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Engaging Untapped Capability
Bruce Ross26 November 2013*
Switch Thinking
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1:1 Interview
AB (2 mins)BA (2 mins) (Total of 4 mins) No notes to be taken
Tell me about a peak experience or high point in your (professional) life – a time when you felt most alive, most engaged, or really proud of yourself or your work. • What was it about you, the situation, the organisation or the
leadership that allowed that peak experience to emerge?
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Fundamental Premise
Organisations grow in the direction of:
WHERE THEY FOCUS THEIR ATTENTION
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Where Does Your Attention Go?
There are a range of things
we’ll be discussing today,
but ‘energy’ is the kee point.
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Relationship between FOCUS and ENERGY
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What works well What doesn’t work
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Strategic Planning(buy-in)
Leadership Development
Team Development
Where?
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Assessing Your Team Energy Levels – Free 5pg Report
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Strategic Planning
Leadership Development
Parenting
Innovation / Problem Solving
Change Management
Team Development
Coaching
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Summary
BEFORE (UNAWARE STATE)
Brain’s Deficit Focus (Human condition) + Pessismism / Risk Orientation
Effort and struggle (due to the energy leakage)
Difficult to get to/sustain proactivity & leadership
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Summary
AFTER (ENERGY-AWARE STATE)Multiplier effect of raised energy levels• Improved resilience, clearer thinking, better decision making• Raised productivity (personally and across your team) and
profitability
Tools introduced today:– Energy awareness (Energy chart)– Deliberately positive questions – Switch Thinking (Opportunity Tree)
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Closing
Feedback form
Questions
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Bruce Ross
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