The Power of Pull

Pull is the natural attraction produced by anything that is significant or important to us.  This includes our beliefs, questions, desires, fears, intents, hopes, purpose and goals.  Your organization is a pull factory as everyone creates pull based on the things that are significant to them.  This video is especially relevant to leaders.  It explains the four basic elements of high quality pull: clear and highly focused, inclusive, big picture, powerful and compelling.  It explains how to create pull throughout your organization that embodies these four elements.

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From Good Enough to Inspired Social Networks

This video describes the difference between “good enough” and an inspired social network. Inspired social networks are boundary-less, they challenge current thinking and they always have an element of surprise. This video describes the step-by-step process for developing inspired social networks which include:

• Clarify the intent
• Develop and focus on the optimal outcome
• Allow and let go
• Stay undistracted
• Accept no boundaries
• Be open to the unexpected
• Use appreciation
• Enjoy the ride

From Good Enough to Inspired Social Capital

Social capital is an investment in good will that carries forward.  Build social capital in one interaction and its there to greet you in the next.  Social capital is especially crucial in tough conversation where there are diverse opinions or honest differences, where meanings are hard to convey and where there is attachment to preconceptions.  This video takes you through a step-by-step process to achieve inspired social capital – no matter what the conversational challenge.  The four basic steps that will always help you build social capital are outlined; appreciation, trust, respect and rapport.  As usual, our video closes with clear steps that you can take now to begin to build high quality social capital.

From Good Enough to Inspired Conversations

Conversations are the heart of your organization.  They pump the information through which you create your intellectual products.  This video clearly explains the difference between “good enough” and inspired conversations – no matter if they are hand-offs, coordination or collaboration.  Inspired conversations enable people to extend the boundaries of their own thinking – either individually or collectively.  Dr. Frees explains the difference between fighting, arguing, debating, discussing and dialogue and why, even the best discussions can only get you to good enough.  Dialogue is the conversation that achieves the margin of difference.  This happens because old ways of thinking dissolve, ideas are transformed, new common understanding is created and, most importantly, it results in inspired intellectual products.  This video lays out the attitudes that foster inspired conversations and explains how to inspire the best thinking in both yourself and others in your organization.

Engagement Processes That Flow

The engagement process consists of all the methods, activities and venues through which we exchange information.  It includes all of the things you do in order to enable people to bring their best thinking to an intellectual challenge.  The engagement process is at work everywhere and in everything you do. This video describes how to create an engagement process that supports superb social networks, builds social capital and enables conversations to operate at the margin of difference.  The result is flow.

Thinking at the Margin of Difference ^TM

The way people think, individually and collectively, is the most critical factor in achieving the margin of difference.  It is the foundation on which everything else is built.  Inspired thinkers know that the way they think and what they think about has everything to do with the outcomes they achieve, the quality of their relationships and the flow of their processes.  This video describes the characteristics of inspired thinkers.  It includes specific suggestions and courses of action that you can take now to join the ranks of inspired thinkers.