Individual and Team Performance is a product of the boundaries we impose on ourselves through the cognitive constructs in which we think.
Are you prepared to let go of what you think you know to progress?
The limiters on our outcomes are usually a product of how we think, approach problems, acquire knowledge & skills, learn, personally and collectively view ‘development’ and how we choose to interact with one another. Does our education and training create ‘perceptual and thinking’ constructs that define the boundaries in which we operate or, enable us to move beyond them through critical thinking, creative problem solving and collective curiosity?
Is it possible to create an ‘ever evolving’ approach to performance problem solving?
- Could we think and behave in ways that help us to be limitless in our potential rather than limited?
- Is it the need for safety, security and fear of challenge that keeps us operating in cages and walled gardens?
- Do systems and process stifle our ability to move towards exits in walled gardens and labyrinths?
- Does our knowledge, experience and skills, when applied to new and novel problems, keep us trapped and fixed in a familiar way of doing things?
- How fixed is our approach to our work, methods and abilities?
- Do we see all problems with the same solution in mind?
- Is organisational climate and operating procedures a road block or a green light to the open road?
- How open are we to others views and opinions? Do we perceive them as a nuisance/threat or interesting and nourishing?
- Do you enjoy seeking out the perspectives and views of others and are you quick to adopt these if they are compelling?
- Are you open to ‘check and challenge’ of your work or behaviour and do you take it on board?
- Can we create cognitive constructs that enable us to move to a more free thinking approach to our work?
The open road is endless, takes unexpected twists and turns and can take us on a journey to an ever changing end point. To get to the open road, we first need to move away from the cages, boundaries and mazes we like to hide within and this takes courage, curiosity and an open, questioning mind.
How you think and behave create the constraints that you have to operate within.
Tags: Safety Vs Threat; C-Model; Limiting Behaviours; Simple Vs Complex; Perspective; Generalist Expert; Climate