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All 45 home lessons

Every lesson ends with a home lesson: a small exercise for pen and paper, for a conversation, or for a quiet moment. Here they are in one place, in order, like a workbook. Tick off each one when you have done it. Your ticks are saved on this device, and the same tick appears at the end of the lesson itself.

SGL-Communications

Secrets 1–5 →
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Secret 1 · Color Code

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Home lesson 1,1

Color Code

Take a moment to write down with your best hand, some key points about your own goals and tasks, according to work and life. Then:

  • Use a blue marker to highlight what can be accomplished and fixed from your desk and computer.
  • Use a red marker for tasks that require interaction and personal contact with others.
  • Finally, use a yellow marker for anything that depends on a gut feeling, requiring a strong emotional trust.

Did you make some discoveries?

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Home lesson 1,2

Color Tools

Stop for a moment, and let your imagination take you to a meeting or conference you are about to attend. Imagine that the meeting started with an icebreaker as described above.

  • Prepare your own post, with some blue facts about yourself.
  • Then tell about activities and red relationships that give you energy.
  • End by sharing something yellow and emotionally valuable, that you would not want to be without.

Did you enjoy the exercise?

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Secret 2 · Flow Zone

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Secret 3 · Leadership Structure

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Secret 4 · Decision Risk

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Home lesson 4,2

Decision Axes

If you’re curious about how your colleagues make decisions, it’s helpful to start by understanding your own patterns. Once you’re confident in your own Decision profile, it becomes much easier to describe and recognise those of others.

  • Listen to video 4,2.
  • Recall your decision-making colour from Lesson 4,1.
  • Identify your shadow colour/polarity in the iceberg illustration.
  • Give an example of a complex problem from the last six months. How did you approach it? What became your difficulties/shadows, and what was the solution?

With this as input, we asked ChatGPT to suggest profiles for four well-known American presidents. The results were surprisingly accurate compared with the SGL methodology’s first-choice assessments. Feel free to test the AI-generated profiles for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Donald Trump against their own assessments — Google and Wikipedia make good references.

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Secret 5 · Burn Out

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Home lesson 5,3

Health and Life — You know others by yourself

An old saying goes: “You know others by yourself.” This is also true with regard to sensitive questions that balance between the Professional and the Private.

  1. Test out the topics and the questions on yourself before you bring them up in a coaching conversation or a performance appraisal.
  2. Do your homework — and be prepared for the difficult but important conversation.
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SGL-Relations

Secrets 6–10 →
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Secret 6 · Team Roles

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Secret 7 · Personal Chemistry

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Secret 8 · The Triple Test

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Secret 9 · Group-5

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Secret 10 · Projects & Power

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SGL-Values

Secrets 11–15 →
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Secret 11 · Ethics

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Home lesson 11,3

8 Ethical Models — Repeat and find your roles

4,1: note your colour (Yellow / Blue / Red / Purple) on the decision tree. 4,2: identify your Strength and Shadow axes — either as TF (L) or SI (S). 4,3: assess yourself as either a Warrior (W) or a Helper (H). 4,4: note your elected ethical model.

The interactive part of this exercise is on the lesson page, and your answer goes into your report.

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Secret 12 · Life Areas

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Home lesson 12,1

Life Areas — Three important questions

Theme 12 provides a golden opportunity to become aware of what really and specifically gives you energy and motivation and zest for life. It can be quite simple and everyday things and experiences, or relationships and love for someone you are particularly fond of — or a secret passion that gives you special joys. Only you know, but become aware of it and use it as a resource for your own quality of life.

  1. Do you get a boost from your life arenas?
  2. Do you talk to anyone about your life situation and life phases?
  3. Do your colleagues know your wishes and ambitions?
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Secret 13 · Hidden Creativity

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Home lesson 13,1

Vision & Ideas — Fact — Fantasy — Feeling

Exercise 1: to recognise the hidden creativity — “Fact — Fantasy — Feeling” in everyday life. The next time you find yourself reacting to what someone says, stop yourself. Before you respond, break your own reaction into three sentences that begin like this:

  • “I noticed that…” (Fact — observable)
  • “I had a fantasy that…” (Fancy — your interpretation)
  • “I had a feeling that…” (Feeling — your emotional reaction)

Do this at least once a week. Write down afterwards: what was the hardest part to separate? What happened to the conversation when you used this format?

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Secret 14 · Acceptance

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Home lesson 14,3

PTSD — A keyword or two

The School of Life is based on experiential learning. This means that memories and emotions tied to past experiences can be processed, developed, and used constructively in similar situations in the future. This applies to both new, exciting and positive experiences, as well as experiences involving loss, grief, and emotional pain.

No one escapes the School of Life — not even you. So take a moment to notice the association, memory, or specific situation that just surfaced for you. How did you handle it? How did you respond? Do you recognise any of what you have just read? Write down a keyword or two — and consider that what you have written is there for your benefit. Good luck.

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Secret 15 · Wisdom Management

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