If you'd like to move closer to the stage there's plenty of room down here. We don't bite come on down No, one's moving. That's okay Give everyone a couple more minutes Good morning One more time. Good morning Awesome I'm Sugu Mimaki. I'm the chief operating officer here at the ICA We're thrilled to welcome you to the museum and be included as part of the arts equity summit Thank you for coming. At the ICA our goal is to create a museum at the intersection of contemporary art and Civic life and exhibitions that challenge issues of gender identity racism Immigration and social justice to name a few There's an urgent need for museums to tackle these issues of equity access and inclusion and As an institution it's part of our mission to open up the cannon and bring voices to the table that have been overlooked or under represented We are tackling these issues internally as well How can we add more seats at our table? How can we include more voices to ensure a richer and deeper conversation? Our objective is to intensely focus on our staff to build a diverse welcoming environment within And to actively recruit from groups historically underrepresented in the museum professions Our did our dedication and commitment to fostering the pipeline for the field will develop the next generation a Cohort who will contribute global perspectives to our community It's empowering to see us all gathered here today around the issue The arts equity summit and the art the work of arts Connect International is so important and we are honored to be part of this moment With that I'd like to introduce Marion Taylor Brown Executive director and founder of arts connect international Good morning How we all doing Excellent, we made it through the snow Who would have known Boston at the end of the march is unpredictable, but we're so thankful that you are all here It's been a dream come true starting last night to just see the arts equity summit become a reality Over the past couple of years ACI has really been operating as more of an equity incubator within the Boston ecosystem We've been looking at the cultural equity gap from a multiplicity of perspectives Whether it's through our artist leader programming our retreats our artists and residencies or whether it's through empirical research We're really endeavoring to deeply understand What is special? What is important? What are the assets that we have within our different community context within our individuals and our organizations? And how does that play into this greater movement towards cultural equity in the arts and even more? So what does cultural equity even mean? So without offering any type of answer to those complex questions I just want to thank you all for coming to the table and being excited willing and open to Diving into that conversation with us and for really being open and receptive learners One thing as we move through the day and through the rest of the weekend. I deeply encourage everybody to please Take notes. We're learning as we go and we're learning with all of you Any feedback that you have is deeply appreciated and we will be so receptive to it throughout I want to take a second to thank all of our community partners who came out and tabled last night They're beautiful information is in your swag bags. I say swag really funny. I learned that this week swag bags please feel free to check them out and I really want to call out two partners in particular this morning that have just been really integral to this entire process And they're the ones that have made the keynote particularly possible. So first for the Institute of Contemporary Art the ICA Let's give it up and then also for the New England Foundation for the arts NIFA One of our very first partners that really jumped on board and said this is our work We're in it with you and they've been so generous with their time knowledge all of their caring concerns. So thank you to NIFA And on the back of your programs, you'll see the list of all of the incredible sponsors that have made this possible So without exhausting that list, please do make sure to check that out as they've been unbelievable I also really want to thank ACI staff which have just been Devoted to this beyond measure since day one. So to Hanukkah Brie Thank you to Manny Martinez Joy McDowell Allegra Fletcher Who am I forgetting I Think we're good. Sorry, and then to our board of directors that have really not only pioneered this vision But have really made it actualized so to Shreya Snivare who you hear from in a second David Brown Mina Malik And Dan Bailey so thank you to your board of directors and Last but not least Thank you to all of you Again, this is such a community event where you've all come to this space willingly with an open heart and with a desire to learn together and that means more than anything in the world So we thank you. I hope you enjoy the lineup today. They're incredible humans and artists I can't wait to hear from them and we actually have the director of abilities dance Who's going to do a quick intro for her company before they kick us off with the first performance? Good morning everyone My name is Lisa Patterson I am the founder and director of this amazing company abilities dance We're a dance company that seeks to disrupt Antiquated ableist beliefs and it's a mini the power of inclusion through dance Yes We're performing two of the pieces that we actually premiered last night at our annual production and One is called I am home that was created by our guest choreographer from Heidi Latsky dance in New York And the next one is from our resident choreographer Lauren Zava Who is our is in the company and all of our dancers performing and I hope that you enjoy it Our music was composed originally by our amazing director of music Andrew Cho and I'll also be audio descriptions has an access point Thank you. Oh and follow us at ability stands Boston Facebook and Instagram and check out our website for more events Ability stands Boston.org Sarah Cynthia and Shannon stand next to each other they began to walk across slow Gliding determined they all turn forward and rearrange Cynthia and Sarah beside each other toward the front Shannon behind and between them They each bring the right arm forward across their bodies to their left shoulder before sweeping it back and around again bending down arms slack slowly unbending back up a return repeating the sequence with their left arm Forward across sweeping back around down and up again a return They bring both arms across each touching the opposite shoulder and bring their torsos around Leaning around and bending down and up again a return a familiar thing They each bring hands to their faces like flowers opening then bend at the knees Cynthia goes to the ground on all fours Shannon takes a big step to the left in place Right arm raised Sarah doing the opposite.  They lean to the right as If calling out to someone someone familiar they stand Rearrange all facing forward Shannon and Cynthia next to each other Sarah between and behind them Cynthia leans forward Bending twirling on one knee Shannon and Cynthia face each other go back to back and then join hands pulling toward each other Then apart Cynthia stands tall arms in front of her and falls slowly to the ground Sarah falls to the ground Shannon bends over Sarah and Cynthia lay facing each other Shannon and Sarah move slowly Shannon still bending Sarah freezing only her torso as they start to reach out towards Cynthia as Cynthia lies on the ground a yearning for a return Sarah goes back to the ground fully as she and Cynthia begin to roll over Shannon stands takes a step to the right spins Sarah and Cynthia are pulling forward on the ground with her arms Shannon steps spins Cynthia continues pulling forward Sarah turns over on the ground Shannon steps spins as if she is trying to reach them They join each other in an embrace Cynthia on her belly Sarah sitting up on the ground back to them Shannon bending over as if protecting as if returning The embrace continues each of them breathing pulsing as one they slowly come apart Shannon standing walking backwards Cynthia and Sarah stand slowly they rearrange a return Sarah and Cynthia stand next to each other Shannon behind and between them all three raised their arms Sarah and Cynthia bend at the knee a breath Shannon bends her knees arms in front of her then stands Sarah brings her left arm to her right shoulder sweeps across Cynthia stands tall left arm up a beacon to return to all stand with arms up bent at the elbow They step around each other an arm swinging forward in the other like doors to a familiar place They rearrange a return Shannon and Cynthia stand next to each other Sarah between and behind them She raises her left arm and left leg to the right twice them switches to her right arm and leg Shannon and Cynthia do the same a beat behind they repeat repeat repeat repeat Shannon and Cynthia bend slightly at the knee Sarah comes forward Cynthia leaps back and forth as if in a familiar place Sarah joins her Shannon rises on her toes moving toward the back Cynthia leaps again and then rises to her toes arms up over her head She and Shannon balance on their toes Sarah joins them they move in the circle fading away around balanced They lower their arms turn toward each other and then raise them again still balanced still a circle arms lowering turn away again Arms lowering turning toward each other again They move toward each other meeting in the middle hands still overhead Meeting briefly they bow bending and then rising again. They move back from each other Lowering their arms all raise their right leg balanced on one foot They pivot to the right arms out to either side of them right arm swings back briefly then out again Swings over then out again Sarah and Shannon pause here as Cynthia moves forward arms windmilling Then she bends at the knee a jump back She leans back on her left foot one arm over her head the other in front of her She goes forward a jump. She turns around balances on her right foot Extends left arm in front left leg behind Shannon begins to move Sweeps her right leg in front then raises to her left a spin Cynthia repeats her own sequence as Shannon repeats hers. Sarah begins to move. She spins around Once raising her arm in front of her She raises her left leg and lowers it the momentum bending her at the waist and raising her right leg behind her She raises her arms up then spins before going to the ground Spinning on the ground and rises to repeat the sequence All three repeat their sequences all three returning looking Finding something familiar. They rearrange Sarah and Shannon standing next to each other Cynthia behind in between them They bend at the knee left leg behind the right Sarah and Cynthia begin to jump Shannon raises her arms left leg outstretched then right Sarah and Cynthia stop Bend down Shannon joining them Arms hanging down in front of them a simple reach toward us toward home Two dancers sit back to back Facing away from each other Spinning their fingers while their palms stay connected One dancer intensely walks behind them She looks towards them then up and away She then walks in front of them Again looking towards them and then up and away from them They open their arms as she again walks behind them circling them They curve inwards as she steps back Also bending her knees and lowering her torso The seated dancers reach out on the floor in opposite directions Then draw their hands back to touch their hearts The standing dancer reaches up with one arm As the seated dancers shift forwards and backwards in their seat They then trace fingers down their arms As the standing dancer raises and lowers arms by leading with her elbows The two seated dancers then roll away from one another on their bellies To sit with their feet planted in front of them All together raise one elbow and then the other Then sweep their arms across their chest All perform their own movement to rise to their feet Until they are all standing in a triangle facing away from