1. The Pike County Story: Reflecting on a Decade Positive People, Positive Results: Attitude is Everything

2. A Trajectory of Success

3. Climbing the Mountain of Improvement “Don’t helicopter in at seventeen thousand feet, because sooner or later you and your people will die on the mountain.” Buckingham and Coffman, 1999

4. Is your culture healthy enough to reach the summit? What does that even mean? BASE CAMP

5. “Attention is all there is” How do we spend our time?

6. Developing a Culture Narrative: 1.What do we PLAN for? 2.What do we MODEL? 3.What do we MONITOR? 4.What do we CONFRONT? 5.What do we CELEBRATE?

7. Did your narrative align directly with your goals?

8. The success of any organization or team depends sustained individual success. Research suggest that the greatest factor pertaining to success is ENGAGEMENT.

9. Are You Engaged in the success of this College? Let’s see….

10. On a scale of 1-5 1=strongly Disagree 5= Strongly Agree Rate your level of engagement

12. Our journey taught us that time spent at Base Camp focusing on the basic elements of engagement allowed us to create a culture tough enough to attack the summit.

13. Thank you to Richard Dufour Robert Eaker Marcus Buckingham Curt Coffman for writing stuff I could steal