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ISIS

 

ISIS is the Integrated Strategic Intention System, and I created this system back in the 80s, during another witch hunt for leadership that I was motivated to conduct. A number of very powerful models, including what I would call a cross-paradigm system of leadership called Generati, which has been in the works prior to my adoption of coaching as a primary way to monetize who I am.

ISIS is made up of 13 components, it seems the number is one that keeps popping up with good things for me. I didn't plan it that way, it just emerged, luckily.

Most of the components of ISIS are fairly self-explanatory, but they require familiarization to be able to use beyond just superficial levels of content. I've created a library of audios. written materials, and forms you can use to make this work at: http://www.1isis.com/21 and I ask anyone using this system outside of TFI to visit www.1isis.com and pay the $10 single use fee, which includes an ecoaching system, which goes a really long way towards fleshing out the skeleton you will see now.

Essentially ISIS is made up of 4 major systems:

SLOT (changed from SWOT)

- Strengths

- Limitations (as observed when compared to a role, or set of success requirements, there are no limitations until you create a comparison)

- Opportunities

- Threats

Identity

- Assumptions & Beliefs (our mental models)

- Vision: (now, near and far notions)

- Values (want tos)

- Principles (have tos)

Intention

- Strategic direction (compass heading, as in orienteering, identifying the direction of the work and where it leads)

- Key success factors (metrics)

- Goals or tasks (what by when, which are non-standard, and are mostly recalibration efforts)

- Standards (routine and recurring events that when done consistently produce the quantity and quality of behaviors required)

Purpose

- A statement of identity encompassing the values, and a statement of intention, encompassing the strategic directions.

Helpful Hint: It was important to just outline this system as a TPOV, and later on when it's explained in audio and over video, you can begin to see the multiple dimensions that can be addressed in design and scaffolding work.

Once we add the Integral Process to ISIS, we can easily identify additional design support and scaffolding cues that can lead to more EES in Role Design. This is as simple, and luckily as advanced as you need to make it, it's truly a tool that really works and I'm very proud of what it has become as a part of the FLOW TPOVs.

Action Step: There is no greater value than just beginning with ISIS, as it doesn't matter who you are, or what your ISIS says your work is, to iterate with this tool, where it's important, is great leverage, so try it. You can download the tool at the link above and play with it, or not, as always take it, and leave it.  

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