# Presentation: 019319

## Slide 1

## CROSSING A BRIDGE

**CROSSING A BRIDGE**

- 	(as long as you have a bridge you might as well cross it)

## Thank you for a great job!

**Thank you for a ****great job!**

- Carl Henn
- Nicole Belanger
- Latosha Frink
- Melissa Gentry
- Kathleen Giuliano
- Erin Goldstein
- Darryl Grant
- Uyen Phuong

- Alexander Kramer
- Derrick Montford
- Michele Pearlman
- Terita Stevenson
- Donna Perry-Lalley,
- 	Co-Chair
- Jacque Ballard, Chair

## Awards – 
	Mentoring :  Eileen	
	Innovation: Susan and her Branch	
	Small Business: Todd and the NCI 
	Project Officer: Cheryl.  Wonderful PO response.  Very competitive with strong write ups.  Tough choice among the 5-6 best recommendations.  

Congratulations to All – keep up the good work!

- 	Mentoring :  Eileen
- 	Innovation: Susan and her Branch
- 	Small Business: Todd and the NCI
- 	Project Officer: Cheryl.  Wonderful PO response.  Very competitive with strong write ups.  Tough choice among the 5-6 best recommendations.
- Congratulations to All – keep up the good work!

**Take a moment – **
**	****take 1**

## The time spent here these three days has been time spent building 	not one but many bridges.  We have met new people, spent time with friends, heard ideas we 	can use and ideas that give us greater resolve to act.We have shared and learned. We have had time for reflection and 	for thinking ahead.  Now, let’s take a moment before we leave today to look around, to 	see what we are taking with us on this bridge crossing.

**Take a moment – **
**	****take 2**

## What do we bring?  

**What do we bring?  **

- No matter where we go, we take ourselves.  It’s probably a good idea to be true to that person.  For most that is a healthy work in progress.
- Bring your common sense.  You have it if you listen.
- Do not be afraid.  You are _not_ alone in this.  Fear paralyzes, distorts, and isolates us.  Let’s not do that to ourselves.  Ask for help and help others.

## What else?

- In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry   **YAHOOO!**
- Let’s consider these too:
- Service
- Personal Responsibility
- Commitment and Creativity
- Relationships
- Integrity
- Leadership

## Service

**Service**

- Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.  ~William James
- We are civil servants.  We serve the public.  We should embrace that as part of our foundation.
- Our job is to help those who need our services and to do it in the right way.
- The perspective we bring to our job is important - not only what we do, but how we do it.
- Lack of appreciation is temporary, don’t give up.  On yourself or them.
- Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.  ~Mohammed Ali

## Personal Responsibility

**Personal Responsibility**

- Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.  Try to be better than yourself.  ~William Faulkner
- Ask yourself if you accept personal responsibility for your actions.  Do you say what you mean and mean what you say?
- Do you own your actions?
- Do you slip into what is convenient or comfortable and avoid what might be hard?
- The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.  ~Helen Keller

## Commitment and Creativity

- It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Create realistic strategies that you understand and can commit to.
- If you promise to do something, do it.
- Learn your profession from the ground up.  Become the teacher.
- Bring your brain to work and use it every day.  Really.
- Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.  ~Anna Freud

## Relationships

- The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.  ~Henry Boye
- Look for the similarities.  We share much in common and can use those bridges for further exchanges.
- Learn to shift your focus.
- If it does not matter who gets the credit, it is amazing what can be accomplished.
- When it is not just about me, then everything else is possible.
- I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands.  You need to be able to throw something back.  ~Maya Angelou

## Integrity

**Integrity**

- If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.  ~Samuel P. Ginder
- Is what we are doing something we would feel comfortable telling our Mothers?
- Does it pass the Washington Post test?
- Do the basics of what we do change based on who we are helping?
- Have we talked with someone about it –not just for confirmation, but for honest feedback?
- There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.   ~Steven Covey

## Leadership

**Leadership**

- I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.  ~Abraham Lincoln
- Leadership is a choice, not a position.  But it is not an easy choice.
- Leaders prioritize multiple demands, theirs and others, and usually not in that order.
- Necessity makes some people leaders.  They should lead anyway.
- A leader does best when accompanied by emotional intelligence.
- I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people.  ~Indira Gandhi

## There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”  ~Herbert Spencer

## Unless someone like you cares a 

- Unless someone like you cares a
- whole awful lot, nothing is going to
- get better.  It's not.  ~Dr. Seuss

## HAVE A SAFE TRIP HOME.HAVE A MEMORABLE CROSSING...

**HAVE A SAFE TRIP HOME.****HAVE A MEMORABLE CROSSING...**