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Who are Ni'coel & Chelsea, what's their POV on Human Decision Intelligence, and how is Ni'coel's approach positively deviant?

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🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni'coel presents the HDI landscape of getting to root causes. In response to the immediacy of pain, people skip the diagnostic work of locating the source(s). The cycle of addressing symptoms instead of their causes amplifies negative outcomes. Mastering the ability to address root causes instead of symptoms becomes a crucial focal point in enhancing decision-making intelligence.

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🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

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Think back to a time when a decision that you made led to more downstream negative consequences. How did the symptoms and pain you were experiencing lead you to solve the wrong problem? And, looking back, what do you now see as the root cause?

Ni'coel presents the most fun and foolish HDI landscape. The skills needed to engage in playfulness may not be what you think. Playfulness is a state of being, while play is the performance. We discuss what Human Decision Intelligence can be learned when we take ourselves less seriously, highlighting how specific forms of play can fast-track the development of trust and resilience, reveal fresh insights, alleviate stress, and minimize risk, all of which significantly improve our decision-making abilities. Consider the unique kind of intelligence, freedom, and potential that emerges when you let go of inhibitions, take new risks, and embrace unconstructed playfulness. 

🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com

🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

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When you encounter playfulness in others, what surfaces for you? Are you intrigued or put off by a seemingly wasteful or less productive approach? Consider how a playful approach may surface new types of less visible intelligence.

Ni'coel presents the HDI landscape of Liminality. Liminal space facilitates the integration of internal and external states, fostering growth and the ability to make more informed decisions that shape future paths. We delve into the importance of time, tension, and creating space to process both what is known and what remains unclear to get to a new awareness. Liminality is where deep processing occurs and often gets sidestepped or entirely avoided. This avoidance hinders discovery and exploration where moments of confusion and feeling stopped play a crucial role in shaping people's understanding and decision-making abilities. 

🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com

🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

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Think about a decision you made that, in retrospect, could have benefitted from waiting. And consider how your tolerance for discomfort and confusion affected your decision. What information could have surfaced from sitting in the discomfort instead of ejecting from a waiting period?

Ni'coel presents the HDI landscape of Paradox. Paradoxes represent spaces where seemingly contradictory concepts coexist, offering insights into aspects that may not yet be fully comprehended and become rich areas of new information.

🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com

🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

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Identify when you’ve been both good and not-so-good on the same day (both selfish and caring? or both disrespectful and kind?) How do these expressions invite you to consider a context in which you were one thing and then the very opposite? How does this shift your view of absolutes when evaluating information and thinking through a decision?

Ni'coel presents the culmination episode of Human Decision Intelligence pedagogy. Becoming more human is both the beginning and the end of decision intelligence and leadership. As our technology and societal structures push us toward a more mechanized existence, humans have become more machine-like, and human processing has now become both the fundamental point of failure and the core remedy in our technological age.

🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com

🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

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Think of a recent conflict with a work or life partner where they weren’t following the rules. Could trusting their approach have resulted in a better long-term outcome? Identify how your priorities, biases, and social/corporate norms are impeding your growth and how giving less weight to the ways we’ve been conditioned could result in becoming a better decision-maker.

Ni'coel presents the HDI landscape of Existential Math. What is Existential Math and why it's a necessary new skill? Decision-makers could develop more comprehensive strategies but instead, bypass including less visible and less measurable information. Learning existential math skills advances the decision-making process. By accounting for human variables and adding new equations that factor more context, people can solve and prevent inefficiencies and breakdowns more intelligently.

🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com

🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

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In thinking about your own decisions, notice the degree to which you prioritize external, measurable information compared to internal, less measurable information. How do these two domains merge in your circumstance to create new considerations that might change your plans and approach?

Ni'coel delivers how all six points of Human Decision Intelligence pedagogy connect and how each is anchored by the concept of becoming a different kind of decision-maker. The episode is a quick overview to see the scope of the framework and how it ties to becoming more human in a world where we are increasingly conditioned to become more like the machines and the products we make.

🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com

🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

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Where is your need for speed and certainty causing you to abandon a more thorough process of decision-making?

Ni'coel and Chelsea discuss how anxieties dictate the way humans make decisions. Decision-makers get caught in the trap of responding to their less conscious anxiety and make flawed decisions. In this episode, we discuss processing skills to increase Human Decision Intelligence and reduce negative fallout.

🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com

🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni'coel and Chelsea discuss how Human Decision Intelligence can help businesses overcome anxiety and performance issues during economic downturns. As companies face layoffs and resource constraints, they explore more effective solutions to maintain a healthy and productive work environment.

🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com

🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.