Sticky Learning Lunches #54: The Leadership Upgrade #4

"Worried if you change you won’t know what to expect? – Part #4 of the Unique Leadership Coaching model ‘EVOC’ Create. Reflected, dreamed, seen the problems now it’s time to Create actions. In this episode of The Leadership Upgrade #4.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon, sticky learning lunches. Welcome to Monday. We are just gonna give it a minute for people to arrive. Just been having a wonderful conversation with Sarah, catching up on the weekend. And the one question I didn't ask is if I've got her support completely for the whole of this session. 'cause if I haven't, I haven't got any of the links ready, but we'll find out about that in a minute. Just giving it a minute. Hello, Colin. Fabian. Good to see you. Howard. Thanks for Martin. Thank you for being here as well. Tim Victoria, thanks very much. Happy Monday to you too. Yes, Sarah is with us all session to support and help.

Sarah:

Thank you all.

Nathan Simmonds:

Wanna make sure I've got pens handy? Now it's a little bit of a lazy start for people today. A few people arriving. Let's just give it 30 more seconds and then we're gonna do the roundup. Hello, Matt Brown. Good to see you. Making sure we're supporting ourselves, delivering the best possible results here. Good afternoon, Lana. Good to see you. And by the way, do you know what we need to make this a little bit of a routine. Everyone, you can say hello to me. It is. Okay. Good afternoon to all of you. Let's get ready on this.

Nathan Simmonds:

On a scale of one's 10, how are you feeling about today and this week? One being terrible, 10 being phenomenal. How are you feeling about today, this week? Where you are going, what you are up to? Positive starts, nines, tens, nine's. Got an eight. Okay, we can work on that. Eight's good. Last mouthful of tea. Ask me after the playoffs. Let's dive in as people arrive. Hello V. Good to see you again. Mobile phones. Let's do this. Light up that little airplane, zero out the distraction, a hundred percent attention on what you are about to be doing here.

Nathan Simmonds:

Also, making sure you've got a drink. Let's keep you hydrated. Keep your brain lubricated. So let's make this learning stick. Just run out of tea. This could be a problem. Third piece as always, fresh page, fresh thinking. So let's make sure you've got a nice clean sheet in that notepad. At the top of that, you're gonna write keepers. And these are the things that you want to remember, you want to remind yourself about. And when you reread it, it's gonna reignite that thinking. It's gonna help you keep those new ideas fresh and expanding as you start to reapply them.

Nathan Simmonds:

Good. Let's go. Welcome to today's Sticky Learning lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM Making Business Matter, the home of Sticky Learning. We are the leadership development soft skills provider to the grocery and manufacturing industry. And the idea of these micro learnings is to help you be the best version of you in the work that you do right now. Whether that's from home in the office, or just preparing you to return back to whatever normality is gonna look like in the next couple of weeks. What are we covering today?

Leadership is our focus today!

 

Nathan Simmonds:

The fourth part of the EVOC leadership model. So we are looking at create, so we're looking at the final stage of this model in the C for how we are creating and using and actualizing solutions to our obstacles. But before I get into that tomorrow, for the next three days after this, we're gonna be looking at HBDI profiling. So when you look at things like the grow coaching model, when you look at the mind coaching model for mental health conversations, when you look at the leadership coaching model, the elements that I'm taking you through in here through in this

Nathan Simmonds:

Give your real clear framework of the questions to ask yourself to make those parts happen. Great. The HBDI profile is another tool that just gave, gives you a deeper view on yourself. It really works on this evaluation piece. Eve evaluation

Nathan Simmonds:

In number one, it starts to show you how you work. It starts to show you how you work with others. You start to see certain behavior patterns by doing this sort of analysis. And over the next three days, we're gonna be going through that profiling mechanism, the Herman profiles with Andy Palmer again, and he's gonna take us through all the quadrants in there. It's gonna give you a really deep view on this evaluation piece. If you have not already signed up for that, the link is in the chat box below right now. Call to action, make sure you are registered for the next three sessions so you can get that deeper view. Also shows you the previous session.

