A quick overview
(with Samples For You To Experience.)
by
Thomas O. (“TOC”) Carncross, Ph.D., M.R.E.,
Registered Organization Development Practitioner.
DocTOC@BestResultsPlus.com
303.422.3344
Avoid being trapped by the limited results of problem solving!
Building on, & refining, your Best Results works enormously better. Yes,
• You, your
• Group, & your
• Company
already have successes (from barely surviving, up through satisfying success), employing your strengths – all of which you can refine to become even more valuable & useful to you & people who count on you.
Building on your bests.
Your personal, group, & company, "Bests" happen when you apply & refine your natural talents to produce & fine-tune Results.
When you network & integrate everyone's useful Best Results, Plus's (such as emerging enriched effectiveness & efficiency, breakthroughs, etc.) multiply.
Samples for you to experience briefly.
Below, for you to use wherever needed in building your Best Results Plus™, are a few of the powerful questions I refined from over 15 specialities.
When you are thinking &-or feeling that a situation is horrible:
- How come things are not worse? (or more specifically:)
- What has been keeping this situation from becoming worse, or being only as bad as it is/was?
- How can what (above) has been working at least a little bit, be strengthened so it works even better?
- What Value(s) will be strengthened by this working better?
- If this Value happened as much as it possibly could, what might that mean for the people involved? – & what would be even more important?
When are you more enthused about really digging into some project:
What strengths & skills did you call on to support this Value as well as you could?
• to get back to where you were supposed to be; or
• to move forward toward implementing some especially important Value?
As you may notice, these & other Best Results questions emphasize moving:
• TO refining & expanding the use of already-tested strengths.
• FROM trying to fix what is broken,
What Value (for example, a behavior, principle, &-or belief) is especially important for you: ...at work?, ...at home?, &-or ...for you personally?
When have you done an excellent job supporting this value? – & whether or not you supported it as well as you want to – What ideal intentions of supporting it well did you have? How did you manage to support this Value as well as you could?; & more specifically:
Integrating this supportive approach into all of a firm's functions most frequently produces great profit, creativity, flexibility, dedication, & a myriad of other wonderful effects.
I encourage you to give any of these questions a try in your real life & let me know how they work for you.
(For research & various applications of this general principle, see, for example: The Enthusiastic Employee, Sirota, Mischkind, & Meltzer, 2005; & 12: The Elements of Great Managing, Wagner & Harter, 2006.)
Because leaders set the context direction for the whole organization,
• Individual Executives,
•Executive teams, &
• Boards,
are usually the most effective & efficient start, followed by eventual expansion to everyone else.
(However, capitalizing on your Best Results Plus™ can start anywhere & create some pervasive, productive, implementation).
As a leader, being supported by a Best Results Plus™ appreciative approach is likely to re-energize your drive to become a more effective Catalyst, Co-creator, & Synergist, leader – as detailed in Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating & Initiating Change. (which I think is the most-useful current application of decades of research. Joiner & Josephs, 2007, pp. 6-11.)
I encourage you to become even more valuable & useful to your company by building on how far you've already come.
TOC
Thomas O. (“TOC”) Carncross, Ph.D., M.R.E.,
Registered Organization Development Practitioner.
DocTOC@BestResultsPlus.com
303.422.3344
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