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The Nature of Deception –
“Knowledge is Power”
The greatest
challenge upon us right now is being deceived, and knowing the
difference. Most deception comes from taking a base idea and
manipulating it to a different means which serves someone’s agenda,
renders true power meaningless or turns it into marketable entertainment
or a form of parlor game. Ignorance exists at many different levels and
is the epidemic of our times. Due to our emotional nature and
indulgence in drama of all kinds, we are, as a general rule, very easy
to mislead. True knowledge takes extensive education into the natural
sciences, spiritual Laws and developing our mind’s higher faculties for
intuitive discernment.
It is only through
knowledge and its interconnectivity as a sound ecological system of
systemized classification, typing and correspondences can you accurately
recognize information that is distorted and incorrect. A false
foundation, one built on an error, will produce a congruent reality.
The same mistake will be reflected and expressed throughout. If a
mistake is made from the very basis and onset of how something is
presented, then everything that naturally comes out of it will reflect
the same error. How the knowledge builds is based solely on the
foundation that was laid to support it.
One of the most
obvious indications of the true nature of information is what it
initially talks to inside of you – what it activates or stimulates.
True knowledge is not based on fear. Fear is an emotional
interpretation of neutral facts that not only “hook you”, but also
activate your reptilian, instinctual brain, cutting off blood flow to
the brain while diverting it to the extremities to prepare for the
‘fight or flight” response, making it difficult to think clearly. This
is very easy to understand if you have ever watched the type of thinking
and irrational behavior that ‘takes someone over” when they are afraid.
Deceptions main
purpose either stems out of true ignorance that thinks and acts as if it
is an authority on something, someone who has an agenda, or the attempt
to make the truth appear to be the deception. People who don’t know
what is true, or how to discern the truth can be readily led to believe
anything that sounds good, is spoken with authority, watched on TV or
the news, or that comes from what they deem a higher source. Yet the
very foundation for deception requires you to give up your own
experience in favor of someone else’s. It requires you to accept it
without proof or evidence of its validity. It requires you to abandon
yourself and pledge allegiance instead to an outside force that you give
your will to, and hope like hell they’re right.
In all prophecies
the number one psychological warfare tactic being used is the grand
illusion of not knowing the difference between good and evil. That evil
will present itself as “Godly”, as good, and will win the love and
loyalty of the majority of people. The antichrist as more of a
metaphor, will come through the church not in opposition of it. It will
not come through a satanic cult, that would be to obvious. The church
is the leading organization that presents a full belief system to people
without them needing to obtain the knowledge themselves, requiring them
only to accept their “word for things.” This trains us from the very
beginning to believe what we are told, pledge an allegiance to an
organization and worship a God that exists outside of us, seemingly in
human form. This is the primary foundation required for deception and
idol worship, or seeing human beings as godly and deserving of worship.
Educate yourself so
that you can form your own perceptions and beliefs. The more knowledge
you have the more you can develop your intuitive ability to understand
interconnectivity and how correspondences work. With an in-depth
knowledge you will more likely be able to make good decisions while
being able to see clearly. By having a strong knowledge base you can
more intuitively recognize errors in processes or how something is being
presented as it is being presented. Again, deception requires an idea
or belief to be handed down and readily accepted without questioning.
Any idea that is based on an error will only create more of the same
error. By equipping yourself with knowledge you can readily spots error
as you encounter them. You will be able to pick up on deceptive ideas
immediately while cultivating an inner belief in yourself.
Linda Gadbois, DES, CCHt.
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Rapport – “The Art of Becoming
One with Another”
Rapport is the
art of letting go of your self and becoming like another. It is letting
go of needing to maintain your own individuality and instead allowing
yourself to merge into the individuality of another. Give up your need
to determine, control, interpret experiences through your own filters as
personal values, beliefs, preferences, self-image, etc., and embodying
the nature of someone or something else instead. To surrender is to
create a neutral state that can perceive or conceive of the inner state
of another. To become like another is to give up the concept of self
and merge with the self concept of another. This allows deep insight
into the true nature of others where we can actually experience our
connection at a real level. Not just talk about it as a concept or idea
that seems nice, and while we can grasp it in one sense, we don’t know
how to actually experience it as a general rule.