Nathan Simmonds:

So this is the, if this is the first time you are watching this session and you want to catch up on the other three parts of this model, you can also click on that link and it will take you and show you the older ones as well. So the first part was self-evaluation, and we're gonna be going deeper into that in the next three sessions. The second part is then vision. Where you want to get to. Number three, obstacles, the challenges along the way to making things happen. With part four being all about creation. That we do is requiring an action to be taken. You know, it's, you cannot meditate your way out of a tiger attack. You cannot sit and wait for a million dollar check to come through your letterbox without actually doing something to make that thing happen.

Nathan Simmonds:

So the idea of this phase when we get into the solutions is about asking the right questions so that when you understand where your obstacles are, that you can overcome them. The way this model works, and it's the same way as how success thinking works, is quite on a simple timeline. Right at the beginning. Here is where you are doing your evaluation. Where you want to get to over here is your vision by understanding these two elements like sat nav, again, you know, you've gotta understand where you are in the current moment and also where you want to get to.

Nathan Simmonds:

When I then start looking to see what the obstacles, rather than me having this simplistic, naive view that the journey's gonna be simple, straightforward, and there's gonna be no hiccups, I have to understand that those challenges are gonna come downstream in order for me to perceive them, embrace them, mitigate them, and resolve them before they cause me any challenge. And even if they do arrive so that I enjoy the process of going through them. So rather than thinking it's gonna be like this, it's gonna be more like this.

Nathan Simmonds:

Put a big tree in the way there. We put another pit in there with spikes so that when we understand the journey looks like this, we can start to prepare and understand, well what are the tools I need here? What are the tools I need here? How do I climb this tree? How do I jump over the pit of, you know, nasty, um, spikes at the bottom? Because when we start to understand this and it's not about lingering in the problem, we can then start to put the solutions in place, which is why these four stages exist. So how do we do this? We wanna create a little bit of disruptive thinking.

Nathan Simmonds:

We want to embrace all of the problems and all of the challenges that we have on a daily basis. Moham just put in here for every action there is a reaction. Absolutely. And then we have to understand, as I've said before, action creates traction. The moment you take one step, you are almost compelled to take the next one in whatever direction it takes or whatever direction it's pulling you in. So when we start to see all of the problems, we can then come up with solutions. So there's an interesting technique that you can use here. Question to you all. How many of you, and it is 10 past one now have mentally or verbally, and I mean out loud as well, as well as inside your own head, complained about something in your day, yes or no? Got me good.

Nathan Simmonds:

No good? Yes, yes, yes, yes. With an explanation mark. Good, good. Interesting technique. So is gentleman by the name of Jay's Summit, I think, I believe it is. He wrote a book called, uh, disrupt You. And his suggestion was for 30 days, write down three problems you've got. So it might be anything from the person cutting you up in traffic at the traffic lights on the way to work. It might be the patch of sweat that your slicer toast left on the, on the countertop when you put it on there by accident. Um, anything, what problems have you got? Think about any challenges or problems you've got or things that have irritated you a day that you wish you had a solution for.

Nathan Simmonds:

Fire 'em in the question box. Anything that comes up. His suggestion is, and this is an activity for you to take away in this, okay, is you write down three challenges that you've got, physical challenges, things that you know have you know, really frustrated you or you know, annoyed you and then you've grumbled about them and then just carried on with the day. How many other people do you think have the same challenges that you have with that thing? And if you actually solve that problem in one way, shape, or form, how many people do you think would then potentially buy your service or buy your product to overcome that thing? Everyone with me? Does that make sense? Those questions.

Nathan Simmonds:

So the idea that what we're doing is we're starting to activate, as I referred to it before, that solution thinking rather than looking at, oh, that's a pain in the backside. Oh I can't, I can't do anything about that. Actually what I'm suggesting is you start to ask some better questions to help you start coming over,