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Flip Flippen believes that finding personal constraints is the key to changing oneself. Flippen shared his views with HR.com's Karen Elmhirst recently in an informative webcast that talked about breaking free from the constraints that derail your success.
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Thought Leader Interview with Flip Flippen: Breaking Free From the Constraints That Derail Your Success
Flip Flippen is the Founder and President of The Flippen Group and author of the new book called The Flip Side - Break Free of the Behaviors That Hold You Back. Flip is a man with an uncompromising mission: to build relationships and processes that bring out the best in people. He has applied this lofty goal to his work with hundreds of thousands of individuals, including educators, K-12 students, executives, and athletes. With an emphasis on changing behaviors and attitudes that stand in the way of success, he has helped organizations from small rural school districts to Fortune 500 companies achieve dramatic improvement in performance, leadership, trust, and productivity. He founded The Flippen Group in 1990. Today, it is the largest educator training company and one of the fastest-growing leadership development organizations in North America. The company's breakthrough educational processes and curricula are in use at 5,000 school districts and campuses in 42 states. The Flippen Leadership Series is a dynamic training program that helps leaders establish goals, uncover constraints, and develop action plans that improve performance and profit, and has transformed organizations around the world.
KE: The common message that we hear from such folks as Marcus Buckingham is to focus our attention on our strengths. In the book, "Now, Discover Your Strengths," which Marcus co-authored with Donald
O. Clifton, they write that we will excel only by maximizing our strengths, never by fixing our weaknesses. They say that it is important not to ignore our weaknesses, but rather than trying to fix them, they recommend managing around them. What is your position on this issue of focusing on strengths versus weaknesses?
FF: Marcus is right. When talking about skills, you have to focus on your strong set of skills. It is foolish to focus on anything other than that, but people do it all the time. I am talking about behaviors that are constraints and that critically impact your performance and your life. For example, those guys at Enron were phenomenally skilled. Andy Fastow, Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay were brilliant. It was their behavioral constraints that ultimately brought them and their company down. There is a big difference in the skills that Marcus is talking about and in the behavioral constraints they we are talking about.
KE: Help me differentiate between constraints and weaknesses.
FF: We all have weaknesses, but they don't all impact our performance. A constraint is something that dramatically impacts performance. Weaknesses hold us back, but constraints impact throughput. If you have low self-control, it is not a weakness, it is a constraint. It will dramatically impact your life. Think about Dennis Rodman and the constraint that his lack of self-control had on his life. It has destroyed him.
KE: Some of the terms we use in HR that parallel your description of constraints would be derailers or fatal flaws; the things that get in the way of an individual's ability to maximize his/her potential.
FF: Yes, that is a good way of thinking about it. We have developed some models to statistically assess them so we can identify the ones that are most critically impacting people at any given point in their lives.
KE: What was it that prompted you to write this book?
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 Karen Elmhirst, Co-host, Thought Leaders Live
Karen Elmhirst is always on the lookout for research and best practices in the areas of leadership, leadership development and organizational learning. Karen writes articles and interviews thought leaders in order to provide you with the information and resources you need to help you build great organizations. Karen is also an executive coach, working with leaders to help them identify their personal definitions of success and to live lives that support those intentions.
Karen has had experience in a wide range of industries and has held senior level positions in both marketing and sales. Karen has also been active as a writer, trainer, facilitator and communication coach. Her articles have appeared in the IHRIM Journal and Leadership Excellence as well as on HR.com. Karen graduated with Hons. Bachelor of Commerce degree from U.B.C in Vancouver, Canada. She completed her coaching training at The Coaches Training Institute.
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May 7, 2007 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET
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