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Readings:
Covey, S. R., Merrill, A. R. & Merrill, R. R. 1994, The Passion of Vision, in First Things First, Simon & Shuster, Sydney.
To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy not the extract for class but interesting anyway. This is the dude who wrote The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. All about having a mission, knowing what you want and who you are. I thought the 80th birthday party exercise was interesting - we use it in my household to reality check difficult decisions... 'how will I feel looking back form 80 if I did this'
Moxley, R. 2000, Who Are We to Be, in Leadership and Spirit: Breathing New Vitality and Energy into Individuals and Organizations, ed. Centre for Creative Leadership, Jossey Bass, San Francisco, pp. 105-127.
A bit 'meh' but that might be because I'm overdosing on this kind of material right now.
Ray, M. 2004. Go Beyond Passion and Success, The Highest Goal: The secret that sustains you in every moment, 16-29. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. Excerpt from The Highest Goal
Talks about connecting to our 'youthful experiences of greatness' and doing what you find meaningful. Which I am in favour of!
Seminar:
Review of last week, emotional intelligence FTW!
An Office Drama: Quick read through of a feisty, angry small team - I played Barb!
How much emotion can we display to be healthy without also derailing the process needed?
The Drama Triangle (V. pretty diagram) - from Transactional Analysis
Three roles which we can pick from, we tend to have a favourite and we can shift between them rapidly.
I'm reminded of advice I was given to trust subordinates and to accept they will never do things 100% the way I will do them. Don't 'fix' their stuff, change your expectations and trust them. GOLD I tell you.
Discussion on how to respond to people trapped in the victim role.
Tools you can use to sculpt people.
Trivia: are women more emotionally intelligent than men? Not overall; we specialise.
Break!
Visioning
We may run, walk, stumble, drive or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way - Gloria Gaither
The passion of vision
The life wheel: eight segments which you mark as Importance and also as Status right now divided into
We must put our vision into action.
Video: Celebrate What's Right in the World by Dewitt Jones a dude whose vision seemed to really guide his choices - in a fantastic way.
Exercise! What would my vision look like? Why? What would that bring you?
Gah, I want to reduce the suffering in this world, both for me and for other beings. I want this because I know, through my own lived experience, that we are all connected.
In a more specific way I want to be remembered as a person who is kind, present, compassionate and able to build meaningful loving relationships. I want to have the same kind of impact as Susan and Cecilie and the amazing women I grew up around.
Covey, S. R., Merrill, A. R. & Merrill, R. R. 1994, The Passion of Vision, in First Things First, Simon & Shuster, Sydney.
To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy not the extract for class but interesting anyway. This is the dude who wrote The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. All about having a mission, knowing what you want and who you are. I thought the 80th birthday party exercise was interesting - we use it in my household to reality check difficult decisions... 'how will I feel looking back form 80 if I did this'
Moxley, R. 2000, Who Are We to Be, in Leadership and Spirit: Breathing New Vitality and Energy into Individuals and Organizations, ed. Centre for Creative Leadership, Jossey Bass, San Francisco, pp. 105-127.
A bit 'meh' but that might be because I'm overdosing on this kind of material right now.
Ray, M. 2004. Go Beyond Passion and Success, The Highest Goal: The secret that sustains you in every moment, 16-29. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. Excerpt from The Highest Goal
Talks about connecting to our 'youthful experiences of greatness' and doing what you find meaningful. Which I am in favour of!
Seminar:
Review of last week, emotional intelligence FTW!
An Office Drama: Quick read through of a feisty, angry small team - I played Barb!
How much emotion can we display to be healthy without also derailing the process needed?
The Drama Triangle (V. pretty diagram) - from Transactional Analysis
Three roles which we can pick from, we tend to have a favourite and we can shift between them rapidly.
- Persecutor - there is right and wrong and I'm right. Has been known to do everything they can to prove just how right they are
- Rescuer - there is right and wrong and you're wrong but I'll help you. Has been known to take people's work and 'fix' it creating lack of motivation in the person to ever do it again
- Victim - I'm wrong but it wasn't my fault, there was no time, we had no training, management sucks, everyone failed me, I was sick, there was a plague, no, a tsunami.
I'm reminded of advice I was given to trust subordinates and to accept they will never do things 100% the way I will do them. Don't 'fix' their stuff, change your expectations and trust them. GOLD I tell you.
Discussion on how to respond to people trapped in the victim role.
Tools you can use to sculpt people.
Trivia: are women more emotionally intelligent than men? Not overall; we specialise.
Break!
Visioning
We may run, walk, stumble, drive or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way - Gloria Gaither
The passion of vision
- We are talking about a deep sustained energy that comes from a comprehensive, principle-based, need-based endowment based seeing that goes beyond chronos and even kairos
- It deals with an aeon concept of time, from the Greek ion, meaning an age, a lifetime or more.
- It taps into the deep core of who we are and what we are about. It's fuelled by the realisation of the unique contribution we have the capacity to make - the legacy we can leave. It clarifies purpose, gives direction and empowers us to perform beyond our resources.
The life wheel: eight segments which you mark as Importance and also as Status right now divided into
- Physical environment
- Career
- Money
- Fitness and health
- Friends and family
- Significant others and romance
- Personal growth and spirit
- Fun and recreation
- ...all of us have a defining experience of the highest goal early in our lives, usually around the time of puberty
- We each have an experience that we are great, that we have a connection with everything, that we have potential
- The highest goal pursues you. In fact, when you experience discomfort and aimlessness in your life, you are resisting the pull to live for the highest goal
We must put our vision into action.
- Vision, Values, Purpose, Mission
- Vision: our image of the desired future
- Values: what we think is worthwhile and important
- Purpose / Mission: what we are here to do
Video: Celebrate What's Right in the World by Dewitt Jones a dude whose vision seemed to really guide his choices - in a fantastic way.
Exercise! What would my vision look like? Why? What would that bring you?
Gah, I want to reduce the suffering in this world, both for me and for other beings. I want this because I know, through my own lived experience, that we are all connected.
In a more specific way I want to be remembered as a person who is kind, present, compassionate and able to build meaningful loving relationships. I want to have the same kind of impact as Susan and Cecilie and the amazing women I grew up around.