It would have been hard to see what was really going on that day. It didn’t look like much more than a group of people standing around a kid with a bleeding nose, wondering if he was going to be ok, and then slowly turning around and going back to work. Only he wasn’t really […]
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Job Position Openings: Road Team Manager
Published by November 25th, 2009 in FB, Employment, Newsletter, Think Day and Mainpage. 8 Comments
Effective Nov 19, 2009:
We have some exciting job position openings for dynamic young adults that love to make a difference and enjoy new challenges, experiences, and travel. We have immediate openings for a Road Team Manager for our Canadian school tours. If you have questions, please contact us at (905) 777 1662.
Road Team Manager
We have a job position open to lead one of our road teams that performs motivational presentations in schools across Canada.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead Think Day Teams on cross-Canada tours
- Facilitate a positive and successful team experience
- Facilitate effective and powerful Think Day presentations, and customer experience, in schools
- Tour Management (driving, feeding team, arranging billets, etc)
Here is a description of what we are looking for in this position.
- Personal Skills
- Ability to think and learn independently
- Major adaptability and desire to learn and enjoy new situations and challenges
- Have a philanthropic world-view (desire to use your life to help others less fortunate)
- Good sense of humour
- Desire to travel
- Strong and mature interpersonal skills
- Ability to genuinely care and listen
- Make people feel significant
- Very positive thinking and speaking. Negativity from leaders will destroy team morale.
- Dynamic public skills
- Comfortable in front of large crowds
- Ability to speak with passion and conviction, and tell an engaging story
- Ability to promote and represent Absolute’s vision effectively
- Team Leading Skills
- Take responsibility and assertively take charge in tough situations.
- Ability to resolve conflict and remain objective and rational
- Ability to mentor team members and build team morale
- Technical Skills
- Experienced Driver. Experience with operating larger vehicles is an asset
- Basic knowledge of Audio and Visual Equipment is helpful
- Basic mechanical skills are an asset
- Problem solving skills
- Above average computer skills an asset
- Experience
- Have previous experience in a leadership position, team management and/or public communication.
“My real name is Johnston Ho but you can call me Jo Ho. People know me as an outgoing, friendly, funny and random individual, which can be proven on numerous Hero Holiday trips. From dressing up as a girl, to dressing up and singing as Taylor Swift, to dancing with the father of the family […]
...continue readingHoly Cross Catholic Academy: Everyone has a story!
Published by November 18th, 2009 in Testimonials and Think Day. 0 CommentsTo Whom It May Concern:
It is with great pleasure that I write this letter of recommendation is support of Absolute Leadership Development Inc. I am the chair of the Bullying Program Committee at our school and attended a conference last year where I had the opportunity to witness this presentation; I enjoyed it so much […]
School of Leadership House Build in Mexico
Published by November 18th, 2009 in FB, School of Leadership, Student Zone and Hero Holiday. 2 CommentsHave you even been so shocked that you didn’t know what to do or say? Well, that happened to me when my mom and her friend decided to surprise me when my team and I went to San Diego for some “grocery shopping”. I thought it was great that they got to visit me but […]
...continue readingI hate my contact lenses. I hate that I have to remember to take them out before I go to bed, that I have to wrestle with them on early mornings, that I sometimes put them in backwards (yes, you can put them in backwards!) and most of all, I hate that I can’t see […]
...continue readingHer name at birth was Yi-Ting Yu, but if you met her you would understand why her parents chose “Joy” as her English name. There was no option, really. When you first meet her, you immediately know that you won’t forget her. Gregarious and outspoken, she is full of life, naïvete and laughter. Like every […]
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Published by November 6th, 2009 in ONE, FB, School of Leadership, Student Zone, Mainpage, Hero Holiday and Featured. Closed
We’re excited to announce our 2010 Hero Holiday Calendar, “Together”. This calendar is full of incredible photos taken on Hero Holidays around the world by some of our very own photographers. Included in the calendar are excerpts from our blog, “52″, as well as some great quotes and thoughts on how to make a difference.
The calendar costs $20 and proceeds from the sale of each calendar go towards Absolute and Hero Holiday’s charitable projects.
Keys, Pens, and Paperclips
Published by November 5th, 2009 in Team 2, FB, Road Team Blogs, Staff Blogs, Think Day and Mainpage. 0 Comments
They are only the elite, specially selected few.
They parade across our stage brandishing their weapons of choice. These are no ordinary instruments of torture, unusually, they are in the form of a broom, hockey stick, and a severed pool noodle. These ‘creme of the crop’ are showing us their rock and roll moves like never before (literally, I don’t think any of them have ever done this before!). They head bang as in the days of their youth, and while doing so there are generally three items that come spilling from their pockets.
Keys, pens, and paperclips.
Once in a while there will be an unlucky individual who flings their glasses inadvertently across that glossy hardwood floor not caring a bit, because they need to rock harder than their students did. They will let nothing stand in the way of their ETERNAL GLORY! For that is what they will receive if they can rock harder than a bunch of high school wussies!
These are the teachers who have bravely sacrificed eyesight and dignity alike to participate in our “school of Rock” and no matter how many teachers we see on stage we are always shocked at how well they perform!
Canada has some of the most amazing teachers, many of which end up on our stage and its their students who choose them because they know that these are the teachers who know how to have fun. These are the teachers who are trusted and liked by their students. They are the elite only because of the dedication to their students, dedication that is clearly seen when they rock out no holds bar to make sure their students get a laugh! we congratulate you teachers who are chosen for our air band rock off because you are the teachers who care for their students. We did not preselect you, you were chosen by the students you teach. In fact its almost as if you selected yourselves. How you ask? By being there for your students, approachable, and friendly. You selected yourselves when you decided to love kids and not just teach them. Our country is full of teachers and administrators
who love their students, who only want the best for them and their futures. A lot of the time you are the elite, the specially selected few, who will humbly rock out with us, and for some reason you are always carrying in those magnanimous pockets of yours:
Keys, Pens, and Paperclips
Life is ironic. So much of our understanding of a concept is based on our cultural context, past experience, and personal bias. “Hard work” can often be a very relative term. Some of us work hard at labour-intensive jobs, some of us carry the weight and stress of being the decision makers for organizations, some […]
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