KATHERINE BECKS
Kbanks
PersonalMastery2015.ppt
Personal Mastery
THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE
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The Learning Organization
- Organizations learn through individuals who learn
Not guaranteed if even learners present
Not possible if learners are absent
- Individual wills, minds and thinking need to be directed toward goals of organization
- Need to tap subconscious mind, will power and heart
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The New Organization
- Sees people as the active forces of business.
- Sees the need to address and use their uniqueness
- Sees internal motivation as the only way to corporate quality and growth
- Recognizes the need for employees to reach their highest potential
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Management Role
Old Role
- Planning
- Organizing
- Controlling
New Role
- Take responsibility for “lives” of people
- Enable conditions for enriching life
- Address higher needs of worker
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Physiological or Survival Needs
Safety Needs
Belonging & Love Needs
Esteem Needs
Self
Actualization
Needs
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Personal Mastery A Definition
- Personal Mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively
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Personal Mastery is
- A discipline of personal growth and learning
- A continuing process of expanding abilities
- Focused on accomplishing desired results
- Approaching one’s life as a creative work
Not limited to competence and skills
Requires spiritual growth and goes beyond it.
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Personal Mastery as a Discipline
- Continually clarifies what is important to us – Helps to keep focused on why
- Continually learning how to see current reality more clearly – need a real view of where we are now
Creative Tension
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Characteristics – Personal Mastery
- Possesses a special sense of purpose behind vision and goals
- Sees the vision as the calling, not just a good idea
- Sees current reality as ally not the enemy
- Works with forces of change rather than against them
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Characteristics – Personal Mastery
- Seeks a more accurate understanding of reality
- Feels connected to others & to life itself
- Sacrifices no individual uniqueness
- Feels a part of the larger process, which they can influence but not control
- Lives in continual learning mode – aware of individual ignorance, incompetence and growth areas
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Resistance to Personal Mastery
- Cynicism – human potential movement is BS doesn’t work
- Mistake of converting ideals into expectations – Feel stress when people let them down
- Personal mastery will be counter productive in organizations which are not properly aligned.
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Personal Mastery: Why we want it?
- It will make organizations stronger because:
More commitment
Take more initiative
Broader and deeper sense of responsibility to their work
- It will promote greater happiness for employees
- Bottom line is we want personal mastery because we want it
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Why is Personal Mastery rejected
- It is soft can’t be quantified or measured in terms of impact on bottom line and productivity.
- Cynicism – from frustrated idealists
- Will threaten established order of well managed company
True if company not aligned
If managers of company don’t have the will or skills then be fruitless.
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The Discipline of Personal Mastery
- Personal vision
- Mental Models
- Shared Vision
- Team Learning
- Systems thinking
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