Empowering people in a VUCA world: modern leadership focuses on

energy & agility!

Koen Gonnissen

Partner at the Mentally Fit Institute

Coach of Olympic and Corporate Athletes©

www.mentallyfit.be

Living and working in a VUCA world…

Winning after winning in the market! What got us here will not get us there…

► The personal vitality of each of your team members will impact your agility and capacity to

keep on winning in the market!

► Your managers will have to be able to be top experts in building project based dream teams,

time after time! How to build a team? Leadership and coaching cannot be delegated…

► Measuring and leveraging your organisational energy will be key for keeping your troops

involved! WHY + WHERE TO?: Make things visible!

Energy is everywhere! Modern leadership focuses on all 3 levels:

Top Performance — Successful Teams — Inspiring Coaches

Wi i g after Wi i g

is about optimizing Mental, Emotional & Physical energy individually and i the tea …

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Chaos Theory – New Stability

Going from one stable state

to another always implies a phase of

deconstruction and/or re-evaluation.

Staying in a comfort zone is easier,

breaking the homeostasis a choice…

This requires a lot of energy!

Theory of Chaos

Einstein – New Thinking

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used

when we created them…

Albert Einstein

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Public enemy n°1: HOMEOSTASIS!

EQ

IQ

PhQ

Emotional

Quotient

Intellectual

Quotient

POTENTIAL

Physical

Quotient

Tripod of Performance: Where are you on each axis? How agile are you?

Self knowledge?

Are you socially intelligent?

Can you build dream teams?

Are you capable to inspire

Change?

EQ

IQ

PhQ

POTENTIAL

Tripod of Performance: where are you on each axis?

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PERSONAL backbone:

• Identity: Who am I?

• Values: What is important for me? (My mind-set, my behaviours)

• Drivers: What motivates me? (My boosters)

• Quest: What do I want to achieve? (My purpose/aspiration)

CORPORATE backbone:

• Identity: Core business? + Core Mission? + UVP?

• Values: Every company has them on the website, do they live them on the working floor?

• Drivers: Which are they? (Can be very differently perceived! New generations?)

• Quest: Vision/Ambition? (2020 Vision, building a better working world!)

Organizational Vitality: the 4th axis: SQ: your backbone!!

Agility in top sports

General statistics on vitality (120,000 corporate people in Europe 2014-2015…)

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General statistics on vitality (120,000 corporate people in Europe 2014-2015…)

Recognition is important…

Recognition is important…

Vital oscillation: recovery is key for performance!

Basic brain sense: number 1 recovery!

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1. The Prefrontal Cortex: the CEO

Higher functions (Consciousness, Inhibition)

Decision making

Planning

Goal-setting

Rational problem solving

Coordination of different brain areas

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2. Limbic System: the emotional center

• Amygdala (Threat/Panic Button)

• Nucleus (Reward Center)

• Hippocampus: Learning Center and memory

Brain basics: introducing the key players

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Winning after winning in the market! What got us here will not get us there…

► The personal vitality of each of your team members will impact your agility and capacity to

keep on winning in the market! Respect the vital oscillation + the tripod of Performance!

► Your managers will have to be able to be top experts in building project based dream teams,

time after time! How to build a team? Leadership and coaching cannot be delegated…

Energy is everywhere! Modern leadership focuses on all 3 levels:

Top Performance — Successful Teams — Inspiring Coaches

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Individuals,

Individualists

xxxxxxxx

Solidair

Group

Performant

Team

Dream

Team

1. Sexy common objective

2. Ethical Code

3. Trust

6. From Tell to Ask

5. Clarify roles,

manage expectations!

4. Talent Management

9. Reversed Feedback Culture

8. Measuring progress on the road!

From KPI to KDI !

7. Tops & Flops !

Feedback is food for champions!

It puts every team member in a pro-active mode.

Top teams are not afraid of sharing feedback:

they become self-steering…

9 Ingredients of a Dream Team

Winning after winning in the market! What got us here will not get us there…

► The personal vitality of each of your team members will impact your agility and capacity to

keep on winning in the market!

► Your managers will have to be able to be top experts in building project based dream teams,

time after time! How to build a team? Leadership and coaching cannot be delegated…

► Measuring and leveraging your organisational energy will be key for keeping your troops

involved! WHY + WHERE TO?: Make things visible!

Energy is everywhere! Modern leadership focuses on all 3 levels:

Top Performance — Successful Teams — Inspiring Coaches

Cultural ®Evolution = Modern Leadership Style + Internal Marketing

• TAKERS Me First

• EGO’s • SOLO players

SILO

CULTURE PARTICIPATION

CULTURE

PERFORMANCE

CULTURE

WINNING

CULTURE

► MATCHERS

Me Too

► CONCERNED,but

quickly SATISFIED

► EXCUSES

► FATALISM

► GIVERS

TEAM FIRST

► MOTIVATED

► RESPONSIBLE

► INVOLVED

► RESILIENT

► BOOSTERS

COMPANY FIRST

► ENTHUSIASM

► OWNERSHIP

► EMPOWERED

► BOUNCE HIGHER

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CULTURAL CHANGE = DISCOMFORT !

• KEEP IT SIMPLE

• MAKE IT VISIBLE

• FROM TELL TO ASK

• 3 WALLS

• SYMBOLISM: BADGE/LOGO

• ANTI PAINS:

HOW?? WHAT TO DO?

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