SECTION 3
ADVANCED MCH LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Building Leadership Structures to Support Collective Efficacy (4 sessions)
SESSION 7: Building Teams and Forming Coalitions
FEBRUARY 4/ HOMEWORK ACTIVITIES
READ:
Section 4 Building Teams [click on Building Teams to hyperlink to the reading]
Section 5 Coalition Building [click on Coalition Building to hyperlink to the reading]
WRITE:
Take 10 minutes to free-write your ideas:
What type of team do you need as part of your triple focus?
How can you begin to cultivate and build that team = practical steps.
SESSION OVERVIEW:
Building Teams and Forming Coalitions
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What kind of team support do you need?
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How will your team support your triple focus?
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What are three practical steps you can take to begin cultivating your team?
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Once you get team members in place, how can you support, incentivize, and encourage that team?
Introducing Antigone: Short YouTube Video to Share Background Material & Set the Stage
"Antigone" by Sophocles [For Session 9]
"Know your topic.
The better you understand what you're talking about — and the more you care about the topic — the less likely you'll make a mistake or get off track"
Mayo Clinic, Craig N. Sawchuk
POWER POINTS from The Community Toolbox
with additions for Advanced Grassroots MCH Leaders
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FREEWRITING as LOOKING BACK TO LOOK FORWARD
Freewriting is a wonderful tool for you to employ as you begin to strategize for your team building initiatives. The widely acclaimed, best selling author Joyce Carol Oates shares tips on approaches to freewriting on the MasterClass website. Take a few moments to visit the link and skim through her suggestions for freewriting as a way to record thoughts and generate new ideas.
Freewrite about your team building strategies for 10 minutes. Then, look back at what you wrote. highlight ideas that you want to pursue. Then, if you have more time, freewrite for five more minutes about the ideas you highlighted and practical steps you can take to bring those ideas to life.
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BEING STRATEGIC as you REVISE YOUR TED Talk
As we met individually to explore options for your TED Talks over the past two weeks, several themes emerged.
1] It's hard to know where to start
2] It's hard to know what to say
3] It's hard to find the right supporting data
These challenges are exactly the three things every writer and speaker faces, from the person who presents about fundraising at the Parent School Association to the people to take the stage at the United Nations to argue that refugee camps need reliable running water. These three point are always a challenge.
One way to leap these hurdles is to focus on the rhetorical context:
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Who am I talking to? Why?
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What do I want this specific audience to know?
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What evidence will help convince them? (Emotional appeals through my personal story? Logical appeals through statistics and research? Ethical appeals through real-world examples and expert commentary? A blend of the three?)
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How much time to I have?
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How can I stay on focus and cover the evidence in this time frame?
After determining the rhetorical context, you'll have a better idea of your next step:
PICK A FOCUS
After you have a focus in mind, think back to the major strategies we pulled from Duerte and our study of MLK's work:
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Make the audience the hero
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Open with the trouble
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Incorporate an artifact
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Share your story [clarify context: places, years, characters, setting]
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Move from high to low to high to low [like Duerte charted in her TED Talk]
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Share supporting evidence and examples
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Revisit the artifact
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Address the resistance and say there is a better way [Counter Argument and Response]
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End with the audience as the hero
At the 2021 Biden Inauguration, Amanda Gorman took the stage as the youngest poet laureate to ever read at a US president's swearing in. She studied speeches by Lincoln and Dr. King as she composed her poem. The strategies she incorporate are in line with both of the works we covered by Dr. King. And, her poem also follows many of Duerte's suggestions for building a powerful TED Talk.
Read the following article about Gorman's journey and listen to her reading from the inauguration: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amanda-gorman-inaugural-poet-the-hill-we-climb/
You too can shape powerful presentations as you strategically plan and use the ideas we're exploring as part of the Advanced Grassroots MCH Leadership program.
PowerPoint on Team Building
PowerPoint on Coalition Building
