Are you RESPONSE-ABLE?
Being able to respond requires you to be in the right mindset, managing your stressors instead of letting them accumulate, build up, and lead you to an explosion that can have terrible consequences for you and your team.
When you or anyone in your team explodes because of a trigger, this means the person is REACTING INSTEAD OF RESPONDING.
But what’s the problem with reacting?
Kyle & Jade are together once again to talk about the importance of being response-able, the stressors that can make the workplace feel like a minefield, and the tools you can implement RIGHT NOW to make a drastic change in this.
One of the things you need to keep in mind is that YOUR ACTIONS as a leader trickle down the ladder of your employees. Therefore, you should always ask yourself what is the RESPONSE YOU WANT from your team?
If you are snapping and being erratic all the time, that’s exactly how your team is going to behave. Think of the BEST LEADER you’ve worked with, the one who made you want to be better and give more at work.
That’s EXACTLY what you should be thinking about when you lead. One commonality across leaders worldwide is that they TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. People often think that leaders should sleep 2 hours a day, barely eat, and exist solely for their jobs to be successful.
This is an absolute LIE! The best leaders make sure they take time for themselves, usually using it to stay active be it by practicing a sport or any other activity that engages their mind and allows them to connect WITH THEMSELVES.
Do you do the same?
This is the only way in which you can truly take care of your employees. To promote responses instead of reactions you need to UNDERSTAND where your employees are coming from, their buttons, and their triggers. Otherwise, your workplace will be in constant chaos.
The key here is to CONTROL WHAT YOU CAN CONTROL. This allows you to manage the things you can’t control more successfully.
Jade and Kyle provide great real-life examples and tools to help you implement these strategies. It’s all TAKING THE TIME to invest in how you manage your team and being willing to let go when it’s necessary
Key points
(00:00): Welcome to Barrels and Business!
(04:50): The importance of avoiding a breaking point or threshold that leads you to react instead of responding.
(07:16): There are usually many stressors that might lead you to accumulate pressure until you explode and react in an unproductive way.
(09:40): Nutrition can have an important impact on the ability of leaders to lead and communicate with their team as well as the energy they transmit to others.
(13:57): The dangers of making a decision when you are overly energized from things like excessive caffeine intake or crashing from a high intake of carbs.
(16:20): As a leader, it’s important to understand how others work and what their triggers and buttons for reacting instead of responding are.
(22:30): Leaders need to be “the meat in the sandwich” and manage the pressure they are putting on the rest of the team in the best way.
(25:37): The most inspiring leaders take care of themselves, practice a sport, or are physically active, which allows them to take care of others.
(29:24): Tools to help employees to be more active during work and helping them activate their mind in the process.
(37:06): As a leader, you can help a team that has become negatively competitive by encouraging them to play for outcomes instead of goals.
(41:58): Sports can be a good example of how to improve the strength of a work team.
(43:58): Sometimes, as the business changes, one of the team members can’t change with the business. It’s important to identify when it’s time to help them find the right role for them somewhere else.
Key takeaways & quotes
It’s important to process stressors as they come to avoid accumulating them until the point of exploding and reacting instead of responding.
Controlling the things you can allows you to better manage the things you can’t control.
As a leader, it’s important to act keeping in mind the type of response you want from your team.
Men need to connect with nature, which can be applied in the workplace.
Leaders need to be able to respond and interact with employees by understanding what they need to thrive.
Connect with Kyle Probert
Website: www.apthydraulics.com.au/
Instagram: @kyle_apt
LinkedIn: / kyleprobert
Connect with Jade Green and the Barrels and Business Community
Facebook: / barrelsandbu. .
Instagram: / jadegreenau
Linkedin - / jadegreenau
KZread: / jadegreen
Website: www.jadegreen.com.au/
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