John: As we’re thinking about the Globally Conscious Leaders and helping them evolve, how do you do that?
Chad: Well, gosh, reflection! There’s so many ways that you can do that. You can have a more formal setting where you set time aside, where you are coming together, and you do have some formal questions.
And so for example: when we do expeditions, I teach a lot about the expeditionary mindset. So as an adventure educator, we go out constantly. Putting together these expeditions where we’ll go into the backcountry, assemble teams, we have a common goal, we have measurable objectives that go along with that.
And when you have measurable objectives, you can come back and sit there and go, “Huh, did we accomplish these components of the expedition that we wanted to?” If not, how did we modify our expedition objectives in order to get to this bigger goal? And did the goal even change along the way?
And so we have daily check-ins. And so we are in the field and we have check-ins twice a day because things are happening so quickly. And changing at such a rapid rate all the time. Pretty much there’s just uncertainty all around us. And so being able to address that uncertainty twice a day is how we look at it!
But there’s always a bigger reflection when we come back on all our expeditions, and we put a lot of emphasis on this. A lot of times when we do expeditions, we’ll come back and we’ll come back halfway through the day and some people were like, “Oh, Why didn’t you stay out until five?”
“Well, you know what, because we’re gonna get back at noon and we’re gonna have a nice lunch and we’re gonna come back and we’re gonna reflect. In order to reflect, you’re gonna have to have energy. You’re gonna have to have a full belly and you’re gonna have to be comfortable. It can’t be done in this environment where you’re tired and just wanna get home.”
And so that’s part of the integrating of the process is, valuing the reflection just as much as valuing the actual doing part.
