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Manage Your Energy
High Performance = Your Energy,
not Your Time
An epidemic of overwhelm…
exercise1. What does it mean to be present with
yourself?
2. What benefits might you get from being present with yourself and taking time for reflection?
2014: The Year of Mindful Living
The brain is the most energy demanding organ in the body.
N I K E
L Pose
“People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.”
Albert Einstein
“Like a drunk, a person who is sleep deprived has no idea how functionally impaired he or she really is. Most of us have forgotten what it feels like to be awake.” Charles Czeisler, Harvard
Trigger Antidote
Who triggers you?
Time Management Matrix
Urgent Not Urgent
High
Low
Urgency
Imp
ort
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X
X
X
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X
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Prioritize to identify the “Critical Few” –get them done fast!Stephen Covey “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”
The Gold Mine
XX X
I II
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Why do we need
Mindful Leadership?
“You can learn to lead with excellence by cultivating your innate capabilities to focus on what is important.”
Janice Marturano
Continuous Partial Attention…
“Creativity is the residue of time wasted.”
Albert Einstein
Recovery break every 90-120 minutes to sustain full engagement.
Conscious Thinking—A Precious Resource1. Scarce Resource
• Schedule the most attention-rich tasks when you have a fresh mind
• Prioritize prioritizing as it’s an energy-intensive activity
2. Multi-tasking
• You can only focus on one thing at a time and switching between tasks uses energy
3. Distractions
• Attention is easily distracted
• Being “always on” can drop your IQ as significantly as losing a night’s sleep
• Remove external distractions
• Inhibit internal distractions before they take on momentum
“Making decisions and solving problems relies heavily on the Prefrontal Cortex. This is a precious and limited resource…”
Adapted from: Your Brain At Work; David Rock
How To Perform At Your Peak Every Day: 10 Tips For Working Smarter In 2014
1. Don’t check your email first thing.
2. Make your first task of the day prioritizing your top three goals.
3. Conserve your decision-making energy at every opportunity.
4. Find and protect your quality thinking time.
How To Perform At Your Peak Every Day: 10 Tips For Working Smarter In 2014
5. Reserve meetings for your low-focus time.
6. Don’t waste precious energy multitasking. Single-task as much as you can.
7. At the beginning of each meeting, decide where you want to be by the end and the most effective way to get there.
How To Perform At Your Peak Every Day: 10 Tips For Working Smarter In 2014
8. Learn to maintain a positive state of mind.
9. Carve out down time.
10. Celebrate small wins.
What Is NeuroLeadership?• How leaders and organizations that understand the brain behave• Neuroscience guides action in each of these four domains
Facilitate Change
Collab
orat
e
Make
Decisions
Regulate Emotion
Effects of Stress• If we feel threatened our bodies
release adrenalin and cortisol • Dulls both our ability to think and
feel— “numbing out”• IQ Drops 10-15 points at each level• Difficult to respond sensitively and
empathetically to others
• Implications on:• Decision-making• Interpersonal relationships• Customer Service• Creativity• Safety
Calm (Abstract)
Alert (Focused)
Alarmed (Emotional)
Fearful (Reactive)
Terror (Reflexive)
Relationship Between Arousal and Performance
Mindfulness, An Essential Element of Resonant Leadership, Boyatzis & McKee
1. Awake
2. Aware
3. Attentive
Mindfulness, An Essential Element of Resonant Leadership, Boyatzis & McKee
“Mindfulness is the capacity to be fully aware of all that one experiences inside the self – body, mind, heart and spirit – and to pay full attention to what is happening around us – people, the natural world, our surroundings and events.”
Mindfulness, An Essential Element of Resonant Leadership, Boyatzis & McKee
. . . Mindfulness describes a healthy state of cognitive openness, curiosity and awareness. – you must be comfortable with your own company.
Mindfulness, An Essential Element of Resonant Leadership, Boyatzis & McKee
“In fact, many organizational cultures, (maybe even society today) drive people to action, rather than reflection, which means that real listening is actually quite rare.”
Mindfulness, An Essential Element of Resonant Leadership, Boyatzis & McKee
“Avoiding openness – and vulnerability – results in a narrow focus and can ultimately cause you to slip into mindlessness.”
Mindfulness, An Essential Element of Resonant Leadership, Boyatzis & McKee
1. Build trust through clarity and consistency.
2. Make sure you never profess beliefs when people are watching, only to act differently when the temperature rises and the pressure is on.
Mindfulness, An Essential Element of Resonant Leadership, Boyatzis & McKee
3. Know that you will feel uncomfortable, even vulnerable, because in the midst of real change around you, the rules are not clear and politically expedient behavior is very tempting.
