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The last series focused your self development as a leader. In this series I want to look at two big disruptive forces (digital transformation and climate change) and help you build the leadership skills we may need to address these. My goal is to help you build those skills now before the future is the present.
When to use the Head, Heart, Gut for Decision Making
The world is in transition all the time. These disruptions are important, it’s designed to create change and evolution. Ultimately what it does is it makes our businesses sustainable and stronger, and we can’t control or stop this change happening around us. All we can do is respond, learn and grow.
We kind of got distracted by the pandemic – away from both digital transformation and climate change. We need to prepare ourselves for these now
By developing our skills in two areas:
- Human skills – the way we communicate, empathy, communicate, trust and make decisions
- Technical awareness – digitally savvy, changes the context for our human or leadership skills
Decision Making – Head, Heart, Gut
Getting it Wrong
And in the impermanent physical world, we have the opportunity to find our center. To go home if you like and find that path of who we are that allows us to feel calm, centered and connected.
There are 3 main problems with the way leaders make decisions in the digital age.
- Slow – now with the amount of data, competitors and pressure you can be perceive as slow if you don’t make an immediate decision.
- How much data? – there’s too much data now that we can get stuck going down rabbit holes with getting things right.
- Too directive – in a human space we end up being too directive and reduce emotional buy-in of our followers.
Getting It Right
What we want is to be able to choose the right mode for the right situations.
- Right Mode – The ultimate outcome is that you can trust yourself, and you can back yourself with the decision mode that you choose.
- Right level of data – we want the right level of data to make the decision, we don’t want overload.
- Collective inclusive – decision that empowers teams, clients, partners and other people in your broader ecosystem to take actions.
The Decision Modes
The Head – it’s best for situations that need simple decisions to be made. It uses logic to weigh up the ROD (return on decision).
Heart – really about weighing up impact on self, team, environment, family, community etc. It helps you make the right moral or ethical decisions.
Gut – instinctive opportunistic decision, best when you have little time and there is low consequence. Gut responses aren’t always considered but you can train your gut response over time.
Be mindful of what mode you need for each situation.
What decisions are you going to make this week? Are you using your Head, Heart or Gut?
When you are ready…. let’s work out if we are a good fit.
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