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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE
TRAINING
PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE COACHING
PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
EUROCLEAR:
TEAM INNOVATION
The Challenge
This executive team had the opportunity to be more than the sum of its parts – to make better use of its collective skills – to enhance innovation. In order to help foster creativity, the Chief Executive Officer identified the need to challenge the team’s traditional affiliative style and increase its comfort level with constructive dissent, viewing it positively.
The Approach
Physical Intelligence techniques were used to address collaboration and innovation and challenge silo’ed thinking/protectionism. Participants were introduced to posture and breathing techniques to achieve low cortisol and alert relaxation, essential for innovation and to develop the mental strength and clarity to manage their threat response in the midst of innovation – linking their mindset to physicality. They learned what types of movements support convergent vs. divergent thinking and how to relax their minds to foster creative connections. As a team, they collaborated on an exercise designed to promote divergent thinking and constructive dissent and learned how to counteract negative bias. They also learned the importance of networks and social intelligence as opposed to silo’ed thinking to create an environment that fosters the ongoing exchange of ideas.
The Physical Intelligence group session was followed by one-on-one coaching on the use of physical intelligence techniques to reinforce the core concepts introduced during the group session and provide individual support tailored to each team member.
The ROI
Within only weeks of the training, it was clear that the team was working together better and interacting in a more effective way. Each individual’s performance and level of confidence had clearly improved. Within months, operating results had increased, feedback from clients had improved, and the team had received excellent feedback from regulators. In addition, because executive team members were more empowered, they, in turn, more effectively empowered their teams, freeing up more time for the executive team to work on strategic planning vs. tactics. As new individuals have joined the team, they have recognized and commented positively on the open collaboration and constructive approach the team takes and its comfort level with challenging each other’s thinking. On a personal level, the physical intelligence training had also positively impacted the personal life for many team members, enabling them to more effectively manage their professional and personal lives.
EUROCLEAR:
TEAM INNOVATION
The Challenge
This executive team had the opportunity to be more than the sum of its parts – to make better use of its collective skills – to enhance innovation. In order to help foster creativity, the Chief Executive Officer identified the need to challenge the team’s traditional affiliative style and increase its comfort level with constructive dissent, viewing it positively.
The Approach
Physical Intelligence techniques were used to address collaboration and innovation and challenge silo’ed thinking/protectionism. Participants were introduced to posture and breathing techniques to achieve low cortisol and alert relaxation, essential for innovation and to develop the mental strength and clarity to manage their threat response in the midst of innovation – linking their mindset to physicality. They learned what types of movements support convergent vs. divergent thinking and how to relax their minds to foster creative connections. As a team, they collaborated on an exercise designed to promote divergent thinking and constructive dissent and learned how to counteract negative bias. They also learned the importance of networks and social intelligence as opposed to silo’ed thinking to create an environment that fosters the ongoing exchange of ideas.
The Physical Intelligence group session was followed by one-on-one coaching on the use of physical intelligence techniques to reinforce the core concepts introduced during the group session and provide individual support tailored to each team member.
The ROI
Within only weeks of the training, it was clear that the team was working together better and interacting in a more effective way. Each individual’s performance and level of confidence had clearly improved. Within months, operating results had increased, feedback from clients had improved, and the team had received excellent feedback from regulators. In addition, because executive team members were more empowered, they, in turn, more effectively empowered their teams, freeing up more time for the executive team to work on strategic planning vs. tactics. As new individuals have joined the team, they have recognized and commented positively on the open collaboration and constructive approach the team takes and its comfort level with challenging each other’s thinking. On a personal level, the physical intelligence training had also positively impacted the personal life for many team members, enabling them to more effectively manage their professional and personal lives.
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STRENGTH
The Winning Cocktail for Strength
In Physical Intelligence terms, Strength refers to inner strength, confidence, resolve, appropriate risk taking, standing our ground and acting and speaking wisely and decisively without threatening others or feeling threatened.
As human animals we have a natural negative bias. We have made it to the top of the food chain by anticipating and fighting off threats. As human beings with a highly developed pre-frontal lobe of the brain, we apply positive bias to a given situation with some success only if we understand what is happening. Unfortunately, our business and home environments can change rapidly, leading to uncertainty. When that happens, our Physical Intelligence is crucial to resetting a positive mind-set. Developing our Physical Intelligence puts us firmly in the driver's seat of our own performance.
Strength is the ability to fundamentally manage our threat response. This means managing cortisol and testosterone levels and developing behaviour that builds confidence and risk tolerance in ourselves and others. Until recently it was thought that high testosterone alone gave us competitive confidence. Research now shows that when cortisol is high, higher testosterone may actually decrease dominance and in turn motivate lower status, which means keeping cortisol levels low is vital to our performance.
Here are a few of the many Physical Intelligence techniques that will help you build your strength through the effective use of posture, breath and physical movement:
Building Confidence
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Perfect your posture. It impacts how we and those around us feel and perceive us. With good posture we feel empowered, stronger, and more present and at ease. Open, expansive posture projects confidence and leadership ability.
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To reduce nerves and increase confidence, stand in a winner (starfish) pose for 2 minutes before key events (balancing cortisol and adrenalin).
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Paced breathing helps us manage our response to demanding situations. Use it daily to release acetylcholine (recovery chemical that counteracts adrenaline): breathe diaphragmatically, smoothly and regularly, measure the length of each breath in and explore the counts comfortable for you (numbers don’t need to be even) – for at least 10 minutes a day.
Holding Your Ground and Managing Change
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Being centred, puts everything in perspective; we feel confidence and inner strength. To ‘ground’ yourself, feel the weight of the body on the ground/in the chair – rooted rather than ‘uptight’. Continue paced breathing, release tension throughout the body; place your centre of mass where you need it (move your body forwards sideways and backwards to find the optimal point); breathe down to below the navel (to your centre of gravity), and focus. Repeat three times: Balance, Breathe, Focus