Description

00:40 Intro

• Intro/Opening remarks
• The topic is: Looking back for the future (Reflection)

1:45 Sponsors

• SPEARity (SPEARity.com)
• Cream City Marketing (creamcitymarketing.com)

3:47 What is reflection?

• Looking back at what happened
• Looking back as the process for continuous improvement
• Reflection as a methodology or framework for taking the lessons of the past and applying them forward
• Get insight from everyone working on a project
• More insight = more data = more patterns
• “People besides you have good thoughts too” - M
• Why reflect?
  • To get better

5:48 Is it important?

• Reflection supports an overall idea
• Michael reflected his time teaching at summer camp
  • The goal is to develop the students there
  • While also developing the staff there
  • And actively trying to develop the curriculum
  • Meta-developing the development process

7:15 Is it time for you to reflect?

• Are you tired of making the same mistakes?
• “I just can’t figure that out”
• Do you keep doing it the same way and you see no significant improvement or changes?

9:55 How do you do it?

• Start with your feedback (See episode 51 on PINT-sized feedback)
• Tag your feedback (+-!?)
  • Your feedback needs to have a value
• Split your project into a timeline (days, modules, etc.)
• What was your end objective?
• “Your effort should have a goal” -M
• When you reflect, did you or didn’t you accomplish your goal?

15:05 Practical Standpoint

• Looking for trends
• More positives than negatives
• Are there a lot of questions?
• Are there new ideas?
• Does all of the feedback get you closer or farther away from your goal?

24:30 When to implement the new changes

• Capture how you did in the moment
• Let it sit emotionally a bit and come back fresh
• Need to be able to distance your emotion from the process in order to implement the changes needed

30:55 Closing remarks

• The podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, & Anchor
• Check out SketchyIdeasshow.com
• If you have any sketchy ideas, email us at info@sketchyideasshow.com
• Just because it’s a sketchy idea, doesn’t mean it’s not worth exploring!

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