A Pathways Story, a Presentation from Coach Carole

While I finished, decided to finish Level 3 of Motivational Strategy, with only 11 Electives from 12 and the minimum 12 required, Carole published in her Pathways related blog, this delightful Presentation. "Only voice and images" but what images!

I will let you look and in another post show which is my preferred slide and explain why. When we tell a story, written or on scene or through images, the audience always adds if left chance, something to it from own experience. That is the best way to remember it to make it stick and linger.

One step at a time

Something new, Pathways. Something old, Storytelling, sharing stories with each other. Something borrowed, the background image for the Pathways Storyswap.

Something blue: the sky always there.

Yesterday, for my second time I finished Manage Time. Telling a story about an important moment in my life. Here I am listening to John's warm feedback and great specific suggestion about it. My project asked me to note how long took every part of preparing that speech. It was from the Leadership Development path, the only path with "Any topic, any style" in Level 2. How convenient! I will have to upload it to youtube, too big for direct.

Remembering a low moment in our life, when suddenly a realization turned it all upside down makes a good story. the first four pages almost wrote themselves, once I found my topic, then I just had to revise, learn some key words, revise a few times, and I was ready to roll. They did like my story and how I told it.

I also liked the suggestion: remember to show with all your face when you realize the worst suddenly! I was told that a few years back and indeed, again, I forgot to change my face wait then change again, together with the emotional story I was telling.

And now, I am ready and happy to begin the wonderful Level 3 projects of Leadership Development. Organize a smaller event, as required, and all the yummy electives - in French! Perhaps, I will tell the stories in English, but will be able to read all the projects in French and learn the expressions. Below, the same in English, as my level 2 completion was not yet allowed and this is from my old Path.

Indeed, it is great to have Completed paths, one can always go back and launch, read again, even redo any of them again. But this will done, later, from the new path. Soon.

Here are my Completed paths, at bottom the first one, Visionary Communication. The second one finished was Presentation Mastery.

Pathways Guide Tasks is also considered a Curriculum.

Leadership Development in English, in which I was exactly at the level I am now exactly a year ago: it was a surprise to find that out through Facebook, this morning!

The Effective Coaching, come later, as I had to finish its required Level 5 High Performance Leadership. Indeed, now my main online club members are ALL on Pathways.

Dynamic Leadership, finished just a few days ago. With all this, I still have three paths on the way, but only two are really new to me, as the French version of Leadership Development was taken to be able to help French Toastmasters and clubs mostly, but it comes handy now as for my DTMProject, I have to organize events!
The other two paths are the Motivation Strategy: still waiting to prepare better the Interview, before finishing level 3 with all the Electives done. Then, I may concentrate on creating a Podcast. Perhaps for the end of the year? Remains, Team Collaboration, still fighting with how to present a huge research in a short speech or story. So, still on Level 1. It is good to have many different things in mind, but I have to MANAGE my time, and take only one step at a time, not dispersing my attention.

This reminder comes also from the French Path: divide big projects in small tasks to handle them easier

Sometimes, I do juggle many tasks at almost the same time, like a magician. Too many?

Val and the old lady's windows

A Table Topic answer can teach us explain us so much... in a story. A real, personal pathways story in less then 3 minutes. I would never forget this story. "Where does it disappear?" and that is nicely said. 

Windows hide windows. The solution, may be the one Val uses and showed to the old lady who lived 100 miles from her, "and the whole world opened up suddenly". Or, the solution may be instead of minimizing one window to discover the other, to not use windows, but TABs for all popups. I did configure it in my Safari setting, it can be done for the IE and Opera. And here is what a Toastmaster showed us how he does it in Chrome.

Once you see and can move easy from one tab to the other, "the whole use of projects in Base camp changes for us" without waiting for TMI Pathways team to do anything. 

The navigation buttons "popup" also in a narrow window where you can choose. 

There is more then one way to skin a cat. 

Alas, I am not in a PC so we have to try to take a video.

Those are just a few ideas, but it is useful to learn them. When I begun myself, in April and even May last year, I was afraid to open all Project Checklists, because after I printed or saved or even just read them, I found myself back in the beginning of my Educational Transcript, and had to launch again my path (called curriculum) and it never went to the slide I was on when I opened the Project Description!

For me, as I am also an "old lady", it was my son who showed me how to open the whole window, and my grandson to put popups in the tab: my whole life changed! I did pester Pathways a lot less, when I understood, I just could do something on my own computer, the setting of my Safari browser, to make my life using the projects easier.