Utilising yours and others COGNITIVE thinking level more efficiently:
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Manage your stage when thinking, focus on one or two areas only and identify your best times for short periods of cognitive thought then break
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Write down problems and relax or play to generate new thoughts around them
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Create the right thinking environment for you and adapt to others preferred times
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STOP giving solutions all the time. Use their cognitive to engage others more and enable them to use their cognitive more to take personal ownership and responsibilities
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Mind map 24 hours prior to discussion to allow time for your unconscious mind to generate new thoughts and questions
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Walk problems out to engage/refresh the cognitive during busy times
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Develop better cognitive questioning to be a better leader/manager or coach
Thinking
How can this tool help you?
Working smarter rather than just harder is a relevant theme currently and understanding how the ‘Engine room’ of performance works can help you and others understand where they are not using the resources they have efficiently and effectively…
A Key Question – focus on enabling others to understand how they use their thinking levels, are they just habitually switching into the ‘computer’ everyday by starting with habit routines thereby reducing cognitive capacity and use?.
STOP thinking people CAN’T change!
“The brain has a huge capacity for change and can! It is more that the person won’t rather than can’t and the reasons are often related to their interpretation of the situation around them and the risk and reward so focus on these…
Managing yours and others GUARD operating level:
•Know your own SCARF triggers
•Recognise the physical changes you experience when your GUARD is triggered and develop coping strategies to manage them better
•Take action with others after 90 seconds minimum allow them to reflect or regret before reengaging in computer or cognitive discussion or reasoning
•Take deep breaths, change your focus by squeezing fingers together and taking your focus away from the annoyance or frustration
•Label emotional responses using your name and telling yourself to take control…talk out loud at times stating ‘my brain I just not engaged today, sorry’
•Reframe into the positive - reward don’t threaten other peoples Guard state ‘I know you will find this annoying so how can you handle it best?’….
Recognise the COMPUTERS benefits but also constraints to performance:
•Delivers your effective daily work routines is your comfort zone and the place you tend to revert to naturally .
•Performs all Multitasking performances. You have to stored the routines here to be able to perform multi tasking efficiently and effectively
•When under pressure, very busy, tired or lacking energy use your “computer.”
•When struggling to think of information or recall thoughts you should know, stop thinking and do something else for a short period make a cup of tea or do a different task your computer will then sort and find it!
•Repetitive work meetings and interventions tend to turn on our computer thinking and we use this during them. Responding with surface thought, generalisations and known answers. You do not create NEW thought using the computer!
•Use when speed needed or time is short but do not expect creative thought or new ideas. Will only give known answers and performances. This operating level does not engage the individual in adopting a change or adapting their stored routines or current habits
