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- 1. Hi! I’m Coni Judge, Ph.D. coni.eden@gmail.com conijudge.com • Executive Performance Coach & Thinking Partner – Work with senior leaders – mostly introverted women – to communicate more effectively and project themselves confidently to achieve their personal and professional goals. • Internal Communications & Change Consultant – Work with big companies going through change to engage and motivate employees, drive desired behavior and achieve performance objectives. • Speaker and Author of self-help/business books on Self- Esteem, Executive Presence for Women, and building positive company cultures.
- 2. The Focused Leader: Leading During Change CONI JUDGE, PH.D.
- 3. • Understand the importance of focus, especially during times of change. • Understand how a focus on continuous improvement and evolution differentiates great change leaders. • Take actions to improve your ability to focus when leading change. Session Objectives
- 4. Change Leadership & Focus Focus: (Verb) • To direct one’s attention or efforts • To concentrate on one thing Focus: (Noun) • The center point • A clear visual definition There are two definitions of Focus: Today we will look at: How to increase our ability to focus Clarifying what to focus on to enhance our change leadership
- 5. Staying in High Performance Requires Focus Research suggests that one of the key differentiators between good leaders and great leaders is the ability to… • Focus on Continuous Improvement (What) • Increase ability to concentrate (How to focus thinking)
- 6. Learning from Performance Psychology What sets top performers apart from good performers? “Focus” The constant focus on continuous improvement and making incremental change, keeps you at the top. Top performers are able to FOCUS their attention and see that conditions are right for a mistake and take action so it does not happen.
- 7. Four Aspects of Leadership and Focus During Change Emotional Physical Intellectual Spiritual Why do I want to be a leader during this change? How do I stay mentally fit to lead? What do I do to stay emotionally fit during change? Do I have the physical energy to lead through this change?
- 8. What is the ONE thing you can do…. such that by doing it… everything else will be easier or unnecessary? - Gary Keller
- 9. Additional Ideas Physical Emotional Intellectual Spiritual • Get enough sleep • Fuel your brain • Increase oxygen through breathing • Learn to recognize and gain control of your limbic system • Identify the emotional component of decisions • Coach yourself • Build new knowledge in your area of the business • Seek learning opportunities • Try, learn, try again • Write out your goals, your vision of yourself as a leader • Write your new story • Spend time with new people, new perspectives NeuroScience Fixed v Growth Mindset Agility Focus Training to be a Change Leader
- 10. Neuroscience Insights Tactics for Increasing Short-Term Focus • Create the habit/ritual of reviewing progress toward goals daily and weekly. • Focus on the most critical work when you have the most energy. • Focus on one area of personal effectiveness at a time. • Don’t even start things that distract you from your goal. • Use technology – keep your to-do lists in one place and set reminders
- 11. Using the Brain’s Reticular Activating System 11 Reticular Activating System - ”Door” through which almost all information is received (except smell) - Filters out “noise” - Generates visual narratives of what you see and imagine - Helps focus – engages other parts of the brain “to make it happen”
- 12. Improve Your Focus • Maximize the moments your day when you are between tasks, intentionally choosing what to tackle next • Schedule tasks based on their cognitive and emotional demands – when are you freshest? • Feed and move your bodies for short-term benefit • Identify how your environment affects our focus and alertness • Make changes in your environment so you can work at your peak performance when you really need to concentrate 12
- 13. Performance Psychology: Recommendations for Business Leaders 2 PERFORM1 PREPARE •Focus on the fundamentals •Continuously improve them •Identify barriers to success •Practice strategies to overcome barriers •Learn to recognize when something is about to go off-course and take action before •Stay focused on taking actions that will bring about success •Keep focus on positive actions •Use the people and practices that help you stay focused on successful performance
- 14. Next Steps: 14Footer •Create the habit/ritual of reviewing progress toward goals daily and weekly. Focus on the most critical work when you have the most energy. Focus on one area of personal effectiveness at a time. Don’t even start things that distract you from your goal. Use technology – keep your to-do lists in one place and set reminders
- 15. Working on Focus 1. Identify the tactics that you feel could help you improve your focus. 2. Commit to an action plan for yourself to work on your focus every week. 3. Reserve some time for check – in moments during the week: Are you applying the learnings from Brain Science, Growth Mindset, Agility and Focus?
