how mindset affects our achievement potential
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How to achieve our poten0al
Organizational Change that works
And is enjoyable
Presented by John Loty
How to achieve our poten0al
You are correct
• Either you can or either you can't!
• If you believe you can't – you can’t
• If you believe you can – you can
• Attribution – Henry Ford I believe
What do you think?
• Is it as straightforward as given talent or intelligence, ability...? • Or can people with “no talent” learn and achieve things that those “with talent” seem to do effortlessly?
In order to have a discussion of these ques7ons we will have to
enable speakers.
• To do that itself will be a learning experience in this software (Webinar Jam Studio) that is a plugin to Google Hangouts
• And we can do it! ☺ so lets start!
Request to speak
• On the right hand side there is a panel and at the top of that panel there is a box that contains the words
• Request to speak. • When you click on it – the words request to speak change
• to cancel request. Meaning that the request has been sent
I then then enable that request.
• What happens next on the screen of the person who requested to speak is Sirstly screen goes black – the green Google hangout logo appears and then a message headed "you are about to join a hangout on Air" with an explanation.
• Tick the box … I have read et cetera and then click the blue Okay
If you 7cked and then OK the blue
• You will again be presented with a black screen that has a green box at the bottom with the word join in white
• Clicking on that green button (join) will enable both your microphone
• and your video camera.
BuAons at top of screen • You can disable (mute) your microphone at any time and turn it back on again.
• That control appears at the top of the screen when you hover your mouse up there. You will also see the other control buttons there.
• Multiple scenario requires discipline • Like 2 way radio days.
10 par7cipants with sound • In this software we can have 10 people enabled to speak at the one time.
• Which is why I mentioned the word discipline...and the 2 way radio days.
• I will cycle thru “speakers” for opportunity to speak
• If you do make a “noise” the focus of screen can move.
Chat box and other controls • Please note that you can change this focus by clicking on the little box with the "thumbnail" screens.
• On the left hand side at the top there is a blue striped box that enables chat
• Screenshare is under that but leave that to me for this presentation.
Review of objec7ves AI process, PQ , Mindset etc
• The objective of this webinar series is in effect to conduct an appreciative inquiry into a number of methodologies or approaches that give more emphasis or attention to the negative – the saboteurs, the Sixed mindset in the interfering "self one".
Why ? • And the reason for doing that is to explore whether we could better achieve our objective of realising our true potential by having regard to such factors.
• Open discussion or chat or comment? • 4 D Cycle is one way to do AI
Many examples of success using AI
• Whole cities and regions have been transformed.
• There can be no doubt that AI works just as much as there can be no doubt that
much remains the same – unchanged. • WHY? …immune system analogy • Discussion
The whole person
• Individual – in – divi - dual • Behaviour can be seen, beliefs, feeling, thoughts, values and needs cannot be seen and vary considerably…not to mention culture, family, society etc. AND
• THE SABOTEURS! Quietly undermining in unseen and unrecognised ways.
What can I (you) change or influence?
• Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine • Explains why (based on research etc) • Only 20% of teams and individuals achieve their true potential….AND offers a suggested pathway whereby individuals and teams (and organisations) can achieve their
potential! • Strengthening the PQ region of the brain!
Who or what are these saboteurs? • A free assessment and explanation online • Do these saboteurs have any good points? It is said they originally help us survive • 1.Prejudiced judge (fault Sinding); • 2.Stickler (perfectionist on steroids) • 3.Pleaser (really trying to win approval) • 4.Hyper-‐Achiever (think workaholic)
Saboteurs use effec7ve camouflage
• 5.Victim (poor me – martyr) • 6.Hyper-‐Rational (feelings unimportant) • 7.Hyper-‐Vigilant (always anxious – no rest)
• 8.Restless (very busy, distractions, next?) • 9.Controller (I’m in charge – follow me!) • 10.Avoider (I’m positive & not avoiding)
The SAGE • Sage is curious and explores, asks questions, (Discovery/Dream)
• Has empathy for self and others; • Innovates and creates new perspectives; (Design)
• Navigates:-‐ in accord values & purpose; • Activates and takes decisive steps & generates results (Delivery)
PQ regions of our brain produces :-
3 Strategies to improve PQ and overcome slipping into the
“same old” • 1. Weaken the saboteurs within – by exposing their deceptive behaviour
(Self-‐ assessment and “checking in”.) • 2. Strengthen your sage...(way of seeing) • 3. Strengthen your PQ brain muscles
Let me pause for a moment... Like everything else
• Your values or what you think is really important needs be considered and brought to mind (vision) so that this leads to action (RESULTS) rather than interesting intellectual exploration.
• Your experience? • My experience with this sort of thing
What is reality? Yours or mine?