Rapport represents
the ultimate flexibility because we learn how to exist in a state of
true surrender which allows us to take on the state of another
life-form. We become like a reed, or neutral channel, not for an entity
to posses or claim, but rather by merging and blending into the state of
a desired force and experience it as they do. We can have their
experience in our body, our consciousness is the same as theirs. To see
the same thoughts and have the same emotional responses that gives their
experience meaning as an individual reality.
The age-old idea
of shape-shifting is the mastery of rapport by changing our inner state
to the extent that it changes how we appear. How we seem. Our presence
and way about us, how we feel, behave, the attitude we hold, all shift
and take on the qualities of a different person. We actually experience
ourselves in a very different way “as if” we actually are someone else.
It is easy to see why this is the most natural way to transform
ourselves. We transform by changing and growing while in a constant
state of becoming. It is our ability to ‘sense” our self differently,
and then identify with that feeling. Our identity is our constant state
of consciousness. We allow new qualities to exist in us and form
natural thought processes that are an expression of that quality, that
allow us to perceive the world and ourselves in brand new ways.
Because our
ability to perceive is based on our “self” as a sophisticated modeling
of our self-concept, concept of others, and the world, as long as we
hold that same model and maintain it as filtering mechanism for
experience we are limited in our perceptions to what our models
naturally and spontaneously produce. To let go of our self-perception
and embrace fully another self-perception, without any resistance by
allowing and surrendering our self to it, we can see and experience the
same thing that their inner state feels and sees. By becoming the same
as their nature, we can see through their eyes, feel with their heart,
and perceive through their emotional filters. We see the same objective
reality as something entirely different. Life itself appears new and
strangely unknown.
Linda Gadbois,
DES, CCHt.
"Power and Grace"
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Illusion vs. True Reality –
“Knowledge as Intelligence”
When we live our lives in
our head, comprehending ideas theoretically without the ability to apply it at
the practical level, knowing but not doing, we create an illusion around life
and of ourselves within that illusion. We create a false sense of identity. In
our society we are taught “what” to think, but not “how” to think for
ourselves. We profess knowing things that we don’t actually know how to do. We
claim knowledge based on what we read or were told, that we don’t actually know
if it’s true or not, because we’ve never actually done it and created an
experience of it.
Our society bred by our
failing educational system, give people thoughts, tell them what to think in
terms of stagnate facts that require memorization in order to be able
regurgitate upon request. A test question prompts regurgitation of a so called
fact, the trained answer is given, and they ace the test, being deemed
intelligent. Yet, is this intelligence in the real sense? What would happen if
they were actually taught how to think for themselves by using their imagination
as a full body function requiring them to apply knowledge at the practical level
to create the results it claims? Because of this tendency we are saturated with
teachers who completely lack real knowledge.
Opinions, whether expert or
not, is someone else’s ideas about something. There is an excellent possibility
that they also learned by accumulating theoretical ideas that lack true
substance, reformulating them into a new idea based on how they reinterpreted
the abstract information that they were given. They then present it as a new
technique that offers a miracle cure for any ailment, or a strategic solution
that will solve any problem. This is a clear case of teaching from a
perspective of an illusion. The blind leading the blinder.
Our whole Academic system
is based on theoretical knowledge that is memorized to the point of being
recitable, creating the appearance of being intelligent, without the actual
reality. Because they don’t understand principles and so operate out of
techniques as processes given to them, all they actually have to do is attempt
to imitate, and act as they were trained to. Perform as instructed. Even this
can be poorly done and stumbled through based on the uniqueness of the
circumstances which they can’t fit into their pre-structured idea about things.
