Having Multiple Perspectives: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Having Multiple Perspectives, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Practices that may help

1. Observe from multiple angles before drawing conclusions
   Deliberately take different perspectives on the experience before deciding what it means.
   Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice
2. Hold conflicting perspectives without collapsing
   When two people you respect disagree, hold both views as data instead of needing one to be simply right.
   Self-Authorship: Moving From the Socialized to the Self-Authored Mind
3. Hold multiple maps simultaneously
   For complex situations, develop two or three competing models and check which fits better.
   The Map Is Not the Territory
4. Ask what a specific other person would do
   Step into a named other’s perspective to access approaches you would not generate as yourself.
   Oblique Strategies, Made Practical
5. Develop second-tier, systems-level thinking
   Practice holding multiple value systems as simultaneously valid rather than competing for dominance.
   Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical
6. Apply several models to the same problem at once
   When models from different fields point to the same answer, confidence rises; when they conflict, you learn something important.
   Mental Models: Charlie Munger’s Latticework Approach
7. Use multiple analogies for the same problem
   Draw on at least two different analogies for a new problem and see where they agree and diverge.
   Analogical Reasoning
8. Parallel thinking drill: all hats in sequence for a real decision
   Run a real pending decision through all six hats in sequence to experience the full method before adapting it.
   Six Thinking Hats, Made Practical
9. Run a structured team morphological session
   The method is most powerful when multiple perspectives populate the dimensions and values.
   Morphological Analysis, Made Practical
10. Use morphological analysis for wicked problems with many interdependencies
    The method shines on problems too complex for brainstorming to cover adequately.
    Morphological Analysis, Made Practical

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I replay what happened and I only ever see it from my own side→
• When two people I respect disagree, I flip to whoever I spoke to last and lose my own footing→
• I lock onto the first explanation that fits and then just look for confirmation of it→
• Every approach I come up with sounds like me, because I keep ruling out anything that doesn’t feel like something I’d do→
• I keep treating my way of seeing things as the right one and everyone else’s as a problem to overcome, and I want to genuinely hold that what the people I clash with value is real and needed→

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