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A thousand conversations

What’s so great about

face-to-face communication?

Jim Grieve, Assistant Deputy Minister

Sylvia Link, APR

Early Learning Division

Ontario Ministry of Education

July 11, 2011

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Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits

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Early Childhood Education EDU3. As you may know, the government of Ontario introduced a new plan that will provide full-day integrated kindergarten and daycare programs for Ontario's four- and five-year-olds within Ontario's school system, beginning in 2010. Do you think that introducing this program in Ontario is a very good idea, a good idea, a bad idea or a very bad idea?

Base: All Respondents (n=1200)

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What I’ve seen and heard

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ResultsExample 1

Audience highly supportive of the idea of full-day kindergarten

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ResultsExample 2

Audience not supportive of the idea of full-day kindergarten

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I was impressed that the concerns expressed were taken seriously. The willingness of the speaker to take issues back to the Ministry was reassuring.

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Elements of a strategic face-to-face communication plan

presentations

speeches

“stump”

speech

site visits focus groups

individual or small group

meetings

community forums

town hall meetings

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I wish I was a messenger

and all the news was good

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the kryptonite of communications

or

death by PowerPoint

Nearly anyone can withstand adversity, but if you want to test a person’s character, give him power.

point

We Have Met the Enemy and He is PowerPoint

How to use our power for good, instead of evil

point

Tell a story

ticking clock

odd couple

fish out of water

travel through time

butterfly effect

horns of a dilemm

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Are we there yet?

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Out of the comfort zone and into the

zone

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Make

the

case

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Power your communications

with conversation