Experiential Learning, Deming and Neuroscience! I Just had a Geekgasm

If you want to transform a system, you can’t get there with the same knowledge you built it with. The neural structure that built the system, and it sucks, is going to re-build it so it sucks worse…. There is no system transformation without biological transformation within you.

6 Coaching Questions for Teams

These 6 questions can be cascaded through the organization. Creating a shared language that is known and expected from everyone in the department.

You cannot teach a tadpole to be a frog by giving it jumping lessons

Few companies know to deal with hiring and promotion mistakes and they repeat them, knowing that they are creating failure and organizational chaos.
Unfortunately the employee, that is now in the role that they cannot adequately fill, is usually punished by termination or sent to training.
You cannot teach a tadpole to be a frog by giving it jumping lessons.
People cannot be taught, coached, developed and/or trained to work at a level of complexity above what they are capable of doing.

Strategy for Leadership Development

Effective leadership development is too important for the present and future success of a business to be left to the human resources department. It is a core activity to grow leaders.

One Person Must Be Responsible For The Work

If more than 1 person is Responsible for completing the goal, they all have valid arguments, they all are doing what they should be doing….and the because they all are Responsible for the outcome and want to do their best work it causes role confusion.

This may be fixed, somewhat resolved, if we have a single Responsible person…and that Single Responsible person, if confused, had access to the project manager for clarity on the goal.

Corporate Team Building and Time Management Case Study

Objectives:
– Develop a shared understanding of the companies future and goals extended 2 to 5 years.
– Skilled-Knowledge in prioritization and time management of manager’s specific areas of business and work.
– Team Development, Strengthening the team using the ‘7 Steps to High Performance Teams’
– Identification of where the team currently is, and defined steps to move to high performance.

Is it Useful to the team? If not then STOP IT!

You follow advice from someone or are convinced that X is useful, and Y did X so therefore it will work for me.
That makes sense. Until you do it and it does nothing.