Dr. E outlines how to assess readiness across strategic, DEI, and personal contexts, defining three pillars: motivation, mindset, and maintenance. He prompts clarifying the why, choosing a sustaining mindset, and planning upkeep or pivots.
The speaker opens with a friendly greeting and a brief personal anecdote about a Twin Cities snowstorm, creating context and rapport before introducing the topic of readiness.
The presenter defines readiness across strategic, DEI, and personal contexts and identifies motivation as the first key pillar. He prompts viewers to clarify their 'why' and examines common reasons for taking action.
This section outlines the required mindset—whether temporary, ongoing, strategic, or embedded—and stresses consistency, strength, and perseverance. The speaker discusses how to frame the effort so others can rally behind it.
The speaker presents the maintenance plan as the third pillar, explaining how to preserve motivation and mindset over time and when to pivot. He then summarizes motivation, mindset, and maintenance as the essentials for assessing readiness and closes the video.
Good afternoon. Dr. E here. Hope you are doing well. We are in the Twin Cities in the midst of a snowstorm. So I think we have accumulated about 17 to 18 inches over the past couple of days. So getting ready to do some snow plowing. So very, very excited about that, which is kind of ironic at this age that a 50 something year old man would get excited about snow plowing, but that's a whole different story. Hope you're doing well. I wanted to talk today about readiness assessment and readiness in terms of what?
Readiness in terms of strategic plan, readiness in terms of diversity, equity, and inclusion in corporation, readiness in terms of leveling up from a personal standpoint. What are some key qualities, key characteristics, key pillars to have in terms of assessing your readiness or the ability to move forward in terms of whatever you're trying to do personally, organizationally, institutionally in that regard. The first thing is motivation. What is your motivation? Why are you doing whatever it is you're attempting to do?
For some folks, you might hear phrases like, well, It's the right thing to do or it's the right time to do something. If that's your motivation, absolutely fantastic. If that isn't your motivation, drill down as to what is your why. What is your why? are you doing whatever it is that you're attempting to do? Diversity, equity, inclusion initiatives, culture change, organizational shift, changing in strategic planning, what is the why? What's the motivation behind what you're doing and the reasoning behind why you're doing it?
The second thing is mindset. What type of mindset do you have? Is this something temporary? Is this going to be something ongoing that you continue to do, you continue to stress, you continue to promote and practice in your organization within your teams, within your groups? What is the frame of mind? What is the mindset that you have in approaching and in implementing whatever it is that you're attempting to do? Is this something strategic? Is this something embedded? Is this something ingrained?
Is this something that you can share that everyone can gather and rally around and what type of approach do you need to have in order for others to get on board? Your mindset has to be one of consistency, has to be one of... Strength has to be one of perseverance. But whatever it is, even if it is not any of those three, your mindset has to come across as to how you're going to do the third thing, which is maintain it. What is your maintenance plan? How are you going to ensure that from day one to day nth degree that it is not going to shift, change, divert, stop, cease, pivot, which might be important at times, but what are you going to do to maintain the mindset and the motivation behind what it is that you're doing?
So if you're actually trying to assess whether you're ready, whether your team is ready, whether your organization is ready to do anything, really look at the motivation, look at the mindset, and then look at how you're going to maintain it moving forward. You get those three things under your belt and I think you'll be ready to assess whatever it is you're attempting and trying to do regardless of where and who you are in or within an organization. Dr. E and I will see you next week.
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