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Leading Mindfully
The document outlines a seminar by Dr. Lynn K. Jones on the theme of mindful leadership and improving work performance through attentive listening and problem-solving. It encourages participants to engage in reflective practices, such as exploring their 'ah ha moments' and keeping a journal on their listening skills over a four-week period. The content emphasizes the importance of quality attention in fostering a productive thinking environment and provides resources for further learning.
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Leading Mindfully
- 1. Dr. Lynn K.Jones www.LynnKJones.com Lynn@LynnKJones.com http://www.facebook.com/Dr.LynnK.Jones http://twitter.com/DrLynnKJones Antioch Seminar 1-30-10 Leading Mindfully
- 2. Quiet Leadership: SixSteps 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 elsethink for you?
- 4. Appreciative Inquiry With yourpartner, 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! TonyBuzan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlabrWv25qQ
- 9. Now You TryIt!
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- 11. How Can youWork Smarter? How can you use your brain for Level 3 activities??
- 12. “What we payattention to, and how we pay attention, determines the content and quality of life.” ~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- 13. Problem Focus vs.Solution Focus Why didn’t you hit your targets? Why did this happen? Why do you think you’re not good at this? What’s wrong with your team? Why did you do that? Who is responsible for this? Why isn’t 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?
- 14. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi onflow http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html
- 15. When are youin FLOW?? How can you put more of your life in the flow channel?
- 16. “We hear whatwe listen for.”
- 17. Practice Listening forPotential 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.
- 18. “Our thinking dependson 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.
- 19. Your Assignment due atthe 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
Editor's Notes
- #3 Our brains like to create order out of the chaos of the data coming into them, to make links between information so that our lives make more sense. We feel more comfortable surrounded by order, we feel better inside symmetry, where we can see how everything is connected. Thus we are constantly making links between maps to form new metamaps. I just got a new phone. When I first got it all the gestures and shortcuts were unfamiliar to me. With repetition, however, my mind got hardwired to the task and that frees up my brain for higher-level tasks. Our mind forms mental maps. You can tell when you are going through this process yourself because you stop speaking and start picturing concepts in your mind. You can tell when someone else is doing this because their eyes get glazed, they reflect and they often look off into the distance. When we are processing complex ideas we tap into our visual center: we see ideas as flashes in our mind’s eye. We’ve all had the feeling of that sudden “aha” moment. It’s a moment when various ideas that were not linked together before come together to form a new idea. This is the moment of creation of a new map. When we create a new map, we feel motivated to do something, and our face and voice change. Ask people if they have had that experience—where coming up with a great idea was exciting, energizing, motivating? Ask people when and where do they notice that they get these ideas? If you want to move forward in some area in your life—at school, at work, at home, how do you create this new map in your brain?
- #4 To get any kind of committed action, people have to think through things themselves. People need to figure out the connections in their mental map that is going to work for them.
- #6 Ask the question: Who has done a mind map before??
- #11 The Rational is Overrated
- #13 Remember David Rock said “Attention changes the brain.”
- #16 Focus Ecstasy Clarity Sense that it is doable Time disappears Feel a part of something larger Work for its own sake What is your set point for challenge and skills? What do you need to do to get into flow? Do you need to develop your skill? Do you need to develop the challenges?