Talk:Team Member Training Manual

Request regarding changes to Team Member Training Manual
Hi there, my name is Mike Caspar.

I have volunteered to keep the PDF version of the manual in sync with this WIKI page until a better way is found.

If you make changes to this page, please just let me know (in case I miss the update email) at User_talk:MikeCaspar. I will then cut-paste any changes into the PDF version.

I would simply like to keep them in sync to keep the quality up.

Thanks Mike

Paragraph re 'cure for cancer'
Under the heading "Logic and intuition", I appreciate that the story about a lady who cures cancer is intending to demonstrate the effectiveness of an enlightened learning process; however, the indisputable fact that Cancer is still killing millions of people annually makes it very difficult, as a reader, to take this paragraph seriously. I suggest the story be removed.

Any thoughts?

Hi there, I have a thought about this that MIGHT work or at least be more appropriate. I recently watched a show about a remarkable woman called Temple Grandin. She was born autistic and was regularly told she would amount to nothing. She was ridiculed during her education in animal husbandry and eventually became a leader in her field. I know it's not the nicest thing to think about, but she is responsible for re-designing approx. 1/2 the slaughterhouses in the US (based on the notes about her from the movie). She ignored the "obstacles", believed in herself and what she thought could be done, and simply went about doing it.

Here's a link to a page about her... Remarkable lady.

Here is the quote directly from the WIKI page...

''Grandin's interest in animal welfare began with designs for sweeping curved corrals, intended to reduce stress in animals being led to slaughter. ''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin

What do you think ?

MikeCaspar 06:30, 1 May 2011 (PDT)

Sounds useful to me.

JoshW, 20 May 2011

OK... here's something to start with... FIRST VERY rough draft (please help me out here with adjustments) (I know there are some English major types out there) :-> ...

''ORIGINAL TEXT : A woman with throat cancer, after going through many remedies, both from medical care givers and herbalists, came to the end of her road of finding a cure. One day, intuitively she knew that a combination of herbs will eliminate her health problem, but, at that moment, she did not know how. Being an engineer, she set out on a path of studying many herbs in a logical and step-by-step process. After months of analyzing herbs from many parts of the world and gaining knowledge of the properties of each, she found a handful that could be the recipe of the cure. She came up with a powder composed of the selected herbs and tried it on herself. She found the cure for cancer. ''

''NEW TEXT : A woman named Temple Grandin is an example of a person who uses knowledge and intuition together with unique gifts to solve problems that some do not yet recognize or consider solvable. Temple Grandin was diagnosed with Autism at an early age. Although she had significant hurdles in life, she has achieved significant advances in her field, has at least 3 degrees and many awards and has created true innovations in her lifetime.

What has made this possible is her relentless pursuit of what she believed could be done and her continual search for knowledge and information. She simply did not believe negative comments and continued on increasing her own abilities to eventually become a leader in her field. You can read more about her on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin.

In OpenAgile, intuition and logic are human capacities to be fully used in finding the most appropriate solution. Everyone's opinion is valued as part of the process. ''

MikeCaspar 04:54, 26 May 2011 (PDT)

User:EwenG has offered to try and track Temple Grandin down for permission to use this in our material.

MikeCaspar 05:47, 24 June 2011 (PDT)