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#019 – Clues in Timidity – Tapping Intuition
Tap into your intuition and use it to ensure a more secure footing – Use your subconscious to check whether your conscious has the whole picture
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Why take this challenge?
Access deeper levels of wisdom within yourself
Increase your success rate by recognising and avoiding issues in advance
Develop the skills of your team in predicting the future
It is a little known fact, but it turns out that most project failures could have been foreseen before they launched. The article ‘Using intuition to predict the future’ tells of a study of failed projects across a wide range of businesses.
The study was undertaken by a large consultancy firm. The interviewers asked those who had been involved a very insightful question. They asked whether, at the point of launch, people would have bet $500 of their own money on the project’s success. And overwhelmingly the answer was ‘no’.
It turns out that, after we have applied all of our logic in planning success, there is still an emotional component within us which has more to tell us. A subconscious sense which assesses things that are too complex and involved and uncertain for factual assessment. One that doesn’t return its answers in words and numbers. But in a sense of discomfort, or disquiet, that is highlighted when we are asked to ‘bet our own money’.
This week’s adventure is all about tapping into that intuition.
+ Green track - taking it in your stride
+ Blue track - a bit of a workout (click to open)
+ Red track - stepping up to bat (click to open)
You may find the following resources helpful in tackling your challenge or in gaining further benefits from the skills and insights you develop
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Bringing this thinking into your meetings | Adventure & Mental Health
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#007 – Using the Third Space
Use small pauses between things to best ready yourself for each challenge and opportunity. Divest yourself of the debris of what’s past and put on your best for what’s to come.
Why take this challenge?
Be at your best for each challenge and situation throughout your day.
Better work-life balance through intentional transitions between the ideal work you, and the ideal home you.
Improved mental health for you and those around you
In our second adventure – Fixing ‘ … that’s not me’ – we explored how ‘who you are’ is something you can choose. You can put on the ‘you’ you want. You can choose the ‘you’ that will be best for each situation. Even each moment.
Out of his research into top performing athletes, Adam Fraser has discovered that in many cases our success is determined by something most people take for granted – the transition between one thing and the next. Too often we bring who we were in the last battle into the beginning of the next one. And the fact is, that may not be the best option for us.
Around this idea, Adam has prepared some excellent (brief) resources that I heartily recommend you take a look at. This week’s adventure is about better understanding what happens to YOU in those transitions, and then trying out his simple three step approach.
+ Green track - taking it in your stride
+ Blue track - a bit of a workout (click to open)
+ Red track - stepping up to bat (click to open)
You may find the following resources helpful in tackling your challenge or in gaining further benefits from the skills and insights you develop
- Three simple steps to not take a bad day home – Adam Fraser TEDx Talk
- What is the Third Space – Adam Fraser providing examples of people using it
- Adam Fraser’s website
- You are Not a Frog – Rachel Morris’s podcast for busy people in stressful work
- Information on looking after your mental health
- Articles on creating creating flow in your organisation (as the alternative to stress)
To catch up on past adventures you may have missed, feel free to browse our Adventures Library
Let us know how you get on.
Please help us to extend and develop our community by sharing what you are doing. Click on the links below where you are most active, and then like or share the article to your network. Thank you for helping.
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Useful links:
Adventures to date | I did it, but it didn’t work very well | How do I know if it is working
Bringing this thinking into your meetings | Adventure & Mental Health
Leading by Adventure community | Explore Strategic Support options
#005 – Disrupting the Camouflage
Disrupting the Camouflage; Better Embrace Diversity in your Meetings; Make your virtual meetings a visual feast
Why take this challenge?
To redress the effect that web conferencing (Zoom, Teams, etc.) is having on our ability to remember meeting content.
To make discussion within meetings more memorable, and thereby easier to apply and recall in practice.
To increase creativity and diversity in virtual meetings.
Virtual meetings have enabled so much to take place through the Covid pandemic that otherwise would not have been possible.
But there are problems, and one of these is that people are finding it more difficult to remember them. The visual similarity between one meeting and the next (same interface, same room) is limiting the cues our mind uses to connect pieces of information together, and this means we are getting more forgetful.
So this weeks adventure is all about creating new perspectives in your meetings to aid people’s ability to ‘connect the dots’ in their own memories.
+ Green track - taking it in your stride
+ Blue track - a bit of a workout (click to open)
+ Red track - stepping up to bat (click to open)
You may find the following resources helpful in tackling your challenge or in gaining further benefits from the skills and insights you develop
Let us know how you get on.
Share your experience, your insights and your observation using the comments section at the bottom of the Linkedin post.
Please help us to extend and develop our community by sharing what you are doing. Click on the links below where you are most active, and then like or share the article to your network. Thank you for helping.
- Share the Linkedin version of the challenge
- Tweet the challenge on Twitter
- Share your progress and insights with the Linkedin LbA community
- And share your progress and insights with the Twitter LbA community using #leadingbyadventure
Useful links:
Adventures to date | I did it, but it didn’t work very well | How do I know if it is working
Bringing this thinking into your meetings | Adventure & Mental Health
Leading by Adventure community | Explore Strategic Support options