Rev

The rescue mission. Learning by listening. I have done lots in the past week. "Align" and "Adjust" talks a plenty. Enough to drive me into drinking my 3rd bottle of Tasmina Pinot Noir Red. I think I am led to believe the Pinot Noir bottle is my 500mL water bottle. Ha! The non-recyclable kind. At least I walk to and from the "office". A hike considered by the locals. Only about 3.4K one way or is that 4.5K. Distance, doesn't really matter anymore.

The rescue, yes. After listening.... The true purpose was known to US ("us" refers to the two rescuers of the biz). I did all the "talking" to draw out the "purpose". Talk about "Presence". In the end up till this Monday, WE have concluded that there is a major "communication" issue with one of the owners. Panic stricken. "visionary" to the point of self doubt and bouts after bouts of "Panic attacks". One good thing staying to OUR TRUE Purpose - the survival of the company, we got the message through that acknowledgement of staff's communication is very important. If "you" cannot express yourself, at least acknowledge the staff. WE were surprise to see on Monday morning with emails arriving to OUR mail boxes. Wow, responds. Even though it wasn't in Chinese as we were hoping for, but the act of "replying" was a good start. Good thing the staff emailed US knew enough English.

Listening, back to that. Our conversation on Monday shifted based on a "What is time for now" theme (Hence the Pinot Noir ;-) ) We shifted from topic to topic, "drilling", "probing", "illicit", "re-confirming we are here to help and to align". Finally, "Bingo"! We truly discovered two big pieces of information: 1) The "artistic" owner had finally realized that he had a communication problem. A very humble experience yet a very good "emotional discharge" as a Canadian coach from CLI would say and 2) we arrived at true Purpose of why a piece of "bundle" was so important to him and his biz partner. We aligned. Phew, it took over a week of "probing". This "Artist" owner said he had to think before expressing himself when we had our continuing "Rev's interviews". Well, that was by design. To invoke his inner thoughts rather than acting on emotion impulse. WE achieved a major alignment talk. There were so much "stuff" in his head that he believe "telepathy" was a form of communication. He was so "used" to just issuing commands that treating people in equal footing would go a long way.

And no, I did not use Rev's paper napkin approach.

This "Interview" was a break-thru. Thought provoking to the "Artist". We were ready to cut a big piece of "investment" from his portfolio due to "lack of funds". But in fact, that piece turned out to be very important to his "strategic" thinking. WE "might" be able to work with that. The word is "might". Artist and the reality of "situation" may still be far apart. WE will give it a go.

Yesterday, we had yet again an "Alignment" interview with the other half of the business owner. This one was a BIG PIECE OF THE UNKNOWN to US. This one would be the "make or break" or "go or no go" for US. The second owner was more "grounding" when talking to us. Let's just say with yesterday's talk, WE established "credibility" with her. Influence comes next. Perhaps "Impact" follows after. ;-) Will see about that. We spent almost 2 hours on the phone (You are welcome Ch in@ Tele com for blocking $kype and other "talking" IMs). Understanding the current company situation and hear what the two owners aligned and what not aligned. Not much news there. Basically, she aligned with us with "what WE wanted to hear".

WE are currently digesting the information. Moving forward, can WE "save" the company? We'll see. A major issue to resolve is putting the "Artist" communication in proper "channel" and "footing". Channel means not "what flows into his mind at the moment and starts dialing to the office to issue commands". Footing means "learn to speak properly". 15 years plus in this country and couldn't speak the Official dialect to the point of people understand, that would be bad.