USING THE MIND-TO-MUSCLE PATTERN WITH A GROUP

Question:

• Can you run the Mind-to-Muscle pattern with a group?

• If you can, how would you do that?

• Have you ever done that?

Yes you can! One of the processes I did the first of June with a group of 55 middle managers was the Mind-to-Muscle pattern. We had six divisions within the company present: Sales, Marketing, Research and Development, Business solutions (including IT and HR), Finance, and Quality. I asked them to gather around into groups and identify the critical success factors for their group.

• What factors are absolutely to their success?

• After that, what are the gaps and the possible solutions?

That was the preparation, after that I detailed out the Mind-to-Muscle pattern at the individual level with the group in order to drive home the point about closing the knowing-doing gap. My emphasis was on following-through on what we know and creating into an active initiative style of taking action on what we know.

• “So what about groups? Can groups similarly get into a state of knowing but not doing?