Explore the often overlooked, but critically important, role of psychological safety in the healthcare workplace. This insightful blog post delves deep into how the brain responds to fear and stress, and the impact of these reactions on team performance.
Do you feel like your efforts are never enough? Or that you need to be perfect to take care of everyone else and you always need to do more to meet everyone's expectations? Yet, no matter how hard you try, you feel like lately, all you do is fail?
The last couple of years have pushed you to your limits time and time again, leaving you feeling burnt-out and overwhelmed. Many of you are stuck in a threat state that leaves you feeling powerless and helpless to change your circumstances and turning to temporary relief tactics to numb the pain. But relief isn't all there is.
You are not alone in wondering what is happening with people's behaviour lately and why high conflict situations are on the rise. When we feel threatened, our brains initiate automatic responses that can lead to high conflict if we don’t exercise conscious control over them. For clarity, we can think of them as three distinct states...
Complexity, change, and uncertainty have an impact on our brains and nervous systems, and we are here to provide tools to help you navigate that interaction.
Have you ever wondered how the world’s most successful leaders make effective decisions and influence others? The key is in the way they think and focus their attention – an approach researchers call the Wise Advocate...
How have healthcare leaders been coping during the Covid-19 pandemic? Those who have undergone complexity leadership training with us have fared significantly better and are less overwhelmed than those who have not.
Saving on administrative costs while distributing decision making and accountability is a profound integration of approaches and one that will require new thinking, new skills and new structures to implement successfully. But based on conversations we’ve been having recently, it’s clear that we need to pay close attention to ensure we don’t “act with yesterday’s logic.”
We know what to do, and we know why we want to do it, but we are stuck at how. At Instincts at Work, we are experts in the 'HOW' of change. Read on to learn more...
