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Reframing: Past, present, and future
From the course: Executive Leadership
Reframing: Past, present, and future
- Especially during times of stress or change, it's natural for people's focus on me to overcome their sense of we. So during good times and hard times alike, executives need to draw people together and point them forward with clarity and energy. They need to lead from me to we. Here's a simple, adaptable three part framework I use all the time with leaders that connects the past through the present to the future. It rallies your people around unifying we answers to their natural me concerns. One. What should we be most proud of from our past? This goes straight to the most inspiring answers to their who are we question. Emphasize the best parts of where we've come from. Give evidence with examples. Instead of treating the past as irrelevant or emphasizing what's wrong about it, focus on the best things we accomplished, overcame or learned. Two. What are the most important challenges and opportunities we face in the present? To have credibility, it's important to acknowledge…
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