Feed Your Life: Maximizing Business Success & Personal Well-Being In VUCA Environments Friday, March 25, 2016
Keynote Objectives • Examine daily work life challenges • Provide an effective approach for managing difficult environments • Support you in taking better care of yourself 2
I. VUCA Environments 3
A Glimpse Into Your World 4
VUCA Environments Volatility Uncertainty • Challenges unexpected or • Basic cause and effect of unstable and may be of situation are known, but other unknown duration critical information is missing • Challenges not necessarily • Magnitude of impacts is hard to understand unpredictable • Knowledge about challenges • Change is possible, but not a is often available given Complexity Ambiguity • Many interconnected parts • Causal relationships are and variables unclear • Some information available • No precedents exist or can be predicted • You face unknown unknowns • Volume/nature of information can be overwhelming 5
Stress & Pressure • Stress – Acute: sudden crises / issues – Chronic: ongoing environmental strains & conflicts • Pressure – Competing demands – Multiple sources “When your “to do” list looks like Mission Impossible …” – Short-term & long- term 6
II. Meet The Challenge 7
The Positive VUCA VISION AGILITY CHANGE UNDERSTANDING CLARITY 8
Vision Developing The Three Part Vision Desired Drivers of Outcomes / Change Results Operational Shifts 9
Understanding Your Stakeholders 10
Understanding Your Stakeholders Values Issues Influences Contributions • What aspects of • Who or what has • What do your • What can your your work are your stakeholders' stakeholders value stakeholders do to priorities or ear? Who do they most with regard to contribute to your concerns for your listen to and trust? their work and/or work or desired stakeholders? well-being? results and • Where do their outcomes? interests and your • How can you assist issues / needs / support them in intersect? making these contributions? 11
Understanding Your Stakeholders Invested: • Involve in major decision- Accountable making Parties • Consult on major efforts and outcomes regularly • Work to meet their needs • Keep informed and show consideration Impacted: • Solicit their feedback “The Miner’s and insights on select activities & outcomes Canaries” 12
Understanding Your Stakeholders Interested: • Manage / monitor / handle Critics or Allies with care • Keep in the loop via general communications • Connect with them to get to those you cannot touch • Share information on an as Intermediaries: needed basis Useful Third • Maintain a positive Parties relationship, beyond your needs 13
Clarity Franklin Covey’s Circle of Focus Concern Influence Focus 14
Agility: Breakthrough Vs. Breakdown Thinking “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein 15
Agility: Expand Your Thinking 1 • Information, data, evidence, facts 2 • Benefits, possibilities, opportunities 3 • Feelings, instincts, impact on others 16
Agility: Expand Your Thinking • Process, agenda-setting, decision- 4 making 5 • Solutions, alternatives, interventions 6 • Risks, problems, difficulties 17
Agility: Shift Others’ Thinking Share your thinking and look for Ask questions to shape / shift common Probe & clarify thinking ground to understand Reflect and their mirror what perspective Meet people in you heard their thinking Experience a VUCA challenge 18
III. Take Care of Yourself! 19
How Energy Works 1. Our greatest asset in life is not our money or our stuff, it’s our energy. Our energy (i.e. presence, attention, words, choices and actions) is our basic expression of life. 2. We don’t really pay careful attention to how we use or exchange energy. We just react. 3. When we live on autopilot the absolute best we can do is maintain the status quo. Thriving requires some level of intention. 4. Our energy, when guided by purpose, has the power to transform our experiences and shape our reality.
Change Your Energy Habits 1. Choose to feed people, interests, causes, and activities that feed you. The more you give to them, the more they will give to you! 2. Do something different. If it feels comfortable or normal, then it’s probably conditioned behavior. 3. Control is the best friend of conformity. Be CREATIVE instead! 4. Right now is the moment you have to act! The future flows forth from today’s choices. 5. Seek the support and assistance of a community . Healthy relationships nurture your growth and well-being.
THANK YOU ! For more information about Rebeccah Bennett and Emerging Wisdom: • Visit: www.emergingwisdomllc.com • Email: rbennett@emergingwisdomllc.com • Call: 314-832-1669 22
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