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What is Your Catalyst for Change?

August 9, 2019

Enjoy this excerpt from Business to the Third Power.

What is Your Catalyst for Change?

Consider different outcomes in your decisions.

When working toward a decision, the obvious choice is not always the best outcome.

Being a parent, leader, or business owner can be like “swatting flies!” Can you hear the buzzing now?

Swatting flies is similar to the overload thinking, chattery activity, that swirls in our expanding heads. This swirling creates the buzzing when we haven’t navigated a way to extract or define the information to the outside of our heads!

Part of this “swatting-flies” phenomenon is due to the fact that our biology has not kept pace with our technology™. Our biology is still 10,000 years old! We’re overwhelmed and overstimulated by our surroundings and technology.

What does this have to do with a catalyst for change?

I suggest there is another way to live and manage change; you always suspected there might be. Change is disruptive especially when unexpected. We can prepare for change so the impact can be used to our advantage.

Consider our daily exposures:

Too much external stimuli. Constant bombardment of sound pollution, elected or otherwise.
Incapacity to process and assimilate information, creates Info Anxiety ™.
Not enough rest time (not sleep).
Lack of focus due to distractions; fueled by shoulds, have to’s and judgment.
Active pursuit of other’s ideas, not our own creating Seepage™* and energy drain.
Exposure to deliberate misinformation to cloud personal judgment (urban legends), jokes on email, plausible deniability leaks, etc.)

To begin, I recommend that you create an antidote solution for each bullet item above. Then, continue with your personal items and write the antidotes for them.

What does this have to do with a catalyst for change?

I suggest there is another way to live; you always suspected there might be. Follow me…for a sneak peek into alternatives to contempo-babble™, the buzz of contemporary living.

See our companion Field Guide Book Thriving in the Midst of Change under products. It can be your personal advisory board to support your decisions and next moves. Use our book to follow me and the experts at your fingertips.

PS:

I call if a Field Guide Book, much like the military generals use in their operations—you cannot know or remember everything!

by Coachcubas

Action plan, Behavior, Business Insights, business plan, change, Strategic Plan

Lessons Learned from Knock-Knock Jokes Apply to Strategy

November 13, 2017

Why do people find Knock-Knock Jokes funny? Sure, they’re corny and silly, but the puns and play on words can be entertaining. They are smart in their own way. One’s mind has to open to see the comedic twist. Here’s an example,”When is a door not a door?” Answer: When it’s ajar! (Groan)

Let’s apply this pattern to something more serious, something that leaders often overlook. “When is a strategy not a strategy?” Answer: When it’s a list of goals strung together!

I see this thinking pattern misunderstanding frequently when I work with small business in particular. Why? Part of the reason is because there are not many “advisors” around to correct a direction.

That is why I created the Pivotal Thinking topic for the Virtual Mastermind Projects as a benign way to start everyone on the team from the same starting line. Pivotal Thinking relies on the executive functions within the brain. When there is impairment or “lag” in these functions, decision making can be terrifying and difficult. Pivotal Thinking is affected by several functions. Read more here.

Take a “fear” temperature. This exercise is an opportunity to plant seeds of success and engagement at all levels. Preconceived notions can damage progress-the “ain’t broke” rule! Discover what fears would stand in the way of progress.

So, how do you check if you have a real strategy or not?

1. How well does everyone connected with the company, brand, understand what’s behind it? Purpose must be embedded or it is hollow.

2. What logic can be applied at each level or extension of the company?

3. How well does the leader realize that front-line employees are critical to the implementation of the plan? It’s not enough to create the strategy and implement it. Robert Burgelman*, Stanford professor, contends (sic) that “bottom-up initiatives must come from employees that fall within set boundaries set by the strategic intent.” Strategy Is Destiny” How Strategy-making Shapes a Company’s Future

4. Self-selected choices emerge when employees pick which initiatives, led by the strategy, they believe in rather than being forced to make something work.

5. Consider intention rather than goals—Goals are the pillars that mark the intent to achieve the created strategy. For example, how do the choices relate back to the purpose, intention? How do individuals make it part of their job description?

Successful strategists embed room to experiment and find ways that don’t work rather than finding one answer.

6. Apply the Universal Why or Toyota’s root-cause analysis of asking why until they can’t anymore! For example, ask, “Why are we doing this? Why did the first choice fail?”

This is a hot topic that you can bring to your organization. When everyone starts from the same place, the universe is your oyster!

*Robert Burgelman-https://hbr.org/2017/11/many-strategies-fail-because-theyre-not-actually-strategies

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by Coachcubas

Business Insights, coaching, Strategic Plan

How much time is wasted on worrying?

August 19, 2017

So, what’s the dragon “in your wallet?” Here’s the good news about worrying—it is your brain’s attempt to protect you.

The downside is that worrying creates anxiety. It is an emotional response to fear. It can be paralyzing and floods your thinking process so you are unable to make solid choices.

Knowing that, here are several ways to minimize worry:

Identify where the worry (floating anxiety) originates?
What is the immediate action you can take to minimize it? The antidote across the board is ACTION! Why?

For example, if you are concerned about accidents on a road trip, have your car checked in advance, like tire pressure and fluid levels. Just taking the action, is calming.

When you self-coach and take action, you change the perspective of the issue. It’s that simple. A coaching exercise is to see at least three perspectives, positive or negative, and then choose the one that serves you. This is a fun and revealing action to take with your team or family.

Ever had analysis paralysis—where you must make a decision and can’t or fear crawls all over you? Sometimes a grinding loop hijacks your brain and exhausts you. It sucks all your energy even when you want to make a change.
Take a deep breath.

Call out the feeling by name (I know that sounds weird but once you name it, you can start to manage it!) Self-talk is healthy. You hear the sound of your voice that overrides the sound of the little voice in your head. This is a useful tactic to overcome procrastination.
Once you raise your awareness of what’s going on, you can start to move forward. For example, when I start to clean out my desk drawers, I know I’m avoiding something. Identify what behavior is your “tell.”

Coaching can be a useful tool to fight the dragon of fear.

If the anxiety persists and deepens without signs of letting up, please see a health professional.

Please let me know your strategies for self-coaching.

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Lessons Learned from Knock-Knock Jokes Apply to Strategy

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