How Emotional Intelligence Can Improve the Future of Work ?? Season 2 ?? Episode 3 ?? Excellence in Performance?

What does excellence in performance mean? Considering the different contexts in which one can apply the application, it's not an easy question. It is true that excellence in one's own conscious mind can be accessed through self-awareness and empathy. In my research on emotional intelligence and mental well-being, I am now focusing on these new traits. As a result, I am entering the world of what academics call Inclusive Leadership - or ILP - Inclusive Leadership Practice.

Flow, according to research by Stephen Fahey , is the key to implementing inclusive leadership, which has a positive correlation to emotional diversity. Professionals like athletes to experience a kind of peak state. Furthermore, it could be argued that this discipline belongs to performance coaching.

In the meantime, let's simplify the theory of flow for a moment. Daniel Goleman describes Flow: The Neurobiology of Excellence as follows:

"A composer describes those moments when the work is at its best:

You yourself are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don`t exist. I`ve experienced time and again. My hand seems devoid of myself, and I have nothing to do with what is happening. I just sit there watching in a state of awe and wonderment. And it just flows out by itself."

Even my subjective mind is inspired by the composer's description of how I choose to access the flow in higher performance. I sometimes feel like I am watching myself in awe, just like you see in movies when the body leaves itself and watches over its conscious self. What do you think of the title - How To Access The Matrix And Increase Performance - rather than flow?

However, let's get back to the topic of getting into the zone or flow in life. I called it performance of life as too often I am writing about organisational performance, which I covered in my Masters, which I may finish one day - I think I am actually tired of talking about organisational performance that I know has been a buzzword in the learning and development world for a while - yet organisational performance is simple for me - lead well through emotional intelligence and you will receive your learning organization or something similar.

Sorry for writing off key, I want to loosen up one writing style in this emotional intelligence series that I plan to turn into a book - hopefully ready for Xmas release if I self-publish.

I think the reading from Daniel Goleman's book paints a pretty elusive picture of Flow or Neurobiology of Excellence - and I don't mean to undermine the term here - since something like two decades of research has been done in this area.

According to Goleman (2004), Mihaly Csikzentmihayyi from the 美国芝加哥大学 is the leading authority in this field of research.

This is an excellent opportunity for me to share some lived experience and also some insights from Special Forces training provided by the British Army .

As a former reservist, I have tried to join elite reserve forces - 289 Commando Battery was part of the ever present 29 commando regiment, and I also spent time with the Royal Marines Reserve in Bermondsey. It should be noted that at the time I was still very unfit and unmatched for the fitness programs they pushed me through and also taught me some great knowledge in order to get anywhere near Peak Performance. My argument is that flow doesn't exist until you attend special forces training. To become a Royal Marines Commando, you must pass the Commando Tests, and after spending only a limited amount of time with them, I can safely say they are far from The Zone - where excellence becomes effortless. In the military, we have a saying that training never becomes easy - it's just your body gets used to it.

In reference to yesterday's article where I spoke about the emotional diversity of Special Forces, Emotional Intelligence Training can be seen as an elite scheme of work in which the human mind tests itself through life. It is only through conscious and rational thinking models that one can gain access. In order to become anything like an elite athlete, one must undergo special forces training, and I can tell you without violating the official secrets act - that the humble small training I received in the British Army , the Royal Navy , and the Royal Marines has a flow of its own.

In the world's best fighting forces and best trained Army, higher levels of emotional intelligence training continue to be innovated, with the ???? Centre for Army Leadership serving as the main center for leadership development. At the end of this article I will attach the interesting slide deck I made during one of their conferences that encompasses some very deep learnings both on Organizational Performance and Emotional Intelligence Leadership Practice.

The concept of flow is very hard to conceptualize and model more efficiently for learning and performance. You should be able to draw out some early drafts of a performance model of achieving flow in the workplace now that I have introduced some of the way the British Army works through some soft illustrations. In this regard, caution should be exercised if you attempt to incorporate some of the work from Tony Robbins , who has a tremendous amount of knowledge in the area of results coaching. However, Tony argues that to achieve peak performance, you need to follow daily rituals. It is true that Tony has not achieved the same level of thought leadership as other leading thought leaders such as Simon Sinek - he has not compared himself to me simply saying lived experiences. As a former soldier, I have experienced some of the mindsets soldiers strive to achieve in terms of elite training and operational effectiveness. In the British Armed Forces, we don't really use the word ultimate performance - we just have the highest standards.?

Non-military personnel who claim to be performance experts but have not trained themselves should always be cautious. Even though there are hundreds of lived experience coaches out there, Tony and Simon are much better marketers - that's where they have gained ground. Yes, I am indeed a new kid on the block in that sense. I will call out thought leaders, and I am sure brands are also scared of me. While I'm not a fan of boosting - there are times when you have to shout your name a little and, as Richard Branson says in one of his books, "always punch above your weight."

On that note, I believe it's a good time to end this article for today - as there is now plenty for you to re-read and even share with your colleagues in your network.

Let them know that there is a new guy in town and his now is not Robocop - its Stephen Fahey

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