PRT-A

Pre-Resiliency Training

PRT-A was developed to build the skills needed to dial down the “Lying, Hiding & Faking” that is prevalent in most organizations.

We do things every day that prevent other people from giving us the truth. Pre-Resiliency Training (PRT-A) is a 13-week (1-hour per week) program tailored to help you discover your truth-preventing behaviors and dial them down.

This training, done as a team, will help you navigate conflict, build more authentic relationships, and be a stronger decision-maker.

PRT-B

Pre-Risk Taking

PRT-B is a 13-week program (1hr per week) designed to reduce the preemptive behaviors that make it difficult for us to take risks.

When it comes to judgement, our ability to pattern recognize is a double-edged sword. As adults, we have developed a refined ability to make decisions, but it naturally causes us to take less risk. For children, risk-taking is more inherent, but they have not seen enough patterns to make the best judgements.

PRT-B helps you look back at the past, get to the root of these patterns and start to take action to dial them down.

As an individual, this training helps make you a bolder decision-maker - helping you navigate looking back to improve your ability to look forward to the future. In groups, this becomes more impactful - empowering innovation and taking risks as a team.

Module 3

Mod 10x

This course focuses on developing two foundational skills for effective decision making:

1. Debate: Learning to "argue to learn" instead of arguing to win is crucial, especially in uncertain and ambiguous situations where the right course of action is unclear. Complex problems require vigorous debate to explore potential solutions. When there is no debate, it implies that the solution is obvious - which is rarely the case. In fact, when confronted with seemingly intractable issues, we often make the wrong choice by participating in superficial "sounds good" discussions instead of embracing the necessary robust debates.


2. Ladders of Inference: This skill emphasizes the importance of sharing one's complete thought process. Our internal narratives and justifications for decisions can often be messy, confusing, contradictory, and unclear. As a result, we might choose to remain silent, share limited information, or simply offer generic "sound bites." By practicing the Ladders of Inference technique, you will become quicker and more articulate at expressing your messy thoughts - which is a key process to quickly refine your thinking.

When we lack these two skills, arguments can often be seen as an unproductive use of time. Instead, we tend to defer to an "expert," seek more data, or use other risk-mitigating approaches in an attempt to bring more clarity to the problem. Unfortunately, this approach often leads to the opposite of our intentions: decisions are made slowly, extreme risk aversion, playing it safe, and indecisiveness. However, by developing these skills, we can establish the foundation of effective risk taking.

This is a 13-week program. 1 hour per week. Limited homework outside of class.