Are You Scaring Your Team Into Critter State?
Christine Comaford
Helping leaders boost revenue and profits, engage teams, and build SmartTribes though proven neuroscience techniques. Mindfulness & Ancient Wisdom, Human Behavior Expert, and NYT Bestseller.
As a leadership and culture coach, I often see great leaders who want the best for their people somehow manage to block their success.
Both their own success and their team’s.
If you don't need to read another word to know that you (or your team) are operating from a place of fear, stress, other less than ideal situations -- STOP! I want to personally invite you to complete my free, 4-week mini-course that's all about greater connection, authentic communication, deeper relationships, and the ability to shift.
You’ll know from my prior blogs that as humans we’re either in Critter State (fight, flight, freeze, or reptilian/mammalian brain hijack) or we’re in Smart State where all 3 areas of our brain are working together and we’re highly engaged, collaborative, innovative.
Needless to say, we want to create cultures where our teams are in Smart State as much as possible. Yet, our behaviors often sabotage this intention -especially when we’re in Critter State.
Take a moment and look at the left side of the below chart. Which behaviors are most common in your organization?
Behaviors That Send Us into Our Critter State and Smart State
Now, how can you implement the right side of the table?
Christine Comaford is a leadership and culture coach who helps businesses achieve growth. You can access her free course, 4 Pillars of the Authentic Self, or listen in to her podcast, Crack the Behavior Code. Learn more about her work at SmartTribes Institute.