Objectives

Complete “overcoming change barriers”

Learning Communities: create one suggestion how to evaluate learning from 10 Steps

Townsend: Personal Mastery vocabulary

Prepare for Leader A on Wed

Personal Mastery:Discipline #1

“learning to keep both a personal/organizational vision and a clear picture of current reality”

Answer these questions:

1. What kind of people do you want to work with?

2. What kind of product or service do you want to create?

3. Where do you want to work?

4. What do you want to do when you are working?

Boles, Richard. What color is your parachute?

Personal Mastery Vocabulary:The Road to PM

Tensions Creating Vision Blocks to Vision Barriers to Telling the Truth

Tensions

CREATIVE TENSION: If a vision is really important, you see what must change for results

EMOTIONAL TENSION: belief that we are unworthy/powerless to obtain deepest aspirations

You Need a New Vision When

Confusion about your purpose

Not having fun anymore

Others are wondering about you…

You are out of sync with trends

Burt Nanus, Visionary Leadership, 1992

You Need a New Vision When…

No pride these days

Excessive risk avoidance

Lack of trust & respect (you of others and others of you)

Burt Nanus, Visionary Leadership, 1992

Vision Blocks

I can’t have what I want

I want what someone else has

It doesn’t matter what I want

Vision Blocks

I already have what I want

I am afraid of what I want

I don’t know what I want

Barriers to the Truth

Does your need to tell the truth clash with loyalty to the system?????

Loyalties: to the boss, attitudes about what is important, rewards/incentives

Personal Mastery needs Truth in an Org.

3 Barriers to the Truth

1. Systematic blocks that prevent speaking out

Frowns, put-downs, sarcastic humor, grunt work, demotions

Barriers to the Truth

2. No training to help with difficult announcements

Provide training after the “doom and gloom” speech about how to get thru the problem

Barriers to the Truth

3. Telling all the difficult details

Leaders can retain loyalty to the spirit of the organization without revealing all the nasty information

Vision Coach Exercise

Find a partner: You are the coach, they are your client

ASK: “in recent years…”1. How has your vision changed for the kind of person you

want to be? (what it was; what it is….)2. How has your vision changed for material possessions?3. How has your career vision changed?

Repeat questions each year: GALVANIZE your creative tension