International Society for Performance Improvement Potomac Membership
Are you looking for talent?
Register and join ISPI Potomac for our August 23, 2022 Professional Development Webinar.
Are you looking for talented performance analysts, instructional designers, problem solvers, and performance technology professionals? Join ISPI Potomac on August 23rd as our friend and colleague, US Coast Guard, Master Chief, Anthony J. Matulonis helps us understand the ins and outs of the DoD SkillBridge program
Amplify Collaborative Intelligence with DEEP Listening
Join us on Monday, July 11th at 1:00 Eastern for a thought provoking webinar.
Learn practical methods to leverage cognitive diversity to build collaborative intelligence:
Recognizing the 7 dimensions of cognitive diversity
Discovering how cognitive diversity amplifies collaborative intelligence
Engaging in DEEP Listening to create an inclusive path to collaborative intelligence
The webinar will include lessons learned from working with thousands of people as they explored cognitive diversity as a path for smarter communication, faster collaboration, and stronger team commitment.
New member looking to connect
Hey everyone!
As a new chapter member, what is the best way to network or get to know other members? Do we have networking events?
I am retiring next year from the USCG and would love to learn about opportunities in the area, available resources, and best practices.
Thanks!
Anthony
Mindful Memorial Day - Honoring the fallen
USMC PFC Rusk, Colton W. 12/6/2010 Orange Grove TX Operation Enduring Freedom
Army CPT Russell, Blake H. 7/22/2006 Fort Worth TX Operation Iraqi Freedom
Army CPT Russell, Drew E. 10/8/2011 Scotts MI Operation Enduring Freedom
Army SGT Russell, John W. 11/15/2003 Portland TX Operation Iraqi Freedom
Army 1LT Russell, Jonam 7/23/2013 Cornville AZ Operation Enduring Freedom
Army CPL Russell, Ryan D. 3/5/2007 Elm City NC Operation Iraqi Freedom
USMC LCPL Russoli, Andrew D. 10/20/2005 Greensboro NC Operation Iraqi Freedom
Army SGT Ruth, Monta S. 8/31/2005 Winston-Salem NC Operation Iraqi Freedom
Army 1LT Rutherford, Christopher N. 7/2/2007 Newport OH Operation Iraqi Freedom
USMC CPL Ryan, Marc T. 11/15/2004 Gloucester NJ Operation Iraqi Freedom
USMC CAPT Ryan, Timothy Louis 5/19/2003 Aurora IL Operation Iraqi Freedom
#MMD2022
EXCLUSIVE: Introducing A Motivational E-Book By One Of Our Members
POWERFUL MOTIVATIONAL SCRIPT E-BOOK BY DON MOHSIN - AVAILABLE NOW!
If you are reading this, chances are you understand how important motivation is to getting big things done in your life. It truly is the lifeblood of achieving your dreams and aspirations.
This is why we are so happy to share this exclusive motivational script e-book by one of our own members, Don Mohsin.
Don Mohsin is an entrepreneur and content creator focused on creating motivational and entrepreneurial content. This special e-book is a compilation of images and scripts from the first five motivational videos created on his YouTube channel. This collection is full of powerful words, advice, and wisdom that we know will help motivate you to become the best version of yourself.
Purchase your copy now here: https://py.pl/2HHGnU
50% of all e-book sales until March 25th will go directly to support the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
Once purchased, you will receive an email regarding how to download and access your copy of the book - please be patient!
To learn more about Don Mohsin, you can check out his YouTube channel, or follow him on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
If you know of anyone else who could use a dose of motivation or is in need of positive words at this time, please feel free to forward this message or purchase this book for them!
Enjoy!
EXCLUSIVE: Introducing A Motivational E-Book By One Of Our Members
POWERFUL MOTIVATIONAL SCRIPT E-BOOK BY DON MOHSIN - AVAILABLE NOW!