each other They bend their knees and lower their torso Bending at their waist to then step backwards They rise to repeat that drawing closer together as they do They all quickly walk out to a plank walk back and then turn with one knee up After more of their own movement they all reach up Two now stand as one kneels The one kneeling shifts backwards to sit Then crosses his ankles to pitch his legs up and backwards Meanwhile the dancers standing open and close their arms They scoop the air with one arm to turn and then reach up with the other They then reach towards each other while the dancers seated again shifts backwards Each dancer begins to move around the space in their own unique way to their backs There they pedal their legs as if riding a bicycle A couple of times they reach forward and fall back All then shift to form a tighter triangle still on the floor They then raise their arms and sway them side to side They then face forwards and make their own gestures with their hands They all bring a fist to their hearts They look at each other and take three visible breaths In and out In and out In and out They look around the space up and around Let's hear it one more time for Abilities Dance And the second I'll turn it over to my colleague Shreyas for him to introduce our keynote speakers today But I wanted to quickly add in two more gratitudes and thanks And I'll probably be doing this all day. So please forgive me in advance But I wanted to shout out to our Youth United artists who are in this back corner up here. Can you guys stand up? This incredible team of youths have been visionaries and really creating what the Arts Equity Summit would be They've been doing a youth participatory action research process this entire year With Jess and Steven and a whole bunch of our team that's up there with them today So we just can't thank you enough for all that you have done The youth voice and perspective is so deeply important and all the work we're doing Especially when we're talking about incoming and growing leaders in the field. So one more time. Thank you to YUA And then without wanting to be selfish and just thinking my family which are here, which I'm very thankful you're all here I want to thank all the families that have really contributed to all of us being today. So to Your relatives your lineage whoever you call family both chosen biological and otherwise Big thank you to all of the people that brought you here and brought us all together today Now I'll turn it over to Shreyas Good morning everyone So I'm a political cartoonist Usually tend to exaggerate but today there is no scope for exactly Exaggeration because the three keynote speakers are really really incredible So I'm Shreyas and as an ACI board member it is my proud privilege to formally introduce our three Keynote speakers today Jason Lujan is originally from Marfa, Texas and has lived in New York City since 2001 His current work creates layered connections using cultural commercial and political design Often utilizing visual signifiers rooted in asia and north america Previous exhibitions and performances include the herd museum phoenix the national museum of the american indian new york The kuri beta biennial in brazil Continental the artist indigenous contemporaneous at the museo national the cultures popular as mexico city And solo installations summer burial at the museum of contemporary native art in santa fe Together with his wife maria huffield. He administers native art department international A collaborative arts project that has exhibited or appeared at artist space The kitchen the drawing center stamps gallery and gallery seconst in sweden Jason occasionally curates and co-organizes exhibitions in new york city He's also a board chair with the downtown arts nonprofit abc norrio So a big round of applause for jason, please Our next speaker is kaisha johnson who is the co-founder and founding director of women of color in the arts A national service organization dedicated to creating racial and cultural equity in the performing arts field As a staunch advocate for racial and cultural equity on and off the stage Kaisha co-founded voka to help amplify the voices of art administrators of color With the intent of cultivating a diverse and inclusive field As varied in voice and perspective as the community it serves Most recent to her position at voka Kaisha served for over a decade as a program director at the center for traditional music and dance A nonprofit dedicated to building cross cultural awareness by nurturing and presenting the performing art traditions of new york's immigrant communities Having traveled extensively throughout Latin america and the african diaspora working with arts organizations and artists Kaisha has created a niche in the performing arts world Kaisha holds a bachelor's degree in music from hampton university A masters in music business administration from new york university and has done post graduate work in ethnomusicology at hunter college At the city university of new york, please give a round of applause for kaisha Last but not the least Hippolyte tiguridwa identifies as an everyday peace artist His work focuses on using arts to prevent the intergenerational transmission of hate He uses theater as an advocacy healing educating and uniting tool for post-conflict generations and oppressed communities While on residency with aci in boston in 2016 Hippolyte explored theater and artistic techniques That can act as resilience mechanisms to express the witnessing of horrific oppressive and unjust experiences Hippolyte's artistic interests and practices Explore the individual and systemic roles in both oppressing and restoring humanity For the last two years Hippolyte has been managing the british council's east africa arts program in revanda Whereas focus has been on the intersection of art and disability. Please give a round of applause to Hippolyte And with that I hand it over to jason for lighting up the summit with your awesomeness I'd like to express my gratitude and thanks to everyone involved with this arts equity summit Including mary and taylor brown and our hosts at the ica And speaking of hosts I'd like to ask everyone here to join me in paying respect to all indigenous ancestors past present and future We acknowledge that this event is situated on the land known in algonquin as massachusetts meaning by the range of hills This land is traditional to the potucket the wampanoag And several other smaller bands including the nip muck and the po come tuck This area has always been a place for gathering and exchange for many indigenous peoples We respect that many indigenous people continue to live and work here and acknowledge their ongoing contributions to this area Together we can enact positive progress for lasting change and accountability To the native nations leading the movements for resurgence decolonization and reclamation of homelands Thank you A territorial or land acknowledgement is an act of reconciliation that involves making a statement recognizing the traditional territory of leading indigenous people who call this land home before the arrival of settlers and in many cases still do call it home It's an important activation of indigenous culture Its purpose is to help center us and to remind us that in life We are all guests or hosts and reminds us that we are accountable to these relationships Next slide If you've ever walked into an exhibition of native peoples this kind the kind that exhibit I'm sorry. I can't look at the slide and talk. So we'll just The kind exhibiting moccasins baskets drums and masks. You've probably seen a map like this somewhere on the wall It indicates the characteristics to be found in arts made in the region Implying people and things within these bounds share visual cultural similarities and also similar beliefs and concerns It's the product of a 19th century method to illustrate biological variants Anthropology If you walk into any contemporary art exhibition involving native americans today You may still see maps like this in use So i'm from down here in the brown section But i've lived more than half my life up here in the green section In my travels as an artist i've encountered people who are frustrated when my work is not centered about It's not centered on or about what's going on down here in the brown section Or at least what they believe is going on They want to affirm their beliefs with the idea of a fixity of location In fact, a lot of my work is about what's happening outside of this map By being used this map by being used to explain the criteria of contemporary artists This map remains a map of expectations and there are many many maps of expectations Not on the wall, but in people's minds Next slide Maps of expectations in different forms are found everywhere For example maps of social economic expectations Sexuality expectations and of course visible difference expectations When you ask someone what is important to them, you don't just learn what matters you learn what matters to you I was at a museum once walking with a conservator or technician and we passed a series of Apache musical instruments And i commented just really rapidly if you ever need an Apache musician to play these i happen to know someone so The text stopped and he asked me if i was native and when i said yes Then there began a long series of anecdotes and personal history and opinions on Indians Not really talking to me, but i felt like talking at me Then came these questions Not questions necessarily of interest, but rather asking me if i agreed with what he thought For example Those Indians who say he'd beat in moccasin bottoms or burial regalia don't understand the whole history of beating They're being reactive. They don't know what they're talking about, right? At a certain point i began to feel squeezed like a tube of toothpaste and my strategy for moving things ahead is To begin to pretend to just not know even if i do So this was another frustration for him and i could him I could begin to sense him getting ready to tell me at a certain point that He knew more about Indians than i did whatever that means Or that maybe he was actually more Indian than i was whatever that means But it never got there I was there for completely different professional reasons operating under that context right up until the point it became known I was Indian and then these good intentions of sharing and expectations happened and everything changed And my sense is that this kind of experience is not exclusive to Indians The takeaway for me was this method of how not to do things It's important that we remember To prioritize lived experience and interest in others experiences and worldview Next slide One of the questions i'm often asked as an artist is How does one participate in mainstream activities while avoiding situations of tokenism? The answer i give is simple Just do whatever you want Don't be afraid of showing experimental work Try not to make the kind of work expected of you particularly if you're participating in something where the primary link of involvement is your ethnic background In my opinion i found that collaborative art projects are a useful tool They remove the issue of authorship which in turns removes the issue of authenticity Some artists are hesitant to work collaboratively Collaboratively in anything they worry that their brand will be uncomfortably compromised or misdirected or misread They feel that if they must compromise They will not be free. They will be less free They see it as closing off a part of themselves rather than opening new things And i disagree I think one is more free creatively speaking Without these barriers of personal authorship constraining one's choices Do what you want to do be creative worry less about those other factors And then participating by participating in the process through different means one is not just able to abandon Irrelevant distinctions like that map But collapse them entirely Thank you Good morning I need to speak before I have