Pshara_72024 Cohort Session Review

Hi, this is Andre Cohen. I want to say thank you so much for joining uh the session.

I wanted to just send you a quick note, a little update on uh

some of the aspects that we talked about in our first uh gathering.

So I want to get this kind of out of the way.

Um because there are a couple of things that um as I was reflecting on that, that I did

want to make sure that I hit

uh a little bit different, right? So uh obviously, we know how to get into the class.

We know where those conversations are happening.

We talked a little bit about just as a recap, we talked about

um spending our time in this polarized identity where we're trying to pull someone

from their perspective to ours, right? And how much energy that would take it.

And what we uh what I hope we walked away ultimately

is that what we're really after is understanding the other person's perspective,

right?

So,

um because the the more we can understand someone's perspective,

the more likely they are to be open to, to hearing our perspective or of being open to,

to even changing or entertaining a different perspective themselves.

So

that was um that was something that we talked about.

We talked a little bit about the ground rules and how they can be

the foundation for most interactions that we have with other people, right?

That this notion that we're focused on our goals that our behaviors should, uh

thoughts and behaviors should be aligned with our values, um

particularly organizational values that we en

encourage curiosity,

we offer other people the kinds of things that we want for ourselves,

like respect and dignity and being listened to

and that we offer grace and accountability as a part of that,

that grace, right? So we, we talked a little bit about that.

Um

I did

want to talk about this idea of our intentions and our behaviors again,

when they're aligned, we are said to be self actualized.

I er and including

uh

being effective, right? So when we are aligned, we can say that we're effective

uh when our intentions and our behaviors,

our values and our goals are all in concert, we are being effective.

And when we're, when we have a gap between those two things,

that's when we have the opportunity to change, to help, to be mentors, to coach,

to uh to educate.

And

when we don't, um

we don't recognize that our, our organizational goals actually give us direction,

right?

So

in a, in a state of ambiguity,

when we don't know what to do when we don't know how to act or behave, uh, personally,

my goals di direct me.

Right. So, um, when I'm, um,

in

encountering a new situation or a crisis comes up, it's my,

that helped guide

my behavior as an example. We were, um,

hiking in, uh, in Montana and I stumbled upon a rattlesnake

and, um, I've seen Rattlesnakes in National Geographics.

I've seen the movies but I've never come face to face with a rattlesnake myself.

And so just thinking about what I'm supposed to do when I,

when I approach this rattlesnake or interact

with this rattlesnake,

um I forgot what the plan was, but I did tell my, my kids to get back.

I told my, my, my, my, I told my, my Children to stand behind me.

Um be

because my value was, I didn't want them. I'm, I'm an adult. I can take a bite better.

I can, all of these things came.

Um, but it was centered on my values.

And so in our organizations,

the same thing can happen when we know what our organizational values are.

When people value trust, believe in those organizational values,

then we have the direction that we want.

And so this ambiguity that we oftentimes face becomes less scary,

less intimidating because we have those core values.

And we talked a little bit about this idea or the notion

that uh we're, we're trying to be effective, right? And so repulsion.

Um

uh avoidance and tolerance don't necessarily get us

to a point past 50%.

Um And so we, we really want to be effective in our organization.

So we're looking at acceptance appreciation

and uh and the sense of belonging is, is, is what we're after.

So when we are minding that gap, when we mind the gap, when we pay attention to

the gap, we align, we make sure that our intentions, values,

goals and behaviors are aligned, right?

And so when that happens, we're said to be a again, uh being effective.

And so that, that's what we're after because when we're not,

we end up with this, this randomness.

We we we, we don't know what, what, you know, justice looks like. We don't know

how to measure or weight our values. We don't know what our target is.

We don't know how we should feel or we have these feelings, but we don't know what,

what buckets to put them in or how to use that information in an effective way.

And so those things become really important.

We also talked about this notion of being bons

eyed, right?

So sometimes the the the places where we've grown up,

the people that we've been around

um

try to mold and shape us with oftentimes the best of intentions, right?

So um the the the their intentions may have been good, but given my

responsibilities in the organization, given

the the task, the missions that I've accepted

some of those ways of thinking may not be effective

uh for me to today may not help me today.

And so, um I did just want to send you this recap uh with the,

with the slide deck as well so that um

you had an opportunity to uh to review that and

uh we will talk um this coming week and I,

I hope you, I hope you're enjoying the class thus far.

And um

that's it for today. I'm Andre Cohen.

I look forward to seeing who we become as we proceed. Thanks so much. Bye.

Pshara_72024 Cohort Session Review

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