Hear from others: Anna Bolton, New
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Anna Bolton 
Organisation & Capability Business Partner, Workforce Development Community and Services
Waikato Regional Council | Te Kaunihere ā Rohe o Waikato
Anna is a mum to two children and focuses on health and wellbeing – amongst other things.
My Master TetraMap Facilitator Journey
The past few years have been huge for me in terms of self discovery. I have become deliberate and focused about my personal and professional development journey. I first became aware of TetraMap by chance back in 2016 and have never looked back. I instantly recognised TetraMap as a simple, yet powerful tool that unlocks a level of understanding about behavioural preferences that really make a positive impact on individuals and therefore our world.
I made the decision to undertake the Master TetraMap Facilitator accreditation programme as I felt it would:
- Fit with my professional and personal development goals
- Align with my personal vision and mission
- Open up a whole new world of thinking for me
- Help me to build an international professional network of people who are like-minded but also very diverse to me
- Help me to go deeper into my understanding of human nature in order to help people understand there own
- Provide me with a new lens to see the world through.
The programme has delivered all of this to me and more!
I now understand that TetraMap is a model, a tool, a framework and an approach by which to live my life. I see TetraMap in action in every aspect of my day to day life. The number of AH-HA moments I have had on my learning journey has been incredible.
These have had a positive, profound and irreversible impact on my life. I was challenged along the way – both in terms of understanding new concepts and having my perceptions and views challenged and changed. It requires a real commitment to do the learning, research, reading and work to truly understand and embed the concepts and principles into your life.
I am excited to take the next steps in my professional and personal life with TetraMap embedded every step of the way!
If you are considering becoming a Master TetraMap Facilitator – don’t hesitate, just jump in and do it! You will not regret it.
Feeling safe with TetraMap
Anna’s heartfelt blog from MTF – Module 1 received a lot of attention on social media.
As I deepen my understanding of TetraMap and connect the dots to my other passions, I find myself drawn to the connections between diversity, psychological safety and TetraMap. I want people to feel that their diversity is celebrated and valued and that it’s safe to be who they are.
Read the full post here
Anna also explains how TetraMap has added value inside her organisation
- Beyond using TetraMap as a behavioural model, the key benefit I see is in it helping people to broaden their thinking to consider at least 4 different perspectives when undertaking work e.g. communicating with staff, planning a project, managing risks etc. Thinking about your piece of work from the perspective of what do we need to consider to be FIRM, CLEAR, CALM and BRIGHT is really helpful in covering off different perspectives.
- The other part of TetraMap which really helps is it’s foundation of using Nature as a metaphor. In our organisation nature has a strong link to our organisational mission and vision. Because of this it’s very easy to use TetraMap as a tool because it fundamentally is grounded with the same principles and values as we have as an organisation.
- TetraMap helps you think about your legacy in the organisation you work in. This helps people to think about how their current choice of behaviours and actions align with achieving this bigger legacy and make changes to ensure they are acting and behaving in alignment with this.
- Genuinely appreciating the diversity that people bring to a group/organisation. When working together, it helps to understand the different perspectives we bring to the table and what we can learn from these.
- Thinking about the processional impact of your actions and behaviours. This again helps people to think about how their current choice of behaviours and actions may have further down the track for individuals and an organisation.