I used to interview managers with MBA’s that clearly had no concept of what
actually works in real life situations, they operated out of a text-book
mentality. Even when their techniques don’t work, instead of altering it with
original thought as applied knowledge that modifies the approach, they will
attempt to diagnose the situation as being the problem instead. The sad part
is, many will believe the obvious cover-up as a further example of their
expertise. This further hinders their ability for actual thinking which not
only requires confidence, but a form of courage also. It takes both courage and
confidence in your self to be able to invent life in the moment as its
happening.
We turn out graduates
with prestigious degrees that can’t actually function in real-life situation.
We then place them in positions where there incompetence may take years to
realize. Because they don’t have the ability to think by applying knowledge to
a large variety of situations in a spontaneous yet strategic manner, they
consume themselves with programs and protocol that are developed through
organized stacks of paper and sophisticated memos that are never actually
implemented, and so they appear to be doing something.
Because we are taught
theory that lacks application as experience, we form a kind of parallel reality,
one that we talk about, that’s different from the one we actually do, and often
we don’t even recognize it ourselves. People deem themselves experts and
therefore qualified to teach others, or Healers that work off of a certified
technique, that completely lack true knowledge as Principles and instead attempt
to fit all versions of people and circumstances neatly into their self-professed
limitation as a cure-all. To make matters worse . . . they actually get away
with it, because the general populous is of the same mind-set and so don’t even
seem to notice. Even when problems become apparent and build to a level of
possible disaster, they’re confused as to what’s actually happening, and
interject a solution at the wrong level of effect instead of indentifying the
cause.
True knowledge as
understanding is only obtained through practical application. Principles are
knowledge that can be creatively applied to any situation in a predictable and
deliberate manner to masterfully produce precise outcomes that can almost be
guaranteed. True faith is not based on trust that is born out of ignorance, but
the recognition of the Principles operating in any given situation that reveals
the predestined path of events as natural behavior of operating systems in the
process of unfolding.
Linda Gadbois, DES., CCHt.
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Rapport –
“How to Bond Clients to Your Practice”
Recall a time when you were with another person and you felt completely
in sync with them. Notice how it made you feel, you felt “close” to them and as
if you knew them really well. Recall the experience and think about what it was
about the other person that made you feel that way.
Rapport is the ability to
feel at one with another person, to step into their world and experience it as
they do. When we enter into rapport with another, we make them feel as if we
understand them, know them intimately, and it forms a strong human bond. They
feel close to us. This is a particularly powerful tool in education, therapy,
counseling, business, selling, and training. Rapport or empathy is essential for
immediately establishing an atmosphere of trust, safety, confidence and
participation, within which people feel relaxed and respond in an open and free
manner.
The ability to establish rapport is one of the most important and
effective skills you can have. Rapport is the ability to establish a powerful
bond and relationship that builds loyalty and trust. In order to create a
relationship of openness and trust, we need to not only be able to establish and
maintain rapport, but also refine it to a natural skill that we do automatically
as part of our natural style for practicing. Though rapport can be developed to
a very sophisticated level where it can induce a deep hypnotic trance in a
matter of minutes, it can also be learned quite easily and effectively by
mastering a few simple techniques.
The beauty of rapport,
like all personal skills, is they form the foundation for more advanced and
expansive abilities that can be readily applied to reduce the time required for
learning and developing. The basic premise of rapport naturally teaches
flexibility, heightened awareness and observation, and expands your range of
creative expression through your ability to act out a wide range of
characteristics not normally apart of your basic personality.
The fundamental principle of rapport is “like begets like”. We
like people who are like us. Resonance forms natural harmony and cultivates
pleasant feelings of connection. The key elements of rapport are “matching
and mirroring”. We consciously and intentionally become “like them”.
4
basic Mirroring techniques:
1 – Mirror body posture:
Match how they sit or stand, cross their legs, fold their arms, slouch or sit up
straight, etc.
2 – Mirror movements of gestures:
Facial expression, hand gestures, physical expressions associated with talking
and responding.
