PPMA Seminar 2016 - Walk Tall
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This document provides an overview of a workshop on using stories to improve leadership and organizational practices. The workshop includes previewing a storytelling technique called "Walk Tall", using stories to reflect on how to change the workforce and improve practices, and discussing how stories can be used in management, organizational culture change, and performance management. Participants will engage in storytelling exercises where they develop characters and scenarios to explore how stories can facilitate personal and organizational change. The document outlines the session agenda and prompts participants to actively engage in storytelling activities.
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PPMA Seminar 2016 - Walk Tall
- 3. In this session… • Preview Walk Tall • Change the story… by sharing simple story techniques • Change the workforce… by reflecting on how the stories can improve our practice
- 4. What’s helpful for the workshop… Go with it - no wrong answers – no embarrassment!
- 6. Draw a picture of where you live With the hand you don’t normally write with 1 minute
- 7. Make a list of the different ways you could use this can for 1 minute
- 8. How are an iceberg and idea similar? 1 minute in 3’s
- 9. In any creative process you need to… • Create space • Long list of ideas /explore • Then choose /prioritise …
- 10. Story telling…
- 11. The idea • We all tell stories • What we choose to tell ourselves and others makes a difference • There is never just one story • You can change the ending
- 12. Walk Tall includes stories that… • Communicate who we are • Help build trust and confidence • Transmit values and share knowledge • Create a shared vision of future • Support people with change
- 13. The 21st century public servant… • Works with citizens as equals • Is loyal to their locality • Public service ethos and commercial awareness • Has generic and professional skills • Builds a career across sectors and services
- 14. The 21st century public servant… • Reflects on practice and learns from others • Thinks creatively about on-going austerity • Takes the initiative, acts as a municipal entrepreneur • Embrace distributed and collaborative leadership • Makes your organisation flexible & supportive
- 15. For the next 15 minutes • You’re going to be scriptwriters and write a scene in a thriller • No-one will see it! Inner editor banned go with the process – ideas unlimited
- 16. Character + event = change
- 17. Make up a character… name, gender, a few physical details, job Write notes about them… waking up knowing it’s going to be a bad day but not sure why – feel, smell, see, hear
- 19. Team up with someone near you – Your character now has an opponent or a buddy(?) Share your characters so far…
- 20. Together suggest a few possible events… (something that will test your characters - Let your imagination run free)
- 22. Create a scene… 1.What do your characters want? 2.What’s the conflict / challenge? 3.What’s their response?
- 23. What’s the character change?
- 24. Quick reflection How was that?
- 25. Walk tall… Which characteristic is most like you? Yes I do that….
- 26. Character + event = change -You are the character - You choose an event that illustrates the characteristic - You share what’s changed and why it matters
- 27. Generate the story content by discussing in pairs Make it real… How did it feel… Must show grit… …be authentic! (strengths and challenges / vulnerabilities /risks)
- 28. Using the stories in practice…
- 29. Using the stories… • Management practice/development •Job/organisation design •Organisational culture change •Employee engagement •Recruitment •Performance management
- 30. Imagine you are at a book club… Read and discuss a story…
- 31. Sample stories… • Thinking creatively about austerity Andy Burns StaffsCC • Rejecting hero leadership Simon Furlong - Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue • Locality – Integration matters • Lindsay Saunders – Wigan •Tina Ricketts Gloucs Care Services NHS Trust • Shared humanity – Sue Hawkins Stockport YOT
- 32. Reflection / discussion For individuals, organisations and HR / OD specialists
- 33. Walk tall – being a 21st century public servant Not just stories…. Stories with a purpose that we create and live
- 34. Next steps and getting the book
- 35. Big thanks • Enjoy the rest of the day • dawn@dawnreeves.com • T: @futuredawn
- 37. What if?
- 38. Wouldn’t it be great if?
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