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Chris Hare

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

I had a lot that had happened across the course of my life, but I had taken all of that and said, I would claim that I took responsibility for my life, but I would blame others for the things that happened to me. I had to get to a place and in 2020, my marriage almost ended. My wife and I are now back together.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

I had a lot that had happened across the course of my life, but I had taken all of that and said, I would claim that I took responsibility for my life, but I would blame others for the things that happened to me. I had to get to a place and in 2020, my marriage almost ended. My wife and I are now back together.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

But to get through that, I had to completely rewrite my narrative and go from blaming others to taking responsibility and shifting so that to view a different future. My wife and I, for quite a long season, would actually say, we found it helpful to actually voice, and I would encourage listeners to do this as well, voice what the narrative is.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

But to get through that, I had to completely rewrite my narrative and go from blaming others to taking responsibility and shifting so that to view a different future. My wife and I, for quite a long season, would actually say, we found it helpful to actually voice, and I would encourage listeners to do this as well, voice what the narrative is.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

So in our case, it was, here's the narrative of what I'm believing about you in this moment, or I'm believing about this situation. I know it's not true based on this new future that we're creating, but this is what I'm feeling and believing at this moment. It really is, how do you create new inputs?

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

So in our case, it was, here's the narrative of what I'm believing about you in this moment, or I'm believing about this situation. I know it's not true based on this new future that we're creating, but this is what I'm feeling and believing at this moment. It really is, how do you create new inputs?

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

And so if you're in a place where you move into, whether we're talking business situation or personally with mental health, if you continue to put in the same inputs, things likely won't change for you. But for me, one of the positive inputs that I changed was I got into fly fishing. And so that put me in the energy of the river.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

And so if you're in a place where you move into, whether we're talking business situation or personally with mental health, if you continue to put in the same inputs, things likely won't change for you. But for me, one of the positive inputs that I changed was I got into fly fishing. And so that put me in the energy of the river.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

It put me in all the movement and all the creativity that goes into that, all the analyzing the river and trying to figure out where the fish is, but mostly just for me being in nature, right? That was a part of changing those inputs so that I could shift the, not only the narrative, but the, the outcomes of that narrative.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

It put me in all the movement and all the creativity that goes into that, all the analyzing the river and trying to figure out where the fish is, but mostly just for me being in nature, right? That was a part of changing those inputs so that I could shift the, not only the narrative, but the, the outcomes of that narrative.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

Yeah, so I'll reframe the question slightly to the best story I've ever felt. And to set that up, actually, I want to, before I get there, you talked about the fact of your very rational approach. And I love the perspectives that someone who's wired like you versus someone who's wired like me, because I can definitely be more on the other side of the spectrum. And how do we integrate those?

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

Yeah, so I'll reframe the question slightly to the best story I've ever felt. And to set that up, actually, I want to, before I get there, you talked about the fact of your very rational approach. And I love the perspectives that someone who's wired like you versus someone who's wired like me, because I can definitely be more on the other side of the spectrum. And how do we integrate those?

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

But Herminia Barra tells this story about a CEO that she coached. And this woman went from being, she was an engineer and she was elevated into CEO. Things were not going well with her team. She was driving the board crazy and was just incredibly rational. And so one of the board members said, coached her and said, you need to be more human. Try telling a story. And her response was very angry.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

But Herminia Barra tells this story about a CEO that she coached. And this woman went from being, she was an engineer and she was elevated into CEO. Things were not going well with her team. She was driving the board crazy and was just incredibly rational. And so one of the board members said, coached her and said, you need to be more human. Try telling a story. And her response was very angry.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

And she said, no, that's manipulation. Why would I tell a story? It's all about the facts. And what was interesting that Herminia said to her when she coached her was, and this woman said, I'm being authentic to who I am as an engineer. And what Herminia said was, You're being authentic to the version of you that got you here.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

And she said, no, that's manipulation. Why would I tell a story? It's all about the facts. And what was interesting that Herminia said to her when she coached her was, and this woman said, I'm being authentic to who I am as an engineer. And what Herminia said was, You're being authentic to the version of you that got you here.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

If you want to succeed in this role, there's a different version of yourself that you need to step into and be authentic to that version of yourself. And so it doesn't mean you change your values or your morals or anything like that, but growth. is very uncomfortable, right? So I like to think about growth as bespoke shoes or the experiment of trying on different pair of shoes.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

If you want to succeed in this role, there's a different version of yourself that you need to step into and be authentic to that version of yourself. And so it doesn't mean you change your values or your morals or anything like that, but growth. is very uncomfortable, right? So I like to think about growth as bespoke shoes or the experiment of trying on different pair of shoes.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

So if you have the best cobbler in the world, make a pair of shoes for you. It's not guaranteed that they're going to be super comfortable when you first put them on. They might be incredibly uncomfortable.

Chief Change Officer
#154 From Buzzwords to Real Words: Chris Hare on Mastering Atomic Storytelling โ€” Part Two

So if you have the best cobbler in the world, make a pair of shoes for you. It's not guaranteed that they're going to be super comfortable when you first put them on. They might be incredibly uncomfortable.