I took a bit of a risk today. Today was my day to send out a welcome message to our teachers. This time next year, I hope my view of a welcome message is entirely different - today's went out in boring, traditional email format.
However, my thinking is already evolving from the work I did last night in the IMD course. The playlist in Songza was on my mind. So I decided to share it with the teachers in the hopes that they might start to think in new ways about "traditional" messages.
I was a bit scared to send it out - this is putting something personal about me out there to people that I know and work with on a regular basis - typically a "professional" relationship. My colleagues encouraged me to go with it. And I'm so glad that I did. The responses have been limited, but positive.
Sharing with them has opened a new door for them to share back with me. In the course of a couple of hours, I have learned new things about two of our instructors and made wonderful personal connections that will last forever. I am grateful for the opportunity to make these connections and must remember to take the risk to get there.
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