This year I volunteered to be a coach for the Four Disciplines of Execution (4DX) program from Franklin Covey which we use at work for goals. It's a great program but frankly, I didn't want to do it. My manager, at the time, talked me into signing up because it would be good to develop my leadership skills. Whew - it has already!!! This week was the big leader launch - starting Monday afternoon I was busy from about 8 am to anywhere from 7 - 9 pm at night for this. The first full day, the entire leadership team was introduced to the "Partners in Leadership" program from the company which produced the Oz Principle.
It's a really interesting program all about getting different results. I can see lots of applications for it outside of work. What's really stuck with me is the saying they started out with - "you are 100% perfectly aligned with the results you get today." It seems simple - if you want a cleaner house, more money, or to lose weight - you've got to do something different than what you're doing now. Yet, it's hard to get there. So the program is all about changing your experiences which will change your beliefs - because those are what drive your actions and eventually your results.
One of the trainers is from Georgia and he talked about how awful the mud is and how you don't want it in your house. So there's a family rule that when you come in from the garage you have to take off your shoes. Only in their house there's stairs right there and his girls were always leaving their shoes on the stairwell. No matter how many different attempts were made, in different ways and moods - the shoes always got scattered on the stairs and people kept tripping on them.
Finally, his wife and he decided they need to change the experience their daughters were having. Their belief was that they didn't need to put away their shoes because what did it matter? It was never enforced! So a rule was made that the shoes had to be put away or they lost the shoes. 3 weeks later when his eldest daughter had to go to school, in the snow, wearing sandals one size too small because she'd lost all of her other shoes the beliefs changed and they haven't had problems since then.
The week was really draining but a great experience. I had dinner with the CEO a couple of times, various directors and got to know the Sales VP pretty well. This is just the beginning of my responsibilities for the rest of the year but I'm glad that week is over! Developing the goals and lead measures are exhausting!
No pictures this week - it seemed weird to pull out my Ipod or camera or grab a shot.
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