Overview

The tutorial consists of 10 pages. It takes between 2-3 minutes to read each page. There is no homework or anything to memorize. It's not a pass/fail educational process.  You may pause and come back to the tutorial as often as you wish.

 

The way it works is: You'll read a sentence or short paragraph. You will agree with some of what you read and you'll disagree with other things. At the bottom of each page you'll have the option of sharing your thoughts on a password-protected message board (forum). You can also wait till the last page and summarize your experience of the tutorial, or, not post to the forum at all but instead opt to read other's posts. 

 

The value of sharing on the forum is that it both anchors what you know to be true and it presents your thoughts for feedback and coaching from others, to include the Tutorial Coach.

 

Because it will be your intention for the tutorial to work you will notice yourself automatically communicating more considerately and effectively upon completing the tutorial. Communication always moves others whereas talking keeps you and others stuck. It's virtually impossible for you to complete the tutorial and not have it impact you and yours favorably.

 

The teaching principle of the tutorial is referred to as discovery learning. In lay terms this means that if you are doing the tutorial then it's clearly time for you to bring to the front of your mind certain communication principles that you know about or understand but perhaps have yet to fully incorporate into your present communication model (the way you interact/relate with others).

 

You are a teacher. For the purpose of the tutorial we say that a measure of your leadership-communication effectiveness is the number of active participating church members and the number who interact/socialize with each other throughout the week. For clergy we include the weekly tithings. This is measured each week—last week's successful communications (enrollments/participations/tithings) don't count for this week.

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