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Welcome back, everyone for blog # 3: the fresh and refreshing perspective series.\u00a0 If you have expectations and assumptions about finding something serious here, such a re-engineering and all that other good consultant stuff, this is NOT the place for you.\u00a0 If you want to find out how we DID IT and won ALL of the awards, then stick around.<\/p>\n
One day, in a land not too far away, I was called into the principal’s office ( so what else is new?) and informed that, in addition to math in the classroom, I would be given two groups of 40 students each to teach them improvisational theater. It was a pilot program hosted by a local repertory theater company in an effort to broaden their interest in school activities.\u00a0 These were the best of the regular students and the zainy brainies.\u00a0 I had three days to create a curriculum that would run for five days and our “opening day” was Monday, April 30th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n So, what can you teach second graders in a few short hours?\u00a0 Well, the complete works of William Shakespeare come to my mind.\u00a0 How about to yours?\u00a0 Simple, easy to memorize.\u00a0 Let’s see: Othello?\u00a0 Merchant of Venice?\u00a0 A Midsummer Night’s Dream?\u00a0 Ah, Romeo and Juliet<\/strong>; yes, that’s it.\u00a0 Romeo and Juliet.\u00a0 The boys can be Romeo; the girls can be Juliet.\u00a0 We will do the five most popular scenes, but the girls wanted no part of any kissing, so: no kissing.<\/p>\n Now what?\u00a0 Well, I have to begin with the end in mind<\/strong>, right?\u00a0 Right! So, now I need resources and relationships, right?\u00a0 I need a vision, a mission and purpose, goals, a plan, a pilot program and someone to take notes on what is going right and what is going wrong.\u00a0 Sounds like a project management task to me, right?\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 So, here we go.\u00a0 Resources:\u00a0 I bought for each child a copy of Romeo and Juliet at Border’s Books: you know, the books from Bantam Press that have the Shakespeare on the left side and the regular street English on the other side.\u00a0 What you say?\u00a0 You did not know that such books exist? Shakespeare made easy, my friends, very, very easy.\u00a0 Then, I had to buy them some simple costume accessories, so down to Party America I drove and I got crowns and tiaras and scepters and all kinds of prince and princess stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n OK, now back to campus where everyone got their book and we chose five popular scenes.\u00a0 The first one being the castle tower scene so we went out to the jungle gym in the playground and the girls climbed to the top and started shouting, “Romeo, O, Romeo.\u00a0 Wherefore art thou Romeo?\u00a0 And the boys, at the bottom on the black jump mat, started shouting, “Below yonder window break.”\u00a0 And we got a standing ovation and all A+’s.<\/p>\n Tomorrow, we will look at project management leadership as taught from the heart in our second grade classroom to find out what kind of SHAPE you are in as a project management leader.\u00a0 The S stands for Standards<\/strong>, the H, of course, stands for Heart<\/strong>, the A stands for Attitude and Aptitude<\/strong>, the P stands for Persistence and Perspective<\/strong>, and the E stands for Excellence and Enthusiasm.\u00a0 <\/strong>See you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0Welcome back, everyone for blog # 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