- 16. Role Models of Change Leaders Usain Bolt “You have to set yourself goals so you can push yourself harder. Desire is the key to success.” A relentless focus on continuously improving yourself… Serena Williams “I think in life, you should work on yourself until the day you die.” Richard Branson “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” Michael Phelps “There are always going to be obstacles that come in your way, stay positive.” Sheryl Sandberg “We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware we cannot help but change.” Ellen Johnson Sirleaf “Leadership is never given on a silver platter; one has to earn it.” Jack Ma “We appreciate yesterday, but we’re looking for a better tomorrow.” Oprah Winfrey “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change their future by merely changing their attitude.” Indra Nooyi “If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.”
- 17. • Think of a leader you know personally, who is always focusing on making things better. • Who are they? • What do they do that sets them apart? • What lessons can you take away from their example to use yourself?
- 18. Who Has Supported You? How Can You Support Others?
- 19. Color belongs to our being. Maybe each one of us has his own. – Le Corbusier
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- Explain: Today, we’re going to talk about the power of focus. All of the great leaders we know have this. At the end of that session we will understand how a focus on continuous improvement and evolution differentiates great change leaders. We will also take actions to improve our ability to focus when leading change. Research show that teams that are able to stay strong in their performance during and after change have leaders that are able to really focus and help them clarify. So today we want to see what does that mean for me as a leader? What is focus? How do I focus? And also what should I focus on? But we will talk about the importance of focus.
- Explain: Focus has many definitions, a few of which are listed here. It enters into every field, into math, photography, medicine, geology, physics. It’s a noun and a verb. It’s the act of concentrating and the thin upon which you concentrate. It’s critical. One of our topics in the next sessions will be how you can get your team to focus. But for today, we’re focusing on you. On you as a leader. Focus can be a verb, a noun, a visual center point (like in photography). When you think about what best change leaders do, they focus on their own skills and help their teams with their own focus. Research shows that in organizations which seem to be struggling with their growth or struggling with change is that they have so many priorities, that people don’t know where to focus their attention. And without a leader pointing out the direction and saying this is our top priority or priorities, people will chose their own priorities for the day or for the week. That’s why it is really important when you work with your team that even if you have 5 really big things that you need to get done this year, it is still important to help your team focus on the thing that is most critical for the week or for the month and really think about how you yourself as a leader focus and get these priorities done, is there a sequence in which these priorities need to be done, what's the timing of these priorities, how long this will take, what are the dependencies etc.
- Explain: We’re talking about that ongoing focus of what you want to be as a leader. Focus is very much aligned with high performance and also continuous improvement. Research suggests that one of the key differentiators between good leaders and great leaders is the ability to Focus on Continuous Improvement (What) and Increase our ability to concentrate (How to focus their thinking) We’re going to use our coaching skills and coach ourselves and make an action plan to focus on our own continuous improvement.
- Explain: Lets look at the aspects of change leadership performance and think about these four aspects of us as leaders, as change leaders (that are really important to think about what we want to focus on). Now as we get ready for new things to come, do you have the physical energy to lead the change? We talked about the importance of sleep. Are you getting enough sleep to think correctly? So I would first ask you to consider, do you have enough energy to lead the change? And then I would ask you, are you emotionally fit enough to lead the change? Sometimes the emotional part of our brain takes over the thinking part of our brain. Let’s go back to our brain science lesson. We mentioned that less than 5% of decisions are made based on facts alone. So are you emotionally fit enough to lead change? Are you intellectually capable enough and what’s the compelling reason why you need to make changes? So then the question becomes, what will become your focus in order to make yourself a sufficient change leader? And also: do you know why you’re leading this change? Are you connected to your passion? This pyramid structure comes from the Human Performance Institute, which says that you train to be a good change leader from the bottom up. When it comes to perform, you do so out of passion. So when you have all the bottom attributes, you can be intellectually and spiritually capable. Change takes a lot out of you physically, emotionally and intellectually, so you need to prepare yourself.
- Explain: There’s a book by Gary Keller, and in it he asks: What’s the one thing you can do such by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary. Where this question comes from is from Keller’s company. It was expanding so much that it needed 6 VPs. So he started filling in for those empty positions himself. He was doing the work of 6 people. And through this, the company began to slow. He was physically tired all the time, he wasn’t as emotionally fit as he needed to be. So working with a coach, he thought of this question. He stopped doing the other VP jobs, and looked for people to fill these positions. And then suddenly the company started growing again.
