Are you stressed out at work? Do you feel stuck in a situation? Do you feel trapped by your own fears?
When people are under stress, surges in the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol strongly affect their reasoning and cognition. At low levels, cortisol facilitates thinking and other mental functions, so well-timed pressure to perform and targeted critiques of subordinates certainly have their place.
When the environment factors or possibly a leader's demands become too great for a subordinate to handle, soaring cortisol levels and an added hard kick of adrenaline can paralyze the mind's critical abilities. Attention fixates on the perceived origin of the threat rather than the work at hand; memory, planning, and creativity go out the window.
People fall back on old habits, no matter how unsuitable those are for addressing new challenges. The individual has a better chance of achieving the proposed shift in behavior patterns if they are responding to their environment from a 'peak performance zone'.
This is the place where they are mindful of their reactions to that stress and are in control of their thought and behavior. A mindful employee is an individual who has developed his or her personal resilience to stress. Leaders are themselves not immune to the contagion of stress. All the more reason they should take the time to understand the biology of their emotions. This is achieved through the stress management element that empowers the individual to adequately 'face our fears'.
The 'Mindful & Engaged' workshop has been designed to address the following priorities:
PEAK PERFORMANCE ZONE: discovering the 'zone' in which an individual can best operate and understanding how to revisit that place more often
PEAK PERFORMING MIND: understanding the Human mind and regaining a measure of self-control.
The 'Mindful & Engaged' workshop has been adapted from a comprehensive behavior communication intervention. The leadership behavior intervention is designed to address the leadership culture of an organization. The intervention and its modules can be adapted to complement the ongoing training and communication strategies of an enterprise.
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