Deep Roots

Adaptive Mindset Coaching

Harvard professors did a study of over a 1000 organizations and they found the single biggest loss of resources is fear, fear of making mistakes, fear of looking bad, fear of inadequacy and this fear leads to hiding. They wrote “ In ordinary organizations, most people are doing a second job no one is paying them for. In businesses large and small; in government agencies, schools, and hospitals; in for-profit and non-profit and in any country in the world, most people are spending time and energy covering up their weaknesses, managing other people’s impressions of them, showing themselves to their best advantage, playing politics, hiding their inadequacies, hiding their uncertainties, hiding their limitations. Hiding. We regard this as the single biggest loss of resources that organizations suffer everyday.”This fear and hiding leads to paralysis in decision-making and the speed of decision-making is what separates successful organizations from unsuccessful ones.Adaptive Mindset Coaching was developed to build the resilience skills needed to overcome the fear, hiding, and silence that is prevalent in many organizations. AMT helps participants develop the skills to promote psychological safety in organizations, dial-down the fear in decision-making, and upgrade finding situational awareness. The core of this program builds resilience, which helps participants embrace challenges, seek out feedback, and persist for longer periods of time.

• Adaptive Mindset Coaching

What's Working / What's Not Working

What’s Working/Not Working is a facilitated exercise that builds team trust and exposes what’s on peoples’ minds. Putting problems on the table destigmatizes issues. It also captures the collective intuition on priorities of what to address.When this exercise is first introduced to organizations the common response by leaders is fear, fear to hear in the open the “bad and the ugly” of their organization. This is natural, but leaders sometimes fail to understand that their employees are already talking about these things and the leader is usually the only one kept in the dark and if they hear anything at all it is a filtered version. Every organization has problems, but what is far worse than having an organization riddled with problems is having an organization whose leader is ignorant to those problems.In Amy Edmondson’s book “The Fearless Organization” she discovered that the best teams reported more errors and problems. This seems counterintuitive, until she found out that they reported more errors and problems because they felt safe to do so which encouraged learning across the organization. The worst teams didn’t have less problems (they actually had more) they just didn’t feel safe to surface those problems, which hindered organizational advancement and learning. This exercise helps build psychological safety and encourages organizational learning.

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Explore the Edges Coaching

A "Explore the Edges" exercise is a type of creative thinking exercise that is designed to help people think outside of the box and come up with new and innovative ideas. The idea behind this exercise is to encourage people to think about the boundaries of a particular topic or problem and then brainstorm ways to push beyond those boundaries to come up with new ideas. This can be a useful exercise for individuals or teams who are looking to generate new ideas or solve a difficult problem.

• Explore the Edges