Book Outline and Model Schedule
Click the links, read the lessons, and perform the practices.
Pre-Program:
Set Your Direction
On-Boarding
- Invitation
- Welcome
- Introduction
- Course Outline (this document)
Week 1 — Initial Session: Bedrock
- Define key goals, review your history, see what’s been holding you back, see if there’s a fit
- Lesson: Things you need to know and apply
- Part 1: Orientation
- Part 2: Creativity Tools
- Part 3: Foundations of Learning and Memory
- Part 4: Practice
- Practices
- Part 1: Agreement — Online Course Terms and Conditions
- Part 2: Go back and complete these practices if you haven’t done them yet
- Part 3: Write Vision Statement(s) for those areas you want to impact in this course
- Part 4: Create a 3-Word Product Name
- Create an inspiring, personally meaningful, 3 word (or fewer) product name for your intended result of this course, such as: “Finally Thin Forever”, “Crazy In Love”, “Love My Job”, “Ultimate Driving Machine”, “International Business Machines”, “Strategic Defense Initiative”, “Breathtaking”, or “Warrior for Compassion” (don’t worry… this is just a first draft: it doesn’t have to be perfect. Pick something for now, with the understanding you can change it later if a better name comes along. Alternatively, you may know it immediately…)
9 program Lessons, in 3 phases, 1 phase per month
Phase 1
Create a Solid Foundation
Week 2: Power
- Lesson
- Practice:
- Claim Your Power
- Look and see:
- where in your life you use phrases like:
- “I’m afraid…”, or
- “I can’t…”, or
- “I would never…”, or
- “I could never…”, or
- where discomfort with a topic or an activity has prevented you taking action that would forward your intentions, then
- where in your life you use phrases like:
- overcome those feelings of fear and helplessness
- Look and see where in your life you use phrases like: “I hope…” or “We’ll just have to hope…”, then overcome those feelings of hopelessness.
- Revise any element of your work to date that can be improved. Update it in your PowerBoard.
Week 3: Purpose
- Lesson
- Without Purpose, there is no reason to change.
- Part 1: Purpose.
- Part 2: Understand how Policy works in your life.
- Part 3: Revise your Policies.
- Practice
- Part 1: Define your purpose
- Part2: Values
- Part 3:Increase your influence and control through Policy
- Examples
- Purpose
- Personal Lifestyle vision
- Bucket list (scroll down on the linked page to individuals’ bucket lists)
- Policy
- Values
- Formal policies and agreements
- Laws
- Regulations
- Policies (e.g. Professional or Employee Codes of Conduct)
- Agreements (Marriage vows, Non-disclosure Agreements, or Intellectual Property Agreements)
- Informal Policies
- Purpose
Week 4: Product
- Lessons
- Practices
- Practice 1: Remember the future
- Practice 2: Create at least 3 of each type of goal named in the lesson.
- Examples
Week 5: One Week Break
Use this week to reinforce and carry out your purpose.
Phase 2
Create Your Structure
Week 6: People
- Lessons
- People
- Grow your team (number of participants, plus individual skills/responsibilities)
- Assess the People on Your Team
- Acknowledge the People on Your Team
- Develop the People on Your Team
- Practices
- Practice 1: Inventory
- Practice 2: Grow your team
- Practice 3: Assess the People on Your Team
- Practice 4: Acknowledge the People on Your Team
- Practice 5: Develop the People on Your Team
- Example: Our Cleaning Ladies
Week 7: Plans
- Lessons
- Practice: Create or revise your…
- People Plan
- Places Plan
- Product Plan
- Product backlog
- Process goals
- Metrics
- Crisis Response Plan
Places
Week 8: One Week Break
Use this extra week to Practice, reinforce, and carry out your Plan(s).
Phase 3
Continue to Perform and Produce
Week 9: Perform
- Lessons:
- Practice:
- Apply self-discipline (habit)
- Delegate
- Assess the People on Your Team
- Give Feedback
- Perform a Retrospective:
- Review your work to date
- Identify opportunities to improve performance
- Create new motivation
- Social Vision
- Example:
- Social Vision
Week 10: Practice
This is so important, we’re repeating it!
- Lesson
- Practice
- Take action every day!
- Continue to carry out your Plans.
- Revise Policies, Agreements, and other PowerBoard documents as necessary.
- Revise Plans as necessary.
- Reach out for help immediately when you need it.
- Support
- Coach
- Mastermind group/members
- Facebook group/members
- Friends
- Family
- Committed Listener
Week 11: Produce
- Lesson
- Practices
- Notice and acknowledge the results you’re producing. Pay attention. Look for them.
- Measure them.
- Provide feedback in conversations and recognition, to your individual team members and teams.
- Adjust your plans.
- Make new plans if necessary.
- Keep going! The only limit to your results is your willingness to see new options and take new actions consistent with those options.
- Example
Week 12: One Week Break
Use this week to reinforce and carry out your plan.
Week 13: Retrospective and Celebrations.
- Lesson: What is a Retrospective
- Practices
- Assessment: See how far you’ve come. See what you’ve done and what you haven’t done.
- Perform a Retrospective
- What’s working?
- What’s not working?
- What would you do completely differently if you started all over again?
- Assess your OKRs
- Count results
- Express results as a % of original goals
- Perform a Retrospective
- Acknowledge your results and those who contributed.
- Be grateful
- Provide feedback in conversations and recognition
- Celebrate!
- Rest and recover.
- Consider what you’ll do, where you’ll go, and who’ll you be with next.
- Set new goals
- Revise your plans
- Product
- People
- Places
- Practice
- This is a virtuous cycle. As long as you continue, you get new results.
- When you choose to stop, so do your results.
- Remember to plan rest and recovery.
- Keep going!
- Assessment: See how far you’ve come. See what you’ve done and what you haven’t done.
“We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
–T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
Keep Going
For More Information
- A twist on 3-Word Product Name: Steal This Running Legend’s Mental Strategies for Success, Lindsey Emery
- T.S. Eliot mini-bio extracted from Wikipedia.
Photo Credits
- Success Just Ahead road sign: photo via freerangestock.com
- Church on rock: Photo by Arcaion on Pixabay. Link.
- Dubai, UAE, Construction Project: Photo by Fancycrave on Unsplash. Link.
- Winchester Mystery House: by Anna Fox, via Flickr, CC BY 2.0. Link.
- Thomas Stearns Eliot with his sister and his cousin by Lady Ottoline Morrell.jpg: Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938) derivative work: Octave.H – Thomas Stearns Eliot with his sister and his cousin by Lady Ottoline Morrell.jpg, Public Domain, Link.
- “Begin” on a coffee cup full of coffee: Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash. Link.