{"id":913,"date":"2011-09-15T01:08:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T06:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=913"},"modified":"2011-09-09T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:17:23","slug":"the-free-form-data-entry-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2011\/09\/the-free-form-data-entry-template\/","title":{"rendered":"The Free-Form Data Entry Template"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to cross the barrier of the blank sheet of paper.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love a blank sheet of paper. I know a lot of people who don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>I recall hearing predictions of such when I took a great facilitation class with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mgrconsulting.com\/\">Gary Rush<\/a> (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:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Free-Form Data Entry Template<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,25,10,42],"tags":[171,147,133,164],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-meetings","category-people","category-process","tag-adapting","tag-meetings","tag-people","tag-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}