Our Transformational Systems
Personal Systems
Personal systems are a way to align daily activities and habits with our leadership identity. Systems are different than goals in that create the structure that helps us make daily and consistent choices to achieve our goals.
Personal systems involve:
Activating the right inner state (thoughts, feelings, mindsets, and intentions) to engage in the right behaviors and actions on the outside. Our thoughts create perspectives of ourselves and the world around us. Our perspectives may be based on our personal values – the beliefs or principles we use to guide our priorities, decisions, and behaviors. Yet our brains can’t tell the difference between reality and fantasy, so we need a system for evaluating our thoughts, shifting them when necessary to determine the appropriate behaviors and best course of action.
Creating a compass for deciding how to live our values.
Developing habits that align with our values and reinforce positive behaviors, while eliminating inferior or unwanted habits.
People Systems
From developing our Personal Systems, we know that activating the right inner state is necessary for engaging in the right behaviors and actions on the outside. While we are unable to control the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of others, we can extend our Personal Systems to interact with others in positive, relationship-building ways.
People Systems offers opportunities to reflect, practice, and refine the way we think about and engage in one-on-one, group, and team interactions. We’ll focus on areas like trust, belonging, communication styles, navigating divergent perspectives, the power of influence, conflict resolution preferences, collaborative and innovative problem solving, performance management, developing others, and leading effective teams.
Our ThoughtShift methodology teaches leaders how to pause and choose how to respond in ways that demonstrate their own Personal Systems and respectfully embrace the Personal Systems of others.
Effective People Systems create an environment of belonging where people are treated with dignity and respect.
Organizational Systems
Organizations are comprised of individuals with unique Personal Systems and varying approaches to People Systems. Navigating complex organizations requires a deep understanding of these dynamics and how they work to support or derail organizational systems.
An organizational strategy is derived from reflection, research, and collaborative idea generation. Strategy sets the direction for the organization and informs us of why we want to head that way, what behaviors and actions move us along the pathway, and how we will get to our destination. A three- to six-month strategic planning process is both inspiring and challenging, yet the implementation of that strategy and execution of priority-aligned tasks can seem daunting.
Outcomes from a strategy planning process may include significant change for an organization. People may be asked to reframe the organization and how they exist within it. Shifting our thoughts about our relationship to our organization and others may strain our Personal and People Systems.
PatternShifts’ approach to strategy planning includes a whole-scale process that engages all staff in creating the strategy and identifies potential changes to organizational design, culture, and leadership capabilities. We design a comprehensive program for addressing these changes while developing the leadership competencies and character needed to effectively implement the strategy and execute critical tasks.
Our ThoughtShift methodology is applied when leaders create a vision, generate alignment, and manage the execution of a strategy. It is threaded throughout a carefully crafted organizational redesign. It helps to reshape organizational culture in ways that build the trust needed to reduce our natural resistance to change.
Effective Organizational Systems form the keystone for sparking innovative ideas, propelling positive change, and enlarging the value an organization brings to the world.
Organizational Systems solutions include strategic planning, organizational design/development, cultural transformation, and effective change management. These processes are supplemented as needed with coaching (executive, individual, group, or team) engagements or PatternShifts’ premier, blended leadership development programs.