Mastery and generalisation
Mastery under pressure
Find out whether it is still available when it is needed most.
The gapCapability that is present in controlled practice and absent in the room.
When to use it
Last, once everything else is steady.
What you need
A partner able to add pressure of several kinds.
The steps
- Perform normally.
- Add time pressure.
- Add scrutiny.
- Add interruption.
- Add disagreement.
- Add uncertainty.
- Observe whether the target behaviour is intact.
- Identify the threshold at which it fails.
- Recalibrate.
- Retest.
You know it worked when
The behaviour holds under realistic pressure, not only in practice.
Why all five, and not one
- Intent
- The objective has to survive everything else that is happening.
- Message
- What is said has to keep its structure while the rest moves.
- Delivery
- How it is expressed has to hold under the same conditions.
- Presence
- The state it is expressed from has to stay steady.
- Connection
- It still has to reach the person in front of you.
Which drill is yours, in what order and at what dose, is not something a page can tell you. That is what a Discovery Call is for.
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