If you are reading this, chances are you understand how important motivation is to getting big things done in your life. It truly is the lifeblood of achieving your dreams and aspirations.
This is why we are so happy to share this exclusive motivational script e-book by one of our own members, Don Mohsin.
Don Mohsin is an entrepreneur and content creator focused on creating motivational and entrepreneurial content. This special e-book is a compilation of images and scripts from the first five motivational videos created on his YouTube channel. This collection is full of powerful words, advice, and wisdom that we know will help motivate you to become the best version of yourself.
Purchase your copy now here: https://py.pl/2HHGnU
50% of all e-book sales until March 25th will go directly to support the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
Once purchased, you will receive an email regarding how to download and access your copy of the book - please be patient!
To learn more about Don Mohsin, you can check out his YouTube channel, or follow him on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
If you know of anyone else who could use a dose of motivation or is in need of positive words at this time, please feel free to forward this message or purchase this book for them!
Enjoy!
Your Special Invitation To Inspire, Co-Create, And Grow
Your Special Invitation
We invite you to inspire and co-create an appreciative “Learning by Doing” culture through the Performance Innovation Design Studio & Micro-credentials - where your aspirations find the light of day!
Performance Innovation Design Studio Courses Line-Up
Leading Beyond the MASKS - mission-based leadership lab
Courageous Agility - hands-on “Learning by Doing” project lab
Essential Courageous Agility skills for Government Managers - hands-on “Learning by Doing” project lab based on what’s worked in real agency environments across the public sector
Some additional features of the courses include:
Design Studio peer mentors
Tools from the field not from the concealed
Tips, Trips, Traps, and Treasures you can use and share in your everyday life and work situations
When Is The Launch Date?
Sign-ups will be open soon and the courses will be launching shortly after.
How Can I Learn More?
Stay tuned for more announcements regarding sign ups and class details!
A Brilliant Horizon Busting Logo
Presenting our new logo for the Performance Innovation Design Studio! It represents the brilliance that is here to be manifested, so that each of us can expand our own boundaries and limiting beliefs, farther away from what limits us to what unites us, our uniqueness.
(Motivational video credit - Don Mohsin - subscribe for motivational content)
Join us for Character Strengths Action Research (January 12, 2022, 6:00pm Eastern)
Join us as we congratulate and celebrate our gratitude to Teresa Valais as she discusses her action research capstone project for her UMBC Master in Learning and Performance Management degree.
Glean insights from Teresa’s work on revealing, embracing, and working through your strengths as a path to help you energize new choices in your work, boost good in life, and positively impact your well being.
During this multilogue, Teresa will highlight the development and evolution of character strengths. The study of strengths started in the early 2000s, when scientists gathered to study character and positive psychology more scientifically. A total of 55 distinguished scientists joined the study over several years, the result of which has been codified by the VIA Institute on Character.
Leading positive psychology and strengths researcher and professor Alex Linley defines a strength as: “A strength is a pre-existing capacity for a particular way of behaving, thinking, or feeling that is authentic and energizing to the user, and enables optimal functioning, development and performance.”
Inspire an inclusive and co-creative 2022
Our Communities
The "Longest Table" image comes from our friends at Howard and Harford County MD Library Systems representing being nourished in community. To paraphrase insights from Richard Harwood, it is in our local communities where people can turn outward toward one another and get things done together.
As we look to the New Year, I am reminded of the love and compassion, hard work, and commitment you have shared with me, your clients, and ISPI as a whole. For the past 60 years, ISPI has been committed to actions that support "being better matters."
Over the past few years, ISPI Potomac has worked with practitioners around the world who want to thrive in the new hybrid ways of working. As a global society of practitioners, we are committed to help each other, our communities, our organizations, and our world in the years to come.
Invitation
As a society, we have always applied critical thinking and evidence to every challenge we have faced. As we enter 2022, I invite you to join me as we also demonstrate our capacity for love, courage, and humility as we co-create a more human workplace, schoolplace, and community-place.
