How can we help attendees to be able to implement the knowledge they collected during the conference?
Sometimes it is not enough to have all the necessary assets to make the desired change like time, money, opportunity, knowledge, knowhow. There can be mental blocks in the way.
Guiding attendees through the process I recommend will help them to identify and overcome those internal blocks. What I will explain is based on Bruce D Schneider’s work in Energy Leadership.
First, I raise their awareness about their personal and real reason to attend to the conference. I plan to do a real time questioner, Slido or similar. Then I will share the results of studies (Harvard Business Review, Forbes). I will emphasize that all reason is ok even if partially looks personal.
I will give guidance to separate external blocks (money, time, opportunity, etc.) from internal blocks. The first step is to be able to identify and name the internal blocks. This way it becomes easier to work on it. I will share real life examples, stories from my tester, team lead, manager experience to describe each mental bock.

• Assumption:
“I tried 10 times or 100 times and no success.” The assumption here is that they think it will happen in the same way again because nothing has changed. Recommend question:
Just because that happened in the past, what makes you think it will happen that way again?

• Interpretation:
Sometimes we have only some information, some experience and based on that we come up with the full story and react to that created reality and make decision based on it. The recommendation here is to change the perspective. Recommended question:
What would someone else (your spouse, your friend) say about what happened?

• Limiting Beliefs:
It suggests that something can happen only in a certain circumstance. “The only way to make money is to work really hard.” This type of belief can be so strong to stop someone from actions completely. Recommended question:
What makes that limiting belief true for you now?

• Gremlin, self-doubt or partially imposter syndrome:
It is part of ourselves saying that we are not good enough, we are not smart enough. The first step is to separate it. One way to do that is to give a name to it. Recommended question:
What do you want to say to your Gremlin when it appears next time?
Then, I will describe the 6-step process to work on mental block (pause, identify, review, replace, practice, get help).
At the end I will recommend a perspective to turn „impossible” into possible.

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