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Here is another problem-solving conversation using the seven problem-probing questions that describe the heart of the 5 Minute Manager process. I started the problem-probing questions with Janet, “What for you is the problem that you’d like to discuss?” Without any hesitation she replied, “My test anxiety; it’s
This pattern is designed so that you can use the meta realm, go into the Meta Place, prime yourself with the best meta-level beliefs, values, decisions, etc. and then use them to create a gestalt state—one which could be a customized power state just for you. It is designed for gestalting three or more meta-levels so
We hear that phrase a lot, “Just think it through.” So what does it mean to ‘think something through?’ Usually we hear it when there’s a problem and we also fear that there may be some possible unintended consequences. “If only I had thought it through, I would not be in this mess.” “If I knew that you had any idea of
Here’s a secret: Your continuing education is your competitive advantage. Did you know that? Now that the secret has been exposed, the next question: Do you know how it is your competitive advantage in the field of coaching? And if it is, how is your education continuing? I certainly hope it is. Mine continues. In just
I’m delighted that a number of our Neuro-Semantic Trainers are training, or soon will be training, The 5 Minute Manager. This training is not only for managers, although it is targeted to anyone who works with and through people—who manages them. And, of course, that’s nearly all of us. Now in this training, my hope
I started the problem-solving probe by asking Antonio the problem question, “Tell me what problem holds you back and prevents you from achieving your goals. That’s when he said, “I just hate criticism, whenever I’m criticized I feel like a failure, I feel like I’m a 9 year old boy again being put down and made ‘bad’
If you want to stay on the cutting edge of knowledge, or expertise, or skill development, then there is one ingredient that is especially powerful. What do you think it is? If you guessed that it is dreaming your best dream and then giving yourself to it- yes that's a very powerful response that will keep you learning,
Co-written with Hernan Vilaro. Back in July when we conducted one of the The 5 Minute Manager demonstrations in Mauritius, Hernan recorded it and then used it as an example that illustrates the art of defining or distinguishing. When a participant connected her “communication strategy with making money,” I asked her,
With regard to unleashing your highest meanings into your best performances (last two week’s articles), there is one particular meta-state that will devaste your efforts and cause you to sell yourself short. And yet, it seems to be a state that so many people want! What fools they are! They just do not know or have not
How much of your life is involved in problem-solving? Would you say 50% of your life?
Here’s a wild and crazy idea: Suppose for some odd reason you want to keep a problem, you want to keep the problem alive.
Similar to the TV show, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? this title invites you into the direction of a great outcome.
Since life is all about solving problems, here some questions for you: What’s your favorite problem?
Here is a wild and wonderful idea— What if you became problem-proofed? What if you developed a way of thinking, a way of emoting, a way of talking, acting, and relating so that you became as it were—unable to suffer problems in the way that many suffer?
When the field of Coaching emerged in the early 1990s, one of the key distinctions of an effective coach was the ability to ask great questions.
I recently came across a different definition of a problem. Almost everyone who writes about problems talk about a problem in one of two ways.
In the field of NLP, it was Martin Roberts, who in 2000, identified the list of questions that began the first list of questions for a Well-Formed Problem.
There is a moment which typically occurs at the end of the 5 Minute Manager problem-solving conversation which comes to both the coach and the client as an eureka moment.
There is a ‘magic’ that occurs when you are able to put a thought into a single sentence.
In the past two posts, I have invited you to image watching an expert problem-solver at work.
From the perspective of observing the expert problem-solving, you can learn a lot from identify the meta-program thinking patterns the expert uses.
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