Don’t just do something, stand there!/Change
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Don’t just do something, stand there! is based on ten foundational principles. Managing Yourself, or simply change thrives on four principles:
- friends with anxiety
- Make friends with anxiety to seize emerging learning opportunities that improve your leadership capabilities, as it:
- provides tips on how best to make use of and manage anxiety that often arises in meetings;
- touches on another tool from Weisbord’s book on productive workplaces—the four rooms of change;
- enables the four rooms of change to know where you are and what to do next.
- Make friends with anxiety to seize emerging learning opportunities that improve your leadership capabilities, as it:
- projection alert
- projection alert to become aware of your own likes and dislikes and turn them into nutricients for personal growth, as it:
- advises you to be aware of your projections to avoid getting upset or agitated with things that can happen in gatherings;
- can lead you to even more profound insights with the four questions to stop suffering and enjoy utter freedom.
- projection alert to become aware of your own likes and dislikes and turn them into nutricients for personal growth, as it:
- dependable authority
- Be a dependable authority to be consistent, congruent, and coherent despite a salvo of projections onto you and onto others, as it:
- explains the importance of learning the authority dynamics that are played out in meetings;
- discusses experiencing authority projections, dependency and counter-dependency.
- Be a dependable authority to be consistent, congruent, and coherent despite a salvo of projections onto you and onto others, as it:
- just say no
- just say no to make your ‘yes’ mean something, as it:
- urges assertiveness while not promising more than one can deliver.
- just say no to make your ‘yes’ mean something, as it:
The first six principles focus on Facilitate or Leading Meetings.