HOW TO TAKE GIANT LEAPS IN YOUR PERFORMANCE
Geoff McDonald @BookRapper BookRapper.com
The Book
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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How to Stay Committed
On the Field New Game Obstacles Insights
Coaching Past Behind Play 100%
The Self-Led Organization
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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
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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
Say • Master • Listen
Listen for the future in the ‘unsaid’
Leading Others
Say • Master • Listen
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Buy the Book!Jossey-Bass, San Fransisco, 2009.
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Your Challenge
Leap Forward!
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