a frog in my mouth Thanks so much To arts connect international and mary and taylor brown For extending the invitation to be part of this community who I saw from last night is um From the opening last night is is a vast Supportive and loving one. So thank you Much praise to Our ancestors for allowing us to breathe The space fresh breath into this beautiful space Um much gratitude for those whose whose land we occupy still And the place we now call Boston mass Speaking of boston I wanted to share some unique narratives And evoke the names of two monumental Black women inextricably tied to boston whose histories might be foreign to some but All too familiar to others In every human breast God has implanted a principle Which we call love of freedom It is impatient of oppression And pants for deliverance The same principle lives in us Those words were uttered by phyllis wheatley Phyllis Wheatley was one of the best known poets of pre 19th century america And one of the most Under-recognized artists in our country's history By by a raise of hand who has heard of phyllis wheatley? Okay Appreciate y'all Both enslaved and educated in the household of a prominent boston businessman from whom she got the name Wheatley phyllis was celebrated in new england and old england where her Poetry was published and lauded She was paraded before the new republic's political leadership and the old empires aristocracy Wheatley was the abolitionist dream She illustrated that black people could be both artistic and intellectual imagine that Her name was a catalyst in the anti-slavery movement So wheatley was stolen from senegal gambia region in west africa When she was about seven years old After she was bought by her masters The wheatleys discovered her bright intellect. So they taught her how to read and write They still kept her enslaved though Her first published poem came at the age of 13. That's black genius y'all In a new england newspaper and by the age of 18. She had enough poems Uh for a collection which were later published in england Uh garnering her international acclaim By the age of 20 in 1773. She had published an entire volume of work Entitled poems on various subjects religious and moral the first volume of poetry by a black american To be published in a place that was not yet america The first volume of poetry The artistic expression of a black woman an enslaved African in america no less cemented in history So rest with that just for a moment Over three centuries later Another notable woman came onto the boston scene and the now fully formed united states of america and her name was elma lewis Does that name ring a bell for some of you? Yes, give her some love I was fascinated to learn more about Miss lewis in my preparation to visit your fine city and to converse with all of you Perhaps some of you were students of miss lewis or have directly or indirectly been Impacted and benefited from her brilliance her passion and love of community and the arts Elma lewis who is frequently described as a cultural icon in boston founded the national center for afro american artists the in say in See triple a in 1968 This was 18 years after breaking barriers And opening the elma lewis school of fine arts in roxbury The arts were so important to lewis that she founded the elma lewis school of fine arts during the 1950s And welcomed black youths to enroll in theater dance music visual arts classes Two decades later with a mission to make the arts widely accessible To boston's black community lewis created the national center of afro american artists a complex That joined her school with a newly formed art museum and is still in existence today Her goal and i quote from the national center of afro american artists Was to bring together in one complex the best in teaching and professional performance While affirming the populist commitment to arts accessibility and ethnic heritage In 1980 the center opened a museum at 300 walnut avenue as a repository of black culture As miss lewis described the project and here's her quote It is where we the blacks are going to state our black heritage and share our culture And the beauty of our arts with all people black and white I understand that more than 6000 students benefited from her educational institution Many of them going on to live full And have significant careers in the performing arts Her commitment to the arts and the community reminds me of another black woman that I know from my own community of harlem dr dorsey manor y'all might have heard her name too She founded the harlem school of the arts in 1964 Just a few years before miss lewis founded the nc triple a For her dedication to her heritage and to the arts lewis was awarded 30 honorary doctoral degrees A presidential medal of art and was named a mac arthur feller fellow That's the genius award by the way Black genius y'all illuminated once again Both of these women fought for equity in their own way whether explicitly or implicitly by fighting for their own right to create They were fighting for so many that came behind them And communities of colors the arts Contribute to wellness and healing self sustainability cultural awareness affirmation of identity and above all freedom So the struggle for freedom is intrinsically tied to the struggle for free expression As people the only thing black people had complete freedom in control over was Expressing themselves and that came out in the form of of art Uh what has now been imitated duplicated and and co-opted Let's be clear though the story that I tell Of neither of these women is complete Elma lewis as the daughter of bajan immigrants who were followers of marcus garvey the founder of the united negro improvement Association that's the unia Was surely inspired by the racial pride and activism of marcus garvey But I can imagine that she was also challenged For her beliefs her will and her determination To fight for her people I don't know the repercussions, but I imagine that they were deep As a three-year-old in 1924 at the ruggles streets nursery school miss lewis's iq had been measured and quote as Is usual with members of her race at a higher peak now than it will be when she grows older According to the newspaper the boston globe It was this kind of racist attitude that prompted her to start her own school We keep saying there's a level playing field dr. Lewis once told the globe, but this nonsense still persists And then on to phyllis wheatley at a relatively young age after all her fame and notoriety as an artist as a writer While she thrived under her master's keep. Yes, she was published, but still in bondage And enslaved african and almost america when she was finally freed she died in abject poverty Banked her up phyllis wheatley died uncared for and alone and I imagine that's how Most of our society and our arts institutions will wind up if we continue along the path that we've been on So you may have noticed that I centered women in this conversation I will not lie. I have much bias for women You may have heard that I lead an organization called women of color in the arts That is built for and by women of color And as a self identified black woman it is always important to For me to lift up the black woman The backbone of our america Both of these black women fought for equality and equity in their own way They were catalysts for movements art and women have a unique way of doing that But it's important to note that the common denominator here is that these women unearth Their work through their work something that was almost unimaginable For the time a taste of freedom In some aspect many of us have the regular opportunity to actually see feel or touch freedom But many of us do not This is inevitably what equity is about Creating spaces where liberation exists and it's something that is tangible for each individual I think at this point it may be helpful to Distinguish between the words Freedom and liberation because oftentimes in our everyday vernacular we use the terms interchangeably The word freedom can be defined as the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved Technically as a black woman. I am free. I mean I don't live in 19. I'm sorry 17 72 Or 1862 the year before the Emancipation Proclamation Meaning that I'm not physically in bondage like our dear miss phyllis wheatley And I can also do what I want for the most part But because we have freedom that that does not mean that we are liberated And this is where equity steps in Liberation can be defined as the act of setting someone free from imprisonment slavery or oppression And in relation to art equity doesn't mean giving people the things that they need to live Doesn't only mean giving people the things that they live Need to live full prosperous lives Arts equity means giving people the things they need to create Full and prosperous lives to be able to exercise their freedom and be liberated One finds liberation through art One can also find art in liberation through art and access to art An equitable practice that reinforces access to art for those that create it Cultivate equitable environments for it for those who champion support it Freedom and subsequently liberation can can be tangible things. They are fully comprehensible and obtainable objects Right for the taking But we must understand one history history to the urgency of dismantling power structures And three not only Shifting policy but how to create all new systems that work in service to everyone So here we stand in the birthplace of the American revolution Clearly it's not lost on me in this inaugural arts equity summit Being held in one of the places that sparked our great nation What is not great? As cultural practitioners as artists as arts administrators, the real Revolution lies in our hands and it can only be achieved not only by advocating for equity But by creating just environments where the arts and those that work Arduously to create to support and to champion it can thrive and in turn creating space For society to thrive Give us liberty or give us death But be sure to create spaces where art allows for liberation Thank you Good morning. Thank you very much for the introduction died by done by ACI member and thank you To everyone who contributed for me to be here from luanda Um as they say them I identify myself as everyday peace artist I am an omnie or artist in residency with Arts Connect International and I am a peace ambassador with an organization called one young world um I use the arts as A tool to prevent and stop the intergenerational transmission of hate and that is rooted in my history because art was the only justice I had in the aftermath of genocide against the tootsie in 1994 in luanda It is the genocide that lasted for 100 days and more than a million people Were killed In that time many from my family Were killed And raped in front of me and I was just seven years old. I saw my dad being killed and Being fed to the dogs to eat And I never had even a chance to bury him I survived by hiding In the bush under dead bodies in the mass graves And sometimes the only drink I had was blood And water mixed I lived like wild animal hiding in the bush But always expecting that the next second I would be killed. I knew many of the killers They were my neighbors family friends And I have played football with their kids But because of the hatred that was taught for so long By the government these people became or they Thought we were their enemies And they wanted to kill us all I was a child slave for the killers for about a month but I escaped To a refugee camp where I lived for more than four months And life in the refugee camp was a miserable life Life with no food life with no security And the only hope we had was to die and leave the misery behind Luckily I survived to eat all My eyes saw what no child should see And my ears had what no child should hear And a few months after The genocide I had to start my primary school For most of my school day I would be sitting in class Remembering the faces of people I had seen