'I just need to concentrate'

Change leaders have so much going on that it's easy to become overwhelmed by the multiple demands of their team, their colleagues, their bosses, the project managers, their regular workload - let alone home life demands.

More and more, mindfulness is practised as a way of dealing with the 'noise' and to enable focus to make headway through the workload.

This article from the HBR blog explains what happens in our brains when we practice Mindfulness.

It's a short, simple explanation that makes sense.

Mindfulness Can Literally Change Your Brain

4 Tips for Leaders to Minimise Fear, Maximize Trust

Times of uncertainty and volatility induce fear, and fear impedes people from feeling good and doing their best work. 

Here are 4 tips that Glaser suggests you adopt as a leader to eliminate fear and enable your employees to develop their identity as ‘leaders in their own right’:

Be present
Provide context in every communication
Tell people where they stand
Use honesty at all times

Read the complete article on Psychology Today by Judith Glaser, author of Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results, who has been studying the relationship between trust, communication and high performance for decades.

When will this shopping game changer get to Sydney?

Tesco Homeplus Virtual Subway Store South Korea

Shopping while you're waiting for a train (it's delivered once you get home!), is an example of what Dominic Thurbon describes as digital disruption:  

"... digital disruption means that schools, supermarkets and banks are not just ‘places’ anymore, and so it is the same with ‘work’.
Digital disruption means that work is not a place. It’s put beautifully in the World of Work report from Randstad: work is changing from a being place that you go, into a collaborative process."

So if work is not a place, then:

"Some of the obvious effects of this are already clear – flexible working arrangements, remote teams, virtualisation are becoming de facto norms in many organisations. Although it is also worth noting that there is growing evidence that management capability is not keeping pace with the changes in work style (many managers, for example, are used to managing teams by presence and visibility, which obviously doesn’t work when your team is remote, and must be managed by productivity and output!)"

Game changer indeed - requiring masterful change leadership. Is your organisation up to this kind of challenge?


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