11:02:55 From Albertha to Everyone: Hi everyone 11:03:15 From Jason Andersen to Everyone: Hello there 11:04:07 From Gina Knudson to Everyone: Yay Allison! 11:04:56 From AlisonMims to Everyone: 🙂 11:06:38 From Megan Dettenmaier to Everyone: story of listening 11:06:51 From Sandy Kollenberg to Everyone: talking to threatened community about fire 11:07:02 From Albertha to Everyone: A story of better communication 11:07:15 From Philip Ketel to Everyone: Empathy 11:07:24 From Gina Knudson to Everyone: A story of empathy 11:07:42 From Sam Amato to Everyone: Its a story of how to collectively implement the 6th standard fire order 11:09:38 From Gina Knudson to Everyone: The problem is communicating with frightening people. 11:09:46 From devo brown to Everyone: me too 11:09:47 From Gina Knudson to Everyone: frightened, that is 11:12:56 From Albertha to Everyone: Maybe we need to start with 'knowledge' in the blue section 11:14:02 From Matthew David to Everyone: You can find details on how to join the ABT Framework Google Group on the resource page if you'd like to audit future classes for free: http://abtframework.com/abt-framework-student-resource-page-round-32-us-forest-service/#group 11:14:32 From Albertha to Everyone: Is it about landfire data, the products or the profesionals? 11:15:03 From Matthew David to Everyone: And feel free to sign on to any of the Counterpart International Working Circles on the sign up page: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17ry5-PdWi2UjPUk_VAHZv9MtkMCc7Fuu0laltWsKcOU/edit#gid=0 11:17:11 From Philip Ketel to Everyone: You have to convince the customer that they need this tool to complete thier effort.. 11:18:34 From Albertha to Everyone: Knowing about landfire products is useful and if this knowledge can be effectively communicated to the natural resource professionals then …. will happen or be reduced but it is not happening therefore we are embarking... 11:18:46 From Jason Andersen to Everyone: Landfire is a system that has all this great information and if managers had access to this information, they could do these great things. But managers don't use landfire because it is intimidating and scary. Therefore we need to make it more accessible. 11:18:59 From Megan Dettenmaier to Everyone: Reacted to "Landfire is a system..." with 👍🏻 11:19:03 From Megan Dettenmaier to Everyone: Reacted to "Knowing about landfi..." with 👍🏻 11:19:15 From Matthew David to Everyone: Reacted to "Landfire is a system..." with 👍🏻 11:19:21 From Matthew David to Everyone: Reacted to "Knowing about landfi..." with 👍🏻 11:21:34 From tparkinson to Everyone: Megan hits on an issue the agencies have communicated for years... we present a ton of information assuming our audience either agency peers or publics will assimilate and act on the new knowledge in reality we need to help connect the dots for them getting to that because statement. 11:21:38 From Vita Wright, PNW to Everyone: It seems like the AND is used a little differently here. I would probably use a lowercase and in this sentence 11:22:01 From Jason Andersen to Everyone: For an internal audience saying "the landfire website sucks" would be a great but. 11:22:07 From Vita Wright, PNW to Everyone: … in the first example... 11:22:59 From Gina Knudson to Everyone: Reacted to "For an internal audi..." with 👍 11:25:23 From Jason Andersen to Everyone: The cABT is a great tool to help stay out of the weeds. 11:26:12 From Gina Knudson to Everyone: cABT is a great shortcut. 11:28:17 From Philip Ketel to Everyone: it helps to leave the technical inner circle to the broad outer circle 11:28:58 From Matthew David to Everyone: https://splasho.com/upgoer5/ 11:29:50 From Megan Dettenmaier to Everyone: There is power in specificity.... 11:31:07 From Jason Andersen to Everyone: I'm not an expert, but I would guess assuming your audience is dumb before you form your message is not a good place to communicate from. 11:38:22 From Matthew David to Everyone: Replying to "I'm not an expert, b..." It's funny - in Improv training we were taught to always aim just above the audience's head intellect wise because audiences appreciate that more. 11:38:50 From Albertha to Everyone: Summary of Discussion. Conversational ABT can be used for: an opening line for a presentation, moving the communication from the inner circle to the outer circle; tester for determining how much information your audience is interested in becoming aware of, removing the weeds/or simplifying the weeds of information, a way of having collective ownership through presenting a frame of reference. 11:46:15 From Vita Wright, PNW to Everyone: Speaking of jumping the track... I've been sharing some of this with a colleague (attempting to run working circles), and he calls the ABT format "conjunction junction" 11:46:28 From Matthew David to Everyone: Nobody buys a solution without a problem. But often these organizations are so eager to tell us what their solution is before they make any mention of the problem. 11:46:52 From Matthew David to Everyone: Reacted to "Speaking of jumping ..." with 😂 11:48:56 From Jason Andersen to Everyone: Thank you Steve 11:54:15 From Vita Wright, PNW to Everyone: ... he didn't even get sidetracked by telling us the difference between fixed and floating point 11:55:08 From Jason Andersen to Everyone: I have no idea what that story was about but I enjoyed it. 11:55:11 From tparkinson to Everyone: Matt I had something quickly before we close out 11:55:58 From Gina Knudson to Everyone: Yes, so much thanks to Alison! 11:55:59 From devo brown to Everyone: yay alison! 11:56:11 From Sandy Kollenberg to Everyone: Reacted to "Yes, so much thanks ..." with 👍 11:58:04 From Philip Ketel to Everyone: I'm in the hangar at the airport 11:59:44 From Philip Ketel to Everyone: sorry at Missoula 11:59:50 From devo brown to Everyone: mitigating speech 12:00:28 From devo brown to Everyone: 💪🏼 12:00:33 From Gina Knudson to Everyone: This was transformative training! Great job and thank you Randy and Matt. 12:00:36 From Vita Wright, PNW to Everyone: Thank you all SO MUCH! 12:00:49 From Jane Darnell to Everyone: Thanks ALL! 12:00:59 From AlisonMims to Everyone: Alison.mims@usda.gov 12:01:18 From Jason Andersen to Everyone: Yes, this was excellent. Thank you Randy, Matt, and Alison! I am looking forward to re-reading the book next. 12:02:26 From Heather Leach to Everyone: gotta run to a meeting, but thank you so much this was great! 12:02:42 From Sandy Kollenberg to Everyone: I am communicating better already. Thanks so much. 12:02:47 From Albertha to Everyone: Bye from Trinidad