CONVERGE19 - Takeaways 3/4

7. Lecture: "Coaching Collective Connective Intelligence", Zoran Todorovic, MCC

8. Lecture: "The Future is Activating Agility", Carole Gaskell, Judit Ábri von Bartheld, MCC

7. Lecture: "Coaching Collective Connective Intelligence"

Speaker: Zoran Todorovic, MCC

What it was about:

This lecture demonstrated how human evolution influences life and how being evolutionarily intelligent increases personal growth, impact, and success for coaches. During the lecture, we learned how to train group connective intelligence, which we can immediately apply to our own lives and to our coaching practice. #projecoach #collectiveintelligence #coachingcollective #infinity #converge

Key insights and identified issues:

• Collective Coaching: As coaches, we hold in our collective hands the power to evolve and create a different world - a world of expanded consciousness - if we realize that we are all interconnected as one, while at the same time we are here to become fully and completely all that we are.

Principles of Collective Coaching:

• We create our own reality

• All life experiences are for learning and growth

• Every person is a potential genius

• Every coachee does the work for themselves and for humanity

Collective coaching is the skill of listening more deeply, being present, and increasing holistic awareness in order to act and make decisions from clear positive intentions.

When do we coach collectively?

• This means that every interaction is not only an opportunity to take the person we are working with - or ourselves - to the next level of consciousness and success, but also an opportunity, in that very moment, to shift the consciousness of all humanity.

Levels of Self in Coaching:

• Personality is generally oriented around the mind, personality traits, and social conditioning.

• Holistic self begins when we step into our own power and realize that we create reality.

• Beyond self is the complete re-creation of self in every moment. We become the force of creation.

Experience

• Change

• Transformation

• Evolution

Collective Coaching:

• When you coach the collective, you see things from the place of evolutionary possibilities and are able to move them into powerful action.

• For this to be possible, you will see the people you coach as more… much more… than they currently see themselves to be.

Connection

Collective Coaching:

• Expanded consciousness presupposes a complete and total integration of mind, heart, and soul into a new and expanded “mega” self.

Experience:

• Mind to mind

• Heart to heart

• Soul to soul

• Mega to mega

Mega Coaching Presence

INFINITY Coaching Model:

• We discovered that most human problems come from their unfulfilled part of life. We are all meta-beings who have the potential to contribute; we are not small people merely solving problems.

Personal Potential - To access personal potential, tune into the coachee’s mind and ask the following questions:

• What is your natural gift?

• What do others say you are good at?

• What do you dream of achieving?

Greater Potential - To access wider potential, tune into the coachee’s heart and ask:

• How are people inspired by you?

• How do you influence the people around you?

• What do you dream of achieving in your organization / community?

Profound Potential - To access deep potential, tune into the coachee’s soul and ask:

• What is your contribution to the world?

• What are you called to do on this planet, and what are you doing for the planet?

• How do you see humanity evolving?

Pure Potential - To access pure potential, tune into the (mega) maximum of the coachee and ask:

• What is your contribution to the universe?

• What are you destined to do for the universe and for evolution?

• What are you destined to do beyond anything you have ever thought possible?

Coaching Collective Connective Intelligence

Mega Coaching Questions:

• What do you want to happen?

• We do not only coach what our clients are being coached for, but also what is happening to our clients.

• Coach collectively through yourself and with yourself right now!

Collective Coaching:

• The ability to co-create extraordinary results by accessing deeper intelligence and powerful creative energy within you and others.

Experience

New Abilities:

• Innate sensitivity: a heightened state of listening where we tune into emotional potential

• Knowing: deep connection with the soul where we know that we know what we know and how we know it

• Telepathy: full communication—what truly wants to be said—where we listen to the energy and potential behind words

• Bandwidth scanning: possibilities and interpretations that liberate clients, exploring layers of meaning to discover the one that is true

• Hyper-fast thinking: thinking beyond time, processing multiple ideas with hyper-speed grace and choosing the one that wants to be chosen

• Super creativity: an accelerated state of consciousness where brilliant ideas arise as we access true passion and power

You coach to develop humanity

You coach for:

• reducing pain and suffering?