3 – Mirror voice quality and tempo:
Speed, hesitations, tone, emphasis, etc.
4 – Mirror breathing
ration: Panting shallow breathing, mid-chest, belly, rhythm, etc.
These simple strategies are particularly effective and relatively easy to do
with simple dedicated practice. They can be used to establish rapport or deepen
existing rapport. Once we have established rapport, we maintain it for a period
of time through what we refer to as “pacing”. Once we pace for a period of time,
we can break out of the pattern and lead. When we lead they will automatically
(unconsciously) follow us. We can then directly influence, and sometimes
determine their behavior and response. This technique is extremely effective for
developing a highly effective “bedside manner” for all healthcare practitioners
who need to give valuable instruction that is readily accepted and followed by
their patient/clients to ensure their well-being and help facilitate spontaneous
healing.
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D.(c), CCHt., RMT
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Change
– “Innovative Thinking & Re-imagining”
When times change businesses
must take an attitude of evolving their business models, services and general
operations to conform to the changing needs of society. When change occurs at a
community, national, cultural or global level, companies that fail to recognize
the change and modify their business models accordingly begin the process of
dying. By gaining a fundamental understanding of the nature of “cycles” as
birth, life & death, or a beginning, middle and end . . . that make-up an
ongoing process that evolves through time we can identify behavior within any
given business that indicates where they’re at in the current cycle.
If a business begins
failing, sales drop, revenue shrinks, and they react not by identifying the
nature of the changes and modifying or updating necessary areas, but instead by
cutting back, reducing or eliminating, they have in fact begun the process of
going out of business. Change is a constant and evolving force that governs the
Universe as we know it. Once change takes place, it never reverts back, but
always progresses forward in some fashion. All of life progresses and steadily
moves towards greater complexity. As a business owner, when your current
business model fails to promote health and induce consistent growth, you must
respond by identifying the nature of the change, the new needs and services that
the change warrants, and readjust your model and methods of doing things to
supply the new demand.
Rather than panicking, cutting back and reducing, it may be a better idea to
provide your people with new resources that will increase their proficiency,
develop greater competence and improve their ability to perform. The greatest
resources that most companies have are their people, yet poor training programs
continue to plague even the most sophisticated of businesses. It’s your people
that make your business what it is. Here is where we stand to either lose the
greatest amount, or initiate the greatest gain. No other area of your business
or Practice is more directly manageable than your people. As a business owner,
you more than likely stand to gain more in this area than any other area of your
business.
When we make the
necessary adjustments to our business model, upgrade and develop new and
innovative ways of doing business, or serve to grow and develop our services, we
move effortlessly along gaining momentum with the current rather than getting
sucked into an eddy or whirlpool of our own making. If change is welcomed and
fully embraced for the stimulus it offers we can keep our businesses growing and
prospering through any season. When change is resisted or ignored, it tends to
overcome us without us even knowing why or how sometimes. Your current model
will continue producing the same result over and over. In order to change the
result, you must change what you are doing, or how you are doing it.
As soon as you begin experiencing measurable fluctuations in your business or a
drop in clientele, you should investigate and review the nature of the change,
and explore creative ways to modify your method of doing business to accommodate
the change. Often businesses will wait to long to respond, or will struggle to
the point of no return before they reach out for help, or bring in an expert to
help them make the necessary changes to their organization.
Many times by the time I
was called in to help diagnose and recommend the necessary changes, the business
was already “out of business” and simply didn’t know it. When a business still
has cash flow, they can begin the juggling act and prolong what becomes a long
and arduous process . . . a form of “slow death”. The time to get help through
outside experts is as soon as you notice a measurable change in the flow of your
business and still have plenty of resources to carry you through the process of
designing and executing the change itself.
