how do we get better when we're already so good? © 2014
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How Do We Get Better When We're Already So Good? -- CHOICE #3 and the Questions that Lead to Improved Results What does it take to get improved results in your business? A viable business plan, a growth strategy, a marketable value proposition, cash flow, capable talent, the ability to attract and maintain customers…the list goes on. Chances are, you have these in place and already manage them for growth. What else is there? How do we get better when we are already so good? Truly great leaders know from experience that even their highly refined ability to see what is needed is limited by their own assumptions and beliefs. They recognize the choice they make daily: to accept things as they are or seek new actions that lead to improved results. Executive coach Mark Sturgell, offers Choice #3. He demonstrates how the fundamentals of greater success and growth are in the questions we ask, questions that stretch our assumptions, beliefs and the results we can produce. The right questions help you see what you're not already seeing. Mark offers questions that you cannot always answer right away, questions that require hard thinking, questions that test your assumptions, reveal possibilities and lead to right action that you and your team might not otherwise have conceived - game changing questions.TRANSCRIPT
HOW DO WE GET BETTER WHEN WE’RE ALREADY SO GOOD?!Mark Sturgell, CBC Performance Development Network
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— David Hutchens, Outlearning the Wolves, 2nd Ed, 2000 !
— Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, 2006
Every organization is faced with the challenge of finding ways
to create the results it desires.
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HOW DO WE GET BETTER WHEN WE’RE ALREADY SO GOOD?!Mark Sturgell, CBC Performance Development Network
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THREE CHOICES
1. I am defined by my circumstances.
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THREE CHOICES
1. I am defined by my circumstances. 2. I can brainstorm new ways to act.
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THREE CHOICES
1. I am defined by my circumstances. 2. I can brainstorm new ways to act. 3. I can see the world in a new way.
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CHOICE #3
Think of a time when you needed to change or learn something new…
• How did you know learning or change was needed?
• What were the characteristics of the environment?
• What did the leader(s) do?
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How do we get better when we’re already so good? What does “so good” look like? What does “better” look like?
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TWO WAYS TO CHANGE AN
ORGANIZATION:
1. Change leaders
2. Change the leaders
THE MEASURE OF A LEADER
Their actions are a reflection of your
leadership.
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Measure of a Leader, Daniels & Daniels, McGraw-Hill (2006) 2012
WHAT DOES ‘BETTER’ LOOK LIKE?The five CORE* agreements are:
1. As Is — People must agree on the current situation as it really is.
2. Environment — People must agree on what’s happening around them, which they’re unable to affect, but which will affect them.
3. STAKE — People must agree on what’s at stake if they stay where they are and don’t change.
4. To Be — People must agree on a cogent vision of the future they desire.
5. Strategy —Finally, people must agree on how to break out of the As Is and chart an irreversible course toward the To Be.
*Chris McGoff, The Primes: How Any Group Can Solve Any Problem
2012
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GOOD TO BETTER
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Assumptions
Behavior
Results
WHAT DRIVES NEW RESULTS?
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New Possibilities
NEW Possibilities
Passion drives results; but then
what drives passion? Passion
What drives hope?
Hope
To create new possibilities, we must
CHALLENGE our Assumptions
Passion
CHOICE #3
PassionHope
NEW Possibilities
Challenging our Assumptions sometimes means CHOOSING our
Attitudes... And owning up to our Dreams!14
MARK STURGELLPDNcoach.com
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WHAT DO YOU WANT?
“If you REALLY want to go there, why haven’t you already been?”
!FIELDWORK:
Make a list of at least 100 dreams: what you want to Do, to
Have, to Become…with your Family, Friends, Finances, Faith, Followers, Fitness, Fun, Freedom
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