TPOV
Teachable Points of View
7 Ps and their Objects
- Ping Insight
- Probe Assumptions
- Prompt Action
- Permit Story
- Perturb Certainty
- Pause & Breathe
- Pace Change
DYNAMIC INQUIRY MESSWORKS
- Human Dignity
- Honor
- Empathy
- Attention
- Respect
- BREATHE:
- Breathe
- Relax
- Equilibriate
- Adjust
- Think
- Home
- Evaluate
- BRAIN
- Breathe
- Relax
- Aim
- Inquire
- Network
- Do No Harm
- Don’t lead important decisions
- Don’t Criticize, Condemn, or Complain (3Cs from Carnegie)
- Model discretion, simple, no simpler
- Less is More
- Balance less for more
- Fewer inquiries and more client story, or reveal
- Mostly people just need cues to story or for permission
- Effective Outcomes (WRAPc)
- Wellth
- Results
- Awareness
- Purpose
- Competence-Capability
- IMULL
- IMPORTANCE
- Motivation
- Urgency
- Leverage
- Low-Hanging Fruit
- MITEAM
- Measurement
- INFORMATION
- Time
- Energy
- Attention
- Motivation
- OPTIMULL
- OPPOR+unity
- pCc
- Tension:Time
- Importance
- Motivation
- Urgency
- Leverage
- Low-hanging Fruit
- Not Blank Slate
- People have “governing dynamics”
- People are different
- People are hardwired with motives, preferences, talents, styles, patterns, traits, conflict modes, potential, complexity, etc. but not destined in the sense that behavior is emergent from; yet “free will” is a superficial notion/illusion which lacks self-knowledge.
- Self and Other Discovery is an important process leading to Self-Other Acceptance — the keys to happy lives = ACCEPTANCE!
- *Beyond the expectations of L1 training, but nonetheless “present.”
- Okness (see graphic)
- Discovery
- Disclosure
- Acceptance
- Hearing Shifts Inquiry
- What we hear from them
- What we hear from ourselves
- Contrasted for Content, Context, Conditions, Code, Culture, Core* (e5)
- CCR: Culture, Conditions, Requirements
- pCc: potential, CAPACITY, capability
- Inquiry: Open vs Closed
- Open “opens”
- Closed guides (constrains/bounds)
- Most do not answer “yes” or “no” and stop. If they do, it’s a signal.
- Most answers to “closed-end” questions always continue to guide and answer
- Open-ended can get “very” noisy… we may not have time or be able to control the ask. People tend not to reveal developmental information or private concerns
- Most don’t really know what they want so people use scripts… usually from others which confuse knowing — doing gaps.
- RightACTION
- People
- Things
- Skills
- Ways
- SpaceTime
- Pace
- Reasons
- Results
- Wellth
- To help people lead generative lives.
- OPPOR+unity (Coaching Interaction Model or CIM)
- Openings
- Possibilities
- Plans
- Outcomes
- RightACTION
- + unity (everything is connected)
- Helping Functions
- Cuing
- Scaffolding
- Supporting
- Lifting
- — 2nd Tier
- Protecting
- Guiding
- Reaching Out
- Generati = Betterment: Helping People Generate better Lives
- COACH2 Core Competencies (3Cs)
- Connection
- Clarification
- Commitment
- Dimensional Development
- Vertical
- Oblique
- Lateral (KSE)
- Time
- VOLTAGE
- V = Vertical (hierarchical complexity or fluid intelligence)
- O = Oblique (transition or adaptive or crystallized intelligence)
- L = Lateral (like KSEs)
- T = (Space)Time
- AGE = maturation/wisdom processes or the crystallization of intelligence through experience
- Directional Development
- Towards
- Away From
- With
- Against
- Clean Language
- Take care of subconscious cues and Non-Verbals
- Don’t Acknowledge as a rule (nodding); affirming using ok
- Say enough, less is more
- Discipline your own needs, get them met outside of inquiry?
- Avoid “active summarization” and repeating back a translation of what you heard!
- Let THEM Choose & Lead
- Don’t lead at first
- Don’t decide quickly
- Self-Control
- Get your needs met
- Listen to them, not your busy mind
- Offer options
- Take the Lead: Transact
- Only if problem clear
- Only when it’s time
- “Where’s the milk” requests
- Stay Transaction ready, but resist it until it’s triggered.
- Openings
- Cause & Effect
- Causal Chains
- Problem Solving Power
- Deep-Seated Issues
- Assumptions & Beliefs
- Potential Development
- Capacity
- Capability
- VOLTAGE
- ITEAM
- IMULL
- All of the above😉
- pCc Listening
- potential
- CAPACITY
- capability
- Oneders (Wonders)
- Hmmm…
- If…
- Then…
- And…
- So…
- But…
- Because…
- Until…
- Really…
- Almost…
- Remember…
- Single Word Interrogatory: Who, What, When, Where, Why, Which, How…
- Repeating a word or phrase the client has said… exactly as they said it (with a pause and a breath)
- Paradigmatics (7)
- Capability
- Bias
- Style
- Level
- Role
- Valu
- System Dynamics
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