4. What is Personal Mastery?
• Personal mastery is a discipline of continually
clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of
focusing our energies, of developing patience, and
of seeing reality objectively.
• Personal Mastery is a discipline of formulating of
our dreams, hopes, desires. It is cultivation between
tension, vision and reality.
• The term “personal mastery” is used to describe a
person’s ability to maintain their internal stability at
the ego level of existence.
5. Personnel Mastery
• Learning to develop your skills and capabilities
• commitment to personal growth.
• its a lifelong pursuit.
• It is all about adaptability and continuous
learning
• Its adapting to circumstances
• learning what works and doesn’t work in
maintaining your internal stability.
11. Subconscious
• What distinguishes people with high levels of
personal mastery is they have developed a
higher level of rapport between their normal
awareness and their subconscious
• Subconscious capacity is larger by a factor of
10 as compared to the conscious
12. Strategies for coping with self-limiting
beliefs--Bro Ray Fritz
• Letting our vision erode
• Conflict Manipulation
• Will power
14. Introduction
• Structural Conflict: The Power Of Your
Powerlessness
• Commitment to the Truth
• Using the Subconscious
• Personal Mastery and the Fifth
Discipline
• Fostering Personal Mastery in the
Organization
15. Opening Activity - GTKYP (Get to
know your partner)
• Current Environment: Events, Pressures
& satisfactions
• Group Discussion
• Case Study:
• Outdoor Simulation
16. The Discipline of Personal Mastery
• PM is a discipline,
• a series of principles
• and practices that continually expand PM
• Most adults have little sense of real vision
• Our personal vision must be positive
– An example of diminished vision is focusing on
the means rather than the ends or results
– The ability to focus on ultimate intrinsic desires,
not only on secondary goals, is a cornerstone of
PM
17. Mastery & Proficiency
• PM becomes discipline – an activity we
integrate into our lives– integrating in two
movements
• Continuous clarifying- we forget “why we are
on the path?” often spend too much time
coping with problems along our path.
• Deepening personal vision- continually learning
how to see current reality more clearly.
18. Personal Mastery = Personal Growth &
Learning
• People with high levels of PM are
continually expanding their ability
to create the results in life they truly
seek.
19. The spirit of the Learning Organization
Organization learn only through
individuals who learn.
Few organizational leaders are
recognizing importance of individual
learning.
If people are not sufficiently motivated to
challenge goals of growth and
technology development.. There will be
no growth, gain in productivity.
21. What its like to have lots of
PM
• For such people, a vision is a
calling rather than just a good
idea
• PM is not something you possess,
it is a process--a lifelong discipline
• People with lots of PM are more
committed, they take more
initiative
22. • Full personal development has a
strong impact on individual
happiness
• Work should be seen as an
opportunity to build something to
last, something of value
• PM is a means toward the
organization’s ends
Employers want PM for their
employees because
23. Resistance
• Many individuals and organizations
do resist PM
• No one will ever be able to measure
how much PM contributes to
productivity and the bottom line
• Cynicism: humanistic management
over promised itself to firms in the
1970s
24. More Resistance
• Could it threaten the established order
of a well-managed company? YES!!
• TO EMPOWER PEOPLE IN AN
UNALIGNED ORGANIZATION CAN BE
COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
– Without this alignment, organizational
stress will increase
• “People don’t resist change. They
resist being changed..”
25. Holding Creative Tension
• The gap between our vision and our current reality
is called Creative Tension
• The principle of creative tension is central to the
principle of PM, integrating all elements of the
discipline
• Still creative tension often leads to anxiety,
sadness, discouragement or worry.
• But these negative emotions are emotional
tension and not creative tension
• Watch out for the eroding goals archetype
26. STRUCTURAL CONFLICT”: THE POWER OF
YOUR POWERLESSNESS
• Many of us have a dominant belief that we are
not able to fulfill our desires
– a by-product of growing up
• We believe in our powerlessness-our inability
to bring into being all the things we really care
about.
27. Eliminating self-limiting
beliefs
• Many of us do not believe that we
are worthy or deserving to have
what we truly desire
• Manifestations are: loss of
energy, not able to finish the job,
unexpected obstacles develop,
people let us down, we don’t
believe we can do it
28. Focusing on what we don’t want:
conflict manipulation (negative
vision)
– The way many athletic coaches manipulate and
motivate their players
– The way many managers point out the highly
unpleasant consequences if the company’s goals
are not achieved
• Do you really want to live your life in a state of
fear of failure?
• For such people, there is little joy in life
29. WILL POWER
• We psych ourselves up to overpower all forms
of resistance to achieving our goals
• We motivate ourselves through heightened
volition
• This dogged determination gets things done at
work, but doesn’t turn the trick at home
30. The bottom line of Self-
Limiting Beliefs (SLBs)
• They are hard to change-
psychologists widely concur
31. To change SLBs, we need a
COMMITMENT TO THE TRUTH
• Tell yourself the truth
• Continually broadening our awareness
• Continually deepening our understanding of
the structures underlying current events
• First, must recognize the structural conflict--
recognize the patterns
32. Structures of which we are
unaware hold us prisoner
• Discovering these structures at
work is the stock-and-trade of
people with high levels of PM
33. Truth-seeing reality more and more as
it is
• Pure observation--Buddhists
• Witnessing--Hindus
• “What a tragedy that many must die before he
wakes up”--Koran
• “You shall know the truth and the truth shall
set you free”--Christianity
34. Using the Subconscious; Or, You Don’t
Really Need to Figure it all out
• People with high levels of PM can accomplish
extraordinarily complex tasks with grace and
ease
• The subconscious is intimately involved in PM:
through it, all of us deal with complexity
• The aspect of our mind that is exceedingly
capable of dealing with complexity is called the
subconscious
35. The Core Values of PM
• Integrate reason and intuition
• See your connectedness to the
world
• Be compassionate
• Be committed to the whole
36. Fostering PM in an Organization
• You can’t force employees into PM-to do so is
the most sure-fire way to impede the genuine
spread of commitment to PM
• Leaders must foster a climate in with the
principles of PM are practiced in daily life
37. The Organizational Climate
• Establishing visions, being
committed to the truth,
challenging the status quo.
• Will reinforce the idea that PM is
truly valued in the organization.
• Will reinforce the idea that PM is a
continual, ongoing process.
39. If you can’t picture it, you
won’t make it
• You have to know where you are
headed
• Choose your companions as if your
life depended on it
• Leaders know when to put their
foot down, and when to back down
40. Why we want it ?
• We believe there is no fundamental tradeoff
between
Higher virtues in life economic success
• We believe we have both
• Now there is a different relationship between
Employee and Institution
41. Shift in attitude of work
• Traditionally we seek the type of organizations
are:
a) Development of people on equal plane with
financial success.
b) Practicing the virtues of life & business
success, both are not only compatible but
enrich one another.
c) This is far from the traditional ‘moral of the
marketplace.
42. Resistance
Who could Resist the benefits of personal
mastery?
a) People b)Organizations
Because of radical departure from traditional
contract between employee & institution.
43. Why companies resist
a) It is “soft”
b) Based in part on unquantifiable
concepts—intuition & personal vision
In materialistic culture as ours, it is
difficult to discuss some grounds of PM
Worst for m of resistance is “Cynicism.”
This can be avoided by accurate view of
human nature
