Hear this audio clip!
Listen to a minute of that conversation and then come back with an answer: Is this insightful interpretation? Would you recommend these two to Style Matters users?
My thought: I'll take 'em! They've grasped the heart of John's report. They converse about it in ways that I think John would find helpful. Especially if he's taking Style Matters on his own, without benefit of a coach or a class, this commentary would be quite useful.
So here's the truth: This lively pair are already available to you and any Style Matters users. For free! They are a digital creation of Notebook LLM, a Google service at https://notebooklm.google/. Anyone with a Google account can login there, upload their Style Matters score report in PDF, and generate a similar dialogue about their own report. It's all pre-configured - there's no setup, no learning curve, no fiddling with options. Just upload your report, wait for a minute while it processes, and the audio clip then appears on your screen, ready to use!
After your Sources are uploaded, your 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 hear the audio conversation about these three here.
These are amazing 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 full written report, since the 10 minute conversation from Notebook can only hit the highlights. But as a quick review of key insights from the report, it's a wonderful to think things through.
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'".
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. You can hear a sample of one here. To make your own:
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 below, 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. In addition to the Audio Summary, 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.
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 additional learning resources tailored to yourself or people 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.)