• helping people improve their lives?

• empowering people to reach their potential?

• changing the world?

• or developing humanity?

  
  

Coaching Collective Connective Intelligence

• Be THE one who now realizes your passion and vision in the world!

• Be a global leader now!

• Be fully in your power now!

• Be THE one who now develops humanity!

• Perceive potential in every moment

• Live with understanding, clarity, and trust

• Do not hold a fixed agenda for what and how things must happen

• Empower the creative “mega” human genius in every person you coach

• Source creates reality in every moment

Breakthrough Change:

• From the place of expanded “mega” intelligence, connect with all people in the room and around the world—everyone who is willing to now unfold into their full, newest, pure potential.

• Now you can feel the breakthrough of this moment for all of us!

• Thank you for sharing this mega-creative journey for and toward the development of human consciousness.

Suggestions and Recommendations:

• Unfortunately, it is difficult to find additional resources or references on this topic.

Takeaways

• Practicing advanced coaching skills including telepathy, innate sensing, knowing, hyper-fast thinking, and reality creation

• Expanding and strengthening coaching presence

• Using the INFINITY model in coaching to facilitate collective connective intelligence

8. Lecture: "The Future is Activating Agility: Coaching Head and Heart Potential"

Speakers: Carole Gaskell – Full Potential Group, Judit Ábri von Bartheld, MCC – Coaching Without Border

What it was about:

Agility enables coaches and coachees to respond quickly to changes in the internal and external environment without losing momentum or vision. Making things simpler, better, and faster is the new dominant mantra. To facilitate this, coaches must know how to activate more of a person’s agile potential. The key to unlocking agility is blending existing and new approaches that strengthen both the head and the heart of the people we coach. During this lecture, we learned two new approaches: neuro-agility and motivational mapping. #projecoach #agility #coachingagility #neuroagility #converge

Key Insights and Identified Issues:

• Agility: the ability to move, think, and understand quickly and easily. Adaptability, flexibility, and balance are three essential qualities.

The agile world is:

• Simpler: We process 30× more information than 20 years ago

• Better: 80–90% of serious injuries and accidents are caused by human error

• Faster: 60–70% of current jobs are likely to be redundant within 10 years

Activating agility means improving your head—your brain power—through neuro-agility (the integration of head and heart that activates agile performance).

World Economic Forum - To thrive in 2020, the following ten skills were required:

• Complex problem solving

• Critical thinking

• Creativity

• People management

• Coordinating with others

• Emotional intelligence

• Judgment and decision-making

• Service orientation

• Negotiation

• Cognitive flexibility

• The typical human brain has around 100 billion neurons (with an additional ~900 billion for connection, nourishment, and insulation)

• Theoretically and simplistically, we have unlimited agile potential

• 100 billion neurons

• 1 neuron can have up to 100,000 connections

• Processes up to 1,000 impulses per second (speed of sound)

• 2.5–3.5 billion connections per second

The brain has the ability to be agile and connect.

• We can measure and improve brain effectiveness—neuro-agility.

  
  

“Knowing your unique neurological design and understanding the six factors that influence it is the key to neuro-agility, talent development, and performance improvement.” - Dr. André Vermeulen

What is Neuro-Agility?

• Neuro-agility is about the readiness of all senses and brain areas as one integrated whole-brain system, responsiveness, and the ability to receive and transmit biochemical impulses at optimal capacity under new and potentially stressful conditions.

• Highly neuro-agile people have the flexibility to quickly and easily learn new skills, attitudes, and behaviors—and unlearn old behavioral patterns.

Seven Factors Influencing Neurological Design:

• Relative lateral hemispheric dominance

• Expressive or receptive preference

• Four cortical quadrant preferences

• Rational or emotional preference

• Brain & sensory dominance

• Sensory preferences

• Intelligence preferences

Interesting link: https://www.td.org/insights/neuro-agility-a-new-paradigm-for-safeguarding-learning-organizations

Relative Lateral Hemispheric Dominance:

“If you achieve a higher level of cognitive diversity, you achieve better outcomes.”