murdered Or recalling the screaming voices of children and women and men And the screaming of my relatives that I have seen being raped Even today these are my nightmares I did not speak for Most of my school day my school time For about three years I don't know how I succeeded, but I did By the help of teacher when I was undergoing this stressful moment By the help of teacher I started a student theater club And I was able to tell the stories through that theater club And that was the time I started at least Speaking and healing through and by the arts The club included all ethnic groups, even if Many even that time Those groups were not supported by Any Family But we witnessed the power of performing the arts To bring people together And we challenged the status quo and we started the long process of social change through the arts Luckily I graduated and went to my high school where I continued using my art Expressing My feelings and my healing But when I was 15 I faced one of the most Testing times of my life The classroom and the art had been my only source of healing But I had so little money that I could no longer afford The five-dollar cost of transportation to go to school So I stopped going And all the frustrations of my young life came to the surface I started imagining Ways that I too could become a killer and avenge for my for the death of my father My relatives and The people of my village I kept going back to my plate to the place where my father was killed And from where from there I wrote my play. How can you say that? Which I performed back in 2016 and I was in Boston in as an artist in residence It was outside of the hospital near there where where I met a Congolese medical doctor and He spoke to me and he helped me back to the right path And because of him I went back to school Everything changed in my mind as I realized that ethnicity All bled and fresh was what it was not what was killing us Dwandans But a hatred that was taught for so long For many generations before the genocide and This ideology That was being taught it started by Killing the empathy in human beings After this realization I made the very Very The most important decision of my life I chose to forgive those people who killed my father who killed my relatives and Who killed all those innocent people? I chose to forgive them Now I go back in my village Where my mom still lives I visit these people I lift up their kids I still play football with their small kids I even hug them and invite them to our ceremonies We share food and drinks I have seen and I have thought and I think I'm sure that if we can learn hate We can also learn love and peace I have seen the darkest Of humanity but I also have seen the best side of it I have forgiven these people not because forgiving is An easy task Or an easy thing But I did it because I wanted the world to learn the price of A lasting peace I believe peace is what you give Not what you ask others to give you I founded Ipollit for peace foundation Which is now called be the peace organization And we have a saying of I am your peace be the peace We have a network of be the peace clubs where We use the arts and community activities to bring together post genocide born generation with their parent Including genocide survivors and genocide perpetrators Some of the activities we have dialogues and we perform the arts and we have a community Art project that we work with that work with all those groups And we give we provide cows to some families and they take tons in milking The cows as a sign of friendship forever As I said these approaches They aim at the revival of the empathy collectively Now in adwanda And through the arts and by the arts and other approaches Families have come together And they are rebuilding the country they want We are rebuilding the country we want we are in 2019 and These marks the 25th anniversary of remembering the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi And I will be taking a hundred day performance called be the peace walk Where I will be walking across Rwanda from April and April 15th to July 25th in 2019 And I will be inviting every human to seed peace and love I will be Walking 10 kilometers a day sleeping at the former killing site planting trees every day and listening to the stories of soil of sand of Night of people everyone And the walker will finish at the genocide memorial museum in Kigali In and it will finish with an artistic exhibition of That talks about early childhood You're all invited to get involved by coming to work with me Or to send letters of peace and if you want to check it out. Uh, look at Be the peace net on website. That's the website be the peace net And I'm inviting you all artists non-artists arts managers or everyone who is involved in every human to Resurrect the resurrect the empathy that has been lost by By the teaching of hate and and inequity and justice Let's promote peace everywhere peace with everyone And peace every day Then by the revival of the empathy we will be able To make this world a much better place Thank you very much Let's hear it one more time for our incredible keynote speakers jason kaisha hippily. Thank you And now for our closing keynote performance We're going to have quiesol who will give us a little introduction into latinx future Good morning everyone. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning everyone. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good morning everyone. Good. Good morning everyone Hello I have so much gratitude for being invited into this space to share some music and Just really moved honor to be in this place with you all and these incredible incredible speakers My name is Joseph Kisoul, first name Joseph, last name Kisoul, you can find me on the internet everywhere by googling that, Instagram and that, YouTube and that, you know. And I'd like to invite Allison Rosen and Sherrod Wertheimer Samayoa, two good friends of mine who have been with me for a long time and for a deep time to share in this music. I'm just going to warm it up a little bit with a prayer. What better way to start the rest of your life with the rest of this day, how we're going to do it. So we've got a lot of work to do, so let's get to work. Who's up next?


Hey guys, today I'm reviewing the Geirner GX1 boots. I needed some new boots for quite some time actually I was looking for some boots that had some good quality to price ratio But I ended up not buying any My girlfriend gave it to me as a Christmas gift unexpectedly But these ones are clearly spot on and I didn't even knew this model existed First things first when you look at the boot, you don't see any chunky bits coming off the boot Or anything that would grip on the boot where you're actually not expecting whether it's your bike or your surroundings So you have a really slick design on the boot Second of all and probably the thing that I like the most about these boots just by trying them out the first time Are the buckles and the straps The straps Allow some rotation on the inside and that gives you a way better adjustment of the boots to your foot You feel your foot way more connected to the boot than in regular boots Besides these metal alloy buckles feel quite reliable and durable and when they close they close And are the soles Since I got these boots I pretty much only did hard in the room so I've been riding on really harsh terrain and really rocky terrain and Considering the beating that I've been given to them. They've been keeping up really well. They have minor Wearing marks, which is a good thing considering that these soles are not replaceable. I Also really like the steel protection and it's something that will make your boots last a lot longer There are only two things I will consider improving on these boots and the first one would be the stitching Namely on the right boot. I got a new bike and I can only start kick-starting it and when you miss kick-starting it the kicks actually slams against the boots and Namely against these stitching and you can already see some stitching starting to fail due to the repeatedly kicks hitting these parts And so I would recommend doing a stronger stitching or Reinforcement on this area considering that The second thing would be on the left boot Would be to insert a little padding a harder padding Because well since I got them I already have quite some marks due to the shift lever and this would be perfectly avoidable if You had a harder padding on this point this area To wrap it up, I would definitely recommend these boots if you're looking for something on the intro level range If you have more experience with these boots, please share and if you're thinking about getting these boots and you have other questions Feel free to get in touch. Thanks for watching and subscribe


Team keeping clean. What's up, baby? What's going on is engraving here with another video and in this video Well, actually before we get into this video me and my wife and Carter We were out eating at a restaurant with some of our friends and we ran into somebody from team keeping clean So shout out to my guy Brinston who we met today Appreciate you watching the videos huge shout out to you and it was really real real real nice meeting you so much Much love to you man. Now these Ravens We got a couple of updates before the game tomorrow Because the Ravens have ruled some people out put some people on end reserves sign some people to the active roster And it's just you know Ravens got to make a million moves in a half Before each and every game and if you didn't know that last year should have definitely taught you that lesson But anyway, Ronnie Stanley who I said I didn't expect to play at all going into this game I still don't expect Kyle Hamlin into play at all going into this game Ronnie Stanley has officially been ruled out So he will not play. He is not active. He ain't playing against the Jacksonville Jaguars So that is a blow, but it's a blow that the Ravens are prepared to deal with They obviously signed Patrick McCary to that contract extension last season Drafter Daniel fire Lele so they got some options there at the left tackle position So while Ronnie obviously will be much better to have Ronnie Stanley out there I think they should be fine. The quality obviously drops off from Ronnie Stanley to anybody who's under him on the Ravens roster But the Ravens are better prepared for this than they have been in the past Also Jalen Alma Davis Double Emmy for him because he is not only inactive for the game tomorrow. They had ruled him out But they also placed him on end reserves. So he'll be out at least for the next four games at least this could I Will see but this could be the end of his rookie season Which I think he would say it's probably been a disappointment Injuries kind of slowed him down and whatnot because I know he didn't play at all in the preseason And then he just could never quite get it going But we'll see can't say it's the end of his season yet because there's still plenty more games to go and obviously Hopefully the playoffs, but we'll see but the Ravens placed him on injured reserve Lamar Jackson who they took him off the injury report with the hip injury. So he's good to go It was always the expectation that Lamar Jackson will play So he's good now Kyle Hamilton Devon DuVernay Gus Edwards the markets Robinson. They are all questionable for the game tomorrow against the Jaguars now somebody who was questionable was Isaiah likely but He likely did not make that trip to Florida with the Baltimore Ravens. So He is officially out Isaiah likely will not play. So this would lead a lot of us to believe Because you know the Ravens got to have at least five tight ends active on game day.  