RECAP: 2019 FOX Spring Rising Gen Forum

Family Dynamics: Effective Family Conversations

Presenter:
Mindy Kalinowski Earley, Chief Learning Officer, FOX Family Learning CenterTM 

Session Description: 

Regardless of your goal, be it financial literacy, personal growth, or preparing for transition into leadership, having a clear plan to gain the skills, knowledge, and experience needed is essential. Participants explored components of an effective plan to help align your learning with your values, goals, and ambitions. 

 

“Loved the connections between the goals and the learning plan and how to vocalize and share that with your family."
- Session attendee
Key Takeaways:  
  • Learning plans are rooted in goal-setting. The plans are a way to communicate to your family what you are working on, what you are learning, and, how you can contribute. 
  • You can integrate a personal learning plan into whatever point your family is on the learning journey. An individual learning plan can support a culture of life-long learning and can be an individual exercise or a family/cohort exercise to align the family around where it wants the learning to go. 

  • For the rising generation: the work of the individual around learning can be a separate exercise from the family – more of a personal empowerment project. Customized learning that the family won’t offer. 

  • Pick the important areas of your life and set goals around them. Talk with your family or partner who can support your goals and/or hold you accountable. A coach or a personal Board of Directors also make great partners in this process to help you stay focused on your goals. 

  • Finding your passion is an outdated approach to life-long learning; consider using design thinking to “design your life.” Map out the next year and try new things – just start something. Reframe barriers. There are many you’s inside of you. Put down a couple of things that you want to try and iterate! 

  • SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound) are good, but sometimes you need to spend time just contemplating and considering topics or issues. Leave some things open because life changes and it can be helpful to sit with things for a while. Be authentic, vulnerable, and honest. 
     

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