INTRODUCING
Skills-Engagement Framework™️
The Skills-Engagement Framework™️ starts from the understanding that skills and engagement are two sides of the same coin. The better you ride a bicycle the more fun you have and the more you want to stay out and play with your friends. Engagement is how we work, how we stay in relationships, and how we produce anything worth having.
Just like riding a bicycle requires balance, speed, a well working device, enough space, and fuel for the effort so it is with engagement. The framework is intended to cause you to ask yourself if you have these skills and abilities in your own person, or in your organization. It applies, in different ways, to personal development, and organizational development – the axes of growth are the same, even if the metrics and skills differ.
The power of the framework are as follows:
- Provides a 360 view of the subject, with 5 pillars
- Proverb format is useful as preventative and curative
- Relevant for personal and organizational development
- Simple, involving easy to internalize micro-skills
- Used as self diagnostic tool, or coupled with coaching
Pick one of the five pillars, or a specific skill and let’s see if we can help you or your organization be more engaging and more successful.
The Framework
The Five Pillars of Engagement
01
Value
Value is the currency of the realm, it is what we have to trade and improve other people’s lives. We exist to create value, our work is about creating value. How do you deliver value without being taken for granted? How do you demonstrate it early, but not give away the farm? How do you build a pipeline of value creation – a factory – and not get stuck on the details. How do you train your team to think in terms of value for customers first?
If you have these or similar questions click below to discuss one-on-one, or search the site and let us know a specific value skill you want to talk about
02
People
Without people we would not be able to create or exchange value. People, however are complicated; we have entire universities dedicated to understanding people. We collected here some pithy sayings about people, motivation, inspiration, etc. To engage with people we need to have some common ways to interface – this is the area where we explore those people engagement skills.
If you’ve identified a skill you want to talk about, or want to discuss in general this area schedule a call:
03
Power
Power is about extracting value from the world we live in. Each flower, each animal, and every human is able to extract resources and process them into something useful. Beyond the power to manipulate people – how we usually think of power – we delve into what makes you powerful and able to be courageous and generous. With great power, comes great responsibility. Learn how to wield the power you have well.
04
Change
Change is constant, dangerous, and necessary. Yet we resist it! We oppose it, we mis-understand it, and we use the wrong tools for making change happen. In this pillar we talk about how to start, manage, and measure change.
Start with one small change from the status quo – talk with us about your change and the skills needed to lead change:
05
Communication
Last, but not least, communication is key to the framework. Personality types, up brining, culture, power dynamics and more affect how we communicate. Often times we don’t know why conflict persists and how to get out of it. The skills in this pillar support improved communication through a better understanding of the pitfalls and reasons why we communicate the way we do.
Bring up the communication issues you observe, and let’s come up with some solutions: