{"id":5041,"date":"2016-12-16T08:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/blog\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:10:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:10:44","slug":"holiday-outcome-planning-with-nat-king-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2016\/12\/16\/holiday-outcome-planning-with-nat-king-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Outcome Planning with Nat King Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays can be very stressful. Last minute shopping, traffic, traveling, and talking politics &#8212; it\u2019s clearly time to focus on the outcomes we want to see for the holidays, and how we are going to reach them. For help with my planning, I looked to what I think of as the greatest Christmas song of the season, The Christmas Song, most famously sung by Nat King Cole.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the song in logic model format (I suggest listening to the song at the same time as you read the logic model <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hwacxSnc4tI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hwacxSnc4tI<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5044\" src=\"\/neo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/2016-12-16_9-17-06.jpg\" alt=\"Logic model of The Christmas Song\" width=\"903\" height=\"502\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As with so many things in the holiday season, this song doesn\u2019t really reflect my reality in Gulf Coast Texas (although we do get mistletoe&#8211;I had it growing on my oak tree a couple of years ago).\u00a0 Working from similar outcomes backwards, here\u2019s a different logic model that only applies to me:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5046\" src=\"\/neo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/2016-12-16_9-40-32.jpg\" alt=\"Logic Model Showing Karen's Holiday plans\" width=\"887\" height=\"538\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No, I will not attempt to turn it into a song, and you\u2019re even luckier that I\u2019m not going to sing it for you.\u00a0 But this little process has been really helpful for me in keeping things in perspective for the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Nat King Cole, Bob Wells, and Mel Torm\u00e9 for a great song and a great planning tool.\u00a0 What would yours look like?<\/p>\n<p>For more on logic models, select the blog&#8217;s Logic Model category, and check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/neo\/professional-development\/guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NEO&#8217;s Booklet 2: Planning Outcomes-Based Outreach Projects<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays can be very stressful. Last minute shopping, traffic, traveling, and talking politics &#8212; it\u2019s clearly time to focus on the outcomes we want to see for the holidays, and how we are going to reach them. For help with my planning, I looked to what I think of as the greatest Christmas song&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2016\/12\/16\/holiday-outcome-planning-with-nat-king-cole\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ICUo-1jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6512,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}