PP56 : When The Chaos Monster Comes To Feed
Chaos is inevitable. And we don’t like it. But when chaos does come to our life and leadership, we are going to need to have a strategy to deal with it.
We are going to talk through 4 moves we can make to understand ourselves in order to not live in a reactionary state when chaos happens.
Who Are You?
Our sense of personal awareness of both our call to ministry over our life and our approach to our current ministry context is big. That forms the basis of understanding. For more on this, check out episode 14 on personal ministry vision.
2. What do you do?
Understanding how you will do things matters. As part of my work with leaders in a one-on-one coaching session, we look at how CliftonStrengths helps us understand being and doing. These two steps combined help us understand how we might be making decisions in the reactive/proactive spectrum.
3. P.A.C.E Communication Methodology
I learned about the P.A.C.E. communication methodology on an episode of the Jocko podcast. Originally developed as a way for military special operations to create communication protocols, P.A.C.E. stands for primary, alternative, contingency, and emergency.
Understanding what your plan is doing matters. P.A.C.E. is great at keeping you on track and realizing you might sometimes need to think through multiple options, but also scale them for what is going on.
4. Filtering Questions
This is where we think through what emotions might be affecting our decisions and is our decision during chaotic seasons appropriate. The five types of decisions are defensive, preserving, maintaining, healing, and moving forward. These are also helpful filters as we go back and think through previous decisions to learn from our past.
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