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1. Bridging the Gap
between people and possibilities
Jim Haudan
author of The Art of Engagement

2. Trend The future belongs to those of us who see the
possibilities before they become obvious.
Business

3. “The future ain’t what it used to be.”
– Yogi Berra

5. “You can observe a lot,
just by watching.”
– Yogi Berra

6. Execution
trumps strategy
Senior leaders aren’t clear or aligned
on the strategies they create
Managers struggle to interpret the
strategies they are being asked to
translate for their people
Individuals are often clueless on
how they connect to the
strategies presented to them

8. What does your
CANYON
look like?
90% of all 70% of employees Cost to U.S.
strategies aren’t do not consider economy:
well executed. themselves $370 billion
Source: Robert Kaplan actively engaged. in lost productivity.
and David Norton
Source: Gallup Source: Gallup

9. Six ways to “make it real”
To grow companies and to grow people, you must:
1. Embrace Reality
2. Common Mental Models
3. Own the Whole Before Your Piece
4. “ON the Business” vs. “IN the Business”
5. Make It Personal
6. Get Everyone into the Game

10. Embrace Reality
Change and growth can occur naturally
if we have an honest assessment of
where we are… and a clear picture
of where we want to go.

11. Embrace Reality
Unfortunately, most organizations are
not honest or clear as they
approach strategy execution.

12. Embrace Reality
Realism is at the
heart of execution.

13. Embrace Reality
Truth-telling as a
core competency

14. Embrace Reality
3 places we tell truth

15. Embrace Reality

16. Embrace Reality
The Art of the
Watercooler

17. Embrace Reality

18. Embrace Reality

19. Embrace Reality
Wall of Reality

20. Common Mental Models
Leaders
aren’t clear or aligned
on the strategies they create
and the need to shift
to shared meaning.

21. Embrace Reality
What do you think of
when I say the word…

22. Common Mental Models

23. Common Mental Models
Our Bears?
Our Polar Bears?

24. Common Mental Models
The Key Mental Model
for Strategic Change
Why – Big Picture, What – Strategy, How – Bring It to Life

25. Own the Whole Before Your Piece
Give up something before
you get anything back.

26. Own the Whole Before Your Piece

27. Own the Whole Before Their Piece

28. Own the Whole Before Their Piece

29. “On the Business” vs. “In the Business”
The commonly reoccurring
insight is that when
ON the business
becomes uncomfortable,
leaders flee the discomfort for
IN the business
activities that they have mastered.

30. “ON the Business” vs. “IN the Business”

31. “ON the Business” vs. “IN the Business”
75%–25%

32. Make It Personal
Your behaviors become the pace car for
growth and change by being what you expect in others.

33. Make It Personal
The first story of change and coaching your people to change
is a story of empathy…not what you need them to do different
NOW!
We have had far too many edicts, proclamations, and
declarations that THE trains are leaving the station, people are
leaving for the new destination and we have burned the docks
so there is no going back…
The threats of “get on board or ELSE” rarely do anything but
get people to lie lower, become more tentative, and stay
away from boats, trains, and company buses.

34. Make It Personal
Making It Real for You:
• Not fleeing the discomfort but embracing the discomfort
• Hug the indignity
• Celebrate the clumsy
• Dumbass is leading change
• Letting go is not easy – as a matter of fact holding tighter is the
most common response
• Remember the beginner’s mindset – change is beginning again
• The early stages of any significant new learning invoke the spirit
of the fool…your first few dives are likely to be belly flops and will
draw attention from everybody at the pool.

35. Make It Personal
This includes
giving up
the control
that is all about your
old sense of self-worth
and value.

36. Make It Personal
Be the change you expect
in others with this exception…
• Go first faster
• Be more vulnerable
• Make it more personal

37. Getting Everyone into the Game

38. Thank you
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