Linda Gadbois, DES, CCHt.,
RMT
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Motivational Leadership
While in one breath we can say that you can’t do anything to motivate another
person, in the very next breath we can clearly say that you can certainly act in
a way that strongly influences, inspires, excites, encourages and causes
people to become invested in a situation in such a way that they will extend a
great amount of effort with a joyful attitude. Likewise, we know we can’t change
people, but we can definitely influence them. If we have a fair amount of
skill, we can influence with great precision and move people in very
specific directions by literally ‘giving them’ the correct perception
and attitude. Strong leadership skills that are employed
simultaneously can serve to move a group of people very distinctly
towards a common goal or specific outcome that is performed with a
very positive attitude.
One of the best and most effective ways to lead and
motivate others is by learning how to identify and work with their natural
‘thinking styles’. You must first realize that everybody doesn’t think like
you do. People are typically motivated by their values (what’s important
to them), which are often different from yours also. What you find intriguing
and compelling may not even be interesting to them. Flexibility and the
ability to induce a state of cooperation are of the utmost
importance in learning to influence and direct the behaviors of
others.
Ways of thinking – thinking styles – are
predefined or ‘preprogrammed’ ways of viewing and responding to
others and to events going on around us. This is a natural ‘efficient’
function of the mind that serves to ‘streamline’ thinking in everyday
situations so it doesn’t have to engage in what can be a lengthy
processes of rational thinking. Naturally, the down side to this is that
it’s largely habitual and runs ‘old patterns’ over and over, some
of which are useful and appropriate . . . and some of which are not.
Thinking styles are a form of filter called
‘meta-programs’ that we all use naturally to form a consistent style
that forms continuity in how we look at things in order to understand
them or create meaning. Like most things in life, any skill or technique
works best and prove immediately effective when we deal people as they
are – not what we think they should be, or by imposing our thinking style on
them assuming it’s the same. To gain a sense of clarity, let’s look at the
basic formula of a meta-program:
Perceptions,
thoughts and emotions:
It is very useful to understand the relationship that
naturally exists between perceptions, thoughts and emotions. Perceptions are
primarily memory based, and are formed by filtering current situations
using previous experiences, beliefs, knowledge and values to recreate
a present situation in a similar fashion or by using the same type of meaning
as context. We then form thoughts of a similar nature. Our perceptions as
structured thoughts, then attach to corresponding emotions. If we identify which
filters people are using – we can anticipate how we will respond
to what they say or do. We can then use our behavior in a specific way
to stimulate desired behavior in them through our interaction.
Linda
Gadbois, DES, CCHt., RMT
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Ideals – A Model of Excellence “Creating the
Ideal You”
An ideal serves as a model of
your highest potential that is used for a template and standard of measure for
all planning, creative strategies and basic decision making. An ideal provides
you with a strategic model for self-exploration, growth and expansion. An ideal
is a pattern of excellence that is developed by giving our full attention to
maximizing our virtues, strengths and talents by creating a “self-concept”
through which they can be actualized. When we aspire towards an ideal it gives
us the means for growth, improvement and soul expansion. It becomes the reason
for everything that we do.
An ideal is a practical standard of excellence that contains within it our
purpose and path for exploring our mind to discover our reason and purpose for
living. Our ideal is the influence of our Higher Mind which serves as the
organizing principle of our life and directs our ability to self-create through
select and personal expression. It is a standard by which we evaluate things to
determine what is truly important and why. We use ideals to evaluate all
circumstances, behavior, decisions and goals by first comparing and contrasting,
then by attempting to align them with our ideals forming continuity and
integrity.
Our Ideal serves as the central
motivating force of our life. It is the motivating force behind as well as in
the forefront of our behavior and desire to act in any given moment. It is a
principle that we use to formulate strategies or processes to then apply or use
by utilizing whatever is available to us in any given set of circumstances. Like
a principle, it produces a consistent theme through congruent behavior that acts
to express our “ideal self” through an ongoing story.
We create ideals by maximizing our virtues and talents while minimizing our
faults. It is a perception of us as perfect, or as the embodiment of our highest
self at any given moment. What we focus on, hold in our mind and give our
attention to, we grow. We build it by developing it with thoughts of a congruent
nature that act to create a conceptual pathway or blueprint for expression. When
we hold our highest ideals in mind consistently, we spontaneously bring them
into constant expression by creating behavior that acts them out giving us a
particular type of experience of ourselves in relationship to everything else.
