Third Branch Solutions Materials
Presentation materials, frameworks, and tools from Third Branch Solutions — available to conference attendees.
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Suggest a Resource →Materials and referenced resources from the NASJE 51st Annual Conference session on designing training that earns attention in a 47-second world.
Full slide deck from the NASJE 2026 session introducing the ANCHOR framework for designing training that competes in the attention economy.
Printable desk card summarizing the six ANCHOR prompts: Anchor Attention, Name the Need, Create Intentionally, Humanize Delivery, Operationalize, and Reinforce. Created with CapCut.
"Does My Training Earn Attention?" — a one-page self-check job aid walking each ANCHOR element with the questions to ask of any session you design.
A ready-to-paste AI prompt for auditing a training session against the ANCHOR framework. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or any conversational AI.
Podcast episode with Dr. Gloria Mark of UC Irvine on how digital media has shrunk average screen attention from 2.5 minutes in 2004 to 47 seconds today — the research anchoring the session.
Peer-reviewed research on attention referenced in the session, via the APA PsycNet database.
The widely circulated internal production guide from YouTube's biggest channel — a masterclass in engineering for attention, with lessons that transfer to training design.
CapCut came up in the session as a good free tool for editing photos and videos — it was used to create the ANCHOR Desk Reference Card above.
Easy way to generate a QR code in Google Chrome: click the three vertical dots in the upper right-hand corner, click “Cast, save, and share,” then click “Create QR code.”
Slide deck and referenced resources from the NASJE 51st Annual Conference session on the durable human skills that matter most as AI takes over the rest.
Full slide deck from the NASJE 2026 session on cultivating critical thinking, curiosity, and charisma as distinctly human advantages in the age of AI.
How generations of oral tradition about 'smong' helped the people of Indonesia's Simeulue Island recognize the warning signs and escape the 2004 tsunami.
Lessons from the 2011 tsunami in Japan, where disaster education built on the principle of tendenko helped nearly all of Kamaishi's schoolchildren survive.
A practical look at how creative skills are actually learned — through examples, feedback, and deliberate imitation before originality.
The London Business School professor's framework for exercising better judgment: what you take in, who and what you trust, what you know, what you feel and believe, choice, and delivery.
The psychologist behind "flow" on where creativity comes from and the conditions that cultivate it.
The psychotherapist on curiosity as the engine of connection — asking questions you don't already know the answers to.
TEDx talk on treating curiosity as a trainable muscle rather than a fixed trait.
New York Times opinion piece on what happens to our questions — and our curiosity — when AI answers everything instantly.
University of Chicago library guide to the four-move fact-checking method: Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, Trace claims to the original context.
How six identical Lego bricks yield over 915 million combinations — and what constraints do for creative thinking.
Johns Hopkins research finding that humans remain significantly better than AI models at interpreting dynamic social interactions.
On the human advantages — emotional fluency, presence, self-awareness — that become the 'unfair advantage' in the age of AI.
Materials from the NASJE 51st Annual Conference session on what the 1944 OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual reveals about organizational dysfunction today — and how to counter it.
Full slide deck from the NASJE 2026 session on recognizing and reversing the everyday behaviors that quietly sabotage courts and government organizations.
Interactive checklist for identifying sabotage behaviors in your organization, by category, with a running tally. Fill it out in the browser, then print or save as PDF.
Interactive diagnostic: answer the core audit questions honestly, add the questions your own team needs to ask, and identify the top three things to change first.
Practical interventions and free tools for courts and government organizations, each matched to the sabotage behavior it counters.
The original 1944 Office of Strategic Services field manual, free on Project Gutenberg — the source text behind the session.
Slide deck from the FCCA 2026 session on operating federal courts through sustained resource pressure.
One-page framework for making the internal argument for contracted services or resource investments upward to leadership.
Overview of Third Branch Solutions training programs, workshops, and educational offerings.
Full overview of Third Branch Solutions consulting, staffing, and advisory services.
Conferences, webinars, and other events where you can connect with Third Branch Solutions or find professional development opportunities.
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