The TALKS Leadership Program Training

Understanding the Weight of Your Personality

Considering Personality and Principles

• Principles without personality

• Principles with personality

• Mentors a personality in the lives of children

The Visual Impact

• The kids look at your clothes, shoes, hair or lack thereof.

• If you have a friendly looking face or a stern looking face

The Aromatic Impact

• The daddy smell or mommy smell.

• A cologne that may be new to them.

• The smell of your industry.

Body Type – Endomorph, Ectomorph, Mesamorph

• If your physical makeup excited them, use it to your advantage.

The Conversational Impact

• Your ability to use the English language

• Your ability to use contemporary youth language.

The Empathizing Impact

• Your ability to feel their pain and hurt when it surfaces.

• Your willingness to put yourself in their shoes.

The Expectation Impact

• The ability to have and share high expectations for the kids.

• The ability to weave your high expectations of them into much of your dialogue with them.

• The habit of sharing your high expectations of the children with others who interact with the children.