My ideals represent my good that I use naturally to walk towards my goals firmly
and with bold precise steps. An ideal is like a rudder on a ship that functions
to keep it on course for the duration of it journey between shores.
An ideal acts as a principle by
creating a model or template that represents what and who we aspire to be like.
It embodies our primary intent and all-pervading desire for self-actualizing in
a way that optimizes our soul’s evolution towards healing. It is a tool that
forms a natural series of correspondences that allow us to explore our own mind
and inner depths bringing what is subtle and impressionistic to the surface to
be recognized consciously. Our ideal exists within us as our soul’s capacity for
expression of our highest potential. Even when it is not brought into conscious
awareness it pervades our life subconsciously through subtleties, temperament,
tendencies, and natural preferences. Once these become conscious and shaped into
a conceptual model using the imagination, the 3-minds (trinity);
Super-conscious, subconscious and conscious, can be aligned in purpose, path
and destiny. When this happens creation becomes greatly accelerated. We create a
form of “worm-hole” in the fabric of space-time.
When our model for creation is clear,
precise and well-defined, we can literally warp the space/time continuum and
greatly reduce the amount of time required for energy to express as matter. We
can manifest our higher self instantaneously and without effort. The key to
conscious creation in which we actively participate, is through unification,
atonement, or an alignment of our mind in all three of it’s aspects. When our
three minds become aligned, our four corresponding bodies; spiritual, mental,
emotional and physical, creates an ideal ecology for manifesting perfection as
a “flowing” motion. When ideals exist in a conflicting state, like anything else
they serve to contradict and cancel each other out. One step forward . . . two
steps backwards. When we have a clear idea of our higher self, or personal
ideal, we can consciously create an integrated image that will form a unified
idea that will embody all ideals into a singular expression.
The rules for creating an ideal vary
for each person. All creativity is individual, unique and appropriate to it’s
specific application. An ideal has to be something that you can actually “live”.
Do. It requires effort and a certain amount of work on your part. Choice and
will must be practiced through self discipline and a form of devotion to higher
values and standards that will automatically induce a superior way of living. An
ideal serves as a principle or model for the way we wish to be. It allows us to
consciously participate in our own growth and development by imposing a
direction on our life through alignment with our “God-mind” or greater Will.
An ideal should not be confused with a goal. Goals are set as a means of
actualizing an ideal. An ideal is the ‘reason” for the goal. A goal breaks out
into task oriented steps what action is necessary to bring the ideal into
fruition. Our ideal is how we determine what is important to us, and sets
further ideas for how to achieve them. A goal gives us a step-by-step method for
steadily creating and bringing into full expression our highest possible version
of ourselves. All conscious creation requires a well defined model, prototype or
vision in order to create a physical representation of the same nature outside
of us. Without a conscious recognition, we are simply prone to our subconscious
habitual behavior which though slow, will still move us in a forward motion of
some sort, although with impeded progress. To become conscious allows us to
participate in the development of our own life. To create a well defined model,
greatly speeds up and facilitates the healing of our soul whose central source
of movement is through the “formation” principle which always seeks to become
more complex, whole and expansive. Our natural tendency as human beings is to
move steadily towards wholeness and perfection by becoming more “God-like”
through expressing our Divine nature within our daily lives in a routine manner.
Linda Gadbois,
DES., CCHt., RMT
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The Significance
of a "Model" (System of Beliefs)
Time and time again I see Coaches and
Consultants who offer their services almost like an elaborate goal setting
session - or ongoing session - who walk-in and give people ready made advice
or a pre-designed program that offers the solution to their
current problem. Yet as many of you have experienced even if you get off to
a good start in an attempt to implement the program - it usually doesn't
take long for you to relapse, or for the program to fizzle. This is because
you are in the situation you're in - your life is the way it is - because of
the models you are working out of. You have to have a paradigm
that supports and represents the desired change- the type of
situation, circumstances or conditions your are striving for - or you will
never be able to create or maintain it.
