Blog_2021_02_11 What stops you from being on top of your game and what to do with it
2/11/21
What stops you from being on top of your game and what to do with it?
-You are about to have an important phone call and right before it you get a negative piece of news from a client or your child throws a fit (it happens a lot for me lately with working and learning from home).
-You are trying to coach a team-member and instead of helping them you unexpectedly send them into a downward spiral of anxiety and self-doubt.
-You are trying to do your best at work and manage your team after the months of exhausting pandemic experience while you’re told you will be working from home until 2022 (or something like this).
-Your colleague makes a snarky and unwarranted passive-aggressive remark towards you during a high-profile meeting.
All these are real-life scenarios that can throw you off your top game. You are a human after all.
But what exactly prevents us from being like Spock in StarTrek, keeping a cool head and laser-focused decisive action? [Oh, yes, he, too, was affected by his human ancestry.]
Who or what is to blame?
There is a constant self-sabotage happening inside our head.
Based on the latest research in neuroscience and brain science, the following 9 types of Saboteurs would explain any of the emotion-driven troubles that Spock might have experienced.
Avoider | Controller | Hyper-Achiever | Hyper-Rational
| Hyper-Vigilant | Pleaser | Restless | Stickler | Victim
Can you guess which ones are prevailing in the corporate world?
How do we self-sabotage ourselves?
Not only do the Saboteurs affect your own performance and/or happiness, but they also interfere with your leadership effectiveness and relationship with the team.
For example, a person with a prevailing controller saboteur trying to help a person with an avoider saboter may create more damage.
If you know your saboteurs and learn to deal with them (which is totally possible), you’d be on top of your game most of the time. You would...
- Recover from stressors much quicker
- Be able to effectively deal with every team-member
- Perform at your best under pressure
- And generally feel more content at work and outside it
Curious to know your saboteurs?
Take this free and easy test here
Be well,
