Intern Workshop Notes October

Intern Workshop Oct 26

TED talks multiple perspectives

Tony Hilton is a technical coach available to come to school and give you a strategic workforce plan.

Story telling for educators
The best way to persuade people is to listen to them.
Leaders need to be able to trigger stories. People are always looking at you and looking for the story. If you don't tell it, they will make their own version of it.
A a story gives you data/facts, but it is wrapped up in context and emotion.
Words and actions add to the emotion and imagery the story conjures up. Then we fill in the story with our own vision of what is being said.
If you try to hard with the story, it loses authenticity.
Disconnected dot points don't work. Dot points need a context.
When people hear stories, they get pulled into it. When they get a lot of facts they have a response of "prove it to me"

Spotting a story
Time/ place marker- giving a time or place when an event occurred
Events- a recall of what happened
Characters- people in the event with names
You can see it happening 
Something unanticipated is a good feature of a story.
Stories are about people and events. By telling stories, your body language comes out.
3 sources of stories
Yours, other peoples, other sources. (psychological studies are great sources of stories)

How do you tell the story of your school

Diagnosis- what is our challenge -can have a story attached
General policy and approach-can have a story attached
Coherent action- can have a story attached

The strategic story is to be told, not delivered by power point etc. This creates the hook and buy in

Begins with a vision
A reflection of the past, and then something happened .......
As a result,  we are going to do this, the theory of action.
So we get a particular outcome

Fill the story with your own personal moments
Steve jobs strategic story of the i cloud Is a good example of a strategic story.
Become a story spotter
Become a story collector- anecdote www
build your repertoire of stories
Practice your story telling
Always check the reaction to your stories

Performances of understanding
Leadership challenge template and assessment rubric