A young man had friends who played golf so he thought he would too.
He borrowed a golf club and tried to hit a ball. Then he tried again.
He got up early one morning and joined them at a golf course.
His first challenge was simply to hit the ball. Then to hit it straight. Then to get it to the green. Then into the hole.
He didn’t worry about his score at first because he was focused on just hitting the ball.
He played a few holes, then a few more. Now he kept score.
He went back a few weeks later and with practice, his playing and his score improved.
He became a golfer.
No one was born knowing how to play golf.
Anyone who plays golf has followed the same path.
They think about playing, they try it, they set targets, they see how they’re playing. Then they practice.
Think, Do, Aim, See, Repeat
Is there anything we learn, or change in life that doesn’t follow those 5 steps?
Yes we are all born with behaviours and actions pre-wired, but everything else is learned.
At BalancedKaizen we believe this basic pattern underpins everything you learn, therefore almost everything you do.
Until you stop thinking about it consciously and react subconsciously..
You reach unconscious competence. You re-program your brain.
We call it the Learning Curve.
Confident drivers experience getting to a regular destination without remembering how they drove there.
Experienced golfers use muscle memory to hit regular shots.
“…Think, Do, Aim, See & Repeat… this basic pattern underpins everything we learn, therefore almost everything we do…”
As a leader you also do a lot of things subconsciously.
Good and bad.
Like using fear as a leadership tool
or not.
Like stepping out into a risky venture
or not.
Like setting new priorities every week
or not.
Like creating lots of rules to follow
or not.
Like stopping to chat to team members you don’t like.
or not.
Every minute of every day your actual leadership is on display, so if you want to change any part of it you need to work on it.
or not.
Leadership is about helping a team go through the learning curve to an outcome, then repeating it until they do it by muscle memory.
First learning yourself, then at work, then helping your team.
What are we thinking? what are we doing? where are we aiming? what do we see? what is repeated?
What do you do to help us think, do, aim, see and repeat?
What do you do that hinders us from thinking, doing,, aiming, seeing or repeating?
Those are what we will talk about in BalancedKaizen.
Over 50 weeks, through 4 stages..
And we repeat until you know it.
Just like the golfer.
.
.
“I might be wrong, but at least I’ve thought about it…”