Congratulations on completing these past few months of Advanced Thought Leadership Training. You have completed The Pipeline!
At the beginning you said “I will enter” the pipeline. This decision was an exercise in making an act of will. It was an exercise in making a commitment and then keeping that commitment.
The time and effort you have invested in developing your willpower and your commitment to exploring and experimenting with the Pipeline and the Orange leadership tools will bring its own rewards.
How you use these ideas in your own life is, of course, now up to you. This is just a fresh opportunity for you to design a bvs in your life.
OPT-IN/OPT-OUT
As always, SOT training is offered on an opt-in/opt-out basis.
As you would expect, you get out of it what you put into it. Although the training is the same for everyone, it is interesting to see how different people take different things away from this training. What do you think that you will take away?
DFQ#21 Take Away Value:
If you were to tell a friend what you think is the most important thing you have taken away from this Advanced Thought Leadership Training, what would you say it was for you personally? What difference (if any) do you think it will make in your life?
It reinforced some of my thinking about the way I work and also challenged me to revalaute some of things I do or at least stop and think before I do the.
Important things I discover in this course…
1. At the start, a good leader would get people committed to a task or project at hand.
2. This course seem to benefit the trainer, as well as the trainee. With all the feedback from the trainees, the trainer can try to improve the course.
3. Occasionally use the personal touch, eg. use habd written notes.
The training has given me an excuse/opportunity to exit from the reality of work and think more generally about the various facets of leadership. However, I am not entirely convinced that I have been exposed to any new theories or doctrines that will change my approach.
I have loved that the lessons are so obvious. It has all been about things that I have heard or tried before, but presented in such a way that is so motivating, after all I’m the one making the committment! In summary, I know there is always a bvs and I can get there if I apply the pipeline, and some times in life and business you just need to PTO to get it done. It has given me a fresh perspective about what I can and can’t control at work already. Thank you Michael!
The ideas put forward in the course have been interesting. cvs2bvs is a nice mental shortcut to describe brainstorming and exploring options – concepts I’m sure most of us are familar with and have used many times. PTO as a concept was something I had not thought about much prevously, in fact I see it to be my responsibility to think before acting. However, this course has allowed me to understand when I would be willing PTO. As a leader it has made me aware of the type of currency and trust I need to build within my team so that we’d feel comfortable when I ask someone to PTO. Most of all the course has re-enforeced the need for leaders to act with integrety and to be open to new ideas and within the framework presented and particularly with PTO, “To thine own self be true”.
To set aside some time in each day clear from the day to day clutter to focus on the things that matter – the people around you, how they percieve you, how your actions affect them, to make time to plan the way forward, to see the big picture and to get outside your own little square for a while to allow new ideas to take root and grow. What difference will it make – hopefully I will become a more balanced individual able to pick the quality from the mass quantity of work and to focus efforts on that which will be most worthwhile.
In our daily lives we make choices about how we act or react in any given situation. For me, this course reinforces the need to stop and reflect, and this will help me make better choices.
That the people I work with are full of surprises and have a lot to offer.
I haven’t put much into it. This has shown me that I really don’t put much into life on the things I say are important. I will now look a little deeper when I make commitments to accomplish things.