Consulting to Yourself and Building

Objectivity
Goal: To Develop Students Resourcefulness and Highlight the Value of
ExtraCurricular Activites
Transferable Skills Used: Reflection, resourcefulness, critical thinking,
idea critiquing
Educational Best Practices: Use of open questions to stimulate
participation, use of student discussion to reinforce core concepts

New Vocabulary
Blind spots
Objectivity
Assumptions
Transformational Business

Creative Discussion Exercise - Thinking Through In

Practical Terms

Who was Maslow?

What is necessary to
change a person is to
change his awareness of
himself.

Abraham Maslow

1. Ideation
- Closed question according to Maslows hierarchy

e.g. what do people need? What queues are forming? What

need do the queues represent?

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2. Implementation
- Open questions to draw from ones own capital
e.g. what are 5 possible ways in which I can solve this problem?
How will you look back at this time in the future? What needs
(plural) could they represent?

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3.

Check with your partner

-this can be somebody who youre working with in the
class. Be sure to check your assumptions are correct and
look out for blind spots

Research Task 1
Research a country which is currently in the news. Find ways to
use open and closed questions to find an opportunity where
previously there was a need. You may discover new ways to
alter your concept of the country. Check with your partner that
your thinking and assumptions are correct. Perhaps you have a
friend from the country in question who you could interview

Research Task 2
Look into transformational business. What do you think about
this concept and how can you frame your own career goals
around this?

Volunteering
Write a short statement outlining your volunteer work. Dont
forget to use past, present and future tenses to show how you
are drawing from your experience.