Problem Solver
Jan Tchamani
People come to me when they have problems. I have a way of 'seeing through' for others which I can rarely do for myself! When it's me, I tend to be very instinctive. People have followed my advice and ideas and had amazing turnarounds.
Areas Jan Tchamani is Knowledgeable in:
Education, creative writing, strategic educational planning, advocacy and creating arguments, marketing.
Techniques Jan Tchamani Uses:
De Bono hats; imagining myself as lots of different types of people; extensive background reading on similar situations; thinking walks; flowcharts; creative visualisation; meditation; thinking something through, then imagining various problems which could suddenly arise, then building in contingencies.
Jan Tchamani's Problem Solving Skills:
- Teenage learning
- Creation of learning resources
- Organising learning experiences
- Bilingual - English/French
- Cross-cultural relationships
- Human relationships
- The human mind
- Advocacy
- Writing
- Mentoring (career and home life)
Jan Tchamani's Problem Solving Experience:
- Teaching teenagers about what happens to the brain during puberty, and thus preparing them for the process so they can survive the experience without taking a 'dip' in performance.
- Creating a rolling programme of events for Gifted and Talented pupils across my city which was sustainable, even through changes of personnel.
- Recruiting and training rural workers as community development leaders.
- Reinventing myself several times in my life when I have come to an impasse in my career.
- Creating a group for women in my city to come together across all barriers to support one another and enjoy socialising together.
- Finding a way to make studying Victorian literature interesting to teenage pupils, by picking a 'hot' topic, e.g. poverty, racism, sexism as the essay topic.
- Creating a programme for someone to help them deal with mental health challenges and find a 'niche' where they could be as happy, stable and useful as possible.
- Finding ways for people to move on when the past was holding them back from fulfilling their potential, by helping them go through specific 'releasing' stages.
- Creating learning resources for wide-ranging ability pupils in English, so that they could cover the national curriculum, become MORE enthusiastic about their learning, and at the same time learn how language can be used to convey bias (thus arming them for the outside world!)
- I created an enterprise education programme for my school from scratch in 3 months, and put it all into practice in 6 months.