Strengthening Our Strategic Thinking

Published on Dec 11, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Strengthening Our Strategic Thinking

To Become Better Leaders

Rock Solid Leader

Ridiculously In Charge 

Or Not

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Order taker

Meetings Transactional
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Choice is yours.

Take orders

You may decide that for the rest of your life

Be A Leader

Or you can 
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Align your vision with the vision of your client

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Define Your Role
Your Purpose
Your Event's
Direction & Vision

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Your Turn

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3 Traits Mentor/Leader

Your Turn
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What % of sessions at your major conference dedicated to leadership?

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90% of CEOs see
leadership development highest priority.

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Strategic Thinking

Ranked 2nd
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Industry- Sector- Specific

Ranked Last
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What is strategy?

Your Turn
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Strategy is

  • Creation of a unique and valuable position
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Strategy is

  • Creation of a unique and valuable position
  • Involving a different set of activities than your competitor
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Operational Effectiveness & Strategy?

What is the difference between
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Operational Effectiveness

  • Delivers greater efficiency

Operational Effectiveness

  • Delivers greater efficiency
  • Results in lower per unit costs

Operational Effectiveness

  • Delivers greater efficiency
  • Results in lower per unit costs
  • Performs similar activities better than competitors

Strategic Effectiveness

  • Delivers greater value
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Strategic Effectiveness

  • Delivers greater value
  • Can charge higher than average per unit costs
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Strategic Effectiveness

  • Delivers greater value
  • Can charge higher than average per unit costs
  • Performs different activities than competitor
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What Is A Strategic Brain?

Your Turn
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A Strategic Brain

  • Filters information by deliberately sorting input and output
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A Strategic Brain

  • Filters information by deliberately sorting input and output
  • Attends to essential info
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A Strategic Brain

  • Filters information by deliberately sorting input and output
  • Attends to essential info
  • Filters out details not important to task at hand
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A strategic brain

  • Focuses attention
  • Inhibits distractions
  • Uses working memory for critical thinking

A non-strategic brain takes in all information and multitasks.

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When focused & engaged on more strategic, abstract thinking, details easier to remember.

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Quick Assessment

Your Turn
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1. Do you allow frequent interruptions (2-3 per hour) when working on a main task?

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2. Do you jump to a new task when immediately asked rather than making progress on the major goal of the day?

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3. Do you multitask more than twice a day when you’re working on a major project?

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4. Do you work past your regular bedtime two nights or more a week?

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5. Do you have difficulty knowing when you have saturated your capacity to think clearly & work effectively?

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6. Do you have difficulty recognizing when there are strains on your task performance?

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Yes on two or more, your strategic brain needs an ovehaul.

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3 Steps

To practice to become strategic thinkers

Brainpower Of None

Brainpower Of None
Brain solves problems best by taking a break from the matter.

Connections are built when the brain
slows downs or rests.

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Your brain works smarter when you make it slow down.

Our brain works for us when we quit working it to the max.

Allow Your Brain To Rest

1. Brainpower Of None
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Your Turn: What are my beliefs about multitasking?

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Multitasking

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Multitasking causes

  • Shallower, less focused thinking
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Multitasking causes

  • Shallower, less focused thinking
  • Increased errors
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Multitasking causes

  • Shallower, less focused thinking
  • Increased errors
  • Dramatic, negative decrease on mental processing
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Brainpower Of One

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Brainpower Of One: One Task At A Time

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Brainpower Of One: Instead of multitasking,
perform tasks sequentially.

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Take your mind off of old thinking to discover a new way of thinking.

Brainpower Of Two

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Brainpower Of Two: Focus on two elephant tasks per day.

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When hunting elephants, don't get distracted by rabbits.

To increase your intellectual ROI, focus on your highest priority & do not invest time in wide range of junk investments.

Creating to-do list, focus on two things -- your elephants

Two Elephant-Tasks

  • That will have most impact

Two Elephant-Tasks

  • That will have most impact
  • Require the most attention

Two Elephant-Tasks

  • That will have most impact
  • Requires the most attention
  • Requires the most rested, strategic thinking brain

Your Turn:
What are your
two elephant-tasks right now?

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Know-Brainers

  • Brainpower Of None: when you hit a mental wall, quiet your mind to find fresh solutions
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Know-Brainers

  • Brainpower Of One: Work on one thing at a time. Sequential-task instead of multitask.
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Know-Brainers

  • Brainpower Of Two: Everyday, dedicate them majority of your time to two most important elephant-tasks.
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Which needs my attention now?

  • Brainpower of None
  • Brainpower of One
  • Brainpower of Two
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Reality TV Show

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Reality TV Show

  • 1st team - flunked aptitude test
  • 2nd team - passed aptitude test with flying colors
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Which team do you pick?

  • 1st team - flunked sales aptitude test
  • 2nd team - passed sales aptitude test with flying colors
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Picked 2nd team,
you lost!

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True story from Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
(1971)

Flunkies were optimists.
Smarties were pessimists

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Someone who can't, but thinks they can, compared to someone who can but thinks they can't, always wins.

Your gateway thinking is like a piece of software

It runs everything we do and dictates your outcomes.

If the software says do a or b, then a or b happens. C cannot happen.

Whenever your norms & behaviors get encoded & reinforced, it determines what happens next.

The "it can't be done" virus is contagious.

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Time to audit your thinking...

Jeff Hurt

Haiku Deck Pro User