Harmonics

Three leadership challenges in a rapidly changing world

1- How to manage through uncertainty, frequent transitions and prepare for the unknown. The brain seeks safety and certainty, it builds neural highways to shows us patterns from the past on how we managed similar situations. The world is less certain and is causing stress for many people seeking this certainty.

We need confidence to make decisions without all the data.

2- How to stay connected and foster relationships when many of us have worked in isolation for well over a year now. In a longitudinal Harvard study into lifetime happiness and satisfaction, the standout finding was that deep and long friendships have the most positive and profound impact on life outcomes.

We need to be more intentional about relationships in every part of of our lives

3- How to adapt to the rapid rise of technology as part of every work task we seek to accomplish. The rate of technology change is happening faster than our ability to cope with it. Our smart phones are picking up more data about us than we know about ourselves.

We need to develop greater self awareness our own superhuman power

Here signing books as part of Future Readiness Workshops for Leaders.

Mind your mind!

#mentalhealth #leadership #coaching

The power of human connection and shared learning

I met this group studying neuroscience in London 8 years ago. At the end of the first day, Clive asked did anyone want a pint. This motley crew said yes and we have become best friends since.

This group has an incredible bond of friendship built by human connection and co-coaching each other through our highs and lows.

Our group hail from Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. We have met up over a dozen times since in our host countries each year, today was a virtual meeting.

I am incredibly privileged to know these people. Our colleague Clive has just written his third and best book yet. ‘The Quantam Way’ helps us understand the science behind happiness and workplace engagement.

It’s a brilliant read and this excerpt speaks to me and the isolation felt by Covid which isn’t natural or human.

“When one tree is sick, the other trees will reduce their intake of nutrients from the soil to allow the ailing tree the chance to recover.

How do they sense this?

If you place a plant in a vacuum it will die

If you place a mammal in a vacuum, it will suffer the same fate.

Yet if you place them in the same vacuum they will both survive”

Preparing Teams for the Return to Work After Lockdown

We are all hoping tomorrow for an exit plan from lockdown restrictions over the coming weeks and months. The uncertainty of the past year has impacted our wellbeing at work.

This will lead to us starting to think about the future of work post pandemic and returning to the office in some form of hybrid working model.

If March 2020 was a shock to the system, so will a return to the workplace!

One thing we know about change is we all react differently to it, because our reaction isn’t completely rational, it’s led by emotion. we feel change before we think about change.

If you know who on your team is struggling with change, you can help them manage their fears, and come up with a plan to tackle any potential problems which may arise.

Our Wellbeing Survey https://lnkd.in/exm_ai8 is specifically designed to help keep an eye on the emotional well-being of your team.

The methodology is built on neuroscience.

This enables us to link happiness and engagement (our instinctive and emotional reaction) with purpose and direction (our reflective and rational reaction) for people to thrive.