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Many years ago 🙂 at a coaching course, the presenter drew horizontal and vertical lines on a flipchart sheet and suggested, “Will we draw a picture together?”
Everyone liked the idea of an Elephant . We went to the flipchart one by one and added a part to the drawing in our squares without going outside the lines.
We knew we were creating one picture together – like a puzzle.
Hints and comments were not welcomed, taking turns was. The elephant turned out very well.
All legs and ears were in place, the proportions were close to the actual.
Maybe because the team of participants was friendly, maybe because the presenter was wise, or maybe both.
Having finished analyzing the technology and receiving feedback, we calmed down: “Good technology! Thank you!”
The presenter smiled and added: “I want to share one story with you… At the training, bank employees also painted an elephant.
The same conditions. The process of creating the picture went well: the elephant turned out to be proportional, and leadership, the ability to work in a team, and communication skills were good.
The last square remains… It just had to draw a line connecting two points in adjacent squares on the elephant’s forehead and that’s it.
A girl, a new bank employee, approached the flipchart.
She drew a line, thought for a moment, and drew a star.”
I have used this technology many times when interacting with participants from different target audiences: from children and parents to employees of international corporations.
And every time we discovered something new together.
Yes, we had to improve it later, sometimes replacing the three-eyed elephant with two tails with a naturally appropriate form, etc. But the main point always remains: everything can always be improved. Even if we only have one square in a large field. Even if we need to add only an elephant’s tail. We can, keeping in mind the overall harmonious result, improve it.
We can add something special to allow us to share our uniqueness for the common good, making the common elephant even more beautiful.
And then you can see the great in the small…
🙂 Olga Verasen
P.S. This is fairy tale about it 🙂
https://olgaverasen.com/happy-home-fairy-tales-eng/#starling-and-significance
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