How to use the 8 capabilities to cultivate rewards.

1. POWER8 critical capabilities for
navigating an
unpredictable world
By Debbie Craig
People Strategist and Catalyst
8
“What we intend to, and
pay attention to,
become our reality”
John Keehoe

2. Unpredictable World
Pre Covid
In Covid
Post Covid

4. Future skills required
Digital
Tech trends, digital savvy, eco-
system, remote work, tech &
data concepts & processes,
data analytics & visualisation,
AI, security
Cognitive
Critical thinking, problem
solving, creativity, innovation,
scenario planning, complexity
thinking, project
management
Social
Relationship skills, leading,
influencing, remote teaming,
engagement collaboration,
customer connection, conflict
management
Resilience
Self-awareness, confidence,
growth mindset, adaptability,
focus, effectiveness, stress &
energy management, mental
wellbeing
Are you, your team and your organisation … RELEVANT, RESILIENT AND READY for the future?

5. FROM
• Doing what we know
• Dreaming but waiting
• Playing it safe
• Resisting change
• Distracted, disorganized
• Jumping to conclusions
• Working or competing alone
• Focus on me, now,
WIIFM
TO
• Experimenting
• Creating and learning
• Bravely trying new things
• Navigating change
• Focused intent, time, energy
• Exploring, questioning,
simplifying
• Collaborating for greater value
• Focus on purpose, contribution

6. From safe spectator…
To curious explorer
CURIOUS
From cautious dreamer…
To possibility connector
CREATIVE
From anxious controller…
To courageous adventurer
COURAGEOUS
From distracted operator …
To wise discerner
CONSCIOUS
From passive resistor…
To maze navigator
CHANGE NAVIGATORFrom default thinker…
To meaning maker
CRITICAL THINKER
From status consumer…
To community builder
CONTRIBUTOR
From independent competitor…
To trust cultivator
COLLABORATOR
Critical capabilities – 8 identity shifts
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7. What doesn’t work?
# Stats
87% have or will have
skills gaps
Up to 35% remote
15% leader readiness
< 50% know how

8. Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare!
By 35, 95% of who you are is a set of memorized behaviors and emotional reactions that create
and identity subconsciously. Dr Joe Dispenza
60000-70000
18 - 254 days
How many thoughts?
90% sameHow many the same?
How long to change a habit?
More + or -? 70% negative

9. Why is it so hard to change?
Our brains …
Record of past
Hardwired for comfort & safety
Memories as emotions
Triggers – stress response

10. Stress response
Major impact on: immune system, general health, brain functioning, oxygen, creativity, strategic
thinking, decision making, empathy, intuition, energy
How much of our day do spend in the stress response?

11. How do we bring back choice?
Belief
I believe …
Feeling
I feel …
Identity
I am ….
Habit
I act ….
E.g. I am afraid, I can’t do it, I can’t
change
E.g. I feel anxious, worried, a
failure, weak
E.g. I keep procrastinating; I
worry what others think of me
E.g. I am brave, I am not afraid to
fail, my actions create my reality
E.g. I feel optimistic, confident, strongE.g. I embrace learning, and
change, I try new things
E.g. I am AN ANXIOUS
CONTROLLER
E.g. I am a A COURAGEOUS
ADVENTURER
Automatic
vs Choice

12. CURIOUS
“Curiosity is actually a secret super-
power that all of us can cultivate.”
Brian Grazer, author A Curious Mind

13. Indifferent spectator Curious explorer
CURIOUS
Belief
Feeling
Identity
Habit
Curious Explorer I Engager I ExperimenterSafe Spectator I Proclaimer I Safety-zoner

14. CREATIVE
“We are the
creative force of our
life, and through
our own choices
rather than our
conditions, if we
carefully learn to do
certain things, we
can accomplish
those goals.”
Stephen Covey

15. CREATIVE
Belief
Feeling
Identity
Habit
Cautious dreamer Possibility connector
Follower I Resistor I Dreamer Ideator I Authentic I Connector

16. COURAGE

17. COURAGE
Controlled critic Courageous adventurer
Belief
Feeling
Identity
Habit
Anxious I Vigilant I Controller Resilient I Optimistic I Adventurer

