Intent-Based Leaders make it psychologically safe for people to share thoughts and ideas. What can you do to help your team feel safe to speak up in your next meeting? Here’s Jenni with more. As Intent-Based Leaders, we want to make it safe for people to speak up. And we know the bias for staying...
Leadership Nudge® 386 – The Learning Vector
June 7, 2023by
Activating the learning vector will destress performance anxiety. Here’s David with insight about how this worked during a big inspection on the Santa Fe. Before major inspections, I would get super nervous. I felt like there was a lot riding on it. And I had this view of this big performance vector. And that was...
De-escalate your emotions in stressful situations by imagining you are observing the situation from another vantage point. Watch as David explains the value of getting out from behind your own eyeballs. If you’re going into a stressful event (maybe it’s an evaluation or feedback for you) and you anticipate you might get kind of your...
Onboarding is about facilitating that emotional transition from feeling like an outsider to feeling like an insider – moving from “they” to “we”. The sooner this happens the sooner the team is more effective. What can you do to help your new folks move from the feeling of “they” to “we”? Here’s an example of...
Leadership Nudge® 345 – The Motion in Emotion
June 7, 2023by
The purpose of emotions is to cause a physical response. Think of emotion as “E – Motion,” where the “E” stands for “Evoke” – Evoke-Motion. The next time you’re kind of stewing on something, go do something physical. Evoke motion from your emotions. I think we’ve forgotten that the purpose of emotions was to cause...
Leadership Nudge® 338 – Power Gradient Matters
June 7, 2023by
When an organization creates steep power gradients with things like physical separation, executive dining rooms, and intimidating office size, they limit the flow of information. Information flows inversely proportional to the power gradient. Flatten the power gradient to get the information flowing. I’m here at the RBS headquarters outside of Edinburgh airport at Gothenburg in...
Studies show that when we try to control things that we really cannot control, our blood pressure increases and our bodies release of the stress hormone cortisol. For more happiness and less stress make a conscious choice to give up control. A key part of Intent-Based Leadership is about giving up control. We understand the...
Leadership Nudge – STRESS PERFORMANCE The stress performance curve, sometimes referred to as the arousal performance curve can help us understand the effects of stress on our abilities and our teams’ abilities to perform simple physical or complex cognitive tasks. Scientists have discovered that the amount of stress we have affects our ability to perform...
Leadership Nudge – FIX THE ENVIRONMENT, NOT PEOPLE I believe that every human has the potential to do great. We all have a latent superhero within. All too often, however, that superhero never sees the light of day because of fear, bureaucracy, or insecurities we carry with us. Here’s the leader-leader challenge: What if, by...
Leadership Nudge – Stress Pushes You Down Leaders, your mission should you choose to accept it is to stay the leader you want to be even under times of stress. Even when you have a lot to get done, and even when you are under time pressure. Our tendency is to tell others what to...