Focus & Equip (2009.11): How do your daily activities contribute to your mission?
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How often do you empower others to brainstorm options?
Sometimes I get stuck. I have a problem, and I can’t find a way to solve it. Then, I remember to brainstorm my options, to think outside the box. In short order, I’m unstuck and on my way to solving my problem. Brainstorming works for me. And I’ve found that brainstorming helps others.
Question: How often do you empower others to brainstorm options?
Question: What action steps will you take to ensure that you consistently empower others to brainstorm options?
*To learn more about coaching on options, click here.
How do your daily activities contribute to your mission?
Your team is on a mission. First team to make the puzzle wins. Your team has found the edge pieces and has connected them to make a rectangle. And now your team is at a loss.
There’s a gaping hole inside the rectangle.
Unfortunately, this puzzle did not come with a picture. You wish it had. Everyone on your team wishes it had. Why? Because knowing what the picture looks like would help your team work more effectively and efficiently to finish the puzzle.
Point: In an organization, the mission statement is like the puzzle border. Daily activities are like the pieces that fill in the gaping hole. Knowing how the daily activities are connected to the mission and to each other can help you work more effectively and efficiently.
Consider 3 questions:
How are your mission, goals, and daily activities connected?
Think of an activity you’re doing. Got one in mind? Good.
Question: Why are you doing that activity?
Tip: You need to be able to answer that question for each activity you’re involved in.
What should your answer include?
What 3 ways will you decorate your room?
You want your students to learn to better connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. You know that room decorations support learning. So, you decide change your room decorations.
Question: What 3 ways will you decorate your room?
Here are sample ways to decorate your room:
Target Biblical perspective. Decorate your room. Today.
How can peer coaching help your students use relevant Bible verses?
You want your 7th graders to connect what they study and Biblical principles. And you want your 7th graders to support their Biblical principles with Bible verses.
Question: How can you help your 7th graders use relevant Bible verses?
Answer: By having your students coach each other by asking the following 5 questions:
1-2-14 Shinkawa Cho, Higashi Kurume Shi, Tokyo 203-0013
How often do you empower others to brainstorm options?
Sometimes I get stuck. I have a problem, and I can’t find a way to solve it. Then, I remember to brainstorm my options, to think outside the box. In short order, I’m unstuck and on my way to solving my problem. Brainstorming works for me. And I’ve found that brainstorming helps others.
Question: How often do you empower others to brainstorm options?
- Consistently?
- Usually?
- Sometimes?
- Rarely?
Question: What action steps will you take to ensure that you consistently empower others to brainstorm options?
*To learn more about coaching on options, click here.
How do your daily activities contribute to your mission?
Your team is on a mission. First team to make the puzzle wins. Your team has found the edge pieces and has connected them to make a rectangle. And now your team is at a loss.
There’s a gaping hole inside the rectangle.
Unfortunately, this puzzle did not come with a picture. You wish it had. Everyone on your team wishes it had. Why? Because knowing what the picture looks like would help your team work more effectively and efficiently to finish the puzzle.
Point: In an organization, the mission statement is like the puzzle border. Daily activities are like the pieces that fill in the gaping hole. Knowing how the daily activities are connected to the mission and to each other can help you work more effectively and efficiently.
Consider 3 questions:
- What do you do each day?
- If you didn’t do your job, what would happen?
- So, how does your job contribute to achieving the mission?
How are your mission, goals, and daily activities connected?
Think of an activity you’re doing. Got one in mind? Good.
Question: Why are you doing that activity?
Tip: You need to be able to answer that question for each activity you’re involved in.
What should your answer include?
- An activity.
- The goal your activity addresses.
- How working on your goal helps you accomplish your mission.
- I’m updating my curriculum maps for Social Studies 8. I'm doing this because I want my students to experience a coherent curriculum. When my students experience a coherent curriculum, they learn more. And when they learn more, they get equipped to impact the world for Christ.
- I’m fixing a sticky door hinge so that students can get to their classes on time. When students get to their classes on time, they can learn more. And when they learn more, they get equipped to impact the world for Christ.
What 3 ways will you decorate your room?
You want your students to learn to better connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. You know that room decorations support learning. So, you decide change your room decorations.
Question: What 3 ways will you decorate your room?
Here are sample ways to decorate your room:
- A poster of a Bible verse (Micah 6.8).
- A banner with a key Biblical principle, for example, “Love your neighbor.”
- A list of key questions. Here are 4 key questions: Who is God? Who are you? What’s wrong with the world? What’s the solution?
Target Biblical perspective. Decorate your room. Today.
How can peer coaching help your students use relevant Bible verses?
You want your 7th graders to connect what they study and Biblical principles. And you want your 7th graders to support their Biblical principles with Bible verses.
Question: How can you help your 7th graders use relevant Bible verses?
Answer: By having your students coach each other by asking the following 5 questions:
- What Biblical principle(s) did you use?
- What Bible verses did you use to support your Biblical principle(s)?
- What’s satisfying/unsatisfying about the verses you used?
- On a scale of 1-5 (5 being high), how relevant are the Bible verses you used?
- What question do you want to ask me about the Bible verses you used?