Shifting Your Behaviour

Shifting Your Behaviour

Are you calm and collected in emotionally charged situations, or do you react like most people? Well, stick with me because this week I will show you how to do the former.

Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I'm going to continue our conversation around this wonderful thing called Emotional Intelligence by helping you to Shift Your Behaviour.

We've been talking about our emotions and the fact that we're emotional beings. Over the last few weeks, we've been recognising why we do what we do.

Emotions are those physiological signs, cues, and clues that you experience in your body and then make mean something about us, about the situation, etc. That then determines what you think about and this in turn forms thinking patterns. Then, it takes you towards a particular behaviour. So, you've gone from the physiological to the psychological, and what you want to do is manage what goes on in that psychological process.

So, you're not managing the emotion because that's there for a reason. You're an emotional being so you don't want to suppress or ignore your emotions. You want to notice them, to name them, and then navigate them.

Today, we will look at a process I teach to help my clients pull the reins on that unresourceful behaviour. Instead of going from an initial emotion to thoughts that lead to that behaviour you don't want, I will show you exactly what you need to do to harness that gap between the physical and the psychological.

The first thing that you want to do is name the emotion. We've talked about that.

You need to recognise the emotion you're experiencing and name it. You want to do that so that you can then employ the strategies we've developed for that particular emotion.

Now, not everyone handles particular emotions in the same way. They don't even experience them in the same way. We're not all hardwired with a set of emotions that everybody reacts and responds to in the same way. Therefore, you need to name the experience that you are going through.

Name the emotion. That's the first step.

The second step is to ask yourself another ‘what’ question:

“What am I thinking right now?”

The power of asking these ‘what’ questions is that they are logical questions. You’re not asking: “Why am I feeling this way?” or “Why am I thinking this?”

You’re asking yourself what so you are just collecting data and not going deep into the emotion of what's going on. You are asking a simple question:

“What am I thinking?"

The reason that you want to ask what you are thinking is so you can challenge any thinking that is illogical and feeding any of those three universal fears of not being enough, not belonging, or not being loved and anything that is something that you are making up in your own internal dialogue, which may or may not be true because those things will lead to the unresourceful behaviour.

So now that you’ve checked in and know what the emotion is, you now know how you are experiencing that emotion through your thinking.

The next thing you can do, now that you’ve harnessed some of that emotion in terms of where it's going with our thinking, is ask yourself the question:

“What do I want to happen here?”

Because you are now de-escalating and going away from that normal reaction to the emotion, you can ask a question where you can actually plan where you want your behaviour to take you. Instead of going to where it normally goes, you can decide where you want it to go, and that new behaviour is obviously resourceful.

Now that you know the emotion you are experiencing, what's going on in your thinking, and you're challenging that, you know where you want to end up. So, the fourth part of the process is to ask yourself a question

“What could I do or say right now that would sabotage me from getting to the outcome I want?”....

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Grant Herbert (aka The People Builder) describes himself as an ordinary guy, with an outstanding wife and 5 amazing kids, who has a passion to help people escape the performance trap and regain their authenticity in every area of life. He is a VUCA Leadership Mentor, Sustainable Performance Coach, Master Coach Trainer in Social and Emotional Intelligence,?and the founder of People Builders.

Visit www.grantherbert.com to find out how you can connect.

Katrina Stephenson

Master Certified Practitioner in DISC & Motivators | Helping Organisations Unlock Their Human Potential | Director at CrossCheck | Transformational Architect for People in Business

9 个月

Thanks for diving into Emotional Intelligence! Naming emotions and understanding our thought patterns are crucial steps.?

James Jensen

Managing Director @ K6 Consulting | Leadership Development | Leadership Coaching | Former SAS Leader

9 个月

Grant Herbert thanks Grant. Affect labelling is a great tool. I've also found that box breathing works just as well in emotionally charged business situations as it did when I had to jump out of a plane!!

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