kansas cpm networking conf. workshop june 17 2014

Speaking Up for

Public Service: Ask Me WHY I CARE

Mary Hamilton and Rita PaskowitzKansas CPM Program Networking Conference

June 17, 2014

Who are You?

• Government Employee--Federal--State--Local

• Faculty Member• Student• Nonprofit Employee

Agenda

1. Current Context for Public Service2. What Citizens Need to Know3. Your Responsibility to Tell Your

Story4. How to Tell your Story5. Where We Go From Here

1. Current Context of Public Service

What do citizens think about public service and people in

public service?

1. Current Context of Public Service

2. What Citizens Need to Know

Public Service is:“A central part of the grandest of human endeavors shaping a better future for ourselves and

those yet unborn”

So how do we changethe dialogue about public service?

3. Why Do They Need To Know?

They pay the bills!

What you do affects their daily lives.

3. Why Do They Need To Know?

This is a DEMOCRACY!They have a

RESPONSIBILITY!

3. Why Do They Need To Know?

If they do not know...they assume the

worst.

3. Why Do They Need To Know?

Our Responsibility:To Tell Our Stories

THE SHORTEST DISTANCE

BETWEEN TWO PEOPLEIS A STORY

WHAT CATHEDRAL

ARE YOU

BUILDING?

YOUARE A STORY

WAITINGTO BE TOLD.

4. How to Tell your Story

5 Languages of Storytelling

1. Word2. Sound3. Gesture4. Attitude5. Feedback

Donald Davis, Master Storyteller

4. How to Tell your Story

You are the author of your own story:

• Be specific• Be brief• Be the hero you really are

It’s not about your job description - it’s about the way you touch another

person’s life.

4. How to Tell your Story

• Interviewee’s name, position and organization

• What do you DO? Not your position, but what do you do to positively affect people?

• Describe a situation where you had a positive effect on one person

• Why do you CARE?

NOWIT’S UP

TO

YOU

5. Where We Go From Here

We want to change the dialogue about public service and public employees by:

Collecting public service stories

Teaching you how to tell your story

Getting those stories into classrooms, on YouTube, into the media

ASK ME WHY

I CARE

If we do not tell our stories,

who will?

5. Where We Go From Here

If you want to help uswith the Ask Me WHY I CARE

Public Service Stories Project,please contact:

Mary Hamilton

mary.hamilton@cox.net

5. Where We Go From Here

Thank You for

All You Do!

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