- Do: Read all 4 areas and the questions. Explain: As you can see we are building our sessions also on those 4 areas. We want to equip you with knowledge about the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual aspect of change. What we will do now is to test, which of these 4 areas resonates the most with you today.
- Explain: After we have identified the four aspects of change leadership performance and also discussed what is important for us now, what we would like to focus on, we would like to give you some ideas about how to increase your ability to focus. (Speaker to read out loud the 5 examples) We will in a second deep dive into some of them but lets take a while and see if some of you have also additional tips on how to increase our ability to focus?
- Some ideas and techniques we presented on the previous slide are linked back to our brain – especially to our RAS Reticular Activating System. This is the door through which almost all info gets into our brain (exception is smell) It filters out the noise and helps you focus. It creates pictures and little movies of what you tell it, or what it sees. The RAS has no judgement center – it simply notices what you keep thinking about and then activates the rest of the brain to help you get what you keep picturing in your mind. It doesn’t care if what your picturing is good or bad for you. This can be really important when helping someone, or giving feedback. If you point out the mistakes someone is making, and focus on mistakes, it is simply reinforcing the making of mistakes in the RAS. The RAS is picturing the mistake over and over again, making it more likely to occur! However, if you focus on what you want people to do more of, the RAS will create a movie or picture of that. Then you are more likely to get what you want or need and let people focus on their strength. This is one of the reasons why athletes visualize themselves executing their skills flawlessly – the RAS will help them during practices and games. (speaker and/or Co-Host to share personal story)
- Explain: We talked about focusing on the most critical work when you have the most energy. The book “Two Awesome Hours” by PhD Josh Davis explain the concept around the most productive time during the day and how to use it. The research behind the book tells us to: Maximize the moments your day when you are between tasks, intentionally choosing what to tackle next Schedule tasks based on their cognitive and emotional demands – when are you freshest? Feed and move your bodies for short-term benefit Identify how your environment affects our focus and alertness Make changes so you can work at your peak performance when you really need to concentrate (Ask participants if they know the book or the studies behind it. Maybe someone would like to comment?)
- So what does that mean to us as executives? What is it that we need to look at to remove a barrier, so when we get into a situation, we think of the positive actions we need to do. Pivoting back to brain science, why is focusing on the positive action important? When you think positively, you can mentally open and focus on solving your problem instead of panicking, causing your brain to shut down (remember your RAS). Our 2 key takeaways from that slide could be: 1. Learn to recognize when something is about to go off-course and take action before 2. Keep focus on positive actions to move forward Example from Janice (speaker and co-host feel free to add own): An early indicator that things are going off track during a major change transformation is when leaders stop showing up to important meetings. When that happens once you know you need to be alert a little, but if it happens more than once you know that that can be a problem because the change transformation is no longer a top priority for someone. What you can do in such situation is to have a 1:1 conversation to understand what is happening. So for us as leaders its not only about recognizing that something is happening, but to act. To be able to take positive actions. Here we need to ask ourselves – do we take the time to look around and try to see this early indicators of things going off track?
- Do: Participants to use stamp tool to click on the answer – they can click on more than one.
- Identify the tactics that you feel could help you improve your focus. Commit to an action plan for yourself to work on your focus every week. Reserve some time for check – in moments during the week: Are you applying the learnings from Brain Science, Growth Mindset, Agility and Focus?
- Explain: Here are some examples of celebrity leaders who are successful change leaders. These individuals have a relentless focus on achieving greatness, but they’re pragmatic about it. They work hard and never pass up an opportunity to train better, to get better, to be better. They’re constantly looking ahead to the next thing – the next competition, the next challenge. They don’t rest on their laurels, they jump ahead. Is there anyone on here you don’t know? Pause and allow the participants to respond. Engage in conversation with the group All of these people are leaders of change because all of these people have changed their companies, their countries, their industries, their sports. They’re focused on continuous improvement.
- Explain: Now, think about examples of great change leaders in our lives who have instigated change. Please just write that down for yourself. (give them a few minutes to discuss) What are some of the qualities these people share? Passion Positivity Dynamism Question status quo – sometimes in a very positive way Set targets and hit them Example of Olympic Swimmers: Think about Olympic swimmers from last year. They write their target times on the devices they use to train so every day they see their target times and see that those are their times to beat. It’s that focus on time and what they wanted their times to be to keep track and to keep themselves accountable How about any other examples? From the sports world, from the business world? Any individuals, or legacy individuals?