Are You Destroying Your Agility?
The prevailing wind is no time to think.
The result? No change. Except to shift things off your list of to-do’s.
But there are two other, perhaps more serious issues building.
The prevailing wind is no time to think.
The result? No change. Except to shift things off your list of to-do’s.
But there are two other, perhaps more serious issues building.
Leaders are often caught in ‘gap management’. They fill the gap between what makes for a good job and what they think their team can deliver. This might mean filling in for less skilled team members, or getting involved in areas where they continue to be expert. It often means they haven’t let go.
Leaders need instead to consider what good and great looks like, how to enable a closing of the ‘gap’ via team enablement, and how to transform the value of the whole effort to achieve greater success.
You may be ignoring a truth: performance is not driven by perpetual effort but by the capacity to restore. You don’t just need more focus; you need strategic restoration through rest and recovery.
Your PreFrontal Cortex (PFC) is one of your best assets.
When it comes to leading a business, a team, and indeed yourself, you need to think straight.
But your PFC is under siege.
In organisations, focus seems to be king. But is it?
If you’re not focussed, the assumption is that you must be distracted, and that doesn’t lead to anything useful.
The trick to building Healthy, High Performance is to attend to both performance and wellbeing, that’s what fostering resilience gives you.