A thought for planning for human beings: what if every time we planned a lesson or created an agenda for a meeting or designed professional development we thought of the experience as a story?
Beginning: Who are the characters? Where will they be? Will there be hardships in the setting or will it be comfortable?
What is their work? What will they need to learn or accomplish? What will they need to do to learn it?
Middle: What happens when they try to do it? What are the challenges and obstacles? How do they accommodate, go around or overcome these?
What is the high point of their learning or conversation or action?
How does it resolve? What is their reflection on their learning, conversation, work or action?
End: What action or new state of being occurs as a result of what has happened? Was there a surprise, a twist and irony?