18. CHANGE NAVIGATOR
“Change will not
come if we wait for
some other person or
some other time. We
are the ones we've
been waiting for. We
are the change that
we seek.”
Barack Obama

19. Passive resistor Maze navigator
CHANGE NAVIGATOR
Belief
Feeling
Identity
Habit
Passive-resistor I Hitch hiker I
Push over
Path Finder I Maze Navigator I
Change Influencer

20. CONSCIOUS
“What we intend to …
and pay attention to …
become our reality.” John
Kehoe

21. Distracted operator Wise discerner
CONSCIOUS
Belief
Feeling
Identity
Habit
Drifter I Deflector I Distracted Discerner I Decisive I Focused

22. CRITICAL THINKER
“The quality of all our
doing depends on the
quality of the thinking we
do first.” Nancy Kline

23. Default thinker Meaning maker
CRITICAL THINKER
Belief
Feeling
Identity
Habit
Expedient I Linear I Complicator Anticipator I Systemic I Integrator

24. COLLABORATOR
“If you want to go fast,
go alone. If you want to
go far, go together.”
African Proverb

25. COLLABORATOR
Belief
Feeling
Identity
Habit
Independent Competitor Trust Cultivator
Independent I Sensitive I Protector Inclusive I Trusted I Resolver

26. “Only those who have
learned the power of
sincere and selfless
contribution, experience
life’s deepest joy, true
fulfilment.” Tony Robbins
CONTRIBUTOR

27. CONTRIBUTOR
Belief
Feeling
Identity
Habit
Status consumer Community builder
Entitled I Consumer I Status builder Accountable I Contributor I Mentor

28. Neuroplasticity – brain rules for learning & change
Clear vision of future
self or skill, attention
Thoughts
& feelings
aligned
See self with new
skills or behaviors
Build positive
daily habits
Breathe, calm,
choose identity,
beliefs, actions
Pause, watch, reflect
beliefs, feelings,
habits
CHANGE
“Our energy flows where our attention goes” Tony Robbins
Intention + Attention
Coherence
Imagination
Repetition
Refractory
period (EQ)
Metacognition

29. Imagination
Our brain does not know the difference between imagination and reality
Physical changes can occur by thought alone. Cultivate your thoughts, skills, choices.
“Our brains don’t know the difference
between an imaginary threat and a real one.”
Dawson Church

30. Repetition

31. VIDEO: Hebbian Law in Action

32. Building critical capabilities
DO NOT …
 hit the numbers
 leave it to chance
 on-line only
 skills only
 separate from culture or role
DO …
 clarify audience
 cost vs impact
 customised aligned journeys
 collaborative action learning
 coaching & change readiness

33. Controlled critic Courageous adventurer
Anxious
Stuck
Pretender
Authentic
Resilient
Adventurer
Courage – learning example
• It’s best to stay safe, in
control and in the known
• Vulnerability is weakness
• Courageous ideas but don’t
act on them
• I am not a hero
• Its safer not to trust others
• My true power lies in my
authentic voice
• Vulnerability is strength and
builds trust
• Today, I choose courage over
comfort
• Those that dare greatly,
achieve greatly
• Feel the fear and do it anyway
HABIT 3:
Friends with FEAR
Do something you are afraid
of
Fail on purpose
Get comfy out of comfort
zone
HABIT 4:
Become FEAR … LESS
Free .. Empowered .. Agile ..
Resilient
Check and shift core beliefs
Practice scripts for different
scenarios
“I can handle anything!”
“I am enough, I have enough”
fear = separate from source
HABIT 2:
Calibrate the FEAR
Check need for control,
perfectionism and “being
good enough”, or a pleaser
Be vulnerable - ask for
feedback
Admit mistakes and ask for
forgiveness
HABIT 1:
Fool the FEAR
Make a list of your fears.
Confront with critical
questions.
Is it from a real or F.E.A.R. =
False Evidence Appearing
Real.

34. Courage – inspiring examples

35. POWER8

36. “If you want a new outcome,
you will have to break the habit
of being yourself, and reinvent
a new self “ Dr Joe Dispenza
THANK YOU