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Seminar Exercises, Selling Points
Illustrating Need for Detailed Notes
PMI Event, Planning, Comm. Issues, Hand Written Notes
Meeting Notes, confirm understandings
Writing Notes Twice
Audience Participation

1008 -    ..
1009 - Summary/Objective
1010 -
101001 - Follow up ref SDS 9 0000.
101002 -
101003 - The inadequacy of hand written notes was considered at the Cal Tech
101004 - seminar on 921021. ref SDS 3 2830
101005 -
101006 - In thinking about the Asilomar conference that may relate to
101007 - communications, the following group participation exercises could be
101008 - used:
101009 -
101010 -      1.  Hand out pads and pencils to half of attendees for the
101011 -          evening session.  This would be accomplished by placing the
101012 -          writing materials at only half of the desks in advance of
101013 -          everyone sitting down.
101014 -
101015 -      2.  Half the people will take notes for the evening session, the
101016 -          other half will not.  Each note taker will put their name on
101017 -          the notepad.
101018 -
101019 -      3.  The next day, the half that did not take notes, will explain
101020 -          what they recall from the prior evening's session.
101021 -
101022 -          The group that took notes will disclose important points that
101023 -          were overlooked by the non-notetakers.
101024 -
101025 -      4.  On the same day, the group that did not take notes will be
101026 -          given the notepads of those who took notes and will be asked
101027 -          to explain what they see is written down.
101028 -
101029 -          The point is how readable (useable) is this form of investing
101030 -          intellectual capital?
101031 -
101032 -          The notes will be collected at the end of the session, so
101033 -          they will be unavailable to the notetakers for a number of
101034 -          hours, emulating what happens in real life.  When we need
101035 -          information it usually occurred sometime ago.
101036 -
101037 -      5.  On the last day, the original note-takers will be given their
101038 -          notes back (using the names entered on the 1st day) and will
101039 -          be asked to explain what they see is written down.
101040 -
101041 -          This will demonstrate how even the people who generate notes,
101042 -          they becoming harder to decipher with the passage of time,
101043 -          and so it is important to convert information into
101044 -          "knowledge" in order to give it lasting value.
101045 -
101046 -
101047 -      [Followed up at ref SDS 12 line 97, and ref SDS 13 line 106.]
101048 -
101049 -      [Example are notes of Forum at ref SDS 14 line 202.]
101050 -
101051 -
101052 -      [See later example showing the value of writing as a business
101053 -      tool, ref SDS 15 line 158.]
101054 -
101055 -
101056 - Easier, Faster Test of Human Memory
101057 -
101058 - Have everyone make a list of the 3 or 4 most powerful work practices
101059 - or tools at their firm for making money.
101060 -
101061 - Sign the list.
101062 -
101063 - Hand the list to their neighbor.
101064 -
101065 - Ask various people to recite what they wrote.
101066 -
101067 - Do the same test an hour later.
101068 -
101069 - Many will not remember the 3 or 4 items because the ensuing
101070 - presentation will have changed their perspective.
101071 -
101072 - Almost none will be able to recall the order in which they listed
101073 - the tools.
101074 -
101075 -     This test illustrates:
101076 -
101077 -     Recall begins to fade immediately after a meeting.
101078 -
101079 -     It fades faster when more information is being absorbed.
101080 -
101081 -     We cannot remember order and priority very well.
101082 -
101083 -
101084 -    [I thought of this again at ref SDS 15 line 162.]
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1011 -