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Feed Your Life: Maximizing Business Success & Personal Well-Being In VUCA Environments Friday, March 25, 2016

• Examine daily work life

challenges

• Provide an effective

approach for managing difficult environments

• Support you in taking

better care of yourself

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Keynote Objectives

• I. VUCA Environments

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A Glimpse Into Your World

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VUCA Environments

Complexity

• Many interconnected parts

and variables

• Some information available
• r can be predicted
• Volume/nature of information

can be overwhelming

Uncertainty

• Basic cause and effect of

situation are known, but other critical information is missing

• Magnitude of impacts is

unpredictable

• Change is possible, but not a

given

Volatility

• Challenges unexpected or

unstable and may be of unknown duration

• Challenges not necessarily

hard to understand

• Knowledge about challenges

is often available

Ambiguity

• Causal relationships are

unclear

• No precedents exist
• You face unknown unknowns

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Stress & Pressure

• Stress

– Acute: sudden crises / issues – Chronic: ongoing environmental strains & conflicts

• Pressure

– Competing demands – Multiple sources – Short-term & long- term

“When your “to do” list looks like Mission Impossible…”

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• II. Meet The Challenge

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The Positive VUCA

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CHANGE VISION

UNDERSTANDING

CLARITY AGILITY

Vision

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Desired Outcomes / Results Drivers of Change Operational Shifts

Developing The Three Part Vision

Understanding Your Stakeholders

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Understanding Your Stakeholders

Values

• What do your

stakeholders value most with regard to their work and/or well-being?

Issues

• What aspects of

your work are priorities or concerns for your stakeholders?

• Where do their

interests and your issues / needs intersect?

Influences

• Who or what has

your stakeholders' ear? Who do they listen to and trust?

Contributions

• What can your

stakeholders do to contribute to your work or desired results and

• utcomes?
• How can you assist

/ support them in making these contributions?

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Understanding Your Stakeholders

• Involve in major decision-

making

• Consult on major efforts

and outcomes regularly

• Work to meet their needs
• Keep informed and

show consideration

• Solicit their feedback

and insights on select activities & outcomes Invested: Accountable Parties Impacted: “The Miner’s Canaries”

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Understanding Your Stakeholders

• Manage / monitor / handle

with care

• Keep in the loop via general

communications

• Connect with them to get to

those you cannot touch

• Share information on an as

needed basis

• Maintain a positive

relationship, beyond your needs Interested: Critics or Allies Intermediaries: Useful Third Parties

Clarity

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Concern Influence Focus

Franklin Covey’s Circle of Focus

Agility: Breakthrough Vs. Breakdown Thinking

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein

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Agility: Expand Your Thinking

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• Information, data, evidence, facts

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• Benefits, possibilities, opportunities

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• Feelings, instincts, impact on others

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Agility: Expand Your Thinking

• Process, agenda-setting, decision-

making 4

• Solutions, alternatives, interventions

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• Risks, problems, difficulties

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Agility: Shift Others’ Thinking

Experience a VUCA challenge Meet people in their thinking Reflect and mirror what you heard Probe & clarify to understand their perspective Ask questions to shape / shift thinking Share your thinking and look for common ground

• III. Take Care of Yourself!

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How Energy Works

• 1. Our greatest asset in life is not our money or
• ur 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

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