Finding Your Flow
Learn what flow is, the principles and practice that accompany flow, assess your own “Meaningful Life Arena”, identify your “one thing”, then build a compelling personal plan that will help you achieve flow.
Flow theory has been used for more than 40 years to describe states of full engagement, peak performance, and joyful living. The components of flow suggest that being at your best includes a combination of principles, strategies, and practices that can be understood and mastered, giving individuals, teams, and organizations a greater opportunity to be in flow and discover individual and collective potential in a variety of “Meaningful Life Arenas.”
The Finding Your Flow course contains both the theoretical and the practical—first reviewing and experiencing the traditional components of flow, followed by a discussion and application of the more than 60 strategies that can be used to advance individual and collective effectiveness. During the course, each participant will have an opportunity to take a personal flow assessment (“the 1080° Sweep”) to identify Flow Assets and Liabilities for cultivating one’s high performance. Using a number of experiential exercises and tools, each participant will have an opportunity to discover the “critical factors” of their own performance, work in teams to develop action plans, and apply new “flow strategies” to the important arenas in their lives.
Even more important, each participant will develop the self-awareness necessary to recognize the key factors most important to them as they pursue future knowledge, skills, and strategies designed to advance their personal and professional effectiveness.
The Finding Your Flow course is designed for both professionals and students.
Desire: Like every high performer, becoming your best requires time and persistent effort to master current skills while looking ahead at the next level.
Pain: Too often high performers move up the ranks because of what they know, but often get knocked out of the game because of who they fail to become. This can be avoided. Remember: What got you here won’t get you there.
Solution: We take a reasoned approach to identify the skills that define today’s success while identifying what new knowledge, skills, and behaviors it will take to reach the leadership level you desire.
Achieve a broad awareness of the many factors to peak performance and flow
Identify the “Flow Assets and Liabilities” of flow within any “Meaningful Life Arena”
Set achievable goals and developing action plans towards that “one thing”
Develop the ability to be your own best performance coach
Re-use the “Finding Your Flow” model for a lifetime of personal development and excellence
Set the foundation for all your future personal development training
Welcome Message
Optimize Your Experience
Finding Your Flow
Outcomes and Possibilities
Personal Origins of Flow: Tennis and Strawberries
The Two Secrets to Flow
Strategic Pitstop
Objectives, Purpose, and Agenda
The Context of Leadership and Finding Your Flow
Workbook - Finding Your Flow Through Attentional Leadership
Introduction - Understanding Flow
What Do You Know About Flow
Anti-Flow Experience Phrases (Audio Lesson)
Flow Experience Phrases (Audio Lesson)
CZ's Definition of Flow
History of Flow
Components of Flow
Benefits of Flow
Quiz 1
Cloud of Butterflies
Attentional Leadership
Goldfish and Attention Span
Foundational Ideas and Models
Holding Your Attention
Logic Model
Runner Preparation
Inattentional Blindness
Stages of Personal Mastery
FOCUS Planning - 5 Steps to Finding Your Flow
Introduction - Exploring Flow
Complex Systems
Future Alignment
Internal Alignment
External Alignment
Past Alignment
The 5th Alignment
Quiz 2
Introduction - Assessing Flow
Step 1 - Find Your Flow Assets and Liabilities
Step 2 - Observe What's Important Now
Quiz 3
Generating Flow and Step 3 - Consider Your Options
Step 4 - Understand Your Plan
Step 5 - Specify Your Metrics
The Iterative Process and 5 Correlations
3 Brief Scorecard Examples
Talent is Overrated
Become Your Own Best Coach
Summary - The 2 Secrets to Flow
There Is No Finish Line
Attentional Leadership and the Sands of Time
The Cricket Story
Quiz 4
Leading Others Towards Flow
Quiz 5