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How to Fail Spectacularly (and what you can learn from it). Michelle Gislason, CompassPoint Maricela Rios-Faust, Human Options Dawn Watkins, Women's Crisis Shelter in Southern Humboldt (WISH). Using maestro.
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How to Fail Spectacularly(and what you can learn from it) Michelle Gislason, CompassPoint Maricela Rios-Faust, Human Options Dawn Watkins, Women's Crisis Shelter in Southern Humboldt (WISH)
Using maestro 1. While viewing these slides, please also use a phone to join the conversation using the unique phone number and PIN emailed to you. 2. Having technical issues? Press 5 - Please be patient. www.strongfieldproject.org
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our presenters Michelle Gislason CompassPoint Dawn Watkins Women's Crisis Shelter in Southern Humboldt (WISH) Maricela Rios-Faust Human Options strong field project www.strongfieldproject.org
Objectives • Increased awareness of the connection between failure and organizational learning • Ability to share a failure story using a storytelling structure • Identified strategies for embracing failure and learning from it www.strongfieldproject.org
Write one word or sentence that • describes how you feel about • failure www.strongfieldproject.org
www.admittingfailure.com www.strongfieldproject.org
What was the project or event?What were you trying to do?What was the fail/where did it go wrong?What would you do differently next time (or never do again!)?What lessons can be learned? www.strongfieldproject.org
What was the project or event?What were you trying to do?What was the fail/where did it go wrong?What would you do differently next time (or never do again!)?What lessons can be learned? - Random groups of 4-5; Introduce yourselves and pick a facilitator - 20 minutes of discussion with 4 minute wrap-up warning - Presenter may listen in - Press ‘5’ if you have technical issues www.strongfieldproject.org
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. • --J.K. Rowling www.strongfieldproject.org
Courage allows the successful woman to failand learn powerful lessons-from the failure-so that in the end, she didn't fail at all • -Maya Angelou www.strongfieldproject.org
When it Happens • Don’t overreact • Name the failure • Take responsibility • Turn it into a positive learning event • Analyze the how and why behind the failure and put strategies into place to turn it into a learning opportunity • Listen and stay curious – what happened and what did you learn? What will be different next time? • Don’t treat it as a cause for punishment www.strongfieldproject.org
All the Time • Think experimentally and adjust • Create a culture of sharing failures as well as successes • Create a “continuous learning and feedback” mind-set • Reward risk taking • Don’t reward: • Making repeated mistakes • Failing to acknowledge the problem • Failing to take corrective action • Protect dissenting voices • Define the limits or boundaries of risk-taking and failure • As an organization – open yourself up to risk assessment www.strongfieldproject.org
Design your life to make effective use of failures. • Most successful enterprises are built through a process of groping and adaptation, not planning. --David Hartford, “Why Success Always Starts with Failure” www.strongfieldproject.org
Next Steps • Share one thing you are going to do as a • result of this webinar www.strongfieldproject.org
More on Failure • Funders • Annie E. Casey’s New Futures program • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • James Irvine Foundation • William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Hard Lessons) • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Anthology) • Publications • Joel Fleishman • Bloggers • Sean Stannard-Stockton • Beth Kanter www.strongfieldproject.org
The greatest glory in • living lies not in never failing, • but in rising every time we fail.
thank you! Contact info: CompassPoint Nonprofit Services michelleg@compasspoint.org Evaluate this webinar: https://www.research.net/s/FailingSpectacularly
