MECHANICS OF "WHY?"
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Problems with my organisation
How does strategy really work?
Creating an effective strategy
Effective strategy
Other factors affecting strategy
Problems with strategy
What is business strategy?
Meetings, bloody meetings!
Managing the meeting
Meeting outcomes
Other guidelines
Timings
Why meetings fail
The same problems keep coming up, time and again
We are locked into a conflict
Code-breaking in action
Code-breaking walk through
Inner beliefs
Introducing the conflict code-breaker™
Summary of the code-breaker
We can’t agree on the best decision
Using decision drivers
We don’t achieve our goals and objectives
Individual motivation
Develop SMART goals
SOCRATES
Problems with myself
Procrastination
Tackling procrastination
What doesn’t work
Work/Life Balance
Acknowledge your values
Bringing it all together
Determine your priorities
Get specific
Unpack the short-hand
Problems with other people
Coping as an introvert in an extrovert world
Difficult people, difficult relationships
A first look at filters
A first look at values
Appreciating differences
Building rapport
Motivation questions
Taking responsibility
The coaching mindset
Thinking systemically
Outcome thinking​​
Business skills
Coaching
Good coaching
Introduction to the coaching process
Coaching process: surface level
Coaching process: coach internal level
Coaching process: coach administration level
Coach attributes
The conflict code-breaker™
Summary of the conflict code-breaker™ process
Walking through the code-breaking process
Example: Mo Mowlam and the Northern Ireland peace process
Completing the walk through
Inner beliefs for successful code-breaking
Example of conflict code-breaking™ in action
Sensible strategy
Decision drivers
Diagnostic skills
Values and Value systems
Introduction to Values Systems
The Graves model
Reflections on the Graves model
Perceptions between Graves levels
Regression back through levels
Examples from historic speeches
Barack Obama
Martin Luther King
Filters in language and thinking
Chunk size filter
Similarity or Difference filter
Internal/External filter
Time filter
Senses filter
Options/Procedures filter
Towards/Away-from filter
In Time or Through Time filter
Associated/Dissociated filter
Human interaction filter
Practical use of filters
Logical levels
NLP skills
Outcomes
SMART goals
SOCRATES: improving the quality of goals
Establishing rapport
Anchoring
Chaining anchors
Perceptual positions
Integrating parts​​
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