Episodes
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Focus on Strengths (when it‘s hard to see them)
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
This is a podcast version of a workshop on how to focus on the strengths in other people when those people are making it difficult. What can you do when you go into a conversation hoping for the best and find yourself being sucked into irritation or anxiety or confusion? Stop looking at the problems and start focusing on strengths. This podcast will walk you through three ways to do that.
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
Jedi Mind Tricks
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
Are you a Star Wars fan? The new trailer is out for the 2017 movie, and it's a good time to think about Jedi mind tricks. Is there a process that you could use in real life to get other people to do stuff with less resistance and better results?
Learn how the Jedi:
- develop a mindful presence that allows them to read their environment through what is changing in themselves
- connect their big picture "what I want my life to mean" to their small, defined asks
- offer their full attention to the connection they need to make to get results
- describe what they want in sensory tangible detail
If you're not getting results you like when you ask other people to do stuff, listen and then check your process against this process. If you don't have the power to make people do things and you can't argue them into doing them, it's time for a different approach.
Sunday Apr 10, 2016
Leading starts with knowing what you want others to do
Sunday Apr 10, 2016
Sunday Apr 10, 2016
How do you get other people to do the things you want them to do? Leading begins with your ability to be sure you're asking for the right thing. Use this short exercise (about 6 minutes) to think through something specific that you want a particular person to do. Think systematically about what you are asking, what it will feel like to the person you are influencing, and how your situation and connection will shift when you are successful in getting this person to do this thing.