He's offensive lineman. He's a fullback sometimes He's why receiver one. He's everything you need him to be right and then it would lead us to believe that Charlie Cola is gonna be making his debut for the Baltimore Ravens So we'll see what happens with that But yeah, Isaiah likely is out So Ravens won't have to have that problem I guess trying to get him and Mark Andrews on the field at the same time because you know They ran to the raid about having both of them and what they could both do and this and that but they were just having trouble Just finding a place for these guys. But anyway anyway, um, also Somebody who a lot of us have been wondering about especially since that same game. Hey, my god, he's been doing his Pilates He's been stretching a lot more with the Ravens They have called up the Sean Jackson for the game tomorrow Against the Jacksonville Jaguar.  So that's good news, especially with how he looked When he did play when the hamstrings were feeling right. He was straight. So let's see how it goes They also are called up linebacker Julian Stanford. Um, I'm not sure. I'm not familiar with his game I did not know he was on a practice squad. So um, but they called him up. So Maybe they maybe they have some an injury a linebacker, maybe they um, Maybe Josh Bynes is gonna be inactive and they just want even more. I don't know I'm not sure what to make of that But I mean, obviously something's going on with them at linebacker and Josh Bynes has been out the past couple of games So I would think him haven't heard anything about Roquan Smith or Patrick Queen or Malik Harrison or Bowser Well, haven't heard anything about any other linebackers being hurt. So we'll see tomorrow I guess when the active inactives come out and then they're warly again, they're warly is like This dude is a transaction machine y'all remember Billy bejima y'all remember him It is the same way. Remember a Prescott Burgess to how they were on the roster off the roster on the roster off the roster on the roster off the roster It's the same thing that's happening with Daryl Warly. Um, but I believe there was an interview where he said that This was the expectation going into the season like the Ravens told him from jump like hey you're gonna be moving around a lot and It's that he definitely been moving around a lot He might break the record for most transactions on a single team by a single player in a single season ever He probably done broke it already by how this thing been going But anyway, just wanted to let y'all know about these updates team keep it clean I love y'all so much looking forward to watching the game with y'all tomorrow. Y'all be good Y'all be safe y'all be kinder people be good to people be nicer people But definitely start by being nice to yourself because you can't be nice to nobody else if you ain't nice to yourself Straight up man. So take care of yourself.   Take care of everything So you can be good man. Your people could be good And try to make the best of every situation. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all always watching appreciate y'all always supporting we out


All right, so we're back to change that evaporator. We diagnosed bad the other day that was leaking. So inside the building, there's zero room in there. The microwave was sitting on top of this unit. Right now we've got everything recovered. We're going to go ahead and embrace this line here and remake that. We've already purged the nitrogen through and got that cleared of any residual. Probably gonna undo it here in the back which is another little trick some of you guys have said, which will probably help speed it up a little bit. Looks like this has been changed before. You can see how they melted that. I think the factory been a little better than that I'm getting it. See that's probably breezed right there. So we'll get that. Not sure we really need to yank it completely out of there.  I gotta make more breeze joints to put it back together. Well, luckily it's not very cold out here or I should say at least the wind's not blowing very hard. All right, so we're gonna go ahead and clean that up there so it's clean for the next go around. Here, so we'll take this one off first. This right here just barely fits in there. So we may make it just a touch shorter bar's length so it fits in the pan because I mean this is not going to be absolutely perfect. It'll be doggone close to it. So we're just gonna take our bender here which I got an Imperial here. It doesn't 180. Once again, this is in my little section of the tools. So you guys wanna get one. You wanna support the channel. Head over there into the comment section and you will find that. I'm gonna leave this a little bit long that way. I can bend it up to the refrigerant lines that are currently there. So we'll just go ahead and make sure that bend's finished about there. That right here is gonna put us about right at the middle of that bend that we have on the other one. So, here, and a 180 is just like that. You can get smaller ones. Nice thing about this particular one is it does half inch, three eighths, and quarter inch. So that makes it kind of nice. So that's gonna match right up that 90 right there. Perfect, but like I said, your elbows or your 90s, 180s, whatever are not kinked and it worked pretty good. Well, I did that so that I could verify that it was open and potentially reducing potential leaks from the back pressure going through there. What I might actually do here, purge that all out, go ahead and kill it, and then we'll braze it. Okay, we're gonna go on the other side, make sure that it's coming through because now's the time it's coming through. So we're good there. Finish maybe cleaning that up a little bit.  It's like I said in past, a little hole that they got in there to drain it gets plugged up pretty easy. This also helps make it a little easier to tell whether it's a new leak or an old leak still there. So just kind of cleaning up your mess. All right, so I did get a new toy here. I picked up the quarter inch. So that is very difficult to get it to work right. You've got to rotate it at least probably seven times and go super, super slow. And honestly, the best thing to do is just heat it up in advance. The three eighths isn't as bad. The pipe there on the evaporator needs to be expanded a little bit. We got this new. I like that, but I'll tell you what, the spin switch for less than a hundred bucks versus this that's well over 400 by time you add a little head to it, a couple extra heads. It does awesome, that's neat. And it was a lot easier than dinking with the spin switch. But if you guys think I've got that kind of crazy money it ain't worth spending it, I don't think. The quarter was the biggest thing that I use the most as you can see, I do a lot of quarter inch repairs. But unfortunately, no one else has a quarter inch head. So I was a little bit upset that the quarter inch will split the pipe most of the time. Now if you heat it up ahead of time and get a little warm, cause like right as you see in the thermometer here it's like 30. So maybe when the summertime rolls around and we're in the 80s, maybe it'll make a little different. But it can be done, but it's just a lot, a lot of work. All right, so the only thing we gotta do now is change this dryer, which that was probably a one piece unit. I'm not sure how big of an issue that's gonna become. So we're gonna go ahead and warm this up a touch and then we're gonna expand it. Cause this is quarter inch and the dryer I want. And when you heat it up, try to protect it as best we can while we're doing our thing. They don't say you have to do this, but it kind of showed me that's a good idea. It doesn't take a lot of heat, just a little bit. Seems to get it pretty decent. It splits. It's obviously not that hot. So I just got a little bit warmer. That'll protect a little bit. Most people I've seen set to let the thing set there for 20 minutes, 30 minutes before they put it in. Obviously not hot enough to burn my hand. So I've purged some nitrogen back through the suction line. It's gonna come all the way through. We're going to need to move that up, but evidently we don't need to. So just gotta rejoin that, not a huge deal.  What my idea here is to make it so my pockets are on the bottom. That way everything falls down as far as when I'm raising it into place. I basically cut one extra spot that I didn't need to do. So I made a mistake there.  The hand torch, if you don't sit there and take a glow in red, it's not gonna plate it. You know, copper, all I'm doing is basically warming up the copper so that it expands a little easier. Preferred not to have to do that. Yeah, the reason why I cut this one longer was so I could keep away from the element here because you get these too hot and they will change color and you'll destroy them. And this is one that you can't change. This is just a moisture indicator. Like I said in the last video, you shouldn't really charge by it or anything like that, but it will at least tell you that you got issues without having to put gauges on it. It'll also tell you if you got moisture or not. So we've got that back in place. Everything went pretty good from what I can see here. Didn't hardly heat it up much at all. Yeah, I cool it down a little bit, but I don't just nail it immediately. There's some time frames in here that are cut out that you guys don't see to speed the video up. Go ahead and get that back into place and then start pulling a vacuum on this thing. Thought I'd take a check of this real quick and it's still nice and solid and it's holding down. So I'm doing good in here. Give me a second to warm up too. Needed some electrical, got some electrical here. We pull back on this thing. So for experimental purposes, going ahead and yank the valve cores, kind of seeing how fast this thing pulls down. It's been forever since I've used the regular shitty hoses. So seeing what it's doing. Don't seem to be doing too horribly bad. I mean, this thing only holds 13 ounces, 14 ounces. So got to finish getting some of this put back together here. So we'll get that done. And then get that coil in there and we'll see where we're at. So I figure I'll let this pull a vacuum while we're waiting on it to vacuum. We'll get some of these other things tied in. Okay, it's back the way it was. Hopefully it was the way it was last time. Several, several minutes later and we're at 1300 and something.  And that's the reason why I don't screw with them. So just starting to purge out some of that there and there which will be stuff locked underneath of the valve core. That'll raise up some, it's coming back down a little.  That's the reason why you don't pull if you're manifold, even on a tiny system. All right, so I valid it off and it held right to 1500 mark, 00 no drop at all. So I'm feeling pretty confident that our coils and everything are sealed up and all of our brace joints are good to go. Going to let it pull a little longer. I got some other things I can do. It's dropped some down to 1200. Just the amount of time this is taking is just way too long. I would have preferred to gotten it done a lot quicker. So anyhow, by the time that reaches it we'll be finished on the other things. All right, so we got everything back together here. Got it recharged. You can see we have a little bit of bubbles there. That's the spec problem. The reason why everything's low is because it's 37 degrees outside here. So suction pressure is not horrible. As soon as we bring that head pressure up we'll be looking good. So I'm gonna plug this in inside. We'll make sure that that looks a little bit better. See our pressure's gonna modify out a little bit better. Stabilize out a little bit better I should say. We got everything back together. Everything, for the most part, went pretty good. All fit back together all pretty like. So it's gonna wrap this one up. Just gotta finish changing that control on the cold rail which is pretty cut and dry. So we'll do that real quick. Yeah, you can see the box temperature is already 36 degrees. So that didn't even have to really run. Might as well see what our set temperature T1's 36, T2's 21. Yeah, so set for 35 degrees.  That'll keep people from screwing things up. So if you guys liked the video, you know what to do. Until next time guys, we will catch you on the next one.


