3. Mr K Brian Tracy Elizabeth Gilbert
what you customer says no, your great success,
choose to your own now you are
remember response doomed
your motivation -how to create
who you are
your leadership thinking pattern
how the life feels
your understanding which helps and
affects to others
supports you
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4. We can think our thinking
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5. Creative
moment
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6. 2009
The story of
2012
Who is
watching:
2015
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7. 2009
The story of
2012
Who is
watching:
2015
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8. 2009
The story of
2012
Who is
watching:
2015
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9. Teaching note:
The point is to examine how we could adopt even more authentic authorship in our own life.
Three stories (Mr.K, Brian Tracy, Elizabeth Gilbert) help us to appreciate the diversity of stories.
Those stories also show how positive story can give us strength and determination.
This story perspective requires that we start to reflect our own thinking.
That reflection helps us to see how thoughts raise in our mind and how we are not the same as our thoughts.
Also this is an excellent moment to pause to think how creativity is present in our everyday life, what are
moments of creativity and how they emerge.
The more intensive workshop phase in this session focuses on examination of stories and how those stories
have developed in time.
The participants are asked to pick up a story which is most relevant to them and then examine what was
the essence of the story 2009, what it is now and what it will be 2015.
The participants are free to choose how they portray the essence of the story.
It can be a freehand drawing which may for instance highlight the key elements or key players and their
positions at certain time. Or perhaps some keywords are the way to capture the essence of the story.
Also participants are asked to analyze more than one story development, perhaps first the focus is on
company/corporate level (2009,2012,2015), then profit unit/department/team level and finally we should
focus on everyone’s own story.
Always to focus is to think how participants are part of these stories and how they might develop
even more active role in creating beneficial stories.
For some background reading:
http://arimanninen.blogspot.fi/2012/10/your-story-and-stories-of-mr-k-brian.html
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10. CV Ari Manninen
Director of Executive Education
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University of Jyväskylä
Finland
ari.manninen@jyu.fi
arimanninen
Ari Manninen blog
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