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PERSONAL CHAPTER TAKEAWAYS Action Plan – Tunnel Vision Take a few minutes and complete this Action Plan about Tunnel Vision.

Tunnel Vision Self-Handicap

What is the Situation

Trigger Impact on Others What to Do/When

Changing your mindsets

___Expedient ___Avoiding ___Apprehension ___Self-Deception

___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Get beyond linear thinking

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___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Learn to juggle projects

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___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Think long-term. ___Expedient ___Avoiding ___Apprehension ___Self-Deception

___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

View situations from different perspectives

___Expedient ___Avoiding ___Apprehension ___Self-Deception

___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Practice conceptual thinking

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___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Engage in “what-if” thinking

___Expedient ___Avoiding ___Apprehension ___Self-Deception

___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Create a map of the variables for a project and their interactions

___Expedient ___Avoiding ___Apprehension ___Self-Deception

___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Analyze group influences on your thinking

___Expedient ___Avoiding ___Apprehension ___Self-Deception

___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Choose a problem to work on when you have free moments

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___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Better Prioritizing

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___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Deal with procrastination

___Expedient ___Avoiding ___Apprehension ___Self-Deception

___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Ignoring people after you get your way

___Expedient ___Avoiding ___Apprehension ___Self-Deception

___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Understanding your place in the bigger picture

___Expedient ___Avoiding ___Apprehension ___Self-Deception

___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Employees focusing on you, not the customer

___Expedient ___Avoiding ___Apprehension ___Self-Deception

___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Focusing on your current success not the future

___Expedient ___Avoiding ___Apprehension ___Self-Deception

___Deliberate Action________ ___Self-efficacy_____________ ___Face it _________________ ___Look & Listen___________

Baby Steps

Remember that baby steps can be a foundation for everything else. Achieving goals requires taking small

steps first and success in baby steps reinforces success in subsequent steps.

The baby steps for this chapter are:

1. Use the ladder technique to examine a particular mindset’s hold on you.

2. Practice diagraming a problem to show you how complexity increases when you look at a

problem different ways.

3. Explore the website Mindtools.com, create an account, and get started.

The Key Behaviors to use in diagraming your mindset are:

1. Start with determining your mindset toward one issue. Use the ladder technique and in the

center list these things:

a. What is the challenge

b. How I deal with obstacles

c. How I view effort

d. How I handle criticism

e. How I view success of others.

2. Then on the left side, list what you do. Be honest. For example, let’s us use exercise33:

I avoid exercise The Challenge When I have to, I give up Obstacles I think it is a waste/fruitless Effort I ignore it/am defensive Criticism I am jealous/threatened Success of others

3. What you have is your current mindset toward exercise (and maybe losing weight). Now,

on the right side, list what you think would be a better mindset. For example:

I avoid exercise The Challenge I seek/embrace it. When I have to, I give up Obstacles I persist until successful I think it is a waste/fruitless Effort I think it is the path to mastery I ignore it/am defensive Criticism I learn from it/I take action I am jealous/threatened Success of others I find lessons 4. This exercises was just about diagraming and discovering a mindset, so you are done with

your baby step. However, you should now make a list of how you will change your context to find the mindset on the right hand side.

5. Now, over the next week or so, use this technique to draw a quick picture or diagram of

each of your mindsets toward your:

 Employees or team

 Company

 Project

 and Career

An influence diagram is intended to document an overview of a problem. It shows the variables and

their relationships. By capturing the dimensions of a problem it makes the elements that need to be

analyzed visible as one picture. It encourages a broader view of a problem. The Key Behaviors for

diagraming a problem are:34

1. Select an appropriate result or outcome measure. Draw a square corresponding to it on one side of the paper.

2. Identify the decision variables and the external influences which may affect the result. Place rectangles corresponding to decision variables circles for external influences around the perimeter of the paper. If the problem is quite complex, use Post-It notes for each of the variables so you can move them around.

3. Starting with a result/outcome measure identify major variables that would influence it. Try to have only two nodes connect to another node. Continue this process till all external influence and results nodes are connected to at least one decision or intermediate variable.

4. Check the diagram by looking at nodes that are not connected and ask yourself if a connection should exist? If it should, draw an arrow connecting the nodes.

5. Using a + or – indicate the influence of each variable on the adjacent variable. The Key Behaviors for exploring Mindtools are:

1. Go to http://www.mindtools.com/

2. Create an account and log in.

3. Answer the questions that will guide your learning in the website.

4. Getting go on your practice/

Follow Up Questions

1. What makes you procrastinate? How will you recognize, admit, and adjust?

2. In your own experience, what happens when someone has “transactional interactions” with

others on a regular basis?

3. What projects do you have to juggle right now? What are their key deadlines?

4. What mindsets need to be changed in your organization or life? How would you go about

changing them?