Category: Mindset
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Are you focused on the right activities for your goals.
Use critical thinking tools to ensure you’re focusing on what matters. Critical thinking follows creative thinking or task analysis; it helps you to prioritise where to spend your time. They work by eliminating bias, which means you will make more objective decisions rather than relying on your gut or what you like to do. Whether…
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Are poor behaviours holding your organisation back?
Want behaviour change in your company? At Thinking Focus, we believe teams and business units underperform not by choice but because of self-imposed and organisational constraints. We help people adopt a growth mindset that unlocks interference and accelerates the adoption of new behaviours, which leads to greater organisational performance.
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Scary vs dangerous – returning to the workplace
As organisations are starting to get people back into the workplace, or at least having these kind of conversations on the agenda, we have been keen to hear what some of our clients have been saying about this. At a recent round table discussion online, it’s clear that people are feeling a wide range of…
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Should all change be done quickly?
Many organisations discovered that they can introduce significant change rapidly when they had to reorganise their workforce to being home-based. Does this mean that all change should be quick? Paul, Rob and Rich explore why this change has worked so well, and ask what are the lessons we can learn from this for future change.…
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Have we accidentally created two tribes?
Teams have been broken, split between furloughed and working, home-based or office-based. Teams that were once aligned against a common purpose are now divided. What does this mean for managing teams going forward? How can leaders bring teams back together? Rich, Rob, Ricky and Paul (and Paul’s dog) discuss the implications and unintentional side effects…
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Why are some teams more engaged in what they do?
Some teams just get it, they immerse themselves in the work or activities of the team to deliver amazing results. What is it that they have, that other teams don’t?In this podcast, Paul proposes that this is down to a connection to the higher purpose, and along with Graham they explore what that means. This…
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Social learning and the 70:20:10 model
Social learning is about the way we learn, while the 70:20:10 model concerns where we get our learning from. Both are linked and relevant, we think, to the work that we do at Thinking Focus, so we thought we’d take a closer look at them. The social learning theory first formulated by Albert Bandura in…
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How can you talk yourself into the sale?
Assumptions, beliefs and past experiences are going to shape how we think about the sales process and the customer. Added to that, we also have to deal with pressure from targets and our managers.This will all condition how you behave during the sales process. In our latest podcast, Ricky and Rob first discuss the reasons…
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Thinking Focus shortlisted in Learning Awards
Thinking Focus has been announced as a finalist in the Learning Awards 2019, a prestigious celebration of outstanding achievement in workplace learning and development. The company, which was founded in 2016, was among hundreds of entries from companies across the world, and is vying for the title of Start-Up Learning Provider of the Year alongside five…