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How to adopt and adapt common success wisdom into a practical approach to success and excellence. How a Kata practice teaches you to iterate your way to solving problems and the next step. Check out the slide notes below.
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- 1. Opportunitynowhere SpeakStrong Webinar: Introducing The Kata Success-Quest: “Making the world a safer place to iterate in” (Be sure toRose, Chief Iterativethe notes next to comments below.)with credit. 1 Meryl Runion click through Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely
- 2. Career advisors often preach a one-sided myth of a linear, power-based career path that I call: Opportunityoutthere “At first glance his career path appeared to be linear.” Nate Skinner I’ve been there, done that, and got the cancelled checks. You? Do career plans ever unfold just the way “they” tell us? Sure. But don’t count on it. And even Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 2 if yours do, you might miss a lot of opportunitesNOWhere
- 3. There’s both gold and glitter in the success industry (I chose covers at random.) How do you respond to success industry missives? Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 3
- 4. The SpeakStrong Litmus Test: Do Mentors Really… Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 4
- 5. And even more importantly… Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 5
- 6. Reality is way messier and far less predictable than many people imply What unexpected twists and turns have shaped your career? What do they teach you about your success? Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 6
- 7. One-sided thinking can lead to short-term gains you can’t sustain. Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 7
- 8. Success a learning journey, not an implementation journey Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 8
- 9. Opportunitynowhere is the complement of Opportunityoutthere… Have you ever discovered that you already had something perfect for you – you just didn’t know you had it or didn’t let yourself enjoy it? Did you ever get so overwhelmed striving toward the big thing you were immobilized? Have you ever taken a step toward one goal and learned things that catapulted your career in another way? Have you ever found an opportunity in something you once complained about? Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 9
- 10. This approach it uses many of the same tools in very different ways Affirmations are to remind you of What things you affirmations believe are true remind you of but sometimes who you are, forget. what you aspire to and how to Not to stay aligned brainwash you with your into believing purpose? something that doesn’t ring true for you. Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 10
- 11. See through opportunity’s disguises And leave room for discovery and serendipity It was just an ordinary blog post. But that, along with a disappointing experience with a potential employer led Ann to her dream job. The lack of coordination among doctors at her hospital was a major problem for Wendy – one she turned into a position of Medical Staff Coordinator. A seminar company I worked for was going to publish my book, but pulled the contract. It was a set-back – that turned into my best selling book. What blocks and Pam Young couldn’t get organized. It was a huge problem problems have you that she solved by creating a powerful organizational transformed into system and wrote a best-selling book opportunities? I needed proof-reading and editing help. Angela agreed to develop the skill, and Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 11 Meryl Runion now she’s editing books for clients.
- 12. I’m here now because… Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 12
- 13. Don’t think it out, try it out through kata Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit.
- 14. What does a Kata-quester align? Two very different styles. Linear Constellar 1. Working the plan • Unfolding the plan 2. Structure • Creativity 3. Authority • Collaboration 4. Rules • Guidelines • Possibilities 5. Formulas • Options 6. One way • Colors and nuance 7. Black and white • Expertise 8. Experts • Serendipity and 9. Discipline and control spontaneity 10. Saying what you mean • Without being mean when and meaning what you you say it say Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit.
- 15. In other words, it aligns Striving toward …the learning a goal with… and unfolding of the path Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit.
- 16. These guys flipped the balance a bit too much but they’re getting there I like my left wing better than my right one. ? Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit.
- 17. Here’s your Success-quest Kata Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 17
- 18. 1. “Begin with the end in mind”: Create a vision. I define success as: • Having what you need and needing what you have. • Being and becoming who you are. • Feet on the ground, heart open and spirits high. • Leave the world better than you found it. You? Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 18
- 19. 2. Find guiding images to make your vision tangible. This image guides my organizational activities. I have a vision of even my storage looking this nice. Genius, but too mean for my liking What images motivate you? How do you picture perfection? Let images be a magnet My husband built a business without self-promotion Character-based Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. Meryl success-principles 19
- 20. 3. Get to know yourself as you are and as you are becoming Be brutally totally honest. (After all, what do you really have to hide?) • In what ways are you, your career and life like your vision? • Where are there gaps? • What obstacles stand between you and living your vision? • What resources do you have that will help you move yourself and others toward that vision? • What seeming limitations do you have that could be turned into resources? Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 20
- 21. 4. Set goals that will move you closer to your vision(s) Example: I might want to write a book on this style of living, striving and succeeding some day. For now, I’ll create a SlideShare and webinar. When I finish, I’ll see what I’m called to do next. Part of what prepared me to do this was my study of lean and Toyota Kata with Mike Rother. I didn’t know what it would lead to. I don’t know what else it will lead to either. But I’ll find out! Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 21
- 22. 5. Iterate your way in the direction of your goal(s) Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 22
- 23. Iteration tips Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 23
- 24. Iterative Power Phrases Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 24
- 25. Clues for hidden opportunitesNOWhere Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 25
- 26. Next Week Meryl Runion Rose, Chief Iterative Officer SpeakStrong Method. Please share freely with credit. 26
Editor's Notes
- I feel such gratitude to be here today in my home after a narrow escape from the Waldo Canyon Fire. http://www.speakstrong.com/speakstrong-news/687-chronicles-ppt We were ready to lose everything, and in the end we lost nothing.It was quite a journey. And, while nowhere near as dramatic or traumatic, preparing for this webinar has been quite a journey also. I conceived it at an Executive Admin Training Camp I presented. The participants wanted more info on career path planning. I scheduled it months ago and advertised it in Office Pro Magazine. I then forgot all about it. Until I saw the ad a week ago. I felt ready to deliver it, but even though it’s been gestating in me, I still had labor pains. I was up in the night recording memos to myself. I realized I have a lot to say on the topic of career path. I also realized I feel very passionate about what I perceive to be one-sidedness in most discussions about how to plan you career. There could be an opportunity out there for me to fill in some spaces in the success and career-path teaching.I just know that there is an opportunityNOW here to for me to clarify ideas that are important to me and to share them with others. That will lead to new opportunitiesNOWhere. But I’ll find out what they are when I get there. And you’ll find out how useful these ideas are to you.
