Nothing comes into existence that is not a possibility first in the mind of someone. This stage of the speaking map is about inventing possibilities to take care of what you want for yourself, the other, the team and/or the company. Sometimes this is the most difficult part of the Authentic Speaking Map™ because people are so predisposed to nothing working; they become a conversation for no possibility. When I coach an authentic conversation between two people, one of the keys to success is to open each person’s mind to the possibility of possibility.
Once you have a rich set of possibilities, which you can think of as an inventory of possibilities, you can move to vet out which possibilities represent real opportunities and are worthy of taking action. When you select a real opportunity you will know it because it resonates with you, it pulls you toward action.
If you cannot find an opportunity that resonates with you, you have to go back and invent more possibilities until you have a rich enough set of possibilities from which you can find an opportunity that pulls for its implementation.