• Acceptance is often promoted as a useful or successful pathway when dealing with difSiculty. Other ways that help?
• AI and PQ are about a new way of thinking or seeing...so let me share some thoughts on this crucial point.
• An ancient story about a stallion...
Community of interest Private Group online?
• In the past when I had to achieve really difSicult things or help others do the same
• I found joining together with like minded people invaluable.
• These difSicult “self-‐help” programs are nearly impossible to do on your own!!
• So if you have interest in group work • Stay tuned!
IS the following a picture of
• A frog?
• OR
• A horse?
• What can you see?
Good fortune, bad luck or a mystery?
• Stallion story…
• Carl Jung’s insight about overcoming signiSicant emotional obstacles or hurdles...life long resentments and the like...
The saboteurs’ influence (as explained in Posi0ve
Intelligence) Can we ignore this?
What do you think?
Visit
The saboteurs free assessment and the PQ
assessment are useful and recommended
audio mindfulness exercises
• At www.positiveintelligence.com • that’s positiveintelligence.com there are 2 videos – 2nd one about 1 hour and is a talk to Google employees (also link on my blog) and 2 AUDIO links so you can download and practice these PQ brain
region, strengthening exercises.
Next:
• Explore and discuss Positive Intelligence (Saboteurs reports and assessments) and the strengthening exercises experience.
• Some discussion of the Sage and PQ Gym • Examine whether we can change our mindsets – as explained by Carol Dweck in her book Mindset
This is not about a focus on the nega7ve
I s7ll think we should stay posi7ve
• Because:-‐ • “If we Uight evil blow for blow… evil will win” (I Ching) and
• A focus on the negative – activates the Saboteurs ..but ignoring them is is also problematic.
“If we fight evil blow for blow… evil will win” (I Ching)
• What about the war on poverty? • The war on drugs? • The war on terrorists? • Where do these considerations Sit into the whole…or are they excluded?
• All I know for certain is we need to think a lot more than we do!
Mindsets • What are they? • Are we born with them? • Can we change them…if we are willing? • What is the advantage of having a growth mindset? A Sixed mindset?
• Are their dangers in praising achievement?
hAp://mindsetonline.com/wha7sit/about/
• Mindset explains: • Why brains and talent don’t bring success • How they can stand in the way of it • Why praising brains and talent doesn’t foster self-‐esteem and accomplishment, but jeopardizes them
Mindset ……discovered by
• Carol Dweck, a world-‐renowned Stanford University psychologist.
• decades of research on achievement and success—a simple idea that makes all the difference.
• In a Sixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply Sixed traits.
Fixed mindset folk:-‐
• spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them.
• They also believe that talent alone creates success—without effort.
• They’re wrong.
In a growth mindset • people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point.
• This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Virtually all great people have had these qualities.
Advantage of the Growth Mindset
• Teaching a growth mindset creates motivation and productivity in the worlds of business, education, and sports.
• It enhances relationships. • Mindsets are beliefs—beliefs about yourself and your most basic qualities.
• Do you believe people can learn?
Nature or nurture? • It’s not nature or nurture, genes or environment.
• From conception on, there’s a constant give and take between the two. In fact, as an eminent neuroscientist put it, not only do genes and environment cooperate as we develop, but genes require input from the environment to work properly.
Brain plas7city • Scientists are learning that people have more capacity for life-‐long learning and brain development than they ever thought.
• People may start with different temperaments and different aptitudes, but it is clear that experience, training, and personal effort take them the rest of the way.
The tortoise and the hare
• Robert Sternberg, the present-‐day guru of intelligence writes that the major factor in whether people achieve expertise “is not some Sixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.”
• Binet, recognized, it’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.
Want to test your mindset?
• Visit http://mindsetonline.com/testyourmindset/step1.php
• The book is about changing the internal monologue from a judging one to a growth-‐oriented one. It shows how mindset change has enabled people to pursue their goals more effectively and how to boost motivation and grades.
4 steps to change (get the book) 1. Learn to hear your Uixed mindset “voice.”
2. Recognize that you have a choice. 3. Talk back to it with a growth mindset voice.
4. Take the growth mindset action.
What do you think? Possible?
Crea7ng new conversa7ons
• My aim is to get us thinking • to get some input or suggestions on how we could improve our quest
• to achieve our potential and • sustain (not drift back to old ways) that new pathway – perhaps adopt or follow
• The PQ practices of mind and body
More informa7on
• The Australian Appreciative Inquiry website
• and my blog www.johnloty.com have more info ; email [email protected]
• What do you think about setting up a special group to share thoughts on this topic or set of ideas about improvement?
www.appreciativeinquiry.net.au