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GUEST COLUMN


Today, as a coach, I teach clients that everything must start with a clear intention; a design created using the imagination about how we want something to be. If you’re clear on what you want, your chances of achieving it increase dramatically. A person who goes to bed with a clear intention to work out the next morning will set the alarm, put their gym kit by the bed and possibly book a class. The decision is already made. If you have to sleepily decide whether to leave your warm bed for a workout on a cold morning, how often will you choose to snooze instead? If you have a business problem to solve, get clear on the problem before you enter your first meeting.


MIND OVER MATTER


Successfully integrating two global companies provides a lesson in using creativity


Lorna Dunning is a mindset and success coach, and personal development leader


However, despite having talented indi- viduals doing great work for our customers, we shared the collective psychology that we don’t work well together across functional boundaries, and we’re not good at leading major change programmes. Also, 70 per cent of integrations fail to meet one or more of their objectives, so the challenge was not insignificant. Two things had to happen if we were to stand a chance of making this the success we all wanted it to be: we must have our best talent; and we must address our mindset. Scoping the programme, designing the governance structure, identifying the roles to be filled and mobilising for delivery was the obvious first step; but I forced myself to pause.


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AST YEAR, MY GOAL WAS TO bring two global companies in the business travel sector together flawlessly, exceeding the expectations of our employees, customers and stakeholders.


Before adding a word to the integration scoping document, I took a blank note pad allowed my imagination to take me to a place where the integration was already delivered impeccably. Among my notes, I wrote: We were a talented team who worked together like the best sports teams that ever existed. When new people joined, we welcomed them publicly, like footballers who hold their new team shirt as they shake their managers hand. When team members left, we celebrated them and thank them with a standing ovation. And at the end of the list: I heard the clink of my champagne glass and tasted the bubbles as we celebrated.


FROM THE HEART EVERYTHING MUST


START WITH A CLEAR INTENTION; A DESIGN CREATED USING THE IMAGINATION ABOUT HOW WE WANT SOMETHING TO BE


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Emotional language is important. People were inspired as it came 100 per cent from my heart. When we kicked off the work, I asked 30 leaders from around the globe to close their eyes as I read my list to them. We then created a version of this together, made posters, displayed it and read it often. I played this movie in my mind every chance I got – reconnecting me to the feeling of what we were doing together. So why is any of this relevant? It’s all creativity. Creativity isn’t just for painters, singers, writers and actors. We are all creators. Everything we see around us was created twice, once in someone’s imagina- tion and then again in the physical world. When you create a clear image of the how you want something to be, your mind gets to work. The power is in creating this in the present tense as if it has already happened. The subconscious mind can’t tell what’s real and what’s imagined. When you imagine something frequently, with emotion you can’t help but become it. Whatever you’re working on in your


personal or professional life, take a sheet of paper and describe in detail how you want it to be. Read it daily and you will be surprised how close you get.


2020 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 121


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