- Think about where you’ve invested in advice and support. What has worked? What hasn’t? Do you blame yourself? I figure, as an example, if a diet doesn’t work for the majority of people, (or for anyone long-term) there might be something wrong with the diet.I’ve sough-after, received and paid for lots of career advice. I have found that often, the more I pay for it, the less value it has – for ME. Sure, Ms. Over-priced Coach, that’s a compelling vision you laid for me. Yes, Mr. Seminar Leader, I acknowledge your achievements. But may I ask - If this is such powerful knowledge, why am I feeling more disempowered than ever? If this is truth, why do I return feeling overwhelmed and immobilized? Could it be because you’ve painted a picture of a destination – a goal – without really tying it in to my on-the-ground reality? Like, who I am, what matters to me, and how I learn and grow?Could it be that you’re more interested in how to get me pumped up to invest more money with you than to help me select a good next step that would help me get where I want to go?And could it be that what you’re really good at is getting other people to buy programs that will fatten your wallet – but not at creating the kind of success I’m looking for?And – well – I happen to know that all that glitters isn’t gold. I know because I’ve met many of these people and found their talk doesn’t walk for them either, despite their abilities to sell them. Don’t look at the man behind the curtain!Like someone I’ll call Mitsy. I’ve known her for decades. She wrote a best-selling book on joy while deeply depressed. She stood on a stage and projected an image that she had it all together. She had thousands of people who trusted what she said and tried to be like her. I’m fine with the fact that leaders aren’t on all the time. I’m not fine with the fact that they lead you to believe they are. And that they sell an illusion. If we buy it, we sacrifice the opportunity now here. The problem wasn't the emptiness – it wasn’t the fact that she’s human. It’s the fact that she only shares her sunshine – even when she has to fake it.
- How does looking at these covers affect you? I admit, I’m a bit jaded. I’ve read enough of these and met enough of these authors to pretty much say no thanks before I crack any of these covers. They’re not all the same – but many sell an image, pipe dreams, false promises, solutions that aren’t really solutions that leave people wondering why they can make it work and we can’t. Of course there’s truth in there. They couldn’t sell if there weren’t. It’s just that they don’t tell the whole story.
- The paved road to success works for some. Not as many as they would have you think. Some of their success principles have validity. I think planning is great. The firefighters who literally saved our community planned. They also knew that fires don’t burn in a straight line. They know their priorities and when to call an audible – to decide on a game change – and when to stick to the plan.Planning and working a career path is much more like herding cats that ticking off a check-list. That’s both challenging and good. Because as with the cats I recently saw at the cat Circus, you never quite know what opportunities will be now here. In managing myself, I recognize both my cat and dog nature and allow for who I really am. It’ remains a process.
- Barbara complained that her work at Hospice was “killing her”. Now she loves it. She found a way to be who she really is within the structure, and to work her own particular magic. That’s an opportunitynowhere.
- What do you honestly believe that you need to remind yourself of? I honestly believe life is beautiful, opportunities are all around us (now here), excellence is now here, and the best way for most of us to live a fulfilling life is through kata questing:trial and error and incremental steps. In my heart I know success is based on joy and starts with appreciating and using what you already have. I forget that sometimes, and my affirmations help me as I find my own career path. This young lady screams her affirmations into a mirror. Oh – she is charming. And I find it scary.
- The Kata-Success-quest DistinctionCreate a plan and work it. Pay attention to what unfolds. Adapt as you learn from the steps you took. Structure systems that allow for creativity.Appeal to authority as a resource for collaboration.Honor rules as appropriate and adapted when not.Apply formulas that unfold possibilities.Choose one way if necessary while staying aware of options. Use black and white thinking when simplicity and categories are helpful in sorting through nuance. Create disciplines that both serve the goal and allow room for serendipity.
- define financial success on your own terms.Want to know the two secrets to attaining your financial goal? Make sure it’s internally motivated and that you deeply believe that it’s an amount that you are able to earn.DISCOVERYyour true goals are something profoundly personal.I asked for help from almost everyone I knew.I revamped my resume in a big way.I networked way outside of my typical social work contacts/comfort zone.I read everything I could get my hands on about job hunting and career shifting.I strongly considered and experimented with a career shift.I scheduled and attended informational interviews.I turned down work that would not support me or did not work with my lifestyle.I was tenacious about searching job listing sites and submitting my resume at a rate of 10 per week on average.For the first 5 months, I applied only for positions that were with stable organizations with higher pay grades.I had enough money saved to allow me to wait a long time before I HAD to have job.I stayed the course when met with challenges in my job search, e.g., rejections, studying, extensive testing, car breaking down, etc.I tried hard not to give into a downward spiral of desperation and sadness and “stay gold,” as my boyfriend likes to say. The last month was hard but up until then I was doing well.I had the courage to lean on my supporters when needed.I went into my most-desired interviews believing that I was competent and deserved the job.I allowed myself to be open to new methods of thought, like visualizing myself in the job.
- They’ve still got either/or thinking (which is a linear quality), but at least they acknowledge the polarities. The more masculine qualities on the right, support the more feminine ones on the left.
- Make sur your images serve you – not the other way around.
- You’re never there and yet you’re always there.