Achieving Peak Performance

ACHIEVING PEAK PERFORMANCE: The Science and Art of Taking Performance to Ever Higher Levels: META-COACHING - VOLUME V (2009)\nContents\nPREFACE\n01: PERFORMANCE AT A HIGHER LEVEL\n	Consistent Perfonnance?\n	An Idea Whose Time Has Come\n	Implementing for Enhanced Performance\n	The Neuro-Semantics of Performance\n	Accelerating Performance with Meta-States\n	Action Plan\n02: CLOSING THE KNOWING-DOING GAP\n	Let what\'s in the Mind be in the Muscles\n	The Mind-to-Muscle Pattern\n	How We Extend the Gap between Knowing-Doing\n	Deceived by Pseudo-Actions\n	** Jargon Alert! **\n	Transforming Knowledge into Action\n	Embodying for Behavioral Competence\n	Next Stop: The Mind-to-Muscle Pattern\n	THE MIND-TO-MUSCLE PATTERN\n	There are two cautions before you run the pattern:\n	The Pattern:\n	Alternatives for the Mind-to-Muscle Pattern\n	Procedural Knowledge\n	Action Plan\n03: GETTING YOURSELF TO TAKE EFFECTIVE ACTION\n	Getting Ourselves To Take Action\n	The Question\n	Talent Search (S.W.O.T. Analysis)\n	Taking the Talent Search to a Higher Level\n	Do Y 00 Have a Strategy?\n	Strategy Elicitation\n	Strategy Delivery\n	The Strategic Nature of Patterns\n	* NEW BEHAVIOR GENERATOR\n	* SKILL DEVELOPMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT\n	* REPRESENTATIONAL CLARITY\n	* META-STATING OWNERSHIP\n	* SETTING RESPONSIBILITY TO/FOR FRAMES\n	INTENTIONALITY\n	* TAKING AN INTENTIONAL STANCE\n	* META-STATING DECISIVENESS\n	* FEEDBACK: RIDING SYSTEM LOOPS\n	* ACCOUNTABILITY SHAPING\n	* FIRST STEP APPROXIMATIONS\n	* PROPULSION SYSTEM\n	* ELIMINATING WIGGLE ROOM\n	* APPLY TO SELF\n	* TAKING PERFORMANCE TO THE NEXT LEVEL\n	* PERFORMANCE REVIEWING\n04: THE ART OF IMPLEMENTATION\n	Defining Implementation\n	From Knowing to Doing\n	Installing Patterns\n	The Design of the Pattern\n	Mind-to-Muscle as Feed Back and Feed Forward Loops\n	The Question of Ecology\n	The Implementation Process\n	An Implementation Model\n	A Complete Model\n	1) Theoretical Framework\n	2) Components: elements, processes\n	3) Guidelines:\n	4) Patterns for Implementation :\n	Installation Process Factor\n	The Levels of Competency\n	Moving Through the Competence Stages\n	The Myth of Unconscious Installation\n	* META-YES-ING\n	* WILD EXPERIMENTING\n	* PERSONALIZING\n	* REHEARSAL\n	* SWISHING TO AN IMPLEMENTING IDENTITY\n	* META-STATING PROACTIVITY\n	* TIME FOR A CHANGE\n05: ELIMINATING PERFORMANCE BLOCKS AND INTERFERENCES\n	* META-STATING EMOTIONS\n	* DANCING WITH DRAGONS\n	THE EXCUSE DRAGON\n	The Nature of Excuses\n	Level One of Excuse Making\n	The Cognitive Content of an Excuse\n	Then We Become Devious\n	Meta-stating the Excuse-Making State\n	Above and Beyond Excuses\n	The Meta-State Frame of Disliking Excuse-Making\n	Un-Awareness Becomes our Inner Game\n	Welcome to the Meta-Muddle Dimension\n	How you Relate to Your Excuse-Making\n	* EXCUSE BLOW-OUT\n	* META- \"NO ! \" FOR CREATIVE STUBBORNNESS\n	ELIMINATING FEAR FROM DOMINATING YOUR LIFE\n	The Problem with Fear as a Frame\n	Driving Out Fear\n	* FEAR BLOW-OUT\n	* COURAGE\n	* META-STATING PROCRASTINATION\n06: THE EXPERIENCE OF PEAK PERFORMANCES\n	* ACCESSING PERSONAL GENIUS\n	Finding a Template for your Genius State\n	Building a New Genius State\n	THE META-LEVELS OF PEAK PERFORMANCE\n	Detecting the Meta-Levels\n	The Spelling Strategy\n	Performance Questions\n	Four Dimensions of Performance\n	The Base Levels of Perfonnance\n	The Meta-Levels of Perfonnance\n	PERFORMANCE DIMENSIONS AND LEVELS\n	META-PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS\n	* GESTALTING HIGHER STATES\n	* SUPER-CHARGING ATTITUDES\n	* META-ALIGNMENT\n	* META-STATING EFFICIENCY\n	* STRETCHING\n	* LEVERAGING HIGH RETURN BEHAVIORS\n	PERSISTENCE\n07: LIFE IN THE ZONE OF PEAK PERFORMANCE\n	Self-Actualization Quadrants\n	The Quadrants\n	Quadrant I: Undeveloped\n	Quadrant II: Performers\n	Quadrant III: Creators\n	Quadrant IV: Self-Actualizers\n	The Meta-Programs of the Self-Actualization Quadrants\n	The Meanings within Perfonnance\n	The Main Points\n08: WHO WANTS TO BEAN EXPERT?\n	THE ULTIMATE SECRET BEHIND EXPERT PERFORMANCES\n	The 10-Year Rule\n	What else is Involved in Acquiring Expertise?\n	From Practice to Meta-Practice\n	Practice alone an Expert does not Make\n	Three Problems\n	The Magic Challenge of Deliberate Practice\n	1) Structured set of activities for improving performance.\n	2) An effortful stretch.\n	3) Self-Monitoring and Measuring of progress.\n	4) A focused concentration.\n	5) Mindful practice\n	Deliberately Practicing\n	Summary - The Expertise Secret Par Excellent Exposes\n09: EVALUATING AND MEASURING PERFORMANCE\n	A Problem of Language\n	The Language of Precision\n	Benchmarking: The Art of Measuring Excellence\n	Benchmarking for Accountability\n	Benchmarking Skills\n	The Benchmarking Model\n	The Benchmarking Process of something Intangible\n	Criteria for a Benchmarking Project\n	Examples of Benchmarking\n	* MONITORING IMPLEMENTATION\n	* KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS\n	Benchmarking the KPI Process\n	Benchmarks:\n10: MEASURING THE SYNERGY OF SELF-ACTUALIZATION\n	Measuring Self-Actualization Potentials and Reality\n	Testing the Measurement Tool\n	Reflections about this Measurement Tool\n	Scaling the Meaning and Perfonnance Axes - Preliminary Benchmarks\n	Scaling the Meaning Axis and its Sub-skills\n	Scaling the Performance Axes and its Sub-skills\n	Scaling Meaning and Performance Synergy\n	Summary\nAPPENDIX A\n	NLP models\n	Neuro-Semantic Models\nAPPENDIX B: META-QUESTIONS\nAPPENDIX C: Welcome to the Matrix\n	The Matrix Model\n	States and the Matrix\nBIBLIOGRAPHY\nL. Michael Hall, Ph.D.