Blind spots - Shooting for the moon and actually getting there
Douglas McKegney
You’re shooting for the moon but, somehow, you’re not getting off
the ground.
In this workshop you will discover where you are still tied to the ground by problems hidden
in your blind spots and learn to cut yourself loose.
24 years of advising senior executives, business owners and young entrepreneurs have taught
me one critically important thing: it’s the issues you can’t see that keep you tied to the
ground. Here are two examples from my work:
The aspiring entrepreneur, struggling to build a team, who didn’t realize he was
micromanaging everyone in sight instead of delegating. Once he found the source of his need
to control everything he was able to learn to delegate and became very good at that.
The big-company-executive-turned-entrepreneur who didn’t realize she was treating her
failing business as a collection of technical problems to be solved instead of an
opportunity to be explored and tested. Seeing the business with new eyes, she turned it
around and set herself free.
Before working with me these individuals planned carefully, executed rigorously … and things
went downhill. This happened because of problems it never occurred to them they might have,
the ones hidden in their blind spots. My job was to help them shine a light into these blind
spots and go to work on the problems hidden there.
So, what are you shooting for? And where are you tied to the ground?
In this workshop you will:
- Select an area of your life where you struggle to produce the results you want. For
example, consider your progress at Toastmasters: are you stuck somewhere along the way?
Or a challenge you face at work or at home
- Identify the exact place you get stuck, where you are tied to the ground. This is where
you likely have a blind spot.
- Learn the process for locating and solving the problem hidden in your blind spot.
A workbook will be provided to guide you, in the workshop and in following through as you
implement what you learned.
Doug McKegney is a business advisor and thinking partner specializing in the implementation
of business strategy and the development of collaborative leadership. He has created a suite
of programs derived from this work that help people get out of their own way and produce the
results they need.
Connect with Doug McKegney on LinkedIn: Doug McKegney