{"id":3221,"date":"2014-09-29T05:48:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learnedleadership.org\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2014-09-29T05:48:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:48:09","slug":"hows-elevator-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/hows-elevator-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"How's Your Elevator Pitch?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t ride in too many elevators these days. \u00a0If you’re in the education world this is probably the same for you too, so the idea of the elevator pitch might be a little foreign. \u00a0For review,\u00a0the idea originates from the practice of pitching your great idea to someone of importance, if you ever happen to be riding in an elevator together…so approximately 30 to 60 seconds. \u00a0Of course, you don’t need to be in an elevator to give an elevator pitch, instead the concept has evolved\u00a0to include anytime you’re trying to convince someone else that your idea is compelling enough to make them want to learn more.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been reading about elevators pitches in Daniel Pink’s book\u00a0To Sell is Human<\/em> where he outlines a number of successors to the elevator pitch, including the twitter pitch, email subject line pitch, and a few others. \u00a0He also asks the question “What’s your I<\/em>nvisible Pitch<\/em>?” \u00a0Meaning if you asked those around you to describe you in 3 words, what would they say? \u00a0Pink describes the Invisible Pitch<\/em> by saying,\u00a0“we don’t always realize it, but what we do and how we do it are themselves pitches. \u00a0We’re conveying a message about ourselves, our work, or our organization.” \u00a0Although not completely related, I’m reminded of the famous Peter Drucker quote\u00a0“culture eats strategy for breakfast.”<\/p>\n

Despite our best intentions and best plans what are you as a leader pitching to your community? \u00a0What are your teachers pitching to your students and parents? \u00a0What are your students pitching to each other and beyond?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t ride in too many elevators these days. \u00a0If you’re in the education world this is probably the same for you too, so the idea of the elevator pitch might be a little foreign. \u00a0For review,\u00a0the idea originates from the practice of pitching your great idea to someone of importance, if you ever happen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andys-deep-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5BJbv-PX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}