The Taste of Clean Water

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The Taste of Clean Water

• Staff Event
• 4th June 2007

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Housekeeping

• Turn your mobiles off or to silent
• Toilets
• Fire drills and exits

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Moving On.

• Each person to take a number 1 or 2 alternately
  around the table
• All the 1s to move to another table and none of
  the people who are sitting at your current table
  should be at your new table

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Objectives

• To raise aspirations of the service
• To reinforce the values of the service
• To establish a clear understanding of the
  national, regional and local strategy and policy
• To improve team understanding and relationships
• To begin a dialogue and debate about excellent
  learner responsiveness

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Programme for the day
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Activity

• On a Pink Post IT write down one personal career
  ambition you have
• On a yellow Post IT write down one ambition you
  have for the service or for the part of the
  service you work for
• If you have none then write none on the relevant
  Post IT note
• Put the Post Its on the relevant flip chart
• Feedback later this afternoon

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The Taste of Clean Water

• Theme for the day
• Ambition and Aspiration

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African Ambition by Ian R Thorpe

• Hunger has taken his family,
• War has taken his legs and eyes,
• All he wants is to know once more
• The taste of clean water before he dies

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How might he respond to his ambition?

• Try to dig a well on his own for himself
• Wait for a charity to come along and provide him
  with a supply of water
• Get together with his neighbours to pool the few
  resources they have to purchase a pump and dig a
  well for all of the village to use
• Try to steal the limited supply of fresh water
  available in the village for himself

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What about us?

• You said
• How we sometimes behave

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In reality where are we now?

• Working effectively together to achieve our goals
• Some cliques are competing with or against
  others for their own benefit
• Some people are seeking individual glory at the
  expense of others
• A mixture of the above

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Activity

• At your table you have ten minutes to discuss
  three key changes to help us towards effective
  team working
• Write these on three Post-IT notes
• Feedback from some groups
• Put Post-Its up on the flip chart

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Im not happy.

• Fred asks Anne, Mike and Sam to carry out some
  tasks in line with an agreed procedure. Anne and
  Sam feel that this is too much for them to cope
  with at present. How should they respond?
• Anne and Sam wind up Mike and then all three go
  to their line manager to complain it isnt fair
  and nobody understands how hard they have to work
• Anne and Sam wind up Mike and then all three go
  and tell Fred in no uncertain terms what they
  think of him and how he really should be more
  considerate of them and their feelings
• Anne and Sam each go and individually and talk
  calmly to Fred to ask if there is any way of
  helping them to manage their workload either by
  getting someone else to do some or all of the
  work or alternatively by negotiating a manageable
  deadline
• Anne and Sam do nothing but fester with
  resentment

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How does Fred Feel?

• If Anne and Sam respond by winding up Mike and
  then going to their line manager to complain
  about Fred how is Fred likely to feel?
• Valued and important
• Resentful that Anne, Sam and Mike didnt see fit
  to come and speak to him about it before they
  went off to see their line manager and make him
  feel as though he has done something wrong when
  he was only doing what had been agreed
• Smug because he is in the right - he is following
  his job role to the letter
• Nothing he is unlikely to care one way or the
  other

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Sams been rude to me..

• Sally has been to see her line manager, Sam to
  ask a question Sam was busy and waved Sally
  away with a hand saying she was too busy to speak
  at the moment. How should Sally respond?
• Do nothing it is fine Sam behaves this way if
  she is busy
• Sally reports Sam to her line manager
• Sally spends the rest of the day whingeing to
  colleagues that Sam just doesnt want to know and
  simply doesnt care about any of the team in
  fact she simply doesnt care about helping them
  to do their job effectively
• Sally tells Sam that she finds Sams behaviour
  unhelpful and aggressive and would appreciate it
  if she didnt treat her in that way she would
  be happy to come back later at an agreed time if
  that would be helpful to Sam

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I need help

• Peter asks for help from his colleague Anne.
  Although Anne appeared to agree to do something
  at the time nothing appears to have happened as a
  result or at least not what Peter had expected.
  How should Peter respond?
• Get excited and whinge to his colleagues that
  Anne is useless and doesnt do what she says she
  will
• Do nothing
• Throw his toys out of the pram and stop doing
  work on the task himself
• Go and speak to Anne to see if there is a
  problem, if there has been a misunderstanding or
  whether she needs some help to do the activity

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Do we do what we say we should?
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Break
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You choose the path you take

• Simon Ling
• Caroline Miller

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The Power of Ambition by Stacey Chillemi

• Every morning when I wake up
• I wake up looking forward to what I can
  accomplish
• Developing positive goals,
• Realising the power of ambition
• The power of change,
• Life consists of positive transformation.
• Nothing is final unless you let it be
• Open your eyes to a broad pathway
• A journey that will lead you to a fulfilling
  future

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The Power of Ambition cont..

• You choose the path you take
• You prepare the draft of your life
• You have control
• You have the ability to plan your destiny
• Not everything in your life is planned
• Everyday is a new day
• You are capable and worthy of becoming who you
  want to be
• Never give up
• Have determination
• Follow your heart and all your dreams will come
  true.

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The Personal Style Inventory

• Complete the question sheet in envelope D
• Complete the score sheet in envelope F
• Carry out the interpretation in envelope P
• Review the strengths and weaknesses of your
  personal style
• Generalisations and the impact of working
  together
• Look at the profiles in envelope A

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Task

• Find someone either at your own table or at
  another table who is different to yourself
• Eg if you are an SJ find an SP, NT or NF
• Discuss how the differences you have would affect
  how you work together and what you would do to
  work together more effectively and understand
  each others way of working
• From the information you have found out complete
  the A3 poster for your partner
• To persuade me..
• If I am stressed.
• To organise me
• To motivate me.

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Emotions the positive and the negative

• The positive
• Listening with empathy
• Effective feedback
• A positive climate
• Conflict management
• Openness
• No-blame culture
• The negative
• Abusive use of power
• Climate of exclusion and discrimination
• Harsh criticism
• Negative outbursts
• Insensitive with bad news

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The EQ self-test

• Complete the questionnaire envelope Y
• Score yourself envelope B
• Interpret your scores envelope E
• Look at the framework and think about where you
  sit in this

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Stop, Start and Continue

• Spend 5 minutes completing the pro-forma
  envelope C

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Your follow on task

• If you dont already have one arranged organise a
  one to one meeting with your line manager
• Discuss with him/her the outcomes from your
  personal style inventory and the EQ test and your
  Stop, Start and Continue pro-forma
• Agree an action plan
• Incorporate the outcomes into your next appraisal
  or review
• Carry out your plan
• Review it with your line manager

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This morning

• Value the individual whoever they may be
• Working together and with others
• Striving for excellence
• Put the ethos and the plans into action