In order to create something different than
what you have currently created - you have start with the model called your
identity - then move out into your model of the world. You
must redesign your beliefs your habitual emotions -
repetitive attitude and behavioral patterns - how you "see"
things in order to create a new vision. Referencing failure in an
attempt to produce success does not work. You will simply turn that "goal"
which on the surface represents success - into a perfect reflection
of the model you reference and associate it with - which creates the state
of mind - gives meaning (feeling quality) to your goal - out of which you
will perform. An impoverished model will consistently produce poverty.
Goal-setting, as it is commonly called is more
like designing dreams - it involves an elaborate, interactive
system of beliefs to pull it off. The true essence of "modeling"
is if you don't currently have a successful model to reference, to
imitate - if you currently do not know how to do what you want to do -
find someone who has, study them, create a model out of their strategy - use
that model as a reference to associate with your current
situation and use it for measuring, comparing and give it a similar
meaning - which will create possible paths for success.
We have to realize and appreciate the power
of the spoken word - realize the importance of the language you use. How
you talk about yourself, your feelings, your situation, your outlook, how
you talk to others - the attitude out of which you communicate - not only
perfectly expresses your "true models" but it literally calls forth that
model into a living, observable, breathing reality. "It became flesh,
and walked amongst us."
As human Beings we are gifted with the natural
ability through the use of our mind to "create reality." We create
out of our beliefs "about" things. These beliefs exist in relationship to
each other and form belief systems. These systems perfectly support,
justify and validate each other - producing a reality that can not only
exist like it's own eco-system, but also attracts to it people of a
like mind, who will interact appropriately to co-create that
reality. It then appears so real to us, we use it as evidence to
convince ourselves and others that it is real - true and factual. We
then feel as though we are subject to our own creations - we do not
perceive our selves as having any real control or power over our situation.
Models are templates, blueprints for
creation - we create using them perfectly, consistently and repetitively
forming patterns which become our "life story". We were not
born into sin, God did not make a mistake, we are masters of creation,
and perfectly create realities out of our beliefs. This is
the incredible power of your mind.
In order to produce change in your life,
in your relationships, in your circumstances, you MUST do the work it
takes to re-design the person whose model is creating it - YOU!
You cannot re-design the organization without first redesigning the
people creating it. Any attempts to produce change that does not
involve identity, beliefs and paradigms will not result
in success. If you are able to briefly encounter a form of success - perhaps
because someone else, such as a consultant has enough control or frequency
to create out of their model - you will not be able to maintain it.
The power of Leadership within an
organization is someone who has a superior model to operate out of
(one that references success as a means of representing the goals and
identity of the organization) and can communicate that model in such
a way that it literally "teaches" that model to the people who will
be in charge of actually producing it. They do so by creating a
compelling future and inspire people towards it. In order to
actually do this they must have their model so intact that they consistently
act out of it at all times and use it as a filter for decision
making and monitoring the progress or direction of the organizational
flow. This is the only way that their influence, repetitive
suggestion and emotional expression consistently move people in a
common direction without creating contradiction.
Linda Gadbois, DES., CCHt., RMT
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Cultures, Values and Beliefs -
“Shared Reality”
A business model or paradigm serves as the “core Identity”
for creating the culture of the business. A basic business model
is typically comprised of the vision, mission and values which
serve as a form of “map” or blueprint for creating and operating out of.
This serves as the core out of which all other operational aspects
of the business arise as congruent and natural correspondences. A
model provides us with the necessary means to operate with consistency
which is what ultimately produces success, not only in the start-up phase,
but also in the ongoing operations that ensure success over a period
of time. Every aspect of the company design, structure and operational
procedures have got to be congruent with the company’s identity. Just as our
individual “life story” as day-to-day experiences are a direct expression of our
personal identity – a business’s formation and behavior is an
expression of a fundamental model that represents a shared reality in
which everyone has a clear role and specified function that serves as an
inherent aspect of the whole.
