Area 1
Understand Yourself
Understand the patterns, assumptions, emotions, experiences, and internal conflicts that shape how you learn and change.
Transformation
Learn how to change on purpose.
Wanting something to change does not tell you what needs to change. Transformation begins by understanding the system producing the current result.
Start with diagnosis
The visible problem is not automatically the thing that needs to change.
You may be missing knowledge. You may understand what to do but lack the skill to do it. Your strategy may be wrong. Your environment may keep producing the old result.
The people around you may make the change harder. Your feedback may arrive too late to be useful. Or the direction may never have been yours in the first place.
Solve the system problem, not only the immediate problem.
The transformation process
Make the change understandable enough to test.
01
Direction
Who or what do you want to become?
02
Diagnosis
What is producing the result you have now?
03
Learning
What must you understand, practise, or become capable of?
04
Redesign
What needs to change around or within the current system?
05
Experiment
What can you test in the real world?
06
Feedback
What did the result teach you?
07
Iteration
What should you keep, stop, change, or try next?
The steps inform one another. New feedback can change the diagnosis, the direction, the practice, or the conditions. The process is iterative by design.
Four areas inside the process
Different changes call for different capabilities and conditions.
Area 2
Build Capability
Turn information into usable ability through practice, feedback, strategy, recovery, and increasingly demanding work.
Area 3
Navigate Knowledge & Expertise
Find, evaluate, and use the people, research, books, tools, and specialist knowledge your situation actually requires.
Area 4
Create the Conditions for Growth
Shape the relationships, culture, routines, tools, and physical or digital environments that influence what keeps happening.
Use the process yourself
The goal is not one successful transformation.
The goal is to understand the process well enough to use it again, with greater independence and better questions the next time something important needs to change.