%% #📓 #📢 #🟡 %% # How To Be Ambitious **Speaker(s):** Michael Bungay Stanier **Citation:** Stanier, M. B. (2021). *How to be ambitious* [Webinar]. WBECS. https://community.wbecs.com/c/coaching-styles-tools-techniques?redirect_after_custom_login=true&user_session_identifier=2503fdd2ee0e50e7ffdcc4de75caa6606bb32c4c-14cba99e-6f9b-4d8a-a9e6-f490ed99fc24 --- # Summary ## Key Takeaways # Notes & Important Ideas - Purpose of coaching is to make people better and the world better. > We unlock our greatness by working on the hard stuff. - Two great coaching check-in questions: - "On a scale of 1 to 7, how focused are you ready to be today?" - "On a scale of 1 to 7, how deep do you want to go today?" - Start coaching sessions by establishing how we're going to have the conversation before getting into the details of the content. - What does it mean to set a worthy goal? - Goal should be worthy of my life and worthy of the world - 3 attributes of a worthy goal: 1. Thrilling - lights you up and speaks to your values - makes you feel [[sparked]] - counteracts any sense of obligation 2. Important - what if we could give more to the world than we take? - creates sense of service - counteracts against selfishness - in tension with thrilling 3. Daunting - takes you to the edge of yourself - confidence and competence - will teach you and create new neural pathways - you know how to start it, but you don't know how to finish it - Where do you find a worthy goal? - think about two areas of life: work and not-work - think about scale: narrow (intimate) -> broad - think about whether to highlight projects, people, or patterns Draft 1 of a worthy goal: To grow my position as Patient Experience coordinator to be an effective coach and consultant for the leaders at Three Rivers. - How do you test your worthy goal? 1. Thrilling: Spouse-ish - imagine telling your spouse or bff your worthy goal, how would they react? - AMAZING! Perfect expression of who you are and how you want to be in the world. - No! That is a terrible idea. - Yes, but could you stop talking about it and get going on it. You talk about it but you never act on it. - piece of data, not the truth or answer, from someone who knows you well 2. Important: FoSo - for the sake of what? 3. Daunting: Goldilocks Zone - not too big that it's overwhelming, not too small that it's insignificant - Worthy goal should start with a verb > Here's one of the truths about worthy goals that I've figured out: It's incredibly powerful to name it, and name the outcome you want, but the gold is in the process. The gold is in the doing of it. Draft 2 of worthy goal: To reinvent my role as Patient Experience coordinator to more effectively coach and support leaders at Three Rivers in engaging and empowering their teams to provide an excellent experience for everyone who interacts with Asante Three Rivers. - The Voting Test - give your worthy goal a score, on a scale of 1 to 7, for each dimension - total possible score is 21 - if it's less than 18, there may be more work to do My worthy goal score: - Thrilling = 6 - Important = 7 - Daunting = 6 - Total = 19/21 - Add a word or phrase to tighten your worthy goal - Four places to look to for a word: 1. be more specific around the standard at which you're delivering it - e.g., elite, good enough 2. be more specific around the reach you want to have - e.g., business unit, local, global 3. be more specific about the timing - e.g., by Q3, by 2030 4. be more specific about the volume, the time it will take or the quantity you're striving for - e.g., time, amount Final draft of worthy goal: Reinvent my role as Patient Experience coordinator over the next 9 months to more effectively coach and support leaders at Three Rivers in engaging and empowering their teams to provide an excellent experience for everyone who interacts with Asante Three Rivers. # Author's Purpose - To discuss a process he teaches in his new book, *[[How to Begin-MBS]]*. - Call for coaches to be ambitious for yourself and for the world. # Personal Revelations - The Worthy Goal exercise has helped me clarify and solidify what's been on my mind regarding my current position and how I want to show up at work over the next year. - Having a specific process and moving through it quickly helps you reflect without getting stuck. - I need to be more intentional in setting up my conversations with leaders instead of jumping right into the content. - This is a great activity to do in advance of declaring a [[definite chief aim]] for [[annual pre-planning]]. --- # Other References TBR:: 🔖 How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters (GR) TBR:: 🔖 Multipliers by Liz Wiseman (GR) TBR:: 🔖 A Manifesto for a Moral Revolution by Jacqueline Novogratz (book and TED talk) (GR) ## Tags [[coaching]] | [[Productivity MOC]] | [[Goal-setting]]