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What is The Juggling Matrix?
What is a Matrix?
What is Juggling?
How does The Juggling Matrix
work?
The balls are tools?
Juggling is a process-based system?
Why organizations use The Juggling
Matrix.
Applications of The Juggling
Matrix.
What size groups do you work
with?
What is The Juggling Matrix?
- A model for acting differently.
- A tool for cultivating different thinking.
- A system for handling eveything life throws you.
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What is a Matrix?
A matrix is the point at which two or more
lines of information intersect on a chart. The points of intersection
create new information to guide decision-making.
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What is Juggling?
Juggling is the ancient skill and art of
keeping more objects (balls) in the air than one has hands or time.
It requires some skill, but mostly it requires having the courage to
act one degree greater than your fear to handle more than you previously
thought possible.
Juggling is an experience our brains cannot make
sense of until we develop behaviors that bring us to a conscious, present
moment - a crystal clear moment of Aha! It requires a process of Letting
Go and Opening Up to a new way of accomplishing our mission.
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How does The Juggling Matrix
work?
METHODOLOGY: With the toss of the first ball,
each individual relies on their own personal database of information
to handle the task - keep the ball in the air. By adding a second ball,
a virtual Matrix is created in front of us - an intersection of behavior
points that give us an opportunity to "see" our Reality (the
balls are colliding, the balls are staying up/my values are colliding,
my values are holding firm) and Take Action to Change (improve performance
by using old/or developing new behaviors).
The charting of these behaviors creates a Personal
Matrix of how we act and think about making change. It creates the opportunity
to reflect on our Expectations, our Fears, our ability to manage change.
Use the Matrix to ask:
- What is it I Fear? - is it fear of succeeding,
fear of failing, fear of feeling?
- What is my Focus for this project, this job,
this life-event? - what am I able to say I am getting out of this
right now or for my future?
- How am I responding to the situation?
- Do I need to be more Flexible in my thinking,
in my acting?
- Am I guaranteeing my Failure by not acting differently?
The Matrix helps us Let Go, Open Up and Move Beyond
what limits us.
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The balls are tools?
Yes. The juggling balls are the tools that
enable the Personal Matrix to become real. Each toss of a ball provides
the participant with an opportunity to reflect on their situation: why
did the ball go there? How am I going to adjust my plan to accomplish
my goal? If I worked with someone else, could I accomplish this faster
or better?
The balls also act as transitional objects: everyone
leaves a Juggling Matrix session with three juggling balls and a guide
book. They are encouraged to put the balls on their desk at work. In
this way, the balls will remind them where they learned how to juggle
and why. The balls are a constant reminder that change is possible with
courage one degree greater than fear.
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Juggling is a process-based
system? Explain.
In order to juggle three balls there are fundamental steps that must
be followed: starting in the right position, with the right focus, tossing
the balls to the Vision Points within a certain timeframe, catching
the balls and returning them into the Matrix. These are directly applicable
metaphors for the workplace that Carlo works into his program for the
sponsor.
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Why organizations use The
Juggling Matrix.
- It is "something
different"
- It is serious fun and it fits any message a company
needs to communicate to their meeting/conference attendees
- It addresses a group's fears, expectations and
anxieties about a changing workplace
- It is a motivational and inspirational program
- It reuses stress
- It builds better communications with staff and
management
- It builds better partnerships
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Applications of The Juggling
Matrix.
- Staff Development facilitations and trainings
- Seminars/workshops to explore inter-departmental
and/or management issues
- Keynote Performance to open/close a session with
the issues/themes of the meeting (edutainment)
- As an energizer during full-day conferences
- Personal development program for executive retreats,
incentive sales trips, education days, and other gatherings of staff.
- Consulting projects for strategic planning
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What size groups do you work
with?
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