In addition to Escape + Search = Think leadership thinking can also incorporate 6 principles which we emphasise. I have encouraged trainers and leaders to understand and master the Six CAP Principles.
DFQ #05:
Choose one of the six CAP principles, and say why you think a better understanding of that principle will help you to become a much better leader.
NOTE: After you post your comment today you’ve completed 5 DFQs and the first week of the 4 weeks of the 30-day Pipeline. That’s good. It means you are already establishing new cognitive patterns. Keep it up!
You may have noticed that I sent you 1 lesson a day for 3 days then missed a day. After this lesson, I’ll miss another day and then send you lesson #6 which starts the second week. That means you get 5 DFQs every 7 days.
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I’ll start with the first principle because for me, it encompasses all the others.
What I understand well I can express clearly. Words come easy, are understandable for others. This means that I can teach (part of ) my skill(s) to others.
It is also for me the way to “reflect and measure”: If the other does not understand and I cannot explain it better, it is that I could not completely explained it to myself!.
Each time I see what happens, I notice where I succeed or I fail, I think it another way, then I improve myself each time.
Measurement – If one Cannot Measure it, one Cannot Measurably Improve it (ex.:Productivity) … Nor the Suitable/Appropriate Learning that is Required or Anticipated in the Learning Situation … one Cannot Realistically Expect to Attain one’s Objectives or Goals for the Learning Acquisition.
Commitment to Action – to practice transfering skills learnt in training to real life situations. Understanding this better, and scheduling action time will help me to develop actual skills rather than holding on to theory.
Reinforcement
The placement of automatic control systems for positive reinforcement .This will highlight the process ,thus giving people to space to lead themselves.
Measurement, because it’s feedback for us to know where we were, and how far have we get along on our developmental path.
‘Knowledge into skill’ for me is a very powerful component associated with all new learning. Understanding exactly what is required to develop and improve, and then, how, when and when to apply the learning focus is the spinal cord of learning. PRR, Stop Think Do, Escape-search-think and any other process thinking strategy employed to train thinking about your thinking is vitally important for the bigger picture in self development and promotion to be successful. ‘Knowledge into skill’ requires a learner to be focused and purposeful on task and to me as a teacher, this single stepping stone remains the most important.
3 measurement.
Doing this helps me see where, how much time,effort, is actually put into action. I see this as highly valuable to smash my own self rationalizations, excuses and to act as a real tool for adjusting the way forward in terms of actions.. still i will have plenty of the other five elements to me as a whole they make up “one” big guiding principle.
I think that a better understanding of principle 5 – Effective Follow Up – will make me a better leader. It will be the action of following up, and the interaction with the other people that will benefit my leadership skills.
Every item is worth a positive comment, but pick one?
Number 5. I’ve often stated at the start of an appropriate group, “I know what my job is. My job is to work myself out of a job, so that you don’t need me any more. Your job is to see that you ‘get it’ so that my job is done. We’ll check at question times how we are both going.”
It’s a team in the room. You might say, transmitter and receivers. If the receiver is not ‘getting it’ the transmitter might as well go home. Check progress before confusing the issue further.
I have been spent a few days thinking about this and really appreciate the dfq’s ..
I am mapping some goals and including ‘markers’ to answer my own q of ‘how will I know when I have achieved the goal/got there etc’
so for now it’s
6. reinforcement