the solution room

The Solution RoomVSAE 2014 Fall

Educational Symposium & Expo

• Innovative framework for sharing

• Personal consulting session

• Issue or topic of importance to you

What is it?

• Locate/separate the worksheets:– Worksheet A: Personal Notes– Worksheet B: Consultation Report

• Follow along as we review the instructions• Write your name at the top of each

worksheet• Be cognizant of the time

What do I need to do?

• Working by yourself, reflect on your current:– Meetings– Task list

• Identify a single workplace challenge about which you would like guidance or advice from others.

• Write this challenge on Worksheet B: Consultation Report in the box provided.

– Long-term projects– Relationships

Workplace Challenge

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Meetings Challenge


Meetings Challenge

Clarify Your Challenge• Now, pass your Worksheet B:

Consultation Report to the person on your right.

• Quickly explain to your neighbor what exactly you meant by what you wrote down.

• Learn from the person on your left what was meant by what he or she wrote down.


Clarify Your Challenge

Consultation Round 1 • RECORDER: Reads aloud the challenge to the

table.• TABLEMATES: Provide feedback, suggestions

and recommendations about this challenge.• RECORDER: Documents the conversation on

Worksheet B: Consultation Report. • COUNSELED PARTICIPANT: Listens, converses

and takes notes via Worksheet A: Personal Notes.


Consultation Round 1

Action Items• Each Worksheet B: Consultation Report

should be passed back to its owner. • Take the next few minutes to review the

guidance/advice you received.• Identify one actionable item that best supports

your challenge and can reasonably be explored within the next 30 days.

• Write your chosen action item at the bottom of Worksheet B: Consultation Report.


Action Items

Strategic Planning

• Following this session, use Worksheet C: Strategic Planning to help refine or add to your list of action items.

• Record the resources you’ll need to complete these action items.

• Fill in a completion date for each action item to reinforce your momentum.

Accountability Partners• Choose an accountability partner.• Together identify solutions to roadblocks or

challenges that may arise within the next month.

• Record the name/contact information for this individual on Worksheet C: Strategic Planning.

• At a minimum, check in with one another via phone or email twice (by Oct. 16 & Oct. 30).


Accountability Partners

What stood out for you about

this process?

What did you like about this process?

What would you change about

this process?

How does this instructional

strategy engage participants?

What are the implications of this

process for reluctant participants?

Meeting planners?

How could you utilize this process internally in your

association?

How could you utilize this process externally in your

association?

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Aaron Wolowiec