My boss brushed past me, a look of disdain was cast at my 25 page report. The report explained why the data warehouse needed more storage capacity and when it was going to run out.
He turned his face up, looking at me while he kept his finger on the lift button.
“I’m not saying I won’t read your report, but I need that one page’ah to convince me to read it, OK?
I nodded in silence as the lift doors opened.
“OK good, I’ll look forward to the one page’ah when I get back from lunch.”
That was 15 years ago.
I still remember the conversation, and I still appreciate the lesson of putting your thoughts down on a page’ah. But surely you wouldn’t expect it with your own family story? You’re not at work are you, and I’m sure your family would just love to wade through all the documents, photos and Facebook posts of events constituting your own family story.
Well maybe they would, and maybe not. But they’d be more intrigued if they had a page’ah that enticed them to want to know more, and where they could find more. That’s why the Family Knowledge Process has a Family Group Card, it’s like an express lift taking your family story into the 5 step knowledge process.
The Family Group Card is similar to the Dewey Decimal library catalog cards. Remember those cards that give you a summary of the publication date, author, the Dewey subject classification code and then one nice sentence as summary of the book? Well that was my inspiration for the creating the Family Group Card.
Pictured below is my family birth group card, this card provides the one page’ah that explains to my son the family I was born into.
My birth group Family Group Card
If you’d like to learn more then the video on knowledge templates page is a great place to start.
And this pin below explains the Family Group Code
Family Group Code on Pinterest