case studies
The ESI® Mapping Tool is

uniquely powerful in breaking

the mold of old patterns and is

able to go beneath the surface

of entrenched behaviours. 

This allows identification of

behaviour states and opportunities

for change.  Identification is in itself

empowering.

Customer Service Manager

Rita worked for a large government

organisation and was ne of the

company's senior mangers.  She

approached me expressing anxiety

about being overworked and said she had developed an inability to concentrate and stay focussed.

Rita was taking a lot of work home with her, which se resented, because

home was the place to enjoy the company of her husband and young son.  She was also having trouble with her organisational and time management skills and this was an area of frustration, as it impeded her progress.

She was a perfectionist and liked to check everything at least twice to ensure her work was perfect before letting it go.  This checking and rechecking process attributed to her poor time management.  By participating in and ESI® mapping tool process she hoped to become more trusting of her own abilities, and delegate to others and pass her work on the management in a quicker time frame.

Goal:  I am more organised and less stressed maintaining perfect balance and harmony between work and home.

Rita identified all her states, both supportive and inhibitive.  Two inhibiting states that she named 'Muddler' and 'Unsure' were operating from the executive position far too frequently. They gave her permission to waste time, become confused, procrastinate and basically let go of control.  Also identified were four supportive states that she was comfortable operating from and these states also gave her incredible power to achieve her goals.  She named these states as Miss Confident, Miss Organised, Miss Writer and Miss Relaxed. 

Identification of the states that made up who she was was empowering and Rita developed her own process to ensure inhibiting states stayed out of the way.

States don't disappear, they belong to each individual and were created at a time of need.  A state can be placed in a non-executive position and other states placed into executive positions in order to create change.

JAN SKY - ESI®

Working mum who swore Mandy was a working mother of a 10 year old boy and she was in the habit of swearing constantly.  Her previous positions had acknowledged this language as OK as she worked in the mining industry, a very male dominated environment.  Now in a new job, she was conscious that swearing wasn't acceptable and approached me for help.

GOAL: I speak with clarity in a slow considered manner

Mandy identified several states, once again both inhibitive and supportive.  We recognised that she had some beautiful qualities locked within her supportive states that once allowed to be executive could see her goal achieved.  An inhibiting state she identified as 'Fear' and the qualities of 'Fear' were to stop her getting things done, lose control and not to be helpful.  When Fear was executive the language flowed.  We found other supportive states who agreed to support her goal and she enlisted trust as an anchor for achievement.

When I spoke with Mandy some weeks after our session she told me that sometimes slang would slip out, but she was very aware of this and her mind had begun to process a different way of behaving.  She was very excited about this new behaviour and positive it would stick!

JAN SKY - ESI®

CEO

David was the CEO of a large regional organisation and with a medical background he was very precise and took a long time to make decisions.  This laboured decision making process annoyed colleagues as many ideas were put on hold until David had gathered enough information (and then more) before giving the go-ahead.

He was frustrated with this and yet justified all his reasonings for not being hasty. Sometimes though to the disadvantage of the organisation. I spoke to David about a 'risk-taking' part that he might have.  He informed me that he was a rock climber and wind surfed in the ocean.  In my mind both tasks required a certain amount of risk.  Further questioning established the roles of these states, in other words, how he behaved when they were executive.  We discussed the possibility of introducing these states into the workplace and he was prepared to give it a try.

David's decision making process gained speed and he delegated and trusted a few decisions to his senior executive team.  Overall, the realisation that he could make quicker, calculated decisions was a key to change in behaviour. What the mind believes it will achieve and David made some changes to his mind beliefs to achieve his goals.

JAN SKY - ESI®

Making decisive company decisions

We recently completed an extensive project with a large company and part

of that project was to determine whether to stay with an existing supplier or move to an alternative supplier.

We decided to use the ESI process in a hybrid form to help analyse the

Supportive and Inhibitive factors of staying with or moving from the existing supplier. The supplier Supportive and Inhibitive factors were compiled, weighted and averaged.  This was then compared with the alternative supplier which was also weighted and averaged.

This process resulted in a viable solution being determined in a systematic process and helped to uncover the risks, opportunities and works that needed to be completed in order to make the transition from the existing supplier to the new supplier as seamless as possible. ESI came up trumps once again.

PETER CULLEN - ESI PARTNER

Stepping Beyond the Resistance

Mary was herself a leadership coach and came with the goal of wanting to commence an exercise program but lacked motivation to commence knowing that something was holding her back.

She would think about it, plan it and yet something would get in the way of making it happen.  At other times, she would step out of her front door, yet a nagging pain would surface preventing her from proceeding. Mary described what was going on for her like a 'speed hump' and needed to understand what she was resisting.

Using the ESI tool over a series of sessions,

we were able to map Mary's supportive and

unsupportive factors in respect of her goal.

In identifying these factors, we worked to

bridge the identified unsupportive factors

shifting their function to an underlying state. 

The outcome being that Mary did commence

her exercise program in line with her goal and

continued this ongoing as confirmed by a

follow-up check in some 8 weeks post session.

Her testimonial is below:

"Working with Silvia and the ESI tool gave me

the foot hold I needed to climb over one of the

last remaining bastions of resistance I had to

living my life in flow.  Even though I have tried

many different processes to find true ease in my goal attainment - I was still experiencing struggle in a few of my goals.  A few run-throughs of an ESI process with Silvia has me feeling a sense of inner freedom and inspired call to action that I had not experienced previously.  I feel energised and inspired and the best part is I am getting things done without struggle, just ease."

SILVIA DE RIDDER - ESI PARTNER