An overview of techniques for Leading Mindfully along with resources from some of the great leaders of our time.
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1. Dr. Lynn K. Jones www.LynnKJones.com [email protected]
http://www.facebook.com/Dr.LynnK.Jones
http://twitter.com/DrLynnKJones Antioch Seminar 1-30-10 Leading
Mindfully
2. Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Work Performance
by David Rock Your brain craves patterns and searches for them
endlessly. ~Thomas B. Czierner What do you notice about these
patterns? 3. Can someone else think for you? 4. Appreciative
Inquiry With your partner, think of a time when you had an Ah Ha
Moment that you found energizing and motivated you to take action.
What was it? Describe it? What connections did you make? What
pictures did you have in your mind? What helped you make the
connections? Did anyone contribute to your thinking in some way?
Describe the energy level and actions you took as a result of
having this revelation. 5. Mind Map It! Tony Buzan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlabrWv25qQ 6. Now You Try It! 7.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJSXfXep4M 8. How Can you Work
Smarter? How can you use your brain for Level 3 activities?? 9.
What we pay attention to, and how we pay attention, determines the
content and quality of life. ~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 10. Problem
Focus vs. Solution Focus Why didnt you hit your targets? Why did
this happen? Why do you think youre not good at this? Whats wrong
with your team? Why did you do that? Who is responsible for this?
Why isnt this working? What do you need to do next time to hit your
targets? What do you want to achieve here? What do you need to move
this forward? How can you develop strength in this area? What does
your team need to do to win? What do you want to do next? Who can
achieve this? What do we need to do to make this work? 11. Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi on flow
http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html 12.
When are you in FLOW?? How can you put more of your life in the
flow channel? 13. We hear what we listen for. 14. Practice
Listening for Potential Talk with your partner about how their week
has been. While your partner speaks, listen for their strengths,
for what they are passionate about, for whom they could become, for
what their potential is, not just who are what they are. 15. Our
thinking depends on the quality of our attention for each other.
~Nancy Kline Attention is the act of listening with palpable
respect, with genuine interest, and without interruption. Attention
of this caliber is the most essential Component of a Thinking
Environment because the quality of your attention determines the
quality of other people's thinking. 16. Your Assignment due at the
end of the quarter! 1. Get a bench mark of your listening skill and
your ability to create a thinking environment. Take the online
assessment at www.timetothink.com and reflect in writing on the
results. 2. For the next 4 weeks keep a journal about listening.
How has your ability to listen improved? Have you stopped solving
others problems, and given them a chance to solve their own? What
was your experience of that? What seemed to be different for them
as a result? 3. Take the online assessment after 4 weeks. Have any
of your 9 priorities changed? Are there any changes after being
attentive to listening for 4 weeks? 4. Write a 4 page paper that
summarizes the results from your thinking environment assessment at
the
