Step 3: Building and deploying bridges
“We build too many walls and not enough bridges”
Isaac Newton
The sense of action:
It gives purpose, principles and the ability to make fast decisions in the desired World.
The desire to act:
Gestures organise rational mimicry guiding action towards the desired World.
The ability to act:
The pivot process tips you into the desired World. Symbolic, it anchors change and enables subsequent link-up.
The Creator of Worlds:
As facilitator, he is located from the outset in the desired World, he translates the desired World in the present World, he sets the example.
The bridge approach is innovative as it ensures continuous bridging between four levels that are tackled in a sequential, or even incomplete and disconnected way:
Strategy level: each bridge has Sense of action
- Following the example of a bridge in the domain of complex sales, the sense can be: “finding growth areas in a mature market”
Process level: each bridge relies on a pivot process which tips you into the desired world
- The aim is not to tackle ALL the processes. We concentrate on that which is, in the eyes of the players, symbolic of the desired world.
- In our example, that may be “the accounts plans review meeting”.
Behaviour level: each bridge clarifies the Gestures that situate me straightaway in the desired world
- If I do that, I am in the desired world.
- In our example this may be “I announce the tricks I am going to make (like in bridge)”.
People level: each bridge is carried, embodied by men and women acting as facilitators
- They are positioned in the desired world and help the other players to join them. They cannot fail in the historical world and say “off you go”.
- In our example this may be: local managers of sales teams.
P-VAL supports you in the detailed construction of your bridges: analysis and formalisation of processes, construction of tools supporting them, building key gestures in a rationale of ongoing measurement and progress, training and coaching facilitators in terms of behaviour and methods.
The key role of Creators and Facilitators of Worlds<
Becoming a Creator and Facilitator of Worlds means changing yourself
- You too are in the present World.
- You must think and act from the desired World, embody it.
Changing your behaviour as Leader
- The questions you ask.
- The words you use.
- The actions you value.
The maintenance manager of a Public Transport group of 40,000 people
- I asked P-VAL to help me reorganise into multi-expertise clusters my maintenance department of 5000 people.
- I knew I would succeed when P-VAL gave me the keys to translate in their words the World that I desired.
We help you identify the facilitators and we support them throughout the World project.