Hear this audio clip!
After your Sources are uploaded, the dashboard offers numerous presentations based on them. See them below. Individual users will see only their own name here. However, to show the possibilities, in the view below, I've created a dashboard for a team for whom I want to create discussion resources. You can listen to the audio conversation about these three here.
These are awesome resources for individual users, teams, and trainers!
Listening to two intelligent people who've carefully digested your Style Matters report talk about what they see is a great way to get your head around the contents. I'd still recommend studying the original written report, since the 10 minute conversation from Notebook only hits the highlights. But as a quick review of key insights from the report, it's a wonderful intro.
Besides the Audio Summary you might find it useful to review these:1) Written summary of the score report2) Study Guide with questions for consideration and suggested answers.3) FAQs and Table of Contents
The Chatbot at bottom of the page functions as a full-power AI prompt directed towards your Sources. You could use it, for example, to request a list of skills recommended for you to work on. After looking at the list, if you want to learn and practice a specific skill, you could tell the Chatbot: "Give me some examples of what it would look like for me to make 'I statements' (or whatever the suggested skill is)."
You could then go farther still and ask the Chatbot to create a simulation for you to practice the skill you're working on. "Set up a simulation so I can practice using 'I statements'". Here's something else to try: Keep a journal of conflict experiences. Log a series of conversations with someone with whom you are having difficulty. Update the log over time. Enter the log as a source document on your Dashboard. Next time you expect another conversation, give the Chatbot a prompt something like this: "Help me prepare for a meeting based on information in my Journal and my conflict styles report. Give me some advice for this meeting, some do's and don'ts. Suggest some skills I should try to use in this meeting."
It's a simple matter to upload two or more score reports to Notebook. If you then add one simple instruction, you instantly have a remarkably insightful guide for reflecting on interaction of these people. I have only done this with three score reports at a time and do not know the upper limits, but for three it worked fine. Here's how:
1) Start with a fresh notebook that does not contain other uploads. (Notebook allows you to have multiple notebooks.)2) Upload the reports of the users involved. Upload each report as a separate Source.3) Add the following as a Source (not a Note). Copy it from here, paste it into the option for copy/paste text, and modify it to reflect the number of people in your situation and your needs.
These are three reports from 3 different people. Our main interest is to help them understand how to work more effectively with each other, based on the info in these reports. IMPORTANT: We want to help them understand ways they could trigger each other unintentionally and give them ideas on how to support and bring out the best in each other.
Now the Notebook is prepared to deliver a variety of useful resources. The Audio Summary creates a sparkling audio conversation with very specific comments addressing potential problems and how to avoid them. The Written Summary offers a nice summary of the three reports and how the users are likely to interact. The chatbot invites further questions and will give responses informed by the score reports. Domestic partners could have a blast with this! Upload your conflict styles PDFs as two source files. Add a third source file that describes a conflict that you are having. Give each person's views on this issue separately so it is clear. Include some of the rationales behind those views. Then add a fourth source file with these instructions: "Important: We want to laugh at ourselves! Start the Audio Interview with a mock dialogue of us having a disagreement on our major conflict, a roleplay that is an exaggerated demonstration of what it would sound like if the two of us had a disagreement. This is really all we care about - just hearing a parody of us!" With a firm mandate like that the Audio Interview will include a minute or two of parody and then comment about it.Then use the Chatbot for further input. Give prompts like: "Suggest ways we can use the strengths of each of us to benefit our relationship." "What are predictable patterns of difficulty we should beware of given our conflict styles." "Suggest skills and strategies for each of us that are likely to be appreciated by the other."
Ways to incorporate the above into coaching and consulting are obvious and need no elaboration. Don't miss out on using the Chatbot in the note to generate wonderfully useful learning resources tailored to the individuals or team you're working with.
For example, you can instruct the bot: "Create three roleplay scenarios that would be useful in training this team." The bot will dutifully provide three scenarios ready for use. Better yet, specify scenarios around certain problem issues. Eg: "Generate three roleplay scenarios involving office desk arrangements for training this team." (Remember, of course, that using scenarios at a slight remove from live issues might make it easier for your users to relax and learn skills and avoid having their buttons pushed.)
