Mindset & Focus | nuts-team

Questions to ask that will help you identify someone's Ideal Performance State:

What are your current beliefs and values either about yourself or your performance?
What do you say (mind-talk) when you perform well or poorly, at home or work?
What do you expect of yourself when performing, how do you judge yourself?
How would you like others to describe your performance or the type of person you are?
What are your strengths i.e. what are you really good at and or enjoy doing?
What currently pleases, annoys, pulls your ‘SCARF’ or de-motivates you in the current work environment?
What are your top 3 Motivational Outcomes? (A NUTS Team Questionnaire on the top 12 Motivators individuals could have)

What is your current Performance State? –

“How you feel, your mood, the sum total of all neurological and physical processes within an individual at any moment in time. The state we are in affects our capabilities and our interpretation of any current workplace experience”.

How can this tool help you?

Changing Mind-sets is often the biggest challenge for leaders, managers and coaches and using the Human Performance Cycle to explain to someone how their mind-set is influencing their daily performance is one proven way of helping them change the inputs…

A GOLDEN Rule – you don’t change someone else's Mind-set, they do! This tool helps raise their awareness, provides insight and can motivate them to acknowledge that it is in their hands and they have to change how they are thinking, measuring or feeling about their current or future performance. Once acknowledged they can commence on journey of changing their mind-set…

The Core Elements that are influencing the mindset you have observed:

Ideal performance State – how you want to be seen by others and yourself. Contains many influencers including your Map of the World Filters, values and motivators.
Belief – In what you can or cannot do, this triggers a series of neurological and physiological systems, and it is these internal systems that then direct our attention/focus (‘expectation’). Our belief is normally expressed in narrative form, a voice that talks to us internally whilst we think or perform.
Expectation – This is often referred to our ‘Focus’. This element uses the Reticular Activating System - RAS which acts like an antenna that searches out information that relates to the belief we currently hold about the performance, information, activity or person and then sets our mind-set (attitude) towards the situation.
Mind-Set – an outcome of the above three inputs and it is this state of mind that then generates our behaviour, approach to activity and action delivered .

Performance State Diagnosis -

When diagnosing performance, often the focus in the workplace is more on the Competence issues – Knowledge and Skill and these are always relevant in the delivery of any performance. BUT the Character inputs (emotional, mental and human) often have a larger impact on how the individual acquires or applies the knowledge and skill they have. The Human Performance Cycle helps explain how the inputs set a performance ‘Mind-set’ (a leg on the three legged stool) that then dictates the performance outcome and results seen on a daily basis.