Vision and Purpose

Core Vision and Values:
Vision: To create lifelong learning dedicated to improving the quality of personal, business, and community relationships.

One person can change the environment around them. A little help from everyone will change the world. I would like instigate change in people who will in turn influence others. When I became a leader I realized I wanted to change the environment according to the people I work closely with. For example, personal development plans that work on core skills like communication and feedback. It may seem selfish but if I improve my work and educate others to think critically, they too will create an influence with those at home, their friends, and community. My ideal is to educate individuals and create a ripple effect from the center out.

Purposes of Education:
Adult education in the United States should be a lifelong learning experience through work environments, community centers and neighborhood partnerships to build up relationships and drive success among citizens. A collaboration of education.

1.Every adult should have the opportunity to enroll in courses to help them become successful, maintain success and improve upon the current skills for future development.
2.Adults will accept that there is always more to learn in any situation and when given feedback it will be accepted as a means for improvement and not criticism.
3.Adults should share their best practices and knowledge with others to continue building on the ideas, improving upon them and document progress to avoid repeating history.

These goals can be reached with a commitment to yourself and others for improving the work environments and communities by offering basic courses that will create a means for improvement. Communication is important. I also believe it is a core curriculum and adult education in the workplace. Provide the resources, time and money necessary to allow people to enroll in these core classes to invest in the future. We have done this by putting people in leadership roles with mentors who have experience in the role. This will help improve and build on the skills necessary for them to later develop into these roles.

Adults must accept responsibility for their actions and learning. It is important to create a positive environment around you. Creating an environment of learning and admitting to shortfalls and adding to the wellbeing of the community to establish a name for yourself and build credibility with those around you. Through your humility you will always learn from other input as they will from yours.

In order to share best practices you must create an environment that is safe for sharing. The presenter must be educated in how to prepare the information for sharing and the learner must understand the objectives of the presentation. If a best practice is shared, again, the community feel comes into play where everyone can improve upon the idea presented. One example of this may be the everyday car. Someone invented the car, and everyone else improved the invention. Everyone learns in the environment and you have a collaboration of education.