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Billw@projectAcademy.org

   

About Us.

We are a 501 (C) 3, non-profit corporation dedicated to forming self-empowered teams that improve life skills including but not limited to team building and project management as well as undertaking problem solving.  We have three sets of constituents:

     1.  Middle and high school students that would learn and develop skills that are not traditionally taught in school today, but will benefit them in future life.

     2.  Young adults that may be drop outs or high school graduates that have no career direction and need to learn skills that will help them succeed in a career or additional  schooling (college and career readiness (CCR))

     3.  Adults wishing to  develop creative solutions/ recommendations to solve societal problems.

To these ends we provide guidance and tools that will enhance the ability to achieve the goals that each team has set

Project Proposal ( Customer for this is the Event Manager/ and Adults at a senior housing development):

Getting an on-line group ( about 6-10) people together to discuss, play and develop solutions to current issues facing society.  The group will form a team, Make all the decisions in  creating a charter and culture statement to work together.  The team will pick a problem, develop solutions and report back to society. 

The goal of the team members are to help improve society (Making society a little better than we found it ), have fun and the team members to grow as individuals.

Benefits to the participant  Our Uniqueness
Project Academy's Culture statement  

 Process Flow... Provide guidelines to team members

Advice

 

Description

 Overview process

 

 Following the process listed below starting with Ice-breaker

 

Open the pink box worksheets for helpful hints (PDF)

 

These are general guidelines to help you navigate the specific process step.

 

Your group makes its own decisions on how you do each step in the process.

 

Overview-worksheet
 

 

Ice-Breaker

 

Worksheet-houskeeping
Worksheet-about-you

 

Video-Ray Dalio
 

Getting to know each other:  Before we begin to form our

 

team, we need to get to know each other.  We need to tell our story:

Introduce yourself and discuss your opinion of the video

 

Other Questions

  • What excites you about your profession?
  • What organizations do you support that helps society get better and why?
  • How has societies problems affected you?

Questions used

in  discussion

 

 

Questions
Thinking skills
Group Reflections
 

Questions are at the heart of the learning process. A good question gets dialogue going and uncovers new thoughts. 

 

 

Examples:

What is the intent of the article?
What areas do we need to explore?
  • A good way to start is by using the 5 W’s (Who, When,
    Where, What, Why) plus How in a question format
     Review

 

 

Tools
Fishbone Diagram 
The 5 Whys
Problem Framing,

 

 

 

We need tools to achieve our goals in the next portions of the project.

  • Review them and discuss where they might be helpful and how you would use them

  • Scared skills play a major role in how we operate as a team and do this project.

Scared Skills... What are our values 

Forming the Team

 

 

Worksheet teams
Sports comparison
Ownership mindset
Assessment-worksheet
Qwnership-checklist

 

 

Teamwork is an essential part of working together.

We are looking for motivated people to join a self-empowered, online team that meets periodically (usually weekly) and provides a challenging and stimulating experience.  The goal is to enhance teamwork and problem solving skills while developing innovative recommendations for solving problems.  We feel that in addition to being a learning experience, the process should also be fun.  "Enjoy the journey"  Team Manual

 

 
Every problem is an opportunity; The bigger the  problem the bigger the opportunity.   "V. Kosla"  see YouTube video    This is the foundation of Entrepreneurship

Guiding principle

 

   
 

Potential problem

 

 list ( World /

 

Community )

 

 

Picking a Topic
US / China relationship Drug problem in the USA/ Our Community
Vision for the USA-Health Care, Industry, Others Climate Change effecting People Migration
Creating a Community Culture Has technology been a benefit to society?
Hunger in the world Future of work
Thoughtful discussion ideas  web site -Kialo,com  
 

Requirements &

 Researching

 

Research
Requirement

 

 

How are we going to judge our solutions?

 

What information do we need to design and analyze? 

 

 

 

Begin the
 problem solving
 process

 

Who  is your customer?
What are the issues ?
Discuss and develop possible fixes

 

Problem worksheet
Design worksheet
 
  Design

 

Creative Thinking: Creativity improves pupils' self-esteem, motivation and achievement

* Brain storming

* Divergent thinking

* Exploring your environment & testing many options

* Stimulate curiosity

* Innovation & entrepreneurship

 

  •  Brain writing (Like Brain-Storming but writing )
     

 

Picking a few

 solutions

 

Critical Thinking

* Analyzing the past

* What evidence?

* What is the author’s purpose?

* Convergent thinking

* Skepticism is a virtue

 

 

 

How to  Shape

Picking two or three possibilities

 

Shaping ( Mundane, Stretch/Bold, Magical )

 

 

 

 Evaluating our

 design

 

Kepner-Trego 

 

Decision Process
 

Decision making

 

 

Team

Communication

Test worksheet
 

 

Speak to Community leadership , Parents, Teachers,
 

 School Admin,  Local colleges, Business
 

What organizations do we want to share our results with?

 

 

Reporting the

 Results

 

Presents the results of your learning

 

Possible  format being an Elevator Pitch

 

Reflection-What have we learned?