Two quick tools for change-makers
Whether you’re considering doing a Regenerative Thinking in Action program; setting personal objectives for the next year; or planning some quiet world changing, here are two tools to kick-start your thinking.
Each has a more detailed version for you to download and explore.
Beginning with a WELL-FORMED end in mind…
These five quick questions will help you to double-check the quality of the objectives that you’re setting:
- Is it an ENDS goal, or have you been trapped into thinking that the process of getting there IS the goal?
- Is it a VALUES based goal with at core of passion to power it? What does your goal mean to you in your life and WORK?
- Is it a POSITIVE GOAL, or are you describing reducing or avoiding something?
- Is it a goal you can make a MOVIE about in your head – or a vague concept? What will you be seeing, hearing and feeling when you achieve your goal?
- Is your goal an INTEGRATED goal? Will it work well in the whole of your life?
Dimensions of change-making…
Depending on the context of the objectives you’re setting, you can miss out on some key dimensions of change-making. This quick quadrant model can yield some key insights as you explore the nature of the change you seek to create in the world: