WHINER
PROBLEM SOLVER
VS.
[✓]
complain
[✓]
create
[✓]
me-focused
[✓]
mission-focused
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anger
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passion
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pessimist
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optimist
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energy-sapping
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energy-generating
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alienate
[✓]
attract
[✓]
problems
[✓]
possibilities
[✓]
alone
[✓]
together
Inspired by: LOIS KELLY www.foghound.com
Which list describes you?
LMPartnership.org/free-to-speak
Elevator Speech Haiku
What’s the problem? (answer in 5 words)
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Describe your emotions about this problem (answer in 7 words)
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Offer a solution (answer in 5 words) I suggest… Can I help…?
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ACTION PLAN
What three things do you plan to speak up about when you return to work?
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What will you tell your union members about the importance of speaking up?
“Human Graph” Icebreaker for Free to Speak workshop
Have 3 sets of “signs”, with each category on a sheet of paper, taped on the wall in a “line up”.
Set 1
Southern California Northern California Hawaii Oregon Washington Colorado Ohio Washington DC area Georgia Other?
Set 2
0–5
6 – 10
11 – 20
21 – 30
30+
Set 3
AFSCME, SEIU, AFT, IFPTE, IUOE, KPNNA, ILWU, Teamsters, UFCW, USW, OPEIU
Instructions: Tell the participants that we are going to do an icebreaker that gives us some information, allows them to get to
know some more of the participants and has them stand up. It will be a “human graph”.
1. Have them look at the signs that are location related and go to the one that most closely describes where they work. Once
they are in their groups, note the demographics (“Wow, we have a lot of CA folks in this group”).
2. Ask them to look at # signs, and go to the sign that best reflects the total number of years with Kaiser. Note the
demographics. Ask if anyone in the 30+ group has been there 40+ years.
3. Ask them to go to their international union signs (Helen will say the full name but the signs will be the initials). Ask them to
find someone they do not know and introduce themselves – Name, what they do, what facility, and how their union has helped
them speak up at work.
Debrief by asking a few of the participants how the union has helped them to speak up.
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