Mindset lessons from the hummingbird
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The document summarizes a presentation about how organizations can boost productivity by adopting a growth mindset and operating with the efficiency and passion of hummingbirds. It discusses how focusing on purpose, developing skills through effort rather than relying on innate talent, and maximizing value while minimizing waste can help organizations transform themselves. The presentation leader, Gideon F. For-mukwai, is an author and trainer who founded a company providing resilience and communication training to organizations around the world.
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Mindset lessons from the hummingbird
- 1. ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! H! ! Hummingbird Factor: How Purpose, Passion & Productivity Transform Organisations Presented for an IT Corp by Gideon F. For-mukwai, MA, CEM
- 2. ! ! The Hummingbird Factor How Purpose, Passion & Productivity Transform Organisations ! Introduction Day II = Productivity Today’s managers can learn a thing or two from a featherweight creature that transforms its physical limitations into utter admiration. The hummingbird. It lives perpetually on the edge, yet it never fails to defy gravity and depravity. It takes sheer grit to create value that outlasts its duration. Successful organisations can train their workforce to be as agile as the hummingbird, to be quicker, and laser-focused on their mission-critical goals. Failure to do this will imply that the organisation may get distracted, stifled and stymied from reaching their full potential. Successful organisations operate with a mindset that is very similar to that of the hummingbird. Talent by itself, is not enough. Managers with a growth mindset can boost productivity by thanks to their believe that talent is expandable. ! # 1 Growth Mindset Inspires Resourcefulness People with a growth mindset believe that their basic abilities can be developed and improved upon through dedicated work and effort. In this mindset, brains and talent are just the starting point and whenever they face setbacsk, they learn quickly to bounce back stronger.
- 3. On the other hand, people with a fixed mindset believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are fixed traits. They spend more time documenting their intelligence or talent, instead of developing and refining them. ! Ideas: ......................................................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................................................................... ! # 2 Turn Physical Limitations into Practical Motivation The hummingbird does not surrender to physical limitations. It takes its limited size as encouragement to work harder. It can fly for 500 miles. In other words, it does not allow itself to get distracted at all. Ideas: ......................................................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................................................................... ! !
- 4. # 3 Driven By Passion, Purpose & Productivity Although the hummingbird lives just about 2-3 years, it does not let that get in the way of its work ethic. It obviously does not bemoan its size and physical constraints. Instead, it works quicker, faster and harder, than most other creatures. Ideas: ......................................................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................................................................... # 4 Duration is Less Significant Than Donation The hummingbird lives just about 2-3 years, but it makes a contribution that far outstrips its duration. Everyday, it visits about 2k -3k flowers to pollinate. Can you imagine the impact of its work on the beauty of the world? The hummingbird makes the world a better place. Ideas: ......................................................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................................................................... ! # 5 Give More Than You Receive It is abundantly clear that given its physical size, the hummingbird gives more than it is expected to. Unlike other birds and animals, it goes the extra mile. It exceeds expectations. With the spirit of giving more than we receive. This is a super principle for business!
- 5. Ideas: ......................................................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................................................................... ! # 6 What Makes a Lean & Mean Organisation? A lean and mean organisation is geared at maximising customer value while minimising organisational waste. It basically a value creation process that is focuses on issues like reducing space, capital, time and cost of delivery from back end to front-end. Lean goes beyond production or manufacturing. It is more of a way of life that ensures efficiency and effectiveness in the way an organisation thinks about its purpose, processes and the people that contribute to that process. ! Purpose Process People Customer problems Assess value stream Evaluate Delivery time Availability Biz Purpose Quality of product Flexibility Value Stream
- 6. # 7. Personal Effectiveness Tools If you have a worthy goal to r Covey ‘s 4 Quadrants of Time Manageement Q1 ....................................................................................................................................................... Q2 ........................................................................................................................................................ Q3 ........................................................................................................................................................ Q4......................................................................................................................................................... ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
- 7. ! SWOT Analysis ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
- 8. ! Value Creation Model ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
- 9. ! Rightshifting Team Mindset ! ! ! Conclusion In managing your organisation, remember that when your purpose is well aligned with your passion, productivity will benefit. When the mindset is right and the systems are lean and nimble enough, a lot more can be accomplished efficiently. With a constant purview on fighting organisational fires, even resource-deficient companies can turn things around from pitfalls into windfalls just like a hummingbird turns its physical limitations into limitless capabilities, thanks to a relentless pursuit of creating value. !
- 10. ! ! ! List of References: 1) Crisis Control by Ross Campbell 2) Winning by Jack Welch 3) Lincoln on Leadership by Donald T. Philips 4) Martin Luther King, Jr on Leadership by Donald T. Philips 5) Good to Great by Jim Collins 6) Resilience at Work by Salvatore R. Maddi and Deborah M. Koshaba 7) The Resiliency Advantage by Al Siebert 8) Take Charge of Tomorrow and Change it by John Thomas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 11. !!! About the Workshop Leader Gideon F. For-mukwai, MA, CEM ! Originally from Cameroon in Central Africa, Gideon F. For- mukwai, is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is a graduate from the master’s degree program in Interactive (Social Media) Journalism at the Reynolds School of Journalism (RSJ), University of Nevada, Reno. While completing the program, he was the winner of the 2009 public speaking competition at the University of Nevada, Reno. ! From Africa to Asia and America, Gideon has enjoyed working across continents and cultures. Wherever he has gone, he has owned a training and education business that provides training programs to corporations, associations and schools. In his free time, he has volunteered to speak at youth camps and juvenile detention facilities in Asia and America. He has delivered programs for companies such as Shell Eastern Petroleum, Gillette South East Asia, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, US Social Security Administration, Washoe County Public Libraries, Worforce Central Florida, JC Penny and more. Gideon worked previously as a fire officer with the Singapore Civil Defence Force. In 2003, he founded XtraMile Solutions, a communication, presentations skills and resiliency training company in Singapore. Eight years later, XtraMile has trained thousands of students and executives in countries such as Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Zimbabwe, US and Canada.