A business teaching on applying the eleven human stages to corporate and international negotiations: reading the dominant and in-the-moment stages of multiple decision-makers, using presentations to set the right stage, and translating the method across cultures.
A business teaching on using the eleven human stages in personal negotiations such as salary talks, problem-employee conversations and workplace mediation, by identifying each party’s dominant and in-the-moment stage and meeting them where they are.
A sales teaching on reading a customer’s dominant and in-the-moment stage from their job role, body language and word choice, and adjusting the sales approach to meet them where they actually are.
A workplace teaching on connecting with your manager through the stages-of-development model — reading which stage they arrive in and gently guiding them toward the mindset best suited to the work at hand.
A workplace teaching on connecting with colleagues — distinguishing friends, work-friends and colleagues — and using the stages-of-development model to help peers shift into the mindset their work requires while keeping conversation work-focused.
An audience-question answer challenging the idea that we are defined by our work or by how we spend most of our time — arguing that chronic overwork can be a way of avoiding oneself, and that real identity lives in the quiet hours of connection.
A Stage Nine teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on gathering the skills and knowledge your purpose requires, breaking large goals into small daily steps, and quieting the inner negative voice that resists any effort to grow.
A Stage Eight teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on designing your ideal life once your ideology is principle-based and ego has quieted — being specific and honest across every area, researching what each element requires, and manifesting from positive emotion.
A Stage Seven teaching on questioning every belief — religious, political, social, and personal — to form one’s own interpretations, while managing the relational strain this causes and delaying major life changes until the questioning settles.