LiFT provides your youth the premier empowerment training experience. From large assemblies to small workshops, our consultants will teach and inspire the youth in your school or community organization with the knowledge and motivation to create a more positive, productive, and prosperous personal culture – producing for themselves and their peers lasting transformative results.
Culture Principles: Student Applied
Raise
Expectations
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Strengthen
Relationships
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Motivate
from Within
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Reinforce
the Positive
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Culture Principle 1: Raise Expectations
Expect much to achieve much
The research is clear, as soon as youth expect great things of themselves, great things will likely occur. This self-fulfilling prophecy, when we shoot for the stars and at least make the moon, is especially true for adolescents. Hope and belief stretch and inspire them to behave their best and push their achievements ever higher. Additional concepts include:
- The Pygmalion Effect: Rosenthal and Jacobson
- Growth Mindset: Dr. Carol Dweck
- Rooting Out Perfectionism
- Behavioral and Performance Expectations
- Personal Vision and Goal Setting
Culture Principle 2: Strengthen Relationships
Invest in a bond that lifts all higher
Achieving yourself is great, but achieving together through collective effort, that’s the stuff of lasting culture transformation. When youth seek, establish, and strengthen relationships of respect and trust with their peers and adults, they build for themselves a tapestry of support to LiFT them up to their high expectations – while in turn doing the same for others. Additional concepts include:
- The Relationship Cord
- The Unique Power of Both Introverts and Extroverts
- Quadruple P Interactions
- The Heliotropic Effect of the Positive: Kim Cameron
- Direct application of LiFT’s Culture Grid (See Raise Expectations)
Culture Principle 3: Motivate from Within
Lasting strength is built from within.
Our youth are raised in a society rampant with extrinsic motivators, with threats and bribes that ignore personal agency and crush inner-drive. They need a motivation revolution! They need to learn to shed this society assumption and learn proven concepts of lasting intrinsic motivation that will LiFT them above threats, rewards, grades, and praise and into a worldview of inner-drive where they truly belong. Additional concepts include:
- Research Review: Edward Deci, Mark Lepper, Alfie Kohn, Daniel Pink, and more
- The Why’s of Extrinsic Motivation’s Failure
- Autonomy: The Desire to Be Self-Directed
- Mastery: The Desire to Develop Better Skills
- Purpose: The Desire to Do Something That Has Lasting Meaning
Culture Principle 4: Reinforce the Positive
Shape behavior with a focus on the good
Social science has confirmed that behavior, whether desired or not, will repeat when reinforced. This is true in others and ourselves. The crippling effects of peer and self coercion, whether mental, physical, or verbal, extend far beyond the moment. The inverse is likewise true. Youth who build habits of focusing on the positive in others and themselves empower a culture that LiFTs all towards light. Additional concepts include:
- Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance: Kim Cameron
- The Power of Positive Self-Talk
- Ignoring Inconsequential Conduct
- Recognizing Desired Performance
- Effectively Addressing Consequential Misbehavior
Training Packages
Ruby
Single Session
Light the spark to empower the culture in your school or community youth organization with LiFT’s Ruby Package. Our consultants will provide an inspiring and meaningful one hour message, focusing on a single Culture Principle or summarizing all four.
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Culture Series
A single session not enough? We agree! Invest in your youth’s culture by investing in LiFT’s Culture Series, an in-depth analysis of all four principles offered in either a single, half day experience.
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“LiFT U” Leadership Retreat
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Additional Products can be purchased
with the Ruby, Emerald, or Diamond package:
Leadership Workshop
Start at the top! This special one-hour workshop empowers student leaders to empower their peers through ongoing implementation of the Culture Principles on a larger scale to make a lasting impact.
Culture Cards
It takes 21 days to form a habit, right? Use LiFT’s Youth-Specific Culture Cards to encourage long-term, habit-building application of the principles. Each card in the set focuses individuals on a single, specific action tied to one of the four Culture Principles, encouraging its application for 21 days, thus creating a habit and transforming personal culture.