Internal Auditors Association Ethiopia Annual Meeting May 19, 2018 Sisay Fantahun Founder & Director Bete-UBUNTU Learning Organization

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Source of Disappointment Expectations Source of Disappointment Reason for conflict

Purpose Inspire Intentional Personal Development

What is Life’s Ultimate Goal?

What keeps People Happy?

The Harvard Grant Study Man’s Search for Meaning Supporting Evidence The Harvard Grant Study & Man’s Search for Meaning

Harvard Grant Study Started in 1930 4 Generation What keeps people happy and healthier? Over 90 of them still alive and still participating

Study Conclusion

Metaphor – Our Interconnectedness

Ethiopia The Story

UBUNTU The Spirit of Africa Until you see me, I do not exist I am what I am because of You

Do We Have such Relationship Today Do We Have such Relationship Today? Home Workplace Public Places Society

Man’s Search for Meaning Author – Psychiatrist Nazi concentration camps 1942 to 1945, Auschwitz+ His parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Viktor E. Frankl

Find meaning in your suffering and in your life He who has why to live for can bear almost anyhow

Key principles People can choose their attitude Personal sense of meaning Happiness comes from following meaning

Find Your Greater Cause Do not Aim at Success Money Fame Aim at Your Greater Cause Your Purpose

Do We Have a Strong Why?

What are the Myth around Auditors?

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Myth - Richard Chambers Accountants by training Nit-pickers and fault-finders Do not tell anything Corporate “Police Function.”

The Golden Circle

Strategy, Principles, Culture Purpose Why IAs Exists? Strategy, Principles, Culture Services

Mindset A job: ,Survival, extrinsic motivation Career : progression encouraging Calling: intrinsic, passion and perseverance

Job Crafting Change job Job crafting Skip around, switch job, finally arrive in case Job crafting Bring that sense of calling to the work Rethink – interesting part – meaning and purpose Different outlook, mindset, perspective to your work

Why Personal Leadership Is so Important?

Personal Leadership Answers your Why Cornerstone for Great Families Building Block of Learning Organizations

How do we develop personal Leadership?

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs The Story

Fundamental Needs Spiritual Body Heart Mind

The Four Competence Spiritual (SQ) Physical (PQ) Emotional (EQ) Mental (IQ)

Between stimuli and response there is a space. Stephen Covey Between stimuli and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness.

Personal Mastery Discipline of Continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, Focusing our energies, Developing patience Seeing reality objectively

Personal Mastery High level of personal mastery Live in a continual learning mode Never ‘arrive’ – process - lifelong discipline Aware of their ignorance, incompetence Know growth areas. Deeply self-confident.

Personal Mastery Personal vision Holding creative tension Recognizing structural tensions & constraints A commitment to truth Using the sub-conscious

My visit to @UCF made me wish I could be a college student all over again. Double-Loop Learner

Sisay Fantahun 0913530200 sishfan@gmail.com Bete-UBUNTU Learning Organization Sisay Fantahun 0913530200 sishfan@gmail.com

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