Month 4:
Empathy, Awareness & Intentionality

“Know Thyself”

~ Socrates
  • Guided Gratitude Reflection
  • Grit Scale
  • Do’s and Don’t Checklist

Angela Duckworth’s Grit Scale: Click here for the quiz


Month 5:
Core Value & Our Story

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Personal Core Values
  • Personal Timeline
  • Sharing our Story

Month 6:
Honoring The Lifespan

The sooner we recognize our mortality, the sooner we have found the key to vitality”

~ Christine Cronin
  • Roles List
  • Write your Eulogy
  • Kindness Culture Worksheet

Month 7:
Live The Mission

“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”

~ Buddha
  • Personal Mission Statement
  • Be Your Word

Month 8:
Gratitude, Feelings, Forgiveness & Refection

“When we operate from a place of gratitude, life is a gift. Without gratitude, no gift is ever enough.”

~ Christine Cronin
  • Practicing Gratitude, Reflection & Forgiveness
  • Daily Guided Gratitude Reflection
  • Courage or Discouraged Thinking

Month 9:
Connection, Empathy & Vulnerability

The energy that exists between two people when they feel seen, heard and valued”

~ Brene Brown
  • Listening with Goal of Connecting

Month 10:
Go Moments & Courage Conversations

“You don’t know, what you don’t know”

~ W. Edwards Deming
  • Positive Specific Feedback
  • GO Moments
  • Courage Conversations
  • Dare to Lead Assessment

Month 11:
Power, Protecting & Honoring the Culture

“Apologizing doesn’t mean you are wrong, it means you value the relationship more than your ego”

~ Mark Matthews
  • Power
  • Identifying & Reflecting on Conflict
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Real Life Story Problems

Month 12:
Self-Assessment & Assessment From Others

“Perception is real, even when it is not reality”

~ Edwardo De Bono
  • Perform U-Inspire Self-Assement
  • Perform Assessment from the Perspective of Another
  • Finish Kindness Culture Worksheet

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