A
business map only has value if it embodies a shared reality. The
encoded language used within the culture of the business either reflects a
sense of family and community, or it produces internal conflict
and contradiction. Any area where we create contradiction acts to ‘cancel
out” and impede progress. This is the “one step forward, two steps backward”
scenario that businesses often get caught up in and often don’t know why. Often
business managers, leaders and trainers not only fail to represent the
company as a shared reality, but often fail to use the word “we”
to imply shared objectives. This is very common in private practices that
are set-up and operated by the professional practitioner who is also providing
the service or product of the business. They fail to separate themselves from
the business, and act as if the business and they are the same entity.
They operate out of an “I” model which is non-inclusive and serves
to create a form of “mutiny”. I can’t tell you how many practices I have
been in where the whole staff was “against” the doctor that also own the
practice, or the manager who performed out of a personal agenda of their own
making.
Practices and businesses which ignore the fact that they
are not operating out of a business model that represents a “shared reality” in
which all participants play an equally important role in creating
and delivering a common goal as a team function often, will never be able
to truly achieve the desired outcome, and may never know why. When we
act to impose maps on others rather than inform and teach
them by using them, we create a culture that is often punitive,
autocratic and leaves little room for individuality or new ideas for
growing the business. When this happens not only is it difficult to recognize
and cultivate individual talent and latent potential, motivation
also plummets, and we fail to bond not only clients and customers, but also
staff members of our own team. There is no loyalty or sense of pride involved.
Employees can seem random, alien, and readily come and go through revolving
doors. This is often the greatest expenses a company incurs, and they often fail
to even identify it.
While companies without an effective business model
may flourish for a while, they will eventually crumble, fall apart or exhaust
their primary creator. This reality may not become “terminal” if the
management style can be changed in time – by educating existing managers or
through major reorganization. These changes, however, must be desired and
genuine, or the reorganization will serve to speed the collapse
rather than prevent it.
No matter what style or type of culture the company has, it is
usually set-up and produced by senior managers or professional
partners, and the culture seldom ever changes in a perceivable manner
unless there is major upheaval or pronounced change at this level.
This is why, if you are a professional practitioner or specialist – it is
imperative to create the fundamental model for your business or private practice
in a way that remains fully congruent with your personal values and beliefs.
If your working life seems unduly stressful or chaotic, the first step in
trouble-shooting should be to review your own life “maps” or paradigm in
relation to your business or practice’s culture.
Another situation that commonly happens is that there is a
gradual shift into a new culture over a period of time where you
no longer share the pervading value-set, and conflict begins to set in
that disrupts the daily organizational flow. This easily occurs
when a practitioner either hires a manager who is not aligned with their
vision, mission and values of the practice (because they lack managerial skill
in selecting staff that are most appropriate), or they hire key staff members
who lack leadership ability and set-up unconscious and incongruent
cultures of their own that begin dominating the daily operations.
Alternately, the actual day-to-day operations may be in
conflict with, or at odds with the declared mission and vision and
either no one recognizes it until it is too late, or if they do, they
don’t have the skill or knowledge to effectively change it. Often,
however, just recognizing the mismatch can be enough to ease the stress, but if
an effective resolution can not be determined and implemented, it can
cause great frustration. Once problems are recognized solutions must be sought
after in an expedient manner that will provide the training and
reorganizing strategy necessary to actually produce the desired
result or outcome. This requires not only a fundamental understanding of the
creative process, but a high degree of skill in
execution. Behavioral modification in a business, much like in an
individual has to take place at the identity level. Once a business is
established and has formed its basic habitual behavior, this can be very
challenging and requires the utmost skill to perform effectively. If you do
not have the resources and skill necessary, a professional
whose expertise lies in this area will be necessary.
Linda Gadbois,
DES, CCHt., RMT
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