INDIVIDUAL INTELLIGENCE
“We will never inspire others to follow our lead if we are not effective in what we do. We are what we pay attention to. It makes us aware of what’s important and the skills we need to be successful in an unpredicatble world. Being influential is the most difficult aspect of being effective. It is the capacity to know what we care about and engage others in what we feel called to do. We follow where our thoughts take us and act on them for the satisfaction they bring. But this is not leading with a purpose. This requires a deep desire to use our innate talents to improve ourselves and have am positive impact on the world as we find it. We are taking responsibility for the life we lead.” Bob Dunham
Raise your Awareness
Awareness comes through a realisation, a sudden understanding of something that we didn’t previously notice. But it exists in different states of consciousness.
Build Authentic Trust
Trust happens when we deliberately build and assess reliability, competence, and sincerity to reduce the chances of an unconscious betrayal of a promise.
Chunk your Actions
New ways of thinking, acting and feeling will be needed to embed a new lifestyle. We know that old habits are going to resist change, so we will need a strong will and resilience.
Consider the Four Truths
Understanding the Four Truths offers us a way of exploring the different perspectives that can influence individual and group action.
Explore Possibilities
Possibility Space is the place where all our ideas live before we bring them to mind. It’s real in the same way as your life is real: in that it emerges through language.
Face Facts
We can learn how to move on from mistakes and perceived constraints that blind us to the possibility of living in a better future.
Embrace Uncertainty
We embrace uncertainty when we enter into conversations that establish rapport before questioning assumptions and looking for alternative ways of seeing things.
Overcome Blindness
When our way of thinking and doing things leaves us unaware of possible consequences. We are then “blind” to things that we might otherwise see when in an unfamiliar environment.
Be Responsible
We tend to think that responsibility and accountability are the same thing, but some clarity is needed. Responsibility is about action, accountability is about conviction.
Regenerate Leadership
To be an effective leader, able to thrive in a VUCA World requires a deep understanding of one’s “way of being” and life purpose.
Understand Basic Needs
As we make our way through life, we hold on to important concerns. They shape what is important to us and determine our choices and actions.
Mind, Consciousness and Thought
Our conscious mind makes choices about which thoughts and feelings to act on. Reflect on you experience to question how to make better choices.
Regenerate the Future
Regeneration is a process by which living systems can be renewed to become more viable in their environment, with the potential to self-organise and grow naturally.
