Chain Mail : How storytelling, luck, and innovation interweave

1- Short Session Description: Three different interactive segments will combine into a session aimed to help make participants more adventurous in their workplace.

2- Session Style and Format:

Segment The First: You rolls the dice, and you takes your chances.

Small group scenarios for fundraising using dice

(You roll a 10 and discover a $25k endowment. What's your next move? Alternatively, you roll a 1 and your budget is cut by 30%, what do you do?)

Second Segment: Gaming out risk v. reward when dealing with innovation.

All participants would huddle for a walkthrough of a game theory chart entailing different outcomes a sample Library might encounter.

We'd then brainstorm best practices in real time using an electronic classroom poll or old school voting.

Third Segment: Numbers tell the story, but they also cast a sleep spell.

Learning how to secure a bigger budget by using more flavor text and fewer statistics OR players seldom state they're a level 20 cleric to their longtime DM since that's obvious.

Exercise: What's the best story someone ever told you? Why did it stand out? How many qualitative arguments do you make at budget time? How do you tell your story throughout the year? Do you agonize about this as much as a prospective student does over their admissions essay?

3- Takeaways:

Participants will get to know one another better.

Participants will have a better idea of how innovation occurs and understand that risk is not necessarily a dirty word.

Participants will improve their approach to securing funding by working together to develop a qualitative approach.

Participants will gain confidence.

There will be digital materials that participants are free to use. Best practices will be compiled in house and dished out to participants as an electronic document after the conference ends.

4- Organization:

I'm willing to do this on my own or as part of a group that the Collective helps form.

5- Contact Information: BWS Johnson abesottedphoenix@yahoo.com