The soldier started: from "story meeting" to "exquisite class"
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Looking for soldiers with stories
○Plan a batch of "exquisite courses" in the form of storytelling
○ Present and share wonderful struggle stories from multiple perspectives
Corporal Hou Ruirui said that he was not good at teaching education.
However, when he stood on the stage and began to tell his own growth story, the comrades in the audience raised their heads and listened very seriously.
There is no supporting courseware, no videos, and no music. What attracts everyone is the fighting story behind Hou Ruirui's series of achievements-he is the champion of the International Army "Physical Fitness and Combat Skills" competition. In half an hour, he broke the record with 1850 sit-ups .
These growth stories of participating in training or competitions are hard-core and convincing like the well-defined muscles on his body.
After the story was told, the audience's warm applause lasted for several seconds. This convinced Education Officer Chen Zhang that the entry point for planning and organizing these "exquisite courses" was correct.
Can a group of small and micro “exquisite classes” be planned by soldiers telling their own growth stories? At that time, the political commissar listened to the story of the soldier's growth, which had already caused a certain response among his comrades. Many fighters left messages online, wanting to know the content of the story. Hearing these responses and calls, Chen Zhang began to ponder this matter.
After reporting his ideas to the brigade, he began to plan this batch of "exquisite courses" in this form of storytelling, and the name of the educational activity was set as "People around me started."
To plan such an excellent class, you must first have a "story teller". Soldiers who have told political commissars can be regarded as one of the "bonanza", because many of them are "story" soldiers like Hou Ruirui who win gold and silver in various competitions.
The head of the Propaganda Section Yi Jian believes that in the journey of strengthening the army, the officers and soldiers of the new era need diversified demonstrations and incentives. For soldiers to resonate and gain something from the stories of their comrades, they must be at different levels. Come consider and select storytellers.
In the end, they set the selection criteria for storytellers as "veterans with qualifications and stories, pioneers with achievements and honors, capable people with strong expertise, and a model who loves to learn and seek progress."
Liu Zhiyu, a non-commissioned officer, has been recruited for 2 years. In terms of grades and experience, he is not like a person with a story.
But at a writing experience exchange meeting, Liu Zhiyu took out 4 thick diaries, put them together, taller than the paper cup on the table.
"I write a diary almost every day, and I have been writing it for 577 days." His persistence immediately attracted Chen Zhang's attention.
"It may seem simple to write a diary every day, but there are very few soldiers who can stick to such a good one." As Liu Zhiyu opened his diary to Chen Zhang, Chen Zhang found that Liu Zhiyu was also a person with a story.
The people and events and things recorded in his diary all reflect his love and concern for life in the barracks, and many of them have strong stories in themselves.
With the adjustment of the perspective and the expansion of the field of vision, more and more comrades with stories have been included in the list of storytellers in the "exquisite class".
Soon, the first group of 10 soldiers, including Hou Ruirui, began a trial lecture of the "exquisite class" for small and micro enterprises.
Speaking of the original idea of planning these small and micro "exquisite courses", Yi Jian said: "I just want to tell my own story through my comrades, present the striving and enterprising and colorful military life from multiple angles, and let more comrades gain experience by sharing stories. Inspiration of thinking and nourishment of spirit."
Polish the tasteful "exquisite class"
○ Let soldiers with stories tell the story first
○Complete the transition from "story meeting" to "exquisite class"
"Telling the same story to the political commissar and telling it to the comrades-in-arms has different results."
This is how Guan Liheng felt.
As a trial speaker of the "excellent class", Guan Liheng was telling his comrades a short story when he noticed that someone in the audience began to whisper. This made him panic for a while.
After class, Guan Liheng took the initiative to find his comrades to listen to their opinions, and someone reminded him: "Your tone of storytelling is not appropriate, it sounds like you are bragging."
How far is the distance from storytelling to "exquisite class"? Zhao Xinhang told reporters: "It's not too far, but it's really not close."
In a trial lecture, Zhao Xinhang spent 25 minutes talking about his life experience, and added an on-site question and answer session. The whole class is over 30 minutes.
"It feels like'talking about the mountains'. If there is no time limit, I can talk for an afternoon." After a class, Zhao Xinhang found it easy, but his comrades found a lot of problems. "The content in the middle is procrastinated and the logic is not clear enough." A comrade in arms was outspoken.
As one of the planners and organizers, Chen Zhang also found that it is not easy to achieve the expected goal of small and micro "exquisite courses".
When facing comrades-in-arms, many storytellers have some "unsuitability". The most common problem is that they don’t know how to combine their own stories and theories, how to control the situation, and how to make the finishing touch...
Some storytellers started preparing lessons and writing lesson plans like political cadres attending a large class before taking the stage. Some simply summed up a series of "experiences" by focusing on "how to be a good backbone". Some fighters said bluntly "I didn't listen much." ".
How to complete the transition from "storytelling" to "exquisite class"? In an after-class discussion, Bian Qingjun, director of the political work department of the brigade, expressed his point of view: “Telling one's own story is the biggest advantage of a teller. How to tell it well requires a multi-pronged approach.”
Under this suggestion, the Brigade Propaganda Section made corresponding adjustments. Storytellers no longer need to do homework combined with theory, and only need to tell their own stories each time, and the "finishing" work is left to the host people.
The advice given by the Propaganda Department is: "The narrator should'open a small mouth and dig a deep well', treat each narration as his own work, and sculpt it in detail."
