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Improving your Performance

Seminarshort introduction

30 July 2009

Robert Twiddy

Agenda for Today

•Why have a Workshop on Improving performance

•What is covered

•Workshop outline

•What do the attendees get out of the workshop

Why do you want to improve performance?

We tend to focus on skills and capability rather than improving our mind, which controls everything

If you keep doing what you’ve always done – If you keep doing what you’ve always done – you’ll just get the same - you’ll just get the same - DisraeliDisraeli

If you keep doing what you’ve always done – If you keep doing what you’ve always done – you’ll just get the same - you’ll just get the same - DisraeliDisraeli

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln

If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison

If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison

Many a false step was made while standing still - Zen

Many a false step was made while standing still - Zen

What is covered

Improve goal settingImprove goal settingunderstanding outcomesunderstanding outcomes

Improve goal settingImprove goal settingunderstanding outcomesunderstanding outcomes

Improve your mindsetImprove your mindsetbetter understandingbetter understandingImprove your mindsetImprove your mindsetbetter understandingbetter understanding

Improve how your read Improve how your read others and how others others and how others

read youread youcongruencecongruence

Improve how your read Improve how your read others and how others others and how others

read youread youcongruencecongruence

Personality Map

Personality Map

EnvironmentEnvironmentEnvironmentEnvironment

BehaviourBehaviourBehaviourBehaviour

CapabilityCapabilityCapabilityCapability

Beliefs and Beliefs and ValuesValues

Beliefs and Beliefs and ValuesValues

IdentityIdentityIdentityIdentity

Wheel of Life•Enable people to identify and focus on

current priorities

•Decide the “I want”

•Label the relevant strengths “I can”

•Set goals around those identified priorities

•Negotiate potential barriers

• Identify specific actions to achieve their goals

•Commit to time frame

Working with Beliefs•Become aware of what limiting beliefs

are

•Have the opportunity to explore some of your own personal beliefs

•Leave here with ideas you can use for your personal development

•Understanding personal values and beliefs helps you to make wise choices, understand yourself, and other better and know how to motivate yourself during goal attainment

Reading you reading others

perceptual positions

First PositionFirst Positionyour realityyour reality

Third PositionThird Positiondetached viewdetached view

Second PositionSecond Positionother person’s perspectiveother person’s perspective

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Timing and AgendaTime Description Category Outcome Materials

5 Introduction of Evening Agenda

1 to all Understanding of agenda

5 Desired outcome at end of evening

1 to all Check all understand result

15 Goal setting 1 to all Understanding of SMART goals handout

10 Exercise to set goals Individual prepares goals postitnotes or cards

10 Feedback on setting goals Selection Check selection understand result

20 Personality Map To understand the framework handout

10 Beliefs 1 to all Understanding congruence handout

5 Exercise on beliefs group of 3 s Understand other viewpoints postitnotes or cards

5 Feedback on beliefs Selection Check selection understand result

10 Reading you Reading Othersgroups of 2 Learn the three types

10 Exercise to practice congruence

5 Feedback on senses

15 Wrap up Bringing altogether with some good quotes and humour

Tangible Results

Improve goal settingImprove goal settingunderstanding outcomesunderstanding outcomes

Improve goal settingImprove goal settingunderstanding outcomesunderstanding outcomes

Improve your mindsetImprove your mindsetbetter understandingbetter understandingImprove your mindsetImprove your mindsetbetter understandingbetter understanding

Improve how your read Improve how your read others and how others read others and how others read

youyoucongruencecongruence

Improve how your read Improve how your read others and how others read others and how others read

youyoucongruencecongruence

Small steps lead to big outcomes

Removing limiting beliefs means taking

action

Being able to detach and

look from others point of view

Next Steps

•Provide further detail on seminar

•Decide on topic for series

•Joint review of seminar

•Plan seminar series with BL

Questions

•THANK YOU