Creating a career development plan with your team members and then putting it into action creates a very strong message to those team members that you value them and you want to develop their skills and careers. I've always found that developing employees skills and what they can deliver for the business is great. Firstly, for motivation of those employees. Secondly, improving retention. Employees who are growing professionally have less reason to leave. Third, improves the manager employee relationship. Fourth, improving the skill level of your team so the team can deliver more or deliver better or deliver faster all of which help the company and you. Having a career development plan is a great tool every manager should use. If your manager doesn't create a career development plan with you then you should create one for yourself. Creating a career development plan will help your own career progress significantly faster. So what to put into a career development plan? Here is what you're covering today and towards the end of the video I share 11 suggestions of ways to build employee skills and experience that I've used or have seen used very successfully. All great for what to put into a career development plan. My name is Jess Coles and I've had a 25-year management career in corporates and household names through to SMEs. In my experience, career development plans are such a good exercise to go through and deliver against to motivate staff members and to get the best out of them. And if you're new to this channel enhance.training shares business and people management expertise to help you improve your performance and that of your team and business. And if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and subscribe. So the first action to create a career development plan is deciding on the goal. Work with your team member to help them decide on their career goal. A useful starting point can be deciding on the time frame for that goal. For instance, if you have just started your career your time frame may be fairly short because you're not sure where you want to end up and you have so many routes open. Or for example you might have professional exams to complete before expanding your horizons. If you're further on in your career you are likely to have longer time frames as you have a clearer direction. I recommend a time frame of five years or more for your career development plan. If your employee doesn't really know what they want a good default is the head of function in which they actually sit. For example you know marketing or sales or finance. Just remember everyone is different. Some people don't want the hassle and effort of pursuing a career into management or senior management. For others the head of function or beyond in a particular size and type of company is exactly where they want to get to. Employee to be as specific as possible. The team member needs to identify a specific role to aim at which we will call the target role. The target role may or may not be in your company and to get this role the team member may need to do your current job too. Try not to worry or feel threatened by employees wanting your role. I've always used team members wanting my job as a great opportunity to free myself up to allow me to move on to the next level myself. Succession planning is very useful to do for your own career development. And lastly the career goal in your career development plan is not set in stone. Your goals may change as time goes on. That said sticking with the goal chosen and focusing your efforts to achieve that goal will progress a person's career that much quicker than changing goals periodically. The second action for how to write a career development plan is to create a career map. Once your team member has decided on an end goal you know a specific position that they want to get to then create a career map showing the different routes available in terms of specific roles between where they are now and where they want to get to. Within the career map group the different roles at similar seniority levels so you can see the options available as you progress through each seniority level. The career map may have few levels between the current role and the target role say you know a marketing manager to the head of marketing or there might be many levels say with a marketing trainee all the way through to marketing director. Get your team member to think about which of the routes available to them would appeal to them the most. Help them to work through the suitable routes based on what you know of their current strengths abilities and interests. If the team member is unsure on their preferred route get them to do some high-level research on each of the roles to see what skills experience and qualifications are needed. In action four we go through how to do this. The third action in how to build an effective career plan is to decide on the next two roles. Ask the team member to choose their next role that they would like to work towards. Ideally this role will be available in the business. Choose the next role to target as a minimum before undertaking any detailed research. The average person spends just over three years in each role during their career per recruitment stats. So as a result I recommend getting your team member to choose the next two roles of their career path so they are focused on a career development plan covering the next five years. You might be thinking that if I help my employee work out their career path or their next step on their career path then they are much more likely to leave my team. I've found the opposite is the case. If they want to leave they will leave. Taking actions to help them get to their next step delays them leaving the company and it also gives you the knowledge of what they want and think and the ability to help them meet their career aspirations. These steps all help you retain your staff not encourage them out the door. Career development plan templates are available in our management skills hub to speed up creating your team's career development plans and capturing all the points. The fourth action when thinking about what to put in a career development plan is research the skills experience and qualifications needed. The easiest part of the research is identifying what qualifications are needed. Does the team member already have the right qualifications or will they need to study for them? Qualifications tend to be a serious barrier to get many jobs so it's important to plan how to overcome this barrier. Next help the team member list out all the different skills and experience that they will need to build over the next five years. It is important to go into some detail and specify the level of skills and experience needed. For example if the next role was operations manager just putting team management experience would not help much. Writing something like team management of 10 plus factory full staff plus app and staff including recruitment performance management planning and organizing and day-to-day direction would be a lot more specific and helpful. Another option is to grade the skills or experiences needed from one to ten with a score of one being a low skill level and low importance and a score of ten being a high skill level and high important. Different ways for the team member to research what skills and experience are needed for the next role include firstly looking at job adverts and listing down the common requirements. Secondly interviewing or speaking to individuals actually doing the role or who have actually done the role in the past. Third job shadowing those doing the role. Fourth looking at internal job descriptions if available. Help them fill in any gaps that they have if you can from your own experience and do share your views and experiences too. These can be extremely valuable for your team member. The fifth action when creating a career development plan is to analyze the gaps. A career development plan is fundamentally about filling the gaps between where the employee is now in terms of their skills and experience and where they need to get to for their next role or two. You have a list of skills and experience needed for the next role or two and have graded it. Now repeat the process of listing down and grading the employee's current skills and experience in the same way as you've done for the future role. Both of you will then be able to look at the skills needed for the future roles and the skills built up so far. This gives you an easy way to identify the gaps and the scale of the gaps to overcome. When you're both clear about the gaps your team member has in their skills and experience and the scale of the gaps you can start planning the actions to fill those gaps. The sixth action for what to put into a career development plan is to create an action plan. Your action plan will contain the actions needed to start filling in the gaps identified. Identifying the actions is going to require some careful thinking on your part. You're likely to have several team members each with different development needs and there are only so many opportunities available within the business to develop them. I found it easier to get to this position with several of the team members or all of them depending on the size of your team and then work out which task, activity, project or other development opportunity I will give to which employee. I tend to favor the better performers or those with the best attitudes first and then work down the list of staff. This usually gives you the most bang for your buck in terms of what you, the team overall and the company gets out for creating an action in career development plans. Each action should be focused on moving the individual out of their comfort zone to build skills that you've jointly identified and to deepen experiences that they need. More of the same will not help them very much. Some ideas to help you include if firstly swap tasks or reallocate responsibilities within your team for a period of time, say six months. Secondly, identify problems with processes, accounts, systems, etc. that you could give to a team member to build solutions and then implement those solutions. Third, look around for projects within your responsibilities that you could assign to a specific employee or a group of employees. Fourth, ask other departments to see what cross team projects or projects full stop could benefit the business that you could get your team members involved in. Fifth, ask team members to train others. Teaching is a great way of learning yourself. Sixth, introduce a buddy system or a cross training initiative within your team or across teams. Seven, build up a reading list of business books or a watch list of videos, etc. of relevant subjects for your team members. Eight, organize the comments to other departments or inclusion on specific projects. Nine, release your team members for say, I don't know, morning or week to work with another team. You know, for instance, finance to work with sales to work on new business tenders. Ten, book courses for your team members to attend and ask them to teach the rest of the team after taking the course. And eleven, enroll them for specific qualifications and provide study support in terms of time and money. There are lots of ways of helping to support team members develop their careers that directly helps you, your team and the business become even more successful. I would also suggest that you don't hand training and development on a platter to your team members. Create a mix of learning opportunities, some that need the employee to work from their own initiative and to motivate themselves and others that are provided as part of their day to day jobs. And as a final point, make the time to sit down and evaluate progress periodically with a team member. If you and the business are investing in the team member, you want to see them keeping up their side of the bargain, namely reaching the agreed milestones and targets as a result of creating a career development opportunities for them. So they have six key actions to take for what goes into a career development plan. A quick recap on the actions to take are firstly, decide on the goal. Secondly, create a career map. Thirdly, decide on the next two roles to take. Fourth, research the skills, experience and qualifications needed. Fifth, analyse the gaps. And then sixth, create an action plan. For templates and examples of career development plans, take a look at our management skills hub. And if you have any questions, please leave them in the comments below and I will get back to you. Thanks very much for watching and I look forward to seeing you again soon.