They also organize storytellers to watch classic speech videos, and guide these soldiers with stories to keep the telling time within 15 minutes.
On this basis, the storyteller began to start from the aspects of story length, courseware production, speech skills, etc., and continue to refine and improve his "work."
In order to accurately grasp the tone of the story, Guan Liheng downloaded a speech app and spent 20 minutes listening to excellent speech audio and video every day. Zhao Xinhang also began to deliberately cultivate the concept of "the condensed is the essence", and began to cut the complex and concise the stories he told, striving for what he said.
In order to further optimize the effect of the lecture, Chen Zhang has produced the "Sharer Score Sheet" for comrades who have listened to the "excellent class" trial lecture to score. The narrator can compare the statistical results and make targeted improvements.
In the selection of the host, the brigade propaganda section has also changed the original practice of having soldiers as the host, replaced by the company chief as the host.
In this way, the storyteller tells the stories around him. Because the company’s chief officer has a certain theoretical foundation, the comments are both in-depth and more accurate, and they are all simple principles that the officers and soldiers can hear and understand. The teaching effect is immediate. much better.
Micro "exquisite class" is on fire
○There are more and more soldiers telling stories
○ Striving to be a "soldier with a story" has become a trend
After being promoted to senior non-commissioned officer, Guan Liheng had a period of confusion: "How to take the road in the future and how to improve himself?"
Now, his confusion has disappeared. Guan Liheng said: "Other comrades in arms learned from my growth story, and I also benefited a lot from the sharing of other comrades in arms."
Guan Liheng said this sentence has a big background, that is, the brigade’s story teller team has expanded to 40 people. There are conscripts and junior non-commissioned officers, as well as intermediate and senior non-commissioned officers. This makes the comrades who listen to the story often able to Find learning "samples" and catch-up goals similar to your own situation.
This change in the size of the team also has a big background, that is, more comrades in arms have already benefited from the educational activity of "people around us started speaking" like Guan Liheng did.
In fact, before the first batch of small and micro “exquisite courses” were officially launched, they had already attracted much attention.
"When a soldier was invited to tell the political commissar about his own growth story, this message spread quickly among his comrades." Chen Zhang told reporters: "Because everyone is curious about what those stories say."
After being upgraded to "exquisite class", these stories were presented in front of the comrades in arms one by one. Many soldiers began to use these "soldiers with stories" as mirrors to reflect on themselves. For example, in Hou Ruirui and Guan Liheng, the comrades-in-arms began to analyze the universal laws and development paths behind the journey of becoming pioneers, and set out to make their development plans more scientific and reasonable.
"This is exactly what the'exquisite class' wants to achieve." said Yi Jian, the chief of the brigade's publicity department. "Such narration and sharing will inevitably give birth to more fighters who have the courage to fight and have a positive and progressive enthusiasm, and make the fighters more powerful The effective practice will get twice the result with half the effort because there are more experiences to learn from."
Today, the first 10 storytellers of the brigade have been to many companies to give trial talks. Every time a company arrives, there will be a heated discussion. Behind these hot discussions is not only the attraction like "revealing", but also the resonance from the bottom of the heart brought by the content of "exquisite class".
Li Linchao, the sergeant who won the second place in the army's mixed martial arts competition, usually doesn't like to talk.
That time, after listening to the growth stories and life insights of 10 storytellers in the company classroom, he was deeply moved.
Especially after listening to the growth story of Corporal Hou Ruirui, Li Linchao unexpectedly stepped onto the podium, "I want to talk to my comrades in my heart."
"The last time I went to the podium was 4 years ago." Li Linchao said, "From now on, I want to make some changes and share my own story."
Li Linchao’s temporary trial lecture became a strong proof of the appeal of the "People around me" activity in the exploratory stage. It also allowed the Brigade Propaganda Section to begin to expand the scale of storytellers and initially formed a team of 40 soldiers with stories. A team of narrators.
These 40 soldiers with stories, combined with their own growth process, have formed a group of small and micro "exquisite courses" with their own emphasis and characteristics. Each battalion company can freely choose storytellers and the "exquisite lessons" they bring according to their own needs.
At the same time, the Brigade Propaganda Section uploaded the videos of the "excellent class" that the 40 soldiers had already taught to the internal network, enabling the simultaneous promotion of "excellent class" resources online and offline.
“You can’t just eat staple foods, but also eat some vegetables, fruits and snacks, so that you can grow up in a balanced and healthy nutrition. The same is true for education.” Bian Qingjun, director of the political work department of the brigade, said that these small “fine courses”, It has become an important supplement to the daily education of many camps and companies.
Small and micro "exquisite classes" are on fire in various camps. Taking into account the limited energy of the storyteller, the travel publicity department stipulates that each storyteller can provide up to 5 on-site lectures per month, and each camp can make an appointment for on-site lectures not more than 2 times a month.
Yi Jian told reporters that in the next step, soldiers who tell stories to political commissars will be included in the team of storytellers. He said: "100 soldiers, 100 small micro-level'exquisite classes', by then, the battalion company will have more choices in terms of on-site teaching."
Photo caption: In a brigade of the 76th Army, most of the wonderful stories told by soldiers came from the hot training ground.
Picture ①: The officers and soldiers of a synthetic battalion of the brigade carried out assassination exercises to sharpen their combat style and bloody anger.
Picture ②③: The officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion of this brigade use the field terrain for combat and tactical training.
Photo by Li Zhongyuan
Shuangxi Wang Yukai