Word Clearing
There’s a hidden cause of trouble individuals easily run into. It affects personal ability and blocks your success in getting others to do what you’re asking. For example:
A Senior Director is told she needs to develop “Executive Presence” to get promoted to VP. She flounders for 6 months trying to figure out what that is. Everyone she asks gives her a different story. But they’re all sure she needs it.
A Senior VP has been telling his leadership team for two years that he wants customer satisfaction to “drive all elements of our business” and is frustrated because “Only 20% of my team gets it”. He says, “I’ve started talking to myself driving home because no one else understands me!”
A manager talks to her peers very directly about their needing to “show more respect” and, getting nowhere, feels like she’s hit a solid brick wall.
Two critical divisions in a large organization experience tension whenever they try to communicate their needs to each other. Meeting after meeting, they see each other as stubborn, unreasonable, incompetent and uncooperative. The organization falls more and more behind in innovation.
A father speaks earnestly to his child about “responsibility”. The little one has a blank look while patiently waiting for the talk to be over so they can go do something fun.
How could hidden disagreements and buried misunderstandings regarding word meanings be at the bottom of so much trouble? Doesn’t everyone know the meanings of the everyday words we commonly use to get our points across?
The answer is, it would be great if they did, but we can easily show you that they don’t.
The result is that no matter how clearly you think you’re expressing your ideas, what others are understanding is often a far cry from what you were hoping for. Thus, it takes a long time to create change, and is sometimes impossible. As well, people struggle to gain abilities and qualities that seem out of their grasp, like “executive presence” or the ability to “own the room”, not realizing they have no clear definition or understanding of what they’re trying to achieve.
Word Clearing gives you a simple new process for brilliant clarity. Both when you are relaying ideas to others and when you are making that jump to the next level of your professional and personal transformation.
The Word Clearing process will teach you one of the most powerful techniques in existence for raising ability and intelligence (your own and others) and for handling the hidden disagreements on word definitions that are at the bottom of frustrating communications and endless conversations that go nowhere.
You’ll learn how to get others to really understand you and do what you’re asking.
This service is tailored to the goals of the individuals and groups requesting it. We deliver Word Clearing both as a group workshop and as a one-on-one service. Currently we are only delivering this virtually.
What our clients say:
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“They started out with their arms folded and skeptical. As I talked, all of a sudden, arms unfolded. How do you get teamwork? You need trust. We word cleared the word “trust” the way you taught me. 30 minutes. Without the word clearing, they would not have been receptive. They were receptive. We never talked about their ‘issues’. I’m not interested in ‘the problem of the day’. We solved the root cause. We agreed this was really interesting. There was value to this. We are taking this down to the next layer of management – that’s what we did today. The discussion went a little bit further than I described. I bounced back and forth between the words: kindness, teamwork, trust and understanding. Made group realize they all had different goals – we need a common goal. Turned out to be really interesting. As I go ahead and look at the definitions – I follow a path – sometimes the path is a dead end. Maybe this is the wrong path. Then you come across these wonderful definitions. It clears up everything at a root cause level. It’s magic.””
“I was able to put this training to use immediately in my very next ‘goals review’ meeting with one of my employees. When I asked him if he felt he had completed his goal, he said “yes”. To me, the result seemed quite cursory. In the end, after going through the word clearing as you suggested during the training, it became obvious that we had a disconnect and exactly where it was. After the word clearing, he is off and running again with a new understanding of what else needs to be accomplished. No disagreements.””
“[A father who did word clearing with his daughter] We spent a few minutes getting the confusion straightened out. I used the “word clearing” techniques you had shown me and our relationship changed right then. All the upset and anger drained away. That experience was so well received that we have since spent several 15 or 20 minute sessions looking up words and digging into definitions. Not only has our communication improved a great deal, but the time we spend together perusing the Dictionaries has meant a lot to both of us. I think she especially enjoyed the words “Respect” and “Love”.”
“Thank you for showing me the power of word clearing. I word cleared the team on the word, “Respect” on Friday. Took 30 minutes. The following Monday I saw a change. The executive staff meets with the marketing team on Monday mornings to review new product ideas. In the past this has been a tornado room where the marketing guys come in with an idea and it gets shredded. On this Monday the marketing guys came in to discuss a complex acquisition idea. The discussion started out in tornado mode but then took a sudden shift as we all realized that we weren’t living up to the values we ascribed to. Then the tone of the meeting changed. For the first time we said, “We’re not here to beat you guys up, we’re here to help figure out how to help you.” It was a meeting where respect for each other enabled us to make terrific progress on the task at hand and we were able to provide coaching that was well received by the marketing team. This has never happened before. It was big.””