Organizational Health - Developing Leader Mental Fitness
From the kitchen table of Michael Legut, PhD In my last two blogs, I discuss how to improve the organizational health (OH) of your company by arranging work tasks to fit with a team member's strongest talents ( link to OH People Make It Go blog ). I also provided ideas for repairing team dysfunctions ( link to OH Leaders and Teams blog ). However to effectively manage the organizational health of your company, you must also consider the mental fitness of your leaders. Key Takeaways Building mental fitness is similar to the way you might look at building muscles to improve your physical fitness If a leader is always in a ‘fight or flight” mode - Saboteur Thinking - that behavior will eventually impact their health, their leadership capability, the job performance of team members. Mental fitness involves daily practice with creating some physical cues, such as deep breathing, visualization and/or muscle relaxation techniques to interrupt Saboteur thinking. Applying mindfulness to...