It's actually crazy that we got something in Act 1. Think about that with this game. We got something in Act 1 randomly, just out of the blue. And then now in Act 3, we come across this place and it's like, oh, hey, here we go. And it continues a quest change from two acts ago. Isn't that crazy? Is this your game of the year? Yeah, I think so. I think at this point, yeah. OK, so chat a little bit of a recap.  So guys, we are back with more Baldur's Gate today. We just finished the circus. So we're in Act 3. We just finished the circus and we are still in Rivington. We haven't actually gotten to the Baldur's Gate yet. We actually haven't gotten there yet. We are in Rivington. We did the circus and we are going to keep going to the next part of the game, which I actually don't know what it is yet. So I hope you guys enjoy. This game has been incredible.  So thank you guys for liking the videos, for commenting, subscribing, all that stuff. So thanks a ton. I hope you guys enjoy it. All right. I'm kind of overwhelmed right now. Like, where do I go here? Postmaster. Wait, delivery not guaranteed. Come a postmaster, Danzo. It'll be easy. Nobody mentions having to spend your evenings hunting for pigeon carcasses, do they? Any idea where the birds went missing? Not the foggiest. Normally they fly true as an elven arrow. Something near boy is snatching them. I can tell you that much. I'd be happy to do a look. If it's not too much trouble, I'd be much obliged. Any letters you find, bring them back to me. Unopened, of course. And there's some gold in it for you. They'll turn up in the last place you look, I'm sure. Actually, I'm Mortal Kombat this month. I want to try to. The pigeon carries itself with an air of dignity. It's mannerism's stern and commanding. Stroke the pigeon's head. The pigeon avoids your outstretched hand. It glares at you. Salute the pigeon. The bird coos its approval. Yet you noticed it flinched at the sight of your hand. Take your fist at the bird. Show your palms to the bird. The bird stares, eyes filled with fury. Perhaps your open hands are a symbol the bird has learned to hate. A potion of animal speaking. Name and rank. Quickly now. There's a war on. Lieutenant Espan reporting for duty. I am Commander Lightfeller, leader of the finest aerial communication regiment, this side of the triumphant. Sates of purpose, ground walker. I don't care about days. His voice is so good, dude. I hear some of your officers have gone missing recently. What happened to them? Damned awful business. Fire fires a lot of them. Gone without a trace. Intelligence is in short supply. But we know our enemies flank us on the west side. Got one rooftop away. But avoid in the whole area. I won't lose one more beak to the blighter. If you pass that way, beware the sign will put in the field. What's your current schedule planned for tailgate? Keep up the HDMI. Dude, that voice acting for the pigeon is so good. I have no need of a wing, man. Commander Lightfeller will give you your briefing. Oh, open hand temple. That's what we need to do next. Novice Bremble. The crying one weeps today. Our father Logan is dead. Murdered. What happened? I don't want to talk. Heart is in mourning. Wait, so is this Bears DC's situation real and developing? Dude, how crazy is it that Charles Tillman, former Chicago Bears legend, who's now working for the FBI, is the person that did the frickin' bust on this? Oh, look, it's Charles Tillman. Peanut Tillman. This is the elephant, he likes peanuts. Don't teach me how to investigate. Look, investigator, Brilgore might have been a criminal, but he was no murderer. You're missing something. You have to be. Enough, Yannis. Listen to yourself. You are defending a man who ritually slaughtered your high priest. The evidence speaks for itself. Brilgore killed father Logan. Then, be it out of shame or profane duty, offed himself with the same blade. Case closed, sister Yannis. Mighty little elephant. I apologize, stranger. Language like that hardly befits a rectoreal meter.  You could certainly say that. Two people just died on temple grounds. Our high priest, Father Logan, and one of the new refugees, Brilgore. Investigator Villaria thinks it's a murder and is content to blame Brilgore for politically convenient target. You doubt her verdict? I will investigate. See where the true blame falls. Feel free to look around the temple. But fair warning, the investigator won't change her mind without significant new evidence. Where can I find the investigator? Charest's caress would be my best bet. That's her usual haunt after closing a case. What should I be looking for? Villaria never found the murder weapon, so that could be a start. Anything disproving the refugee murder or suicide angle, really. Can you tell me where to find Shira Clarence? I can tell you where to find her, but she won't be very chassis, I'm afraid. Shira passed away last year. Peacefully. We buried her in the crypt under the temple if you wish to visit. I really hope you find something for all our sakes. Gale's inspired. Dude, we're getting a lot of inspiration today. Brave Robert Ark. Okay, where to next? Ooh, pretty. Uh, Chad. Look at this, dude, blood. There's blood next to the hatch. Look at this. Certainly looks like a crypt, despite everything. Sarcophagus revealed. Hello? Speak with a den.  Here lies sister Shira Claren, date of birth unknown, died 1491 D.R. Here it is, the tomb of the amulet spirits granddaughter. Time for a family reunion. Dude, dude, this is an amulet spirit. We've got the amulet that I got, like, forever ago. I got this forever ago in the forge. Grim forge. The spirit has fled and her body but merely a husk. Hee hee hee hee hee. I did to shed this foul mania and bestow it upon Shira. She was to endure, to suffer, as was her God El Martyr's want. Shall bear the madness Shah has wrought on me, so I might no longer suffer. Oh, shall it be thou? What? Ponder what you know of the monk's affliction. What are the consequences of accepting it? I need a 15. No! I'll use one inspiration, one inspiration. Try as you might, you can't entue it, the price of bearing the monk's madness. What happens if I say yes? Thou shalt know the extent of Shah's mania, dashes hideous laughter at thine beckoned call, who might say? Oh! I feel like I'm never gonna use Tosho's heinous laughter or whatever. Take the curse. I will get a free spell but at a cost. If it will bring you peace, I will bear the madness. Let's just see what happens.  Madness tucks at your mind, prods in places best left untouched. You feel your wisdom begin to drain. Call on your wits and shield your mind's most vulnerable reaches, constitution. Steal yourself and guide the sensations elsewhere. Illicit, oh, frick. Illicit wisdom. I'm gonna go for the constitution. Ooh, barely. You remain wise as ever, even as Shah's madness spreads outward. You giggle, struck by the absurdity of the moment. Spirit hiding inside an amulet has brought you to the body of his granddaughter and possessed it.  Once again, you feel your wisdom draining away. Hilarious. What is it? How are the firm? You'll make this curse a gift. You will not surrender your wisdom. Ooh, nice. Let's go. The urge to laugh dwindles. You can't help but chuckle. You withstood the monk's madness and earned Tasha's hideous laughter. I thought it was heinous. My friend, forgive me. For this mind was not mine own. May love to be thy gift, never thy curse, the morning Lord calls. Canstalf feel the warmth of his blessing? This is not my final twilight. What a new dawn. Farewell. The corpse is an empty husk once more. The monk, liberated from madness, is finally at peace. Okay, so is the amulet gone? Dude, that's actually crazy that we got something in Act One. Think about that with this game. We got something in Act One randomly while we were in Grimforge, just out of the blue. And then now, in Act Three, we come across this place and it's like, oh, hey, here we go. And it continues a quest, changed from two acts ago. Isn't that crazy? Oh, hello, Father Lorgen, chat. We need to talk to Father Lorgen. The corpse regards you lifelessly. Who killed you? Dwarf, dressed in red. Okay, well, problem solved. Where were you attacked? Tunnels from the cellar, left huge. Tunnels from the cellar? What were you doing when you died? Hiding Brilgore from fists. Why were you hiding Brilgore and where'd you hide him? Took him to the tunnel with the rest. Last one.  