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This presentation consists of highlights from the interview with Moe Abdou,
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Dan Pontefract is the author of “FLAT ARMY: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization” (May, 2013) and “THE PURPOSE EFFECT: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role and Your Organization” (May
2016). He is Chief Envisioner of TELUS Transformation Office; a future-of-work consulting group that helps organizations enhance corporate
culture, leadership, learning, work styles & collaboration practices.
Dan Pontefract@dpontefract
Chief Envisioner at TELUS
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Purpose-first organizations seek balance, harmony and the ultimate alignment between:
Insight #1
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Purpose-first organizations seek balance, harmony and the ultimate alignment between:
An Individual’s Personal Purpose
Insight #1
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Purpose-first organizations seek balance, harmony and the ultimate alignment between:
The Organization’s Driving Purpose
Insight #1
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Purpose-first organizations seek balance, harmony and the ultimate alignment between:
The Role each person plays within the organization
Insight #1
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Insight #2
Personal Purpose is a perpetual cycle of self-discovery (to reach your why);
the questions of what, who and how should continually be explored:
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Insight #2
Personal Purpose is a perpetual cycle of self-discovery (to reach your why);
the questions of what, who and how should continually be explored:
Develop - What are you doing to grow and establish your personal values, priorities and attributes?
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Insight #2
Personal Purpose is a perpetual cycle of self-discovery (to reach your why);
the questions of what, who and how should continually be explored:
Define - Who are you trying to become in life?
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Insight #2
Personal Purpose is a perpetual cycle of self-discovery (to reach your why);
the questions of what, who and how should continually be explored:Decide - How will you operate
when balancing the realities of life with the opportunity for growth?
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Insight #3
A person’s ideals manifest when they’re pursuing and then attaining a life of purpose.
To make a living is not longer enough, as Peter Drucker said, “work also has to make a life.”
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Insight #4
When individuals and organizations are ‘Not On Purpose,’ it’s likely that one or more of these factors that causing the most damage:
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Insight #4
When individuals and organizations are ‘Not On Purpose,’ it’s likely that one or more of these factors that causing the most damage:
Remuneration - Handle people’s pay with dignity
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Insight #4
When individuals and organizations are ‘Not On Purpose,’ it’s likely that one or more of these factors that causing the most damage:
Profit - Purpose before Profit
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Insight #4
When individuals and organizations are ‘Not On Purpose,’ it’s likely that one or more of these factors that causing the most damage:
Role - Position team members for opportunities to create value and
recognize them accordingly
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Insight #4
When individuals and organizations are ‘Not On Purpose,’ it’s likely that one or more of these factors that causing the most damage:
Performance - Performance management isn’t a once a year conversation, it’s
an ongoing daily activity
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Insight #4
When individuals and organizations are ‘Not On Purpose,’ it’s likely that one or more of these factors that causing the most damage:Power - Use power wisely….If you have to tell
someone you’re powerful, you aren’t
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Insight #5
Successful and purposeful team members share these three behaviors:
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Insight #5
Successful and purposeful team members share these three behaviors:They’re constantly at odds with the
status quo. As such, they seek to answer the question: What am I doing to evolve myself?
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Insight #5
Successful and purposeful team members share these three behaviors:
They’re constantly adjusting their disposition, character, identity, attributes
and qualities to ensure new levels of success: Who am I in life and at work?
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Insight #5
Successful and purposeful team members share these three behaviors:They’re continually choosing whether
to operate with truth or dishonesty, with openness or intolerance, with grit or timidity,
with love or hostility: How will I operate and be perceived by others?
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Insight #6
The Purpose-first organization never stops doing Good DEEDS:
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Insight #6
The Purpose-first organization never stops doing Good DEEDS:
Delighting their customers
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Insight #6
The Purpose-first organization never stops doing Good DEEDS:Engaging their team members
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Insight #6
The Purpose-first organization never stops doing Good DEEDS:
Being Ethical within society
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Insight #6
The Purpose-first organization never stops doing Good DEEDS:
Delivering fair practices
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Insight #6
The Purpose-first organization never stops doing Good DEEDS:
Serving all stakeholders
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Insight #7
“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while,
waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are - if you are following your bliss, you
are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.”
- Joseph Campbell on Role
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Insight #8
‘Communitas’ is the ultimate definition of a Purpose-driven solidarity
between the organization & it’s team members. It engenders both the feeling
and spirit of togetherness.
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Insight #9
“Profit and purpose are not in conflict, the closer and tighter we focus on purpose,
the more profit grows. The more we focus on profit, the less we make.”
- Mike Desjardins, ViRTUS
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Insight #10
If you’re serious about creating a personal declaration of purpose, follow this technique:
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Insight #10
If you’re serious about creating a personal declaration of purpose, follow this technique:
Incorporate how you decide to operate your life - how you will show
up - each and every day.
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Insight #10
If you’re serious about creating a personal declaration of purpose, follow this technique:
Be succinct, specific and jargon-free, but ensure the
declaration is equally expressive
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Insight #10
If you’re serious about creating a personal declaration of purpose, follow this technique:
Make it personal, make it yours and incorporate strengths, interests
and/or core attributes.
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