Is your left or right hemisphere more dominant? How flexibly can you move between them?

• Left hemisphere processes information sequentially, analytically, and logically. It is time-focused and prefers language and verbal input (especially auditory). A strong tendency toward left hemisphere preference may lead to interests toward finance, science, and academia. If you prefer the left hemisphere, you will follow conversation in a measured and detailed way.

• Right hemisphere processes information in a more complex, intuitive, and visual way. It responds to visual input and strengthens visual-spatial and visual-motor skills. It tends to be the preferred hemisphere of artists, athletes, and other creative professions. If you have a dominant right hemisphere, you think about the overall message of the conversation. Including words relating to images or visualization concepts makes communication easier.

An Accenture report confirms that 89% of C-level has formal training in left-oriented degrees. 65% of respondents say that right-brain skills are their weakest (empathy, self-confidence, coaching and empowering others, creative thinking, creating an inclusive team environment, intuition, etc.).

Expressive or receptive preference:

In processing information, some prefer to use the receptive back brain, meaning they tend to observe and reflect on what they learn. Others, who have dominance in processing information in the expressive frontal brain, learn by verbally communicating and discussing ideas.

Expressive:

• Word-oriented

• Language

• Talkative

• Open

• Asks questions

Receptive:

• Absorbing learner

• Reserved

• Thinks before acting

• Shy

• Works independently

• Individualistic

Four quadrants of cortical brain preferences:

A: Left front (Logical, analytical, fact-based, quantitative)

B: Left back (Sequential, organized, detailed, planning)

C: Right front (Holistic, intuitive, integrating, synthesis)

D: Left back (Interpersonal, feeling-based, kinesthetic, emotional)

Rational or emotional preference:

• The cortex is responsible for rational thinking

• The limbic system processes emotions and experience

• Depending on your preferences, you may process information cognitively, rationally, and creatively, or emotionally and practically.

Brain & sensory dominance:

• The left hemisphere controls our senses on the right side of the body (right hand, right eye, and right ear), while the right hemisphere controls our senses on the left side of the body (left hand, left eye, and left ear).

Sensory preferences:

• In thinking, learning, and creating, your brain uses three languages: visual, kinesthetic, and auditory.

Intelligence preference:

• How are you smart? What are your strongest intelligence preferences (logical, linguistic, visual, physical, sensory, intrapersonal, interpersonal, creative, naturalistic, musical, spiritual)?

Accenture research showed that while only 8% of respondents use a whole-brain approach today, 82% intend to use a whole-brain approach in the next 3 years.

6 performance drivers of the brain that can negatively or positively influence brain performance:

• Brain fitness is about using all brain areas simultaneously as one functional integrated system.

• Sleep is essential for brain health because it allows us to recharge, optimize brain performance, and alertness.

• Stress and fatigue are the brain’s biggest enemies because they cause neural pathways to shut down.

• Nutrition: you are what you eat. Natural and healthy foods replenish brain energy faster and smarter.

• Attitude and mindset: your attitude is how you usually think. You are what you think. Your performance is the sum of your thoughts.

• Movement: research found that movement increases dendritic growth.

Motivation Mapping for Emotional Agility:

“When you feel motivated, you recognize your potential and feel compelled to fulfill it. You are emotionally more agile.”

What is motivation?

Motivation is energy.

• The word comes from the Anglo-Norman term “motif”, translated as a driving force.

• Our motivations are our inner driving forces that determine how we feel and how we act - our Why - allowing us to be more agile and do things better and faster.

• The three fundamental roots of motivation are personality, self-concept, and future expectations.

Agile performance = Motivation × Ability × Opportunity

Agility and Motivation Mapping

Interesting link: http://www.motivationalmaps.com/

• Individual agility: improving people leadership, career choice, recruitment, reward, performance management

• Agile team: optimizing purpose, team productivity, performance engagement, reducing conflicts

• Organizational agility: improving people engagement, recruitment, retention, change and performance management

3 motivation clusters:

• Achievement

• Growth

• Relationships

Are you driven by growth?

