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3 WAYS TO STAY FOCUSED DURING TIMES OF CRISIS


By Cliff David , Dr. David Rock
October 6th, 2020

Current events, controversies, crises, a global pandemic—it all weighs on us.
And the daily cocktail of uncertainty taxes our cognitive abilities to the point
of exhaustion.

With everything going on, it’s important to remember that we can choose how we
respond to uncertainty. What’s more we can respond in such a way as to remain
effective, despite the headwinds.

Accordingly, we’ve compiled three of our most insightful and important reads to
help you and your team remain focused and resilient.


MANAGE YOUR MINDSET

While 2020 has hardly been a predictable year, our brains react to threat in
predictable ways.

Research has shown that our brains—and, in turn, bodies—react to perceived
threats according to their legitimacy and immediacy. For example, consider the
difference between seeing a hurricane warning on the news, and seeing the
hurricane out your window. The more threat we experience, the fewer resources we
have to commit to actually thinking.

Knowing this, there are practical measures to manage our mindset in order to
remain alert, yet focused. At NLI, we call these measures buffers. Buffers are
anchored in the science of social threat and reward, an area of research defined
in NLI’s SCARF Model®. Buffers can help us mitigate threats and manage our
mindset day to day.

To explore the science of threat more fully, and understand what you can do to
mitigate it, check out our recent blog post.


BE OPTIMISTIC AND REALISTIC

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary leadership, like that exhibited by
Vice Admiral James Stockdale when he spent seven years as a prisoner of war in
one of North Vietnam’s most brutal camps during the Vietnam war.

His mindset and leadership style, later popularized by Jim Collins in Good to
Great, demanded striking a paradoxical balance between realism and optimism;
acknowledging the peril of the circumstances while maintaining the belief that
things will get better.

This mindset allowed Stockdale to take steps to make his, and other people’s,
situations a little better, by taking steps to reduce the overall pain of the
experience, often in subtle ways.

Read more about Stockdale’s extraordinary story, and how you can develop his
adaptive mindset in our blog post or our article in ATD.


HONOR YOUR COGNITIVE CAPACITY

We all can only do so much. Just as a sponge can only soak up so much water, and
a computer can only process so much information, our brains have finite holding
power.

Research from NLI can help organizations understand these limits of our mind—a
concept known as cognitive capacity—and work within them for successful
problem-solving, optimal learning, and effective communication.

Designing your people strategies around this core science can alleviate the
demand on people’s brains, while maximizing their efficiency and avoiding
burnout.

To dive deeper into the science of cognitive capacity, check out our recent blog
post on the science of cognitive capacity, or this post with helpful tips to
manage your own.

Things are moving fast, and don’t look to be slowing down anytime soon. Use
these strategies to adapt your brain, your team, and your organization to the
new normal.

If you'd like to learn more about bringing NLI's research and solutions to your
organization, click here.



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