Make Meaningful Work

TODAY: Make Meaningful Work (Designing Projects for Success) Dan Szuc

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“MAKE MEANINGFUL WORK (DESIGNING PROJECTS FOR SUCCESS)”

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Your character card

Why “Make Meaningful Work?”

Challenges

Challenges Challenges

Challenges Challenges

Practices

Practices Practices

Practices Meaningful

Character, Meaning & Impact

Dimensions

Shuhari: a mental model for the phases of mastery

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Practice Tree

•  Tools •  Process •  Deliverables •  Measurements

•  Tools •  Process •  Deliverables •  Measurements

•  Practices

•  Tools •  Process •  Deliverables •  Measurements

•  Practices

•  Observing •  Prioritizing •  Connecting •  Zooming in/out •  Exploring •  Revising •  Adapting

•  Encouraging •  Helping •  Stopping •  Listening •  Learning •  Reflecting •  Experimenting

•  Storytelling •  Arguing •  Probing •  Overlaying •  Patience •  Aggregating •  Influencing

•  Tools •  Process •  Deliverables •  Measurements

•  Practices

•  Observing •  Prioritizing •  Connecting •  Zooming in/out •  Exploring •  Revising •  Adapting

•  Encouraging •  Helping •  Stopping •  Listening •  Learning •  Reflecting •  Experimenting

•  Storytelling •  Arguing •  Probing •  Overlaying •  Patience •  Aggregating •  Influencing

Practice Cards

•  Tools •  Process •  Deliverables •  Measurements

•  Practices

•  Observing •  Prioritizing •  Connecting •  Zooming in/out •  Exploring •  Revising •  Adapting

•  Encouraging •  Helping •  Stopping •  Listening •  Learning •  Reflecting •  Experimenting

•  Storytelling •  Arguing •  Probing •  Overlaying •  Patience •  Aggregating •  Influencing

Practice Cards

Practice Card: Respect Description:

Benefits:

Activities:

Think: Consider how respect help make meaningful work Body Heart Mind

Practice Card

Have due regard for someone’s feelings, wishes or rights. Respect is a way of treating or thinking about something or someone.

•  Naturally humble •  Make others feel valuable •  Trust & safe •  Belong •  Open & helpful •  Harmony among people •  Think/consider from other’s point of view •  Allows you to reflect on why you respect someone •  Enhances listening •  Creates openness •  Righteous

•  Break down respect, to you and others •  Think of someone you respect and why you respect

them. •  Think of something you do and why it deserves respect. •  Think of someone you don’t respect and why •  Think about a cause you do and don’t respect and why •  Take the time to understand the education that someone

received •  Take the time to understand the schools you attended,

someone’s family history, to discuss the article you both just read together

3 x practices you are strong in

& 3 x practices you are deficient in

3 x Elements to“Make Meaningful Work?”

Dave Gray ‒ “Liminal Thinking”)

Intersections between disciplines

Perspectives

Connecting the dots

Key reflections

Thank You

Daniel Szuc

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