Learning at the Edge #6 Five Final Steps

(dramatic music) - Hi, I'm Clive Smallman, the personal and organizational learning strategist. I help leaders, teams, and organizations have breakthrough moments. So, we're at the end of this short video series that I've put together for you on leadership at the edge. I want to talk about five steps away from the edge, either up and away and accelerating towards success or pulling you back from a challenge. That's the idea we're going to pull together all of the ideas that we had in the last few videos. So, we know that organizations sometimes get opportunities that they're not able to access. The basic thinking around this is that by understanding your character strengths, by understanding your mental toughness, by understanding your learning preferences and your learning style, cognitive growth plan, you'll be able to take advantage of opportunities. That's my ambition for you, that's what I want to see you leverage and that's how we work together, that's the basic idea of mentoring. At the same time you may well face some challenges. They may be the regular, if you like challenges of businesses where we've seen problems with costs, with revenue, with retaining great staff, with change all of these sorts of things are problems that we deal with but also with larger problems as well. As we see more along the lines of cyber attacks and things like this that are coming in, problems with social media, we do need to think about these types of challenges. These are all things that we can work on in some form of mentoring approach or indeed in some form of strategic workshop. The basic idea is to move you from a position where you're perhaps below the line, below that edge of performance that you wanna be and to actually take you up and above the edge, up and over the line to get you functioning really effectively, really efficiently. That's either you as a leader, your teams or your organization. Where we don't want you to be is below the line. Under the edge, not performing at where you should be and we certainly don't want you getting back to a similar position from where you started. We've seen the steps that we go through, we've looked at character strengths, we've looked at mental toughness in organizational resilience, we've looked at learning preferences and learning styles and we've looked at growth planning. The basic idea is to set foundations that allow you to breakthrough. So this is the experiential learning cycle as designed by David Cole, this is what this all feeds into in the process that I work through with clients, at whatever sort of format. Basically it looks at how we're living, what are our experiences? Moving from there we may pick experiences out and we'll then reflect on those experiences. Once we've reflected we'll start to think about how we might change things up or pull things back. Once we've got a plan in terms of thought through ideas, then we'll move to actually do stuff, we'll actually start to make changes and we go back into the cycle. So those are my five steps off the edge. Five steps away, up and away or five steps back to really make sure that you are performing well above the edge and really delivering effectively and efficiently. I'm Clive Smallman, the personal and organizational learning strategist. I help leaders, teams and organizations to have breakthrough moments. (dramatic music)

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