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Focus: Active Listening Skills
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Check on active listening assignment (5 mins)
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Discuss progress on goals (30-35 mins)
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Model active listening. Actively invite others to engage in active
listening (Throughout)
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SMART goal exercise (10-15 mins)
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Tell people that so far we’ve asked them to apply the SMART goal
concept to their individual development. But the SMART goal concept
can (and should) be applied to other things as well.
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Ask them to think about project they are working on. What are the
goals (or subgoals) of the project. How could they make those goals
SMART? Ask each person to write a project-related SMART goal. Ask
a few people to share their goals (and discuss whether they could be
SMARTer).
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Finish by asking what SMART goals could do for their projects
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Review feedback (3 mins)
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Best practices (see slides)
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Remind people of purpose: Providing people information about their
behavior and the impact of the behavior SO THEY CAN MAKE A CHOICE
about it.
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Feedback model – (see slides)
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Assignment (2 mins)
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Practice feedback at least twice between now and the next meeting.
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We’ll discuss your practice episodes in the next meeting
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When you have these exchanges, try to remember exactly what is said
so we can work on it together in the next session.
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Any questions?
Cohort Meeting 2