Where the growth cluster is dominant, the individual is motivated by the ability to realize their full potential and be the best they can be. They feel energized when they can create creative change, where freedom and purpose are essential. These people need to be aware that they will need to follow through and finish projects they started, even though they may want to seek new opportunities to express creativity.

• Seeker is someone who wants to make changes. They want meaning and a sense of purpose in what they do. They must feel that they are doing worthwhile work that brings real value with a clear reason.

• Spirit thrives on freedom, autonomy, and independence—so give them a sense of empowerment and ownership over something, while being clear about expectations.

• Creator: These people are about creativity and innovation—so give them an original project. Let them focus on something new or an aspect of continuous improvement that will impact the team or business.

Are you driven by achievement?

Where the achievement cluster is dominant, individuals feel motivated when they gain satisfaction from life, work, and challenges. They are motivated by having a strong sense of direction toward goals and how to overcome challenges that separate them from reaching their goals. They focus on the present: exercising control, creating wealth, or developing mastery in their field. Because they often focus on achieving the goal, they may neglect the bigger picture of their life and personal development.

• Expert: motivate them by helping them gain knowledge. Give them more experience and encourage them to share their knowledge. They can be great trainers and coaches.

• Builder: people with strong builder traits like an above-average standard of living. They are goal-focused and like to feel they have achieved things. Money is very important as material satisfaction. They are often the ones in the team where reward/bonus matters; performance-related pay is a motivator.

• Director: wants to have control. Give them greater responsibility, ensure they are mentored effectively, and allow them to shadow a senior employee for some time. Ask them to think about areas where they can have greater influence, and where appropriate take more control.

Are you driven by relationships?

Where the relationships cluster dominates, a person’s motivation focuses on maintaining workplace relationships and how deep and intense they are. If relationships lead, you place strong emphasis on collaboration, safety, belonging, and recognition. You tend to resist change and be risk-averse because you want to protect the past and recognize the time needed to protect and care for relationships you have built. Relationship motivators are centered on feelings in the heart. This is reflected in the need for security, recognition, and belonging - which is fundamentally linked to interactions with other people.

• Star: loves social esteem. Their motivation buttons are heavily about public recognition because they are great at what they do. Give them opportunities to shine and to be recognized.

• Friend: likes to feel connected to the business and the team. Teamwork and collaboration are very important. They need to feel supported and involved and tend to enjoy organizing team social events and supporting colleagues.

• Defender: likes to feel safe, maintain the status quo, minimize risk, and thrives on continuity. They are motivated by regular communication and feel safer when things are predictable, so they know what is happening.

How to motivate others?

How to use motivation to improve agility, communication, and performance

Motivational Maps provide strategies for better interaction with people, keeping in mind what their dominant motivators are and why they may react in certain ways.

• Seeker: How do I know I will make a difference?

• Spirit: How do I know I will be able to set priorities?

• Creator: How do I know I will be able to make changes?

• Expert: How do I know I will be an expert?

• Builder: How do I know I will earn money?

• Director: How do I know I will have control?

• Star: How do I know I will look good?

• Friend: How do I know you will be there for me?

• Defender: How do I know it will work?

“Whether it is a person’s brain or heart that needs a new impulse, coaches can inspire people to commit more to activating their agility.”

Interesting links: www.fullpotentialgroup.com

http://coachinghataroknelkul.hu/introducing-judit-abri-von-bartheld-ma-mcc/

Suggestions and recommendations:

• I went to the lecture because I am a fan of agile management. The lecture did not mention agility at all as our “agile coaches” know it.

• That expectation blocked me at the beginning. Later, when I spoke with the presenters and read the materials, I understood how strong and important the topic is.

Takeaways

• I understood what neuro-agility is and how to use seven aspects of coachees’ unique neurological design.

• I know how to strengthen six drivers that influence agile performance and well-being.

• I can recognize nine motivators in coachees, which helps me become a more effective coach.

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