{"id":822,"date":"2007-05-24T09:06:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/24\/advice-from-a-design-expert\/"},"modified":"2007-05-24T09:06:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T17:06:35","slug":"advice-from-a-design-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/24\/advice-from-a-design-expert","title":{"rendered":"Advice From A Design Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at Chi Alpha we interviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/dschool\/people\/team_george_kembel.html\">George Kembel<\/a>, co-founder and executive director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/dschool\/index.html\">Stanford d.school<\/a> about his faith and how it integrates with his professional life.<\/p>\n<p>It was lots of fun. During the interview he shared a helpful metaphor about his crisis of faith as a young adult. \u201cIt\u2019s like my baby teeth. They had to go so my permanent teeth could come in. Something similar happened with my faith. I needed to move from a child\u2019s faith to an adult faith, but what I got in the end was something better and more enduring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, afterwards we were able to talk briefly and I asked him about applying the principles of his professional life to ministry. How would a d.school person approach improving the experience of a regular or a guest at a ministry function?<\/p>\n<p>We only talked briefly, but one tidbit he shared really struck me. \u201cWhen we\u2019re doing feedback we find it helpful to have people restrict themselves to three types of statements: \u2018I like\u2026\u2019, \u2018I wish\u2026\u2019, and \u2018We should try\u2026\u2019. For example, \u2018I liked it when you talked about x, I wish you had spent more time on that and less on this other point.\u2019 It forces feedback to be more personal and also pushes it in a constructive direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I think we\u2019ll experiment with that and see how it works out for us. It sounds promising.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I hope you find his comments as interesting and helpful as I&nbsp;did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at Chi Alpha we interviewed George Kembel, co-founder and executive director of the Stanford d.school about his faith and how it integrates with his professional life. It was lots of fun. During the interview he shared a helpful metaphor about his crisis of faith as a young adult. \u201cIt\u2019s like my baby teeth. \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/24\/advice-from-a-design-expert\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cAdvice From A Design Expert\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional-nuggets","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}