Our coaching and leadership development work is led from the results the organization is striving to achieve. It impacts behaviors, inculcates new ways of being, and alters background conversations that defeat producing the results we want. At the level of a group, it creates a new culture for the organization. Here are some common behavior and ways of being changes:
- Lack of clarity - about desired outcomes, about what we want, about what problem we want to solve...
- Not choosing - waiting often too long - instead of making choices without delay, consistent with purpose and values
- Lack of urgency vs. generating urgency on issues that matter
- Confusing being busy, doing lots of things, with producing outcomes
- Confusing ones's opinions, assesments and beliefs with facts
- Operating from "I don’t make a difference"
- Not being accountable - as in "somebody should…" (i.e., I am not responsible)
- Communicating with no result vs communicating such that action is produced
- The thinking that has coming up with new ideas be equal to taking action and producing desired results
- The belief that: NO result + a GOOD excuse or explanation = as good as a Result
- Being victims of circumstances
- Solving problems as a reaction to circumstances, rather than from values and operating principles
- Poor or difficult relationships - accepting the difficulty as a fact, vs. creating a context in which these relationships can be improved
- The automatic relationship with what is viewed as “impossible”, “infeasible”, “can’t be done” - typically experienced as a "no-go" rather than an "invitation" to invent and generate new solutions
- Insufficience to lack of acknowledging, appreciating, or delegating - not seeing the importance to do this well and extensively
- Avoiding difficult conversations rather than having them in a timely way
- Insufficiently collaborating where it matters - not having a template for what effective and fulfilling collaboration really looks like
- Talking about what we should do, might do, could do; exchanging opinions vs. taking action on what matters
- Confusing giving our best prediction with promising
- Speaking uncommittedly vs. making promises and having our actions be consistent with them
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