Re: tkt8763-01: Just Thinking

["Chien-chih 'James' Lee" <cl2@ra.msstate.edu>]

Dear Chris Wolney 
	Good thoughts.  Enjoying your thinking!
James Lee

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                        Chien-chih (James) Lee

   Residence Director of Family Housing, Mississippi State University

    Doctoral student in the Department of Technology And Education

            Phone: 601-3256929   E-mail: cl2@ra.msstete.edu

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On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Christopher & Raydene Wolney wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I was just thinking an refining some thoughts. I wish to share with you 
> all.
> 
> I have been listening to a lot of audio tapes. The most common items in all 
> the tapes are:
> 1. Set a Goal or Goals
> 2. Imagine the Goal or Goals completed, actually visualize.
> 3. Create a plan to accomplish the goal.
> 4. Execute the plan. The plan should serve others in order to succeed. If 
> is doesn't it is doomed to fail.
> 5. Evaluate and change the plan as needed.
> 6. Succeed
> 
> I have listened to the what makes a good technology plan.
> 1. The plan must have goals.
> 2. The plan must have vision
> 3. The plan must have a method of implementing the plan.
> 4. The plan is implemented. A good plan will be instantly recognizable if a 
> new instructor while reading the plan thinks how he/she can use the plan to 
> implement technology in the classroom.
> 5. Evaluate the Plan
> 6. Successful Technology Plan
> 
> I have been listening to my class in Instructional Technology and have 
> learned the Instructional System Design process called ADDIE (which stands 
> for Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate). This process is the 
> recognized process that all corporate training should emulate. In addition, 
> we have talked about a needs analysis which checks out the difference of 
> what ought to be and what is currently.
> 
> In the Army we have a six step decision making process. It follows:
> 1. Receive the Mission
> 2. Analyze the Mission
> 3. Develop a Course of Action
> 4. Compare a Course of Action
> 5. Implement a Course of Action
> 6. Supervise and Refine
> 
> Anyhow, there appears to be a common thread among all of these processes.
> 
> 1. Analyze - Look at what is reality right now. Break it down. Look at its 
> parts. Understand the situation or problem.
> 2. Goal(s) - Establish what is important. What is the mission. Where do we 
> want to go from what is reality right now. Where do we want to be. Write 
> them down. The act of writing the goals goes along way towards 
> understanding the goal.
> 3. Develop - Develop a plan of action or attack to get you there.
> 4. Implement - Start to execute the plan. It doesn't have to be the perfect 
> plan because any plan is probably 10 times better than no plan at all.
> 5. Evaluate - Evaluate the plan. If the plan fails. Learn from it and 
> change the plan. Again even if you do not know the right way to change the 
> plan, using a systematic process will eventually lead to success.
> 6. Supervise - Every good organization/plan needs a leader. The leader 
> provides the vision. The leader provided the motivation. The leader 
> provides the direction.
> 7. Succeed - As long as we set written goals, develop a plan to achieve the 
> goal, implement a plan to achieve the goal, evaluate the plan, and 
> supervise to keep working towards the plan, we will succeed.
> 
> I will not say it is a seven step process, but will say that at the very 
> least we must establish written goals, devise methods to achieve these 
> goals, begin to work towards the goals, and finally reach the goals or 
> refine our plan and then reach the goals. I truly believe all the tapes, 
> IDI Class, SIP Class, the Army all have it right.
> 
> Define the Problem
> Establish a Plan
> Implement the Plan
> Supervise and Refine
> 
> I think the biggest problem with the 95% of us have is we never actually 
> write down the problem. We never establish written goals. We therefore 
> waste time on things that have nothing to do with our goals. We waste 
> valuable time on unimportant things and never accomplish our unwritten 
> goals. I truly do not believe that most people are better than me. I 
> believe I have the same if not more intelligence and better character than 
> many successful people I see. I believe the people I see at MSU have the 
> same intelligence and character I have. What is funny is I do not do this 
> at work. In the military we have definite formal ways of accomplishing 
> mission. It is a systematic approach explained above. I have been doing it 
> for so long, I do it without thinking. I also do it in school. I see what  
>  projects I have in front of me (written in the syllabus) and execute them 
> to the fullest extent. I just don't do it with my personal life. I 
> understand the goals of the military. I understand the goals of my 
> instructors at MSU. I just have to write down and establish my goals.
> 
> Personally, I am just a Wondering Generality. Now all I need to do now is 
> become a Meaningful Specific.
> 
> Chris Wolney
> 
> Shoot, Move, and Communicate
> Armor, The Combat Arm of Decision!
> 
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