How to Take Giant Leaps in Your Performance

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HOW TO TAKE GIANT LEAPS IN YOUR PERFORMANCE

Geoff McDonald @BookRapper BookRapper.com

The Book

GeoffMcDonald.com/blog

The BookJossey-Bass, San Fransisco, 2009.

Steve Zaffron

The Authors

Dave Logan

The BIG Idea

Conversational Technology

Speed RAP

The Power of Context

Book Rapper Says...

Transform Anything!

Your Challenge

Leap Forward!

Fixing Problems is Broken

It doesn’t matter what you do the problem keeps occuring

Sand Castles

The Problem with Problem Solving

Fixing = Shifting ContentFIXING = SHIFTING CONTENT

The more things change The more they stay the same

French Proverb

A frog is not a bigger tadpole

Transformation

No problem can be solved at the

same level at which it was

created

TRANSFORMING = SHIFTING CONTEXT

Problems don’t get solved, they get transformed

Transforming = Shift Context

TRANSFORMING = SHIFTING CONTEXT

To create a new future, transform the present

Shift Context

Present Future

Why People Do What They Do

What others do makes perfect sense for them

Not Making Sense?

We literally live in different worlds

‘Out There’ ‘In Here’

The First Law of Performance

Our performance directly correlates to how

situations occur to us.

Beyond perception and experience

Perspective

How are these slides occuring to you right now?

Is this a sunrise or a sunset? Or neither?

How does this photo occur to you?

What do you see?

Different worlds provide different contexts

World ‘Out There’ Versions of Same World

The World ‘as it is’ Common Sense

Facts = Facts Someone is that way

World ‘In Here’ Different Worlds How world occurs Reality Illusion Facts = occur to us How they occur to us

Different worlds provide different contexts

World ‘Out There’ Versions of Same World

The World ‘as it is’ Common Sense

Facts = Facts Someone is that way

World ‘In Here’ Different Worlds How world occurs Reality Illusion Facts = occur to us How they occur to us

Reflect on this… it might just turn your world upside down

Your Default Future

A clear distinction between our past and our future

Invented Future

PAST PRESENT FUTURE

When our future is coloured by our past

Default Future

PAST PRESENT FUTURE

If you keep going as you are where will you end up?

Almost Certain Future

A default future - Living in the past

Rear View Mirror

A default future - living in the future

Telescope of Hope

Based on the past, calls you in the present

Invented Future

Excited about going before you leave

Going on Holiday

How Your Future Got Hijacked

Today seems like another yesterday

Groundhog Day

The Second Law of Performance

How situations occur is inseperable from

language.

We usually only listen to the words that are actually spoken

The ‘Said’Foreground Conversation

THE ‘SAID’

Our Background Conversation shapes what we do/don’t say

The ‘Unsaid’Background Conversation

Our language constantly makes meaning from what happens

Meaning

Something Happens

We Make It Mean

Something

Blanking Your Canvas

Not whole or finished… a project, a relationship…

Incomplete

Our Incomplete Relationships live here!

Meaning

Something Happens

We Make It Mean

Something

Symptoms of Incomplete Relationships

Missing, off or not right Distant or separate Emotional Charge Speaking Badly Not Fully Acknowledged Broken Agreements

This is why our incompletions run us - Groundhog Day!

The ‘Unsaid’Background Conversation

Satisfied, in integrity, whole

Complete

Six Steps to Complete a Relationship

Notice Conversation Meaning Responsibility Action Declare

Future Generations

The Third Law of Performance

Future-based language transforms how situations

occur to people.

Your Default Future is a description of your world

Descriptions

Our descriptions are made up of these things

Expectations Hopes Fears Predictions Judgments Assessments Assertions

We speak the world into existence

Declarations

Your Default Future is a description of your world

Default Future

Creating the future with your language

Declarations

We speak our Invented Future into existence

Declarations

What Are You Committed To?

How to Stay Committed

On the Field New Game Obstacles Insights

Coaching Past Behind Play 100%

The Self-Led Organization

The way you create your future determines your future

Different Futures

A top-down strategy is like wearing your big brother’s clothes

Hand-me-down Future

If you want engagement, start with engagement

Engagement?

Call people to account around managing the future

Co-Authored Future

This approach has less focus on a charismatic individual

Let the Future Lead!

The Self-Led Leader

To be self-led requires Personal Leadership

Leading Self

Occuring Language Commitment Game Complete Coached

Managing the communication pathways is crucial

Leading Others

Have your say and create opportunities for others to share

Leading Others

Say • Master • Listen

Master both Descriptive and Generative language

Leading Others

Listen for the future in the ‘unsaid’

Leading Others

More...

Language

Future Based

Language

Buy the Book!Jossey-Bass, San Fransisco, 2009.

Buy Dave’s Other BookTribalLeadership.net/book

Your Challenge

Leap Forward!

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