Hungry for a change from Ryan Walter
Date: June 13, 2015
Name: Hungry for a change from Ryan Walter
Presenter: Ryan Walter
The ways leaders think can impact their high performance. Moreover, leaders must adapt the right thinking in order to improve their leadership. Global Legacy Builders event invites Ryan Walter to discuss his leadership model for leaders who are looking for high performance. Ryan Walter will explain the reason behind the mindset change and help leaders to discover their interests towards their leadership. With over many years of playing and coaching in National Hockey League, Ryan Walter’s experience will shift many leaders’ performance from good to excellent.
Barry Borthistle, the co-Founder of Global Legacy Builders, believes there are 4 principles that can change leaders. The first principle is the law of expression, which leaders can align their actions with the right words. The second principle is the law of blessing, which leaders can support others who are in desperate needs. The second principle is the law of awareness, which leaders can reach their support from the people surrounded by them. The last principle is the law of reciprocity, which leaders can understand to serve before receive.
Leaders need to develop personal awareness from looking at their physical, emotional and spiritual sides of their lives. Many leaders are not aware that they are spending the way out of their problems. Wealth is connected to life purpose and it is important to rearrange the priority and establish the right path of life purposes.
“If you make an appointment, anything can happen. If you do not make an appointment, nothing will happen”
Hungry for change
Ryan Walter is a former professional hockey player in NHL. Walter is also the assistant coach with Vancouver Canucks and the head coach of Canadian National Women’s hockey team. During his year in NHL, he helped his team, Montreal Canadian, won the 1989 Stanley Cup. During his career, he was award the Budweiser NHL Man of the year in 1992. Currently, Ryan Walter is an author of the book called “Hungry” and a motivational speaker for many business owners. Using his experience in hockey, he helps many organization leaders to transform their teams to the top.
Walter believes in order for leaders to activate their high performance, they need to understand their inner game. When leaders explore their inner game, they will discover who they really are in life.
“People do not meet each other in success, only in pain”
Walter explains that leaders need to understand their team energy. Team energy comes from the relationship between purpose and passion. When team experiences low purpose and low passion, the team will form an energy called “Ambivalent”. This means team’s energy has pulled out of the game.
When team experience high purpose and low passion, it forms an energy of “Frustration”. High passion with low purpose will form the energy of “Entertained” and high purpose and high passion will generate the energy of “Hungry”.
The energy of “Hungry” can help the team to be more energized, open and determined. This also improve confidence and excitement.
Walter believes successful leaders must go deep with their teams. They need to care and grow their people. Leadership is all about change. If leaders do not like the result, they are not providing enough clarity. Walter believes leadership is like a movie. Therefore, leaders need to think 2 questions before the change.
- What should be in the movie?
- What must come out of the movie?
Performance ladder
Leaders need to work with their inner game and outer game to create high performance. The inner game includes the mindset and the belief system. Successful leaders need to have success habits. With the right amount of practice, leaders will have the right mindset. Walter mentions leaders should not matter what other people think about them; instead, the most important is the right self-image. Right mindset will direct the right belief system.
Belief system is the fundamental of the inner game. The belief system will help leaders to create the right mentality and confidence. Once leaders believe themselves they can do it, they will execute high performance actions. The outer game includes the actions, habits and results. The right belief system will execute the right actions. The right actions will create the right habits. The right habits will lead to the right results.
“How are the habits of your team?”
Thinking tendencies model
Walter designs a model that can help leaders to drive their best results. There are two types of people in life: thermometer or thermostats. This means either leaders change or stay constant.
Leaders can be in 5 types of mindset.
- Past negative thinking
- Future negative thinking
- Past positive thinking
- Future positive thinking
- Flow
When leaders are in past negative thinking, they feel regret. Leaders will focus on what they do wrong and this will deflate their energy. When leaders are in future negative thinking, they feel doubt. Leaders will focus on what they do not want and this will paralyze the energy. When leaders are in past positive thinking, they feel proud. Leaders will focus on what they do right and this will regenerate the energy. When leaders are in future positive thinking, they feel motivated. Leaders will focus on what they want and this will activate the energy.
What leaders focus on in their mind will tend to show up in reality. If leaders think negative, they will encounter negative in reality. Leaders need to establish their mind shift to grow. Leaders will look at what they want instead what they do not want. This will also help leaders to visualize their vision.
Leaders will focus on opportunity instead of fear. They will find ways to inspire others instead just motivate others. They will prepare to win instead of loss before they start.
The shift is the key. Walter shares in average, it will take 5 positive to balance 1 negative. In relationship, it will take 5 to 1 to hold the line.
The last mindset is flow. Flow is the balance between the other 4 types of mindset. With the right amount of challenge and the right amount of skills, leaders will be in the flow.
“Under pressure, you do not rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your awareness”
Hero’s qualities
Walter indicates many leaders have their own heroes. When leaders can identify their heroes’ qualities that they respect, admire or impact in their lives, These qualities usually are the reflection of leaders’ personal qualities.
Leaders cannot love other people unless they are identified the love quality from their heroes. If leaders can identify their qualities, they can grow their businesses on it.
“The number one way to get people above the line is to get them point to the best”