Why? Must protect innocents. Oh, he's innocent. Must protect them. The spells power away. You can ask no more questions. Marsh fever, feather lung. Be quick, I've not got all day. I'm looking into Lorgen's death and I need to ask you some questions. What do you want to know? Who do you think killed Father Lorgen? I reckon investigator Valeria is right. One of the refugees killed him, cruelly, too. They cut off his hand, soared right through the bone. I found a paralytic poison on one of his wounds. Lorgen was alive while they took the hand. He just couldn't scream. It's sick.  Okay, so he's in a dwarf dressed in red as who killed him. Telling you Anna's what you found so far. Talking to the victim's corpses was clever, but I don't know if Leria will accept that testimony. You're on the right track. Please, keep looking. Keep looking, keep looking, keep cooking. So since we took him out back, is this what it means by out back? Oh, there he is, they haven't buried him. Yo, yo. Alvin Muffle Fieldwick gave his fortune to the poor, died in the arms of friends. He will be missed. Brilgore fell to anger and rage, taking Father Lorgen with him. May Ilmator forgive him. I'm just doing a little bit of shoveling. Wooden casket, Brilgore dead. Wait, what? Look, hold on, can I? Corpse regards you lifelessly. Are you Brilgore?  Who killed you? Who killed you? Dwarf, stranger. It's kind of a waste, but the same guy that killed Brilgore killed Father Lorgen. Were you alone? Why was he helping you? Fists. Flaming fists for after me they need to hide.  Tunnels beneath temple, hidden from sight. Okay, how do I find these tunnels? Concealed buttons, Lorgen opened for me. The spells power away. You can ask no more questions. Okay, Dwarf in red. Okay, so I need to get to the tunnels. Is this what it meant by the ornate wooden hatch? Are these the tunnels it was talking about earlier? Heraldic's sign. Oh, we found it. Okay, we found it. I pressed the button, I didn't do anything. There's one on the side. Who's your favorite companion? Karla. Okay, we got it, we got it, we got it. Hold on, there's people here. Shabby wooden doors, okay. Wooden trunk, gold. Oh, Frick. Hello, Connie action dash.  Num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num. They will all attack before we get to attack. I've got it.  Dude, the repost did almost one shot. Give me another repost, easy. Dude, Karla is a monster.   No, actually we should wait on Gale. We wait on Gale. Oh my gosh. Gale, you're blocking the path. Let's throw the weapon. Okay, well that was easy. I'm gonna try and throw again. What the heck? Wait, the throw build is OP. Okay, so then now what Gale can do, Gale goes and he does a magic missile level 100% chance. It does two to five damage, but he has that ability. I think I can just one, two and it's gonna come back. Easy, seven, seven. So the two to five did eight, the reason why. He has cold a week. When you bring a creature down to fewer hit points than your number of evolved illithid powers, it dies and all nearby creatures take one of her second damage. Wait, hold on, that's not right. I did eight damage even though it was two to five. Doesn't he have something here that increases it? Yeah, I don't know, but he did a lot of damage with a level one. Like a level one magic missiles him for eight, seven, seven. Like that's supposed to hit for six to 15 damage and it did 22. Flowery key. Solve the open hand temple murders. Let's see if Zom will talk to us. Did you kill Father Logan? No. Dolor killed him. Who is Dolor? Is, where is Dolor now? The corks remain silent. It does not know. That's about the key, yeah. Floop house. The spells power went. You can ask no more questions. Clowns severed torso. This chunk of course is still garbled in clothes. Clowns torso. God, it's awful. Journal updated find dribbles the clown. Wait, that's dribbles. Okay, so what we need to do, we've gotten all this part ready. Let's go out of the mouth of a cave. I didn't finish solving the open hand temple murder. A lot of act requests take a while, okay. I'm trying to find the bell tower. Oh, hello, it's a cat. Mr. Decorios, heavens, fancy seeing you here. Who is Mr. Decorios? Tara! That can't be you, can it? Wait, what? I suppose you won't be terribly shocked to find your old friend Tara amongst the pigeons. They've always been a personal favorite. My, is that a ring? For us? You shouldn't have. Enjoy yourself now, Tara. Looks like you've got yourself set up quite nicely here. Gail, she's been missing those, she's been eating those missing courier pigeons. You gotta tell her to stop. Right, did you hear that, Tara? Stop it. Well, these must be important birds indeed, Mr. Decorios. Forgive me for feasting on their bodies and bones so very voraciously. Oh, she's agreed. Gail's looking rough. He should have been taking his AG1. Receive the item, ring of blink, bundle of letters. Am I crazy? I don't remember that cat. Tara remains as willful as ever. I'm glad you finally made her acquaintance. Oh. Given the length of my time away, I feared she might have given up on me. I can see why you love her. She's quite the character. That's Tara. Loyal, intelligent, brave, and apparently unwilling to follow even the most basic of instructions when her own safety is at stake. I'd actually been thinking about introducing the two of you anyway over a sumptuous, home-cooked meal. That sounds at all to your taste. My tower in Waterdeep boasts an excellent kitchen and a wine cellar to rival Ondar and self. Not to mention a larder stocked with my homemade hundur sauce. Invite me to your house for the first time, you must really like me. More than you could possibly believe. Now that we've got something to look forward to, I think it's time we went and saved the world. Thank you. Leave. OK, we got the letters. Let's take the letters to Danzo Arkwright. The special and direct attention of Roa Moonglow only. Among the consummate professionals, I don't understand why the Joachim's rest. To put out some feelers, minus one, no reading. My bad, my bad, my bad. I suppose you've stumbled across those letters yet? I found the letter intended for the Zen Thoran and it made for a very interesting read. You? You read it. Technically, that's interfering with someone else's property. I should report you to the nearest mannip. Give it here and we'll say no more about it. I'll give you a nice little bonus as well, a finder's fee. What do you say? He seems really... It would be a shame if anyone told the Zen Thoran you lost this, a real shame. Should I do this? Should I say that? That's mean. Whatever. Nice. Fine. Just give me the letter. Forget you saw anything. This never happened. I wanted more. Not gold, but I wanted more like... Like, I needed more out of that one, you know what I'm saying? Not gold, but like some kind of like story, you know? Does the Lord Gortash Refugees are no longer renowned in the city. Turn around. I'm not a refugee. What do you have the means to support yourself? 200 gold? What? I don't need any money to support myself. I live what I find in nature. Then you don't need to be in the city. Next, you need to strike. Great headline. Great headline. Lens the journalist. You know there was a story here and there you are, the hero of the hour walking right up to me. The name's Lens. Reporter with the Baldur's Nugget. Care to do a quick interview? Hold on. What do you want with me? I'm here looking for my next angle. It's all the same. Oppression, famine, death. I need something new. Someone like you. It won't take more than two moments of your time. If you play your cards right, this could make the cover. I just need some extra details. So you've arrived at Baldur's Gate. What's brought you here at a time like this? You know, taking a holiday, visiting family, normal reasons. Everybody needs a rest from time to time. Even seasoned adventurers like yourself. I imagine you've a need to let off some steam after your recent adventures in the Shadowcursed Lands. My sources tell me you recently vanquished the fearsome general Ketheric Thorn. How did you manage that? I offered him a chance at redemption and when he refused to take it, he left me no choice.  I was. A tragic story. I was. Unfortunately, absolutists rarely seem interested in compromise. The cult's threat is far from extinguished. What's your plan of attack? Oh, I'm not much of a planner, I'm afraid. I'm more of a improviser. You think chaos courses through your veins? You have no idea. Wait, what? Rolling in the mark, I see. You think I can't sniff the secrets hidden in your pretty skull? What you seek? What you need? Gortash knows you are coming, knows you have the Bone Lord Stone. Do not let him hiss hot air into your worm-weakened brain. Remember, his throat spits lies. But my blade carves the truth. You waited on your skin sooner now. I'm sorry. My son, what does she want? He's only a boy. Am I still going to be on the cover? I don't understand. Am I on the cover or not?