Guiding Vision for 2022
Inspire an inclusive and co-creative action learning/research culture with each other and our communities
Our Core Principles guide us to
remain focused on impact
attend to the interconnected whole
liberate value, and
work in concert with each other and our communities
Support our Action Research Agenda
Expand the Performance Innovation Design Studio
Explore the measurable impact of strengths diversity in teams
Develop a shared leadership capacity for co-creation
Prototype Leading Beyond the MASKS Strengths-based Leadership Lab, u.lab 2x experience
Consider donating to support ISPI Potomac online or by check in any amount to:
Our mailing address is:
ISPI Potomac
12713 Keswick Lane Bowie
Bowie, MD 20715-2842
ISPI Potomac, founded on the lands of the Piscataway, Nacotchtank, and Manahoac peoples of North America.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your family and to our world
Wishing you a heartfilled Christmas and Holiday Season with the gift of a poem that a friend wrote this week.
As a society, we have always applied critical thinking, leadership, and perspective. Now, more than ever, it’s time to flex our capacity for love, humility, hope, and spirituality as we co-create meaning in the days and years to come.
From the Heart by Rick McGough, 21 December 2021
From the Heart
I am love
As it is in the above
From the Heart
I intend
My wise and trustful friend
From the Heart
I create
My wonderous destined fate
From the Heart
I manifest
My universe showing its best
From the Heart
I allow
My limitless never stopping plow
From the Heart
I expect
With my deep never-ending respect
From the Heart
I receive
Only having to believe
From the Heart
I give thanks
Profoundly it ranks
From the Heart
I am grateful
Never room for hateful
From the Heart
I know thine self
A place of abundant wealth
From the Heart
I know what my heart wants of me
Lifting the veil for all ready to see
From the Heart
I live my life as I expect to create
Always a time not a date
From the Heart
I walk in 3D with a knowing
My energy is always flowing
From the Heart
I light a path for others to follow
With passion and pursuit never hollow
From the Heart
Everything always works out for me
A firm knowing it will always be
From the Heart
I am always at the right place at the right time
Never lost in the present, knowing all to be fine
From the Heart
I am always healthy in the end
Regardless of dis-ease needed to tend
From the Heart
I can feel my place
In the opportunities of this space
From the Heart
Even in the dark night of the soul
Everything is seen in the play and one’s role
From the Heart
The dark becomes light
Regardless of what is and what might
From the Heart
Your answers are clear
Living that way, you always hear
From the Heart
The lonely in your mind
Comes your others of like kind
From the Heart
The journey of a thousand miles
Invites your unseen explorers ready with smiles
From the Heart
You will feel the creations you wish to start
Because now you have more knowing to impart
From the Heart
It never has to be lonely or sad
The heart opens the things you have always had
From the Heart
You no longer see the labels known as evil
Only brothers and sisters searching for a soul retrieval
From the Heart
You can walk this physical part
Knowing all along, beyond this time you are never apart
From the Heart
Anger and frustration
Fade to hunger for the journey and expectation
From the Heart
All things become softer
Knowing one is now much loftier
From the Heart
You can finally recognize your power
Bathing yourself in that energetic shower
From the Heart
You see no mistakes
Only experiences for letting go or the partakes
From the Heart
Think from that place
And life is filled with grace
From the Heart
Your Will will be done
And now we can call it fun
From the Heart
Leave yourself open for heartfelt others
Then life becomes joyful with light feathered covers
From the Heart
You become who you were meant to be
The essence of love for all to see
From the Heart
Always bring your thoughts from that place
And you will begin to remember your true face
From the Heart
You will see the out there now
And never struggle with a how
From the Heart
This is the place of the real you
Start there in every action and everything is colored true
From the Heart
No deep trances or special ways
Just thoughts coming through your heart gaze
From the Heart
No right or wrong
Just knowing you belong
In abundant appreciation and reverence,
Peter