I just lately accomplished main a cohort with RocketPD on the subject of “Retaining lecturers & enhancing studying by revolutionary & personalised skilled improvement,” which is a little bit of a mouthful for a title, however there’s a clear focus for the cohort.
How can we enhance studying for our whole neighborhood (together with workers) and create areas the place folks wish to be and really feel really valued?
I imagine there’s a house the place we are able to do each of this stuff.
One of many methods I mentioned with the group was making a “Strengths-Based mostly Skilled Studying Plan” created and led by workers. This not solely brings out the very best within the folks we serve but in addition provides them possession over the route of the college.
Individuals are extra more likely to obtain a purpose after they create and have possession over the plan.
As a principal, I created this alongside my very own workers and wrote about it extensively in “The Innovator’s Mindset.” Within the e-book, I wrote the next:
Specializing in people’ strengths that contribute to the imaginative and prescient of the college helps to maneuver us from pockets of innovation to a tradition the place innovation prospers. When every particular person is acknowledged for his or her personal distinctive qualities and the way these strengths assist the general imaginative and prescient of studying for our faculty, we are able to really rework our faculties. By specializing in strengths first and constructing from there, versus working from a deficit mannequin that focuses solely on the place we’d like enhancements, we create an surroundings the place folks really feel they’ve a goal of their lecture rooms and for all the faculty…Faucet into these strengths and use them to maneuver ahead.
Do we actually suppose somebody can be revolutionary in an space they hate?
As I needed to share the thought with the cohort and supply them with tangible merchandise so they might create a model inside their very own faculty, I procrastinated a bit on placing a template collectively. I like artistic work and articulating concepts, however the monotonous means of placing a template collectively doesn’t get me excited.
Then I believed…
There’s a higher method to do that. Why wouldn’t I make the most of ChatGPT to place the template collectively for me?
So right here was the method I adopted:
1. I copied the textual content from my e-book on “Strengths-Based mostly Management” and put it into ChatGPT, asking for “3 Questions for Others to Think about.”
2. Then, I utilized the immediate, “Create a template that others can use to do that in their very own faculty district.“
It offered me with that template, which I merely copied and pasted right into a Google Doc for others to make use of (I’m positive there may be a better method).
You may see my course of on ChatGPT right here and the template on Google Docs (please be at liberty to make use of and modify it for your self) right here.
Is something that I simply shared with you genuinely mind-blowing? Most likely not.
Typically, after I share these items, I really feel just like the previous man who simply found out FaceTime for the primary time.
However hopefully, one thing right here is useful to you studying this.
There are two takeaways I needed to share about this course of.
- Utilizing AI is commonly not arduous, however it’s an unnatural behavior (for me) proper now. It isn’t that I don’t know the way to use a lot of these items; it’s that I don’t suppose to make use of it. Google was like that at some extent in my life (and possibly yours). The behavior I’m attempting to develop is that if I’m taking a look at having to finish a monotonous job, I ask, “Is there an AI software that would do that for me?”
- The second factor I wish to contemplate is the kind of job that I’m asking AI to do. I didn’t ask it to create the pondering behind a “Strengths-Based mostly Skilled Studying Plan” however to make the template based mostly on one thing I already created. The artistic work is one thing for me to do, not AI.
This jogged my memory of Dan Pink’s e-book “Drive” and considered one of my takeaways. Once we wish to do significant work, intrinsic motivation is the very best driver of that sort of studying. Extrinsic rewards are finest for what I characterize because the “lawnmower” actions. To mow the garden, you shuttle till it’s executed (until you’re making alien crop circles and eager to mess with the world!). There may be work to do, however not essentially a lot pondering and creativity in that course of. (Some folks love these actions as a result of it may be soothing and get your thoughts off of stress, myself included!)The “lawnmower” actions are what I’m saving AI for in my course of. Pink shares the next within the e-book:
We will solely make that means of issues if we do the artistic work.
Right here is one other method it may be mentioned that I just lately noticed being shared on social media.
There are methods to make the most of AI to make our lives simpler, nevertheless it ought to by no means substitute the artistic course of. It ought to solely give us extra time to do work that any particular person finds significant.
