1. Break through the glass ceiling of old thought patterns 2. Un-manage your team to get greater productivity 3. Self-diagnose strengths that are potential weaknesses 4. Transform your personal blind spots into an "unfair competitive advantage"

1. How to
Outsmart Your
Blind Spots
Stop Sabotaging Your Decision-Making
and Become More Effective

2. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
• 1. Understand the reason for blind spots
• 2. Become self aware of your own blind spots
• 3. Run a personal cost analysis of your blind spots
• 4. What action and what systems can we implement
to outsmart our blind spots?
• 5. How do we maintain vigilance and reassess the
effect your blind spots have on you?
Dr. Keith Kesler

3. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
• 1. Understand the reason for blind spots
• 2. Become self aware of your own blind spots
• 3. Run a personal cost analysis of your blind spots
• 4. What action and what systems can we implement
to outsmart our blind spots?
• 5. How do we maintain vigilance and reassess the
effect your blind spots have on you?
Dr. Keith Kesler

4. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
Exercise:
What is a blind spot?
Dr. Keith Kesler

5. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
Dr. Keith Kesler

6. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
Blind spots are inherent thinking
errors we make in processing
information.
Dr. Keith Kesler

7. We Are Literally of
Two Minds
Human Brain (Prefrontal Cortex)
Slow
Deliberate
Conscious
Creative
Lizard Brain (Amygdala)
Automatic
Unconscious
Instantaneous
Avoids being eaten by dinosaurs
Dr. Keith Kesler

8. FOUR BASIC NEEDS:
• 1. Feeling of being Certain
• 2. Feeling of being in Control
• 3. Avoid feeling Loss ($, power, relationship, status)
• 4. Feeling Socially Connected
Dr. Keith Kesler

9. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
• 1. Understand the reason for blind spots
• 2. Become self aware of your own blind spots
• 3. Run a personal cost analysis of your blind spots
• 4. What action and what systems can we implement
to outsmart our blind spots?
• 5. How do we maintain vigilance and reassess the
effect your blind spots have on you?
Dr. Keith Kesler

10. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
Exercise:
Write down three blind spots you have.
Write down three blind spots you see in
others (probably easier to observe).
Dr. Keith Kesler

11. FOUR BASIC NEEDS:
• 1. Feeling of being Certain
• 2. Feeling of being in Control
• 3. Avoid feeling Loss ($, power, relationship, status)
• 4. Feeling Socially Connected
We can generally tie the blind
spot/ behaviors to one of these
needs!
Dr. Keith Kesler

12. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
• 1. Understand the reason for blind spots
• 2. Become self aware of your own blind spots
• 3. Run a personal cost analysis of your blind spots
• 4. What action and what systems can we implement
to outsmart our blind spots?
• 5. How do we maintain vigilance and reassess the
effect your blind spots have on you?
Dr. Keith Kesler

13. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
Exercise:
Write down the personal and
professional costs of acting out these
blind spots.
Dr. Keith Kesler

14. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
What would be possible if you were
able to identify and avoid acting
out of these blind spots?
At the end of the day-you don't
want your human brain to be
trumped by your lizard brain!
Dr. Keith Kesler

15. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
• 1. Understand the reason for blind spots
• 2. Become self aware of your own blind spots
• 3. Run a personal cost analysis of your blind spots
• 4. What action and what systems can we implement
to outsmart our blind spots?
• 5. How do we maintain vigilance and reassess the
effect your blind spots have on you?
Dr. Keith Kesler

16. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
Action Steps:
• Assume you have a blind spot
• Gather trusted others
• Create an open-minded culture
• Make “no” an acceptable answer
• SLOW DOWN
• Profiling systems- objective data
Dr. Keith Kesler

17. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
CHANGE IS
HARD!
CHANGE IS
DANGEROUS!
LIZARD BRAIN
HATES IT!
Dr. Keith Kesler

18. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
• 1. Understand the reason for blind spots
• 2. Become self aware of your own blind spots
• 3. Run a personal cost analysis of your blind spots
• 4. What action and what systems can we implement
to outsmart our blind spots?
• 5. How do we maintain vigilance and reassess the
effect your blind spots have on you?
Dr. Keith Kesler

19. How to Outsmart Your Blind Spots
The challenge of
being human-­‐‑
Having a brain
capable of greatness
but hardwired for
survival!
Dr. Keith Kesler

20. Give me a call for a complimentary one on one consultation.
Dr. Keith Kesler
Psychoanalyst, Executive Coach, Change Engineer