The Sage Performance Scales

• Chart 1 - Psychological States

  

  Professional coaches are leaders who bring out the best in people. Great coaches systematically elicit the magic of team spirit. The Sage Performance Scales reveal the invisible patterns of needs and desires behind team spirit.
  Vitality is invisible, but you can learn to observe it in people's faces and bodies, just as you can learn to "see" the wind by noticing the movement of grass and leaves. These Performance Scales graph the spectrum of psychological progressions that people go through as they learn to enjoy the pleasure of peak performance teamwork. Click here to see the first chart (pdf).

• Chart 2 - Coaching Patterns

  

  The second Performance Scale focuses on the invisible connections between people. There are hundreds of books on the content of communication, and multiple works on linguistic patterns. This scale introduces emotional and behavioral patterns of the communication between people. By "seeing" the spirit of teams in the emotions and actions of the players you can learn to intervene strategically in family systems, social systems and business systems. Click here to see the 2nd chart (pdf).

• Chart 3 - Salesmanship

  

  The third Performance Scale shows the degree of participation players bring to their game. How people play determines how they learn. That is because play stimulates curiosity. Curiosity is the innate motivation behind all learning. It is also the window to your hidden talents. Education means to "draw forth" innate intelligence. This chart shows the levels of efficiency of various learning methods, along with the attitudes and lifestyles that accompany each approach. Coaches help people learn and grow. The charts provide a map that coaches can use to help people learn faster and better. Click here to see the 3rd chart (pdf).

• Chart 4 - Leadership

  

  The fourth Performance Scale shows the interaction between the three leadership categories. Visionaries, marketers, and managers must achieve parallel outcomes in different departments to grow a company. Here you see how these three disciplines cooperate to coordinate efforts and align companies. Like all species, humans are born with innate tendencies to play interactive roles that advance the community. Some people are moved to innovation, some love to sell, while others enjoy putting things in order. The Leadership scale shows how the three basic types can work together. Click here to see the 4th chart (pdf).

• Chart 5 - Entrepreneurship

  

  Chart 5 reveals the invisible patterns of information and energy that connect us together in intricate financial webs. The lower half of the chart shows the negative perceptions that garner a negative cash flow. The upper half shows the positive perceptions that bring us together in productive, protective networks. The minus numbers indicate the degree of noisy mind chatter that clouds our perceptions with hopes and worries. The positive numbers show increments of the clarity that occurs when we discover the activities that flow from our essence. Click here to see the 5th chart (pdf).

• Chart 6 - Relationship

  

  The Sixth Performance Scale illustrates the spectrum of interactions between men and women in relationship. In the upper ranges you see the lovely experiences of joy, serenity, and oneness that we all aspire to. These states are the events that attract us to our mates and enable us to see the divine in one another. At the level of the pyramid we still know one another in delightful states of devotion, togetherness and innocence.The box represents the thoughts and judgments that form the sticky film that envelopes most couples. Finally we slip into the misery and suffering represented by the icy tip of the diamond that lies submerged in the sea of our conscious awareness. Click here to see the 6th chart (pdf).

• Chart 7 - Family Systems

  

  The Seventh chart of the Sage High Performance Scales illustrates a spectrum of methods that parents use to discipline children. The approaches listed in the box and the submerged diamond reflect attempts to intimidate and punish children into compliance. The pyramid and circle contain gentle, intelligent interventions that win cooperation from young children. People rarely can see the consequences of their behavior. We do to our children what our parents did to us. The forms are different, but the intent to coerce remains unchanged, despite reams of literature on the subject of non-violent parenting. Chart Seven shows us how to escape the madness. Click here to see the 7th chart (pdf).

  Chart 8 - Healing Arts Spectrum

  

  The eighth version of the Sage Performance Scale uses the lens of poetry to provide a whimsical glimpse of the vast worlds that surround us and permeate our being. When you can actually see even a tiny sliver of what is invisible to others, you achieve a great navigational advantage in the game of life. By creating a craft (meaning boat or career) that accounts for subtle realities, you can avoid much of the anger and danger that traps most people on the hamster wheel of life. Click here to see the 8th chart (pdf).