Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

How to cross the barrier of the blank sheet of paper.

I love a blank sheet of paper. I know a lot of people who don’t. I was in a meeting once where people were given blank sheets of paper and literally revolted. They wanted some type of template to focus their thoughts. True story.

I recall hearing predictions of such when I took a great facilitation class with Gary Rush (I cannot recommend his work too highly). He told of a situation just like mine. His solution was to create a template. He had a blank piece of paper. The footer of the paper read:

Free-Form Data Entry Template

No joke folks. That one little line on the bottom of the page breaks the mental block that some people have with a blank sheet of paper.