Managing the Hidden Dynamics that Can Make or Break Your Success
Creating Culture Chemistry
Presented By: Ellen L. Moran, Ph.D.
What’s Your Experience?
We need someone who is more...
Proactive
Strategic
Process oriented
Innovative
Customer focused
Success!
We’ve found the right person!He’s what we need…
• He can shake things up
• Get us on the right track
• He’s already delivering the right messages
The Problem...
People don’t seem to be listening...Complaints about his style...
He thinks things are worse than we told him...
This is concerning…
Six Months Later
What did we miss?
One Year Later
Consequences
Hire someone more like the culture
Give up on culture change
Cynicism regarding leadership
Potentially unnecessary career failure
Reduced confidence in choosing the right person
Who has seen this movie before?
Can you share a brief story?
What went wrong?
• There was a key pattern (and language) mismatch
• Good intentions, ineffective impact
• Everyone is frustrated, but not sure why it happened or what to do about it (below conscious disconnect)
What’s the solution? Our Agenda
• Become aware of the power of patterns
• Discover some of our own
• Apply this awareness
• Connect and influence the culture
Patterns = Meta Programs
• Direct our attention and thought processes
• Describe characteristics of thinking, motivation and behavior
• Influence our experiences
• Patterns can make us effective or ineffective depending on the contexts
What I
prefer...
CriteriaWhat I
decide
Motivation
What are Criteria?
• Things that are important to us
• Personal labels for values
• Words that incite
What’s important to you in a car?
Criteria – What do you want in...X?
Criteria – What do you want in...X?
What are Criteria?
• Hot buttons• Can be positive or negative
• Composed of many elements, conscious and (mostly) unconscious
Examples
Innovative =
Love =
Make me laugh
New NovelAutomated
Be on time Spend time together
Specific Criteria
Challenge
Success
Competence
Recognition Ease
Freedom
Specific Contexts
Vacations
Interviews Culture
Relationships
Primary Criteria Questions
• What do you want (in context – a job, a relationship, a particular thing, etc)?
• Why is that important?
Discover yours
• Use your work sheet
• Consider your current job role or the one you want
• Write down your answer to the criteria questions
Uses for Criteria
• Decision making
• Job competencies
• Interviewing
• Decoding the culture
• Sales & Marketing
• Customer Service
• Team Dynamics
I f there is no t ime for any other discovery
• Probe and understand others’ criteria
• Many other patterns emerge from criteria
The Power of Criteria
Motivation Source – Internal/External
Motivation Pattern
ExternalInternal
Use your worksheet
Write your answer to the quest ion…
How do you know you’ve done a good job at be ing…(your
ro le)?
Discover Your Pattern
Internal Positives
• Evaluate things on the basis of what they think is appropriate
• Provide their own motivation and make their own decisions
• Decide about what they want to doand how they are doing
Internal Negatives
• Have difficulty accepting other people's direction and feedback
• May reject important feedback
• May be seen as distant, arrogant or uncaring.
When Both Parties are Internal...
Both sides believe:
• The other is wrong or mistaken
• Their motives are questionable
• Both sides have difficulty listening to reach resolution
How can you apply this now?
Company Culture
• Listen carefully and respectfully to their criteria and past successes
• Dig deeper to be sure you understand
• Do not imply you know more, have the answer or are imposing your standard
• Assume they are internal until you see signs they are looking for guidance
Other Patterns Can Be Important
Change
GeneralOptions
Proactive
• Achieve a goal or solve problems
• Explore options or follow correct process
• Take proactive measures or think through issues first
• Change, evolve or hold on to what’s working
• Tolerate difference or hold the line on standards
• Stay focused on the big picture or pay attention to the details
• And more….
Summary
Strong internal pattern leads to disconnects and conflict
Connect with criteria to influence and motivate
Understand your personal criteria/driving patterns for clarity- confidence-motivation
Listen for job/culture criteria to find the success connections
Words that Change Minds , Shel le Rose Char vet
Motivation Patterns Reference
Motivate Everyone, Jay Arthur