“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head.   But I’ll tell you a secret.   All the best people are.”    Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carol

One thing is for sure: You Are Not Alone. My individual and business leader clients want to move beyond habit, pattern, and not knowing what they don’t know.   Even it means being uncomfortable sometimes.    They usually want 7 things from our work together:

1. TRANSFORMATIVE THINKING
2. ADAPTABLE, INFORMED PLANNING
3. BETTER QUESTIONS THAT WILL DRIVE SUPERIOR ANSWERS
4. COMBINATIONS OF TOOLS THAT WORK
5. CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES
6. UNBIASED/SMART INSIGHT, ADVICE, AND FEEDBACK
7. PRIVATE WORK PLANS WITH PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY

Whether the expertise and support you seek is focused on your personal life, your work life, or the life of your business, there is lots opportunity out there. It may be fleeting and require much more careful sorting in less time than before. Clearly, the 3 areas of focus overlap and interact like a complex system. Accustomed as we are to continuous change (sometimes known as Continuous Improvement), disruptive change is new to many of us. We don’t see it coming. It can entirely change what we knew to be true and relied on. It can’t be solved as a problem. We do need to hang onto our familiar tools and processes BUT we can no longer pretend they are sufficient and our best options. Need to honor and use these wisely, remembering that overuse of strength many times turns rapidly into a weakness:

1. Define the problem to be solved or need to be met
2. Create and execute a Plan yourself. Or hire someone who has seen it all before, a coach with specialized expertise or a professional with packages of pre-existing solutions that can be rapidly implemented.   Plan Components:    Right data.   Action steps.  Budget.  Dates.  Metrics.  Performance reality checks.  Accountability.
3. Deliver solution on plan, on time, and on budget.
4. Announce and celebrate success
5. Move on to the next problem to be solved or need to be met
6. Repeat

Of course, this level of linear, reliable simplicity and permanence is often no longer possible.   Past successes are no longer automatic indicators of future wisdom or performance.   This isn’t something out there in her future.    It’s already here, involves interrelated pieces (systems) and is still growing.   And it’s moving fast.  Now in our upside down world we have constantly imploding assumptions, expiration of expertise, persuasion architecture, misinformation, and few clear pathways to far fewer permanent destinations.   For those of us – individually and those running companies – who still rely on completion, knowing in advance, checking things off of lists, and breathers for results and self-esteem these are frustrating times.

One way or another we’re all going to have to pivot.

Pivot (Intransitive Verb ‘piv.et)   To turn or twist in another, necessary direction whether or not you already fully know the new path and destination in advance.     Pivoting usually involves some level of risk-taking.

Think of these web site pages as my personal letter to you.

Don’t Call Me Coach

I’m leading a life that has lots of learning attached to it. Lots of success and a few failures along the way. I will have to act, write, and speak in ways that are consistent with what I need.  Let’s start with our common notion of Coach.

I know for sure I don’t want to be called “Coach”.  Here’s why.

I am assuming you have the desire and tenacity to read and work with my really smart content as a primer in what we can do and accomplish together. If you are seeking the easiest X number of simple steps or a formula that, when followed repeatedly, will guaranty the results you want, I wish you the very best and suggest you look elsewhere. If, however, you want to craft the smartest ways forward for yourself and/or your business through thinking and acting differently, my website is definitely the place for you to begin.

I have arranged my website content and pages to make it as organized and useable for you as possible. You can begin to think in the clusters of information represented by the buttons below.

How Do I Get There From Here….When The Old Rules No Longer Apply? by George Schofield. Don’t be put off by the book’s emphasis on retirement.      

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