Performance Plus
Isolation, mindset issues, unfamiliarity and family distractions: the perfect recipe for fear, anxiety and reduced business performance.
COVID-19
Covid-19 has forced us to reconsider how we survive physically, mentally and structurally in this brave new world.
It is tempting for most to feel demoralised with thoughts of apprehension, anxiety and despair. Unless you are involved in crucial critical services, such as the NHS and production, it’s tempting to feel very out of touch/control and unable to focus on the day-to-day purpose while working from home and working from home.
Notwithstanding the huge challenges faced by the NHS and critical business services (and they with diminishing numbers as a result of the virus), most of us in self-isolation over the coming weeks and months have a set of very different challenges to contend with.
Corporate Challenges
Leaving aside family trials, which will not be insignificant and likely exacerbated by those faced in the corporate world, some hugely positive strategies and actions can and should be undertaken. We must ensure that our home-based troops, including their leaders, cannot deteriorate from a belief and performance perspective. This will create many more well-being and performance challenges for the future.
To maintain Performance Plus, the following topics are worthy of serious consideration:
Creating the Emotional Intelligence Dashboard: Individuals’ and teams’ mental well-being and fit-for-purpose status must be measured immediately. During this new working edict, prosperous and meaningful bespoke individual and team interventions may be set up over the following weeks and months for the purpose of creating and sustaining a ‘Winning mindset’.
Mindset adjustment: The Stockdale Principle. A principle adopted by Admiral James Stockdale during the Vietnam War: understanding the mental strategy to survive during fearful and anxious times in a war scenario. These three principles should be taught to individuals as part of their mindset strategy.
Creating new purpose: Purpose is paramount for personal and corporate well-being and Performance. New individual and collective purpose should be explored, modified and embedded to maximise well-being and mindset.
Supercharging remote working: Interfaced with an emotional intelligence profile, a bespoke individual and team strategy should be explored and designed, incorporating six essential strategies to maintain focus and maximise Performance.
Modifying and enhancing belief strategies: Working on the principle of what we believe in becomes our current reality. Consideration should be given to modifying beliefs individually and corporately to create positive and affirming expectations supported by emotional intelligence profiling.
Breaking limiting paradigms: A process of self-expectation designed to impact individually and collectively utilising storytelling and storyboards, thereby creating a new compelling expectation.
Abnormal-normal: Yesterday’s normal, today’s abnormal and tomorrow’s abnormal/normal. Focus on the management and acceptance of change through adversity.
Inspirational leadership behind closed doors: Understanding and adopting new techniques and methodologies to lead, manage and grow remote teams in unusual and challenging circumstances.
The above is a set of interventions that individuals, leaders and teams will find invaluable in maintaining and growing their mindset and dynamism during complex and challenging circumstances.
I hope that the above is of interest and value. May I encourage you to consider the importance and merit of such interventions at the earliest juncture to support individuals, leaders and teams alike to maximise their individual and collective performances?
If I can support or add value to anyone during this period, please reach out.