Workshop on the United Working Together for Elder & Young Deaf People

The issues addressed during the session included:-

1. Challenges facing the Delhi Deaf Community Education standards remain low:-

• Job opportunities limited
• Continued cultural discrimination and oppression
• Language deprivation
• Lack of unification within the Delhi Deaf community

2. What Went Wrong Here?

3. What is Leadership?:- "Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal." -Tom Northouse

4. Your job….:-

• Break up into small groups – no more than 7 people in each groups
• Discuss top 5 characteristics of GOOD leaders
• Discuss top 5 characteristics of POOR leaders

5. Characteristics of Strong Leaders:-

• Helps people learn
• Has clear goals and is committed to them
• Effective communicators***
• Problem solvers
• Friendly
• Honest and trustworthy***
• Tough, but fair
• Good listening skills

6. Extreme Ownership: The Boat Story (Leif Babin and Jocko Willink):-

• US Navy SEALs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1lgHg0eLko
• 1 boat crew keeps losing, other keeps winning
• Switch boat crew leaders
• Losing boat crew starts catching up – becomes lead boat crew
• Discuss why that happened?

*THERE ARE NO BAD TEAMS, ONLY BAD LEADERS!*

7. Crab Theory and the Deaf Community:-

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDRpyT2oF1I
• Discuss why Deaf people behave this way?
• Is it positive or negative?

8. Generational Differences, (Harvard Business Review, Tammy Erickson, March 01, 2009):-

• Different generations today:-
  1. Traditionalists (born between 1928-1945)
  2. Baby Boomers (born between 1946-1960)
  3. Generation X (born between 1961-1979)
  4. Generation Y (born between 1980-1995)
  5. Millennials (born between 1996-present)

9. Working Together to Achieve Common Goals:-

• As a leader, it is YOUR responsibility to work across generations
• Don’t act like you know everything – each generation brings strengths and weaknesses to the team
• Learn WHY each generation behaves the way they do
• Learn new words – each generation has different slang words for different things
• Be supportive of ALL members of the team
• Learn the strengths and weaknesses of each of your team members
• Do not be afraid of change

10. What’s Next????:-

• Identify the top 3 challenges the Delhi Deaf Community is facing today
• As leaders, what will YOU do about those challenges?
• “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Mr. Anuj Jain, Joint Secretary of NAD gave a vote of thanks to Mr. Kevin Nolan who was deaf excellent lecturer. The programs were of a great success and a great source of encouragement and inspiration to all our 35 deaf delegates from NCR including Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad, & Gurgaon participated in the Workshop. It had benefited a lot for deaf delegates learning about it. They are very impressed by our Workshop.