I managed to get a badge for attending an agile mindset webinar by Chuen Chuen. Many times I have wondered what is agile and how does it improve the lives of people around the world? This time, I am glad that I can attend a webinar from a highly experience coach with real world experience in dealing with hundreds of leaders around the world. Learning from such a successful coach in the Linkedin world, I am glad that I managed to complete my course and get my credentials for Agile Thinking and Leadership after answering the few questions for my course. I am going to share my answers here to summarize my key takeaways from the fruitful session.
Name a few reasons why the agile mindset is important for today’s leaders
First, some leaders are stuck with a poor mindset of scarcity where life is a race where you need to get to the top of the ladder faster than anybody else. Next, they are not good team players and these are not good qualities like possessing a competitive and suspicious side. Third, some leaders need a good frame of mind like a full reset as they have self doubts and confidence issues. The problem lies in frame of mind and there needs to be a transformation of thoughts, emotions and action. Hence the agile mindset where they need to change their way of thinking and start on a completely different path.
Name the three steps in ACESENCE’s proven process that help leaders grow the agile mindset/agility.
First, the use of metaphors and question where it becomes a powerful process. This is where you use metaphors in a specific way such as to unveil and surface new perspective. You can consider new perspective where you are able to decide which one serves you best. There is an effect of using metaphors on people’s thinking. Mindsets can easily become agile if you invest in the right processes over time. Thus, you need to regularly invite metaphors into the thinking process and disrupt the automatic thinking process.
Second, you need to combine metaphors with powerful questions so these can reframe, expand your thinking and reflect on your reality and thinking about your thinking or metacognition.
Third, reflect on your paradoxes where you feel uneasy. This is when your head is saying something but your heart is saying something else. Or perhaps you feel stuck as all the options feel correct.
We shared five inner voices at the training. Which one resonated with you the most? Explain
I believe that I resonate with the developer. This inner voice I believe help others to grow and succeed. Life becomes meaningful when we grow as developer and serve others where we need to pass on the flame and lighting other people’s fire. This is where we see ourselves growing human potential. These voice helps us become more aware and help us turn the lens from looking in to looking out. I have mainly resonated with these traits having served the less advantaged and needy in my community involvement service job in the past. In the present I think as a teacher I often have to develop the individual potential of my students by finding the right coaching and so motivating them to excel.
What’s one practical step you’d like to take to begin growing an agile mindset?
Using metaphors and paradoxes for story telling more in my lesson planning as well as my writing on Linkedin and blogs. As a teacher, I believe that I have been interested in the potential of my students as I often develop their interest in metaphors and answering questions too.
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