STEPS TO INTRODUCE SIMA IN GROUP WORKSHOPS
Whether participants are technical professionals,or other exempt employees from business organizations, as individuals or as a team, staff from a large church, or faculty and/or students in secondary schools, community or 4-year colleges, we follow these steps with slight variations in design and case exmples, depending upon those involved.
In this process we use group workshops rather than the individual approach taken with management. Although we thereby seek to encourage greater participation with lower costs per person, the other very practical reason is that the manager's responsibility for others requires a deeper grasp of the technology which takes more personalized time to assure greater comprehension.
- Orientation..... We would meet with participants as a group or groups on Day One:
- explain how it all works,
- what they will derive from their efforts,
- how they can use what they learn to improve their effectiveness,
- understand why they function the way they do,
- what the one thing is they always seek to achieve,
- the reason they are conflicted with certain people,
- why they have difficulty wth certain aspects of their work and what to do about it,
- and other such enlightenment of real value in their work and personal life.
We would start them off writing about their achievement experiences, making sure they understood the importance of fully describing their actions. We establish a deadline for completing their Bio forms and e-mailing them to us for processing prior to the full day workshop. They would be given a book to read before the Workshop, about the System For Identifying Motivated Abilities (SIMAź).
- Workshop Day.....Several hours are spent explaining the importance of a detailed history of their achievements, the phenomenon of recurring themes, the gathering of those themes into a pattern, and the five constituent parts of their Motivational Pattern of Giftedness, which we call a MAP ( we'll explain later). Having dealt with those basics, we illustrate achievement interviewing, have them practise their roles in triads a) to tell their story, b) to probe the achiever's story seeking more and more detailed actions, and c) to take notes of critical facts recounted. The roles shift after each story has been told and they summarize what they heard. After the triad has completed that part of the process for all three members, they are given the result of our Computerized Thematic Analysis (CTA). Each then verifies the conclusions of the CTA by finding supporting evidence in the Bio form completed earlier, and in the achievements orally described and noted in the triads.
- Feedback Days.....Each participant in the Group workshop has an opportunity to meet with the Workshop Facilitator to review conclusions, the evidence to support them, and the job and career implications involved. This is a most critical step and its value far outweighs the limited amount of time spent with each person, normally one hour. Subsequent to the Workshop, our staff is available when authorized by management, for telephone counselling with those employees needing extra time.
Fees: $3000 for each day, plus $150 for each CTA ( limit of 24 in each Workshop) Travel expenses in addition
Following identification of the MAP, participants can enroll in a 10-Step process over a period of months, where they go through a number of exercises to take active ownership over their MAP. Becoming aware of how dominant the MAP is in their daily lives, leads to development of self-awareness, becoming comfortable with their endowments,and a clarity about their personal identity, which in turn helps the person make sound decisions, build integrity and character, avoid pretension and seek to be more fully realized by giving themselves more fully. In this process, we seek to instill a sense of personal mission, and an attitude of gratefulness for the bountiful gifts with which each has been endowed. We credit God for that largess but do not evangelize, believing these patterns of giftedness are more than adequate to draw the uncertain into a spiritual quest to know more about such a God.
BECOMING WHO YOU ARE DESIGNED TO BE
Your Personal 10-Step Program
STEP 1 Amplify, Clarify and Verify Your Map
Learning Objective: Amplify your Map and build some tools to make it easier to apply it to your life. Check out your conclusions with those who know you and don't owe you any money or favors. Please note that the exercises in this step will make it far easier to perform many of the following steps in the process.
STEP 2 Define Ideal Work- Explore Matching You and Possible Careers
Learning Objective: Summarize your motivational pattern to describe work that would engage your Map
STEP 3 Examine Your Reactions When Your World and Map Collide
Learning Objective: Get acquainted with the power of your Map to influence whether you are having a good day or a lousy day.
STEP 4 Probe Your Compatibility or Conflict with Others
Learning Objective: Understand the motivational basis for why one person in your life is so great and another so grating, or boring, or so 'in another world'. The reason you knock heads with anyone, be it your father, or your coach, or your spouse, or dear mother, or a co-worker, or a subordinate, or your dear boss, or the evening news commentator centers around a conflict between your MAP and their behavior. Understanding that conflict in terms of your MAP can objectify the issue involved , and allow you to manage it more effectively because you have a handle on the why of it, at least from your side of the conflict.
STEP 5 My Map did it! "The Dark Side of Our Strengths"
Learning Objective: Understand your tendency to use your giftedness in ways which harm, hurt, grieve, even destroy. Insidious, often subtle, each of us use our strengths in wrong ways to gain some advantage or prized status. If not confronted, it is a compulsion, a tendency to use that which we are good at to gain some advantage not meant for us.
STEP 6 Improve Your Performance by Improving Your Job Fit
Learning Objective: Identify (1) what there is about you and your MAP that don't fit your studies and(2) what you can get rid of, add to, or change about those requirements(not you) that improve the fit.
STEP 7 Getting Help! We All Need It
Learning Objective: Confront where you need help.
STEP 8 Clearing Your Decks - Getting Rid Of the Irrelevant/Unecessary
Learning Objective: To achieve greater conformance of your life with your giftedness.
STEP 9 Higher, Bigger, More - Paying the Price of Becoming
Learning Objective: " To be nobody-but-yourself---in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself---means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never top fighting". e.e. cummings
STEP 10 Stop, Look, and Listen - Finding Your Calling
Learning Objective: To use your Map in seeking and finding a calling.
PROCEDURAL NOTE
In the 10-Step Program outlined above, the process requires the participant to spend several hours in preparation for each meeting. Because the nature of the material worked on between meetings is personal, most of the meeting time, after an orientation by our Facilitator, is spent within the triads.Each member explains the homework material completed and it is discussed as to its apparent accuracy and usefulness. This is an important relationship formed as a result of the Workshop helping each other tell their 'story' and drawing out conclusions. It is a critical bond which will see much exercise in the weeks ahead. Meeting should be scheduled so there is adequate time available to prepare for each meeting. Once every two weeks seems about right to those who have worked through the program.
A 135 page manual for the 10-Step Program, given to each participant, is used by the Facilitator to orient the participants at the beginning and end of each meeting about what they should expect to give to and get out of their interactions in the triads, and to clarify how they should approach their 'homework', persistently reminding them that they will get out of these exercises what they put in.
If done well, the insights will last them throughout their lives. Much of what they learn will be directly applicable to whatever vocation or studies or sport they are pursuing. Pretty much any question about performance, or strongly felt attitude or feelings, positive or negative, can be explained by reference to the MAP.The Facilitator moves through the triads throughout the day, normally a Saturday from mid-morning until late afternoon.
FEES AND TRAINING EXPENSES
To conduct the 10-Step program and provide counselling $3000/day
services each Meeting day to participants needing help
To train faculty or staff from host organizations for 5 days $5000/day
how to perform all of the services described above except
preparation of the MAP (limit of 5 trainees) Travel
expensesare in addition
Copyright 2007 Arthur F. Miller
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