CTQ Smart Levers
Smart Levers are ideas, frameworks, and models that help you systematically uplevel in work and life, and thus be future relevant. Watch and learn.
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Quick PLAYS
1. What is Upleveling for Future Relevance?
In this pilot episode, a short and sweet introduction to the idea of 'Upleveling', a defining concept at the heart of CTQ. (Also read our future relevance manifesto)
2. The Upleveler’s Toolkit: Ideas from ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’
In this episode, a quick introduction to takeaways from Daniel Kahneman's treatise on Thinking, Fast & Slow and why you should consider this as an important part of the Upleveler's toolkit.
3. The Upleveler’s Toolkit: the SUCCES framework from ‘Made to Stick’
What are six elements to ‘sticky communication’ and why is Made to Stick dear to CTQ?
4. The Uplever’s Toolkit: How to persuade people to say ‘Yes’ using the book ‘Influence’
You can better your communication to influence people when you know how people think and take decisions.
5. The Upleveler’s Toolkit: Know the immense value of a humble checklist
Surgeon Dr Atul Gawande shares with you the power of having a simple checklist. If it is good for complicated life-dependent surgeries, it can work for you.
6. The Upleveler’s Toolkit: Learn how tiny changes drive your remarkable results.
We give you an outline of the ideas from James Clear's book Atomic Habits which will change the way you think about picking up and dropping habits.
7. The Upleveler’s Toolkit: A guide to bringing about change when change is hard.
A lowdown of the book ‘Switch’ which teaches you how to overcome the conflict that makes change difficult and learn the pattern that will help you bring about change successfully.
8. The Upleveler’s Toolkit: Know which moments leave a powerful impact and learn to engineer them
9. The Upleveler’s Toolkit: The secret to getting a habit going quickly and easily
10. The Upleveler’s Toolkit: A tool that will help you head towards a future goal that's realistic and meaningful to you
11. The Upleveler’s Toolkit: Learn the unusual and irrational ways of persuading people
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