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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
What’s helpful for the workshop…
Go with it - no wrong answers – no embarrassment!
Draw a picture of where you live
With the hand you don’t normally
write with
1 minute
Make a list of the different ways
you could use this can for
1 minute
How are an iceberg and idea similar?
1 minute in 3’s
In any creative process you need to…
• Create space
• Long list of ideas /explore
• Then choose /prioritise …
Story telling…
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
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
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
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
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
Character + event = change
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
Your character…..
Strength
DesireWeakness
moralneed
Team up with someone near you –
Your character now has an opponent or a buddy(?)
Share your characters so far…
Together suggest a few possible events…
(something that will test your characters- Let your imagination run free)
Create a scene…
1.What do your characters want?
2.What’s the conflict / challenge?
3.What’s their response?
What’s the character change?
Quick reflectionHow was that?
Walk tall…
Which characteristicis most like you?
Yes I do that….
Character + event = change
-You are the character
- You choose an event that illustrates the characteristic
- You share what’s changed and why it matters
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)
Using the stories in practice…
Using the stories…
• Management practice/development
•Job/organisation design •Organisational culture change •Employee engagement •Recruitment •Performance management
Imagine you are at a book club…
Read and discuss a story…
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
Reflection / discussion
For individuals, organisations and
HR / OD specialists
Walk tall
– being a 21st century public servant
Not just stories….Stories with a purposethat we create and live
Next steps and getting the book
What if?
Wouldn’t it be great if?
Crazy ideas
corner
Something from
elsewhere
a green shoot
?
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