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Personal Development is a field of
interest also for modern holistic approaches to human performance. The Italian
researcher Daniele Trevisani identified a "6-Factors Model of Personal
Development" in which both "tangible" and "intangible" variables are connected.
The model regards how the single
“cells” work, both separately and together, to generate the highest Human
achievements.
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The main contents of the six "cells" start with the ground level of tangible
bodily energies up to the spiritual level of intangible values.
For a better comprehension of the
implications for Personal Development and Performance, it will be useful to have
a graphic representation of the 6-Vectors Model of Personal Development and
Performance.
Quote from Daniele Trevisani:
"The HPM Exa-Leadership Model deals
with Self Expression but is really and deeply connected to Leadership and
overall Human Resources or People Operations, since only a clear understanding
of how Humans can perform (or instead be unproductive at low energy levels)
generates effective leadership.
Leadership is the ability to connect
people with one or more deep meanings. It is the ability to connect people with
the overall sense and life-purpose of an organization.
To generate real and positive
leadership we can “anchor” our work to one or more of the 6 semiotic cells.
“Entering” in this Six-Cells Model
requires first an overall view, and later the analysis of how the single “cells”
work, both separately and together, to generate the highest Human achievements.
The work on the complexity of these
“cells” is crucial. When we are able to generate an advance on any of these
areas, we are boosting and empowering a portion of the hidden Human Potential.
Here we give a brief summary of what
are the main contents of the six "cells".
1.
The Psycho-energetic substrate. This “cell” regards the level and
meanings of mental energies, the pure motivational energies that individuals are
able to generate, mental states that become very practical mental skills, such
as focusing, attention, mental shape, ability to find the right mental approach,
freedom from anxiety, freedom from fear. Mental energies determine tactical
awareness, clean perception, sensing and intuition, and good strategic
reasoning.
2.
The Bio-Energetic substrate. This cell regard the beliefs and
importance attributed to physical wellbeing, the time devoted to it, the level
of physical energies (organic energies) at which a person can arrive. This
“cell” regards the biology of human beings, their body, the well-functioning of
organism, and of its bodily districts; we can say that any soul without a body
will just fluctuate, and the body becomes crucial as a vehicle for achieving our
goals. The better our body works, the better the overall health and the higher
the overall energies will be. Beyond a general and overall attention to the
body, that is always a good and healthy habit, every role in life and every
challenge poses requests that should be analyzed seriously and possibly met,
such as improving cardio for athletes, or strength, or recovery time and
resting, eating style, and so on.
3.
The Micro-Skills substrate: this “cell” regards the importance and
meaning attributed to the details of any performance, the smallest fine points
of how actions are put together to generate a performance, up to the details of
the thinking process. Every action can be divided into a “chain of actions” that
can be improved. Every decision or mental elaboration can be analyzed as a
sequence of more subtle mental steps. If we are able to focus on these steps,
better actions and better thought processes will derive, and the overall energy,
again will increase.
4.
The Macro-Skills substrate: this “cell” regards the importance and
meaning attributed to a “holistic” preparation, holistic knowledge and a wide
spectrum of skills. It includes all the skills that we possess, all the range of
qualities that we are able to master, and their level of mastery; it also
includes the ability to connect our skills with the environment that surrounds
us, perceive how it is changing and what new skills we must acquire to be
effective in the environment where we must operate. When we feel that our skills
are greater than the goal we can jump into any challenge. When we feel that we
are powerless, even an ant will scare us. The preparation for the Micro-Skills
also regard the “Training for the Unexpected”, face uncertainty, the ability to
learn always new skills, to become learning machines that will love to know and
research, and living as life-long learners with a passion for learning.
5.
The Projects and Goal-Setting Substrate:
this “cell” regards the importance and meaning attributed to the “practical
aspects” of a goal, the ability to transfer an unshaped will or “desire” into a
well shaped and defined project. We can have a project against anxiety, a
project for a specific sports match, a marketing project, a project for a
bridge, or for an event. Any project can be aimed at something or
against something that becomes tangible. This “cell” therefore regards the
skills to transform a desire into action, operational planning and goal setting.
Everything in this cell can be learned and trained.
6.
The Spiritual Substrate of Personal
Development: Degree of Connection with a
Vision, inspiring principles, Values, and Life-Purposes. This cell regards
the important and meaning attributed to a spiritual life, to higher values,
life-purposes and principles, the internal will of generating a contribution for
real and not only in public speaking. Any project or idea can be “full” or
“empty” depending on how it relates with our internal values, moral principles,
our dreams, and our deepest fears. Human Potential derives its highest form of
energies in feeling a connection of our action with strong life-meanings. It
requires sense and deep missions. This cell regards the most intangible
spiritual and existential flow of energy. The content of this cell is very
“culturally dependent” (meaning that every culture brings in a given set of
values), but we can learn fantastic tools of “Reverse Engineering”. Memetic
Analysis, Means-End Chains, and several other tools are there to help our
journey towards Full Potential.
Each of these states, or "cells" may
have a certain level of "Power", be "full", "abundant", well cultivated, well
exercised, or be instead "empty", deprived, weakened, impoverished, or even
neglected and abused, malnourished, abandoned.
When we say “empty” in a Semiotic
term, we really refer much more to a condition of “emptiness of meaning”, rather
than physical emptiness.
If you see fat leaders, that clearly
show, externally with their body, an internal lack of real meaning in the
bioenergetics cell. That means lack of perceived importance of physical
conditioning, and the continues procrastination of physical activity “due to
other concomitant commitments”.
I have seen any kind of people and
leaders in my life, from Army Generals to Business Leaders, across any sector,
and found that the amount of physical activity done had nothing to do with their
rank or other concomitant activities. It was a choice generated by deep internal
beliefs.
Other leaders show very clear absence
of meaning in the cell of “higher values” (cell 6), and speculate on drugs that
harm people’s health, or could sell landmines made that target kids (landmines
that look like toys) without having any trouble sleeping at night, while they
should not sleep at all but rather die before committing other crimes against
humanity.
The overall energy of the person gets
enormous benefits from “injections” of energies, skills and knowledge into the
single cells. And as any fuel, it must be the good and right fuel, not whatever
fills the tank.
In turn-every “Injection” resonates
into the entire system shaking it and liberating further energies.
All the 6 Cells of the Exa-Leadership
Model do communicate with each other and are open systems.
From a good work on each cell, we can
see very tangible effects: improved mood, anxiety and depression quickly and
progressively vanishing, and higher results, performance, ability to decide, to
be effective and produce positive change in the Self and in others.
Human results depend on the energetic
state of the different human systems, the ability to cultivate and nurture them,
and - at the very foundation of all work - we have the sacred decision to work
on them, the decision that “it’s my turn to work on myself”.
Local status and the interaction
between the various "cells" can produce the maximum of the potential or provide
negative synergies, damages and malfunctions that prevent human beings to
express themselves, when we do not take care of our “internal engines”.
Personal resources and the individual
potential can be "read" but also amplified through some serious work on the six
areas.
Any trip starts with a small step, and
the decision to start to work on our “internal engines” and cultivate our best
inner energies, getting rid of any pointless burden, is already a huge, gigantic
forward step."
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Source: Trevisani,
Daniele (2015). Semiotics for Leaders. The Exa-Leadership Model for
Leadership and Human Potential Development, Medialab Research Publishing,
Ferrara. ISBN: 978-1-329-59007-6.
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