From the course: Optimizing Human Performance on Your Team as a Manager
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Energetic adaptability
From the course: Optimizing Human Performance on Your Team as a Manager
Energetic adaptability
- With all the changes that happen in organizations these days, do you ever wish you had a switch to give you an energy boost? We are going to take a look at the brain's energy switch and how you can build your and your colleagues' flexibility when it comes to energy, energy availability typically begins in the mind. If you become aware of a situation where you really need energy, your brain triggers the system required to power you up. You can be lazing on a riverbank, completely chilled out and if you saw someone in the water who needed help, you would spring into action, or at least most people's brains would. You can use that strategy when you need it. While we normally don't want such a high adrenal response, we also don't want such serious emergencies, but if you need to motivate yourself to do something and you're lacking in energy, then putting a more serious frame around the action helps. What would the consequences of not doing it be that would rocket you up out of your…