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Speaking Up for
Public Service: Ask Me WHY I CARE
Mary Hamilton and Rita PaskowitzKansas CPM Program Networking Conference
June 17, 2014
Who are You?
• Government Employee--Federal--State--Local
• Faculty Member• Student• Nonprofit Employee
Agenda
1. Current Context for Public Service2. What Citizens Need to Know3. Your Responsibility to Tell Your
Story4. How to Tell your Story5. Where We Go From Here
1. Current Context of Public Service
What do citizens think about public service and people in
public service?
1. Current Context of Public Service
2. What Citizens Need to Know
Public Service is:“A central part of the grandest of human endeavors shaping a better future for ourselves and
those yet unborn”
So how do we changethe dialogue about public service?
3. Why Do They Need To Know?
They pay the bills!
What you do affects their daily lives.
3. Why Do They Need To Know?
This is a DEMOCRACY!They have a
RESPONSIBILITY!
3. Why Do They Need To Know?
If they do not know...they assume the
worst.
3. Why Do They Need To Know?
Our Responsibility:To Tell Our Stories
THE SHORTEST DISTANCE
BETWEEN TWO PEOPLEIS A STORY
WHAT CATHEDRAL
ARE YOU
BUILDING?
YOUARE A STORY
WAITINGTO BE TOLD.
4. How to Tell your Story
5 Languages of Storytelling
1. Word2. Sound3. Gesture4. Attitude5. Feedback
Donald Davis, Master Storyteller
4. How to Tell your Story
You are the author of your own story:
• Be specific• Be brief• Be the hero you really are
It’s not about your job description - it’s about the way you touch another
person’s life.
4. How to Tell your Story
• Interviewee’s name, position and organization
• What do you DO? Not your position, but what do you do to positively affect people?
• Describe a situation where you had a positive effect on one person
• Why do you CARE?
NOWIT’S UP
TO
YOU
5. Where We Go From Here
We want to change the dialogue about public service and public employees by:
Collecting public service stories
Teaching you how to tell your story
Getting those stories into classrooms, on YouTube, into the media
ASK ME WHY
I CARE
If we do not tell our stories,
who will?
5. Where We Go From Here
If you want to help uswith the Ask Me WHY I CARE
Public Service Stories Project,please contact:
Mary Hamilton
5. Where We Go From Here
Thank You for
All You Do!
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