Lancefield on the Line

Josie Thomson: how to manage your mind to make smart decisions

November 03, 2021 David Lancefield Season 1 Episode 6
Lancefield on the Line
Josie Thomson: how to manage your mind to make smart decisions
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How do you make difficult decisions under pressure? How do you avoid being "triggered" by some bad behaviour, choice words or a surprising event? These are important questions for any executive, professional or entrepreneur, daily. 

Managing your mind is critical. In practice, this means developing greater conscious of what you're thinking, what you're paying attention to, how you're feeling. Tapping into your inner voice - and an imaginary third party (you in the future, or a person you respect) - in order to work out the best course of action. My guest, Josie Thomson, master coach, author and speaker, talks about how to tap into your Wise Advocate.

And she describes what it takes to coach somebody effectively - deep care, listening, attention and using your intuition as to what you observe, feel and sense in the moment. 

This is a wide-ranging, deep conversation about the human condition - our frailties, strengths, potential - and how we can nurture it, informed by a greater appreciation, understanding and application of neuroscience.
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For details about Josie see: https://josiethomson.com/

Her book (with Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz and Art Kleiner): The Wise Advocate: The Inner Voice of Strategic Leadership: https://josiethomson.com/product/the-wise-advocate-the-inner-voice-of-strategic-leadership/

Take Josie's resilience test: https://josiethomson.com/quiz/

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Highlights of my work

Every Leader Has Flaws. Don’t Let Yours Derail Your Strategy (HBR): https://hbr.org/2021/09/every-leader-has-flaws-dont-let-yours-derail-your-strategy

5 strategies to infuse diversity & inclusion into your organisation (HBR): https://hbr.org/2021/05/5-strategies-to-infuse-di-into-your-organization

4 actions transformational leaders can take (HBR): https://hbr.org/2021/05/4-actions-transformational-leaders-take

Four building blocks of transformation (S+B): https://www.strategy-business.com/article/The-Four-Building-Blocks-of-Transformation?gko=5a1aa

How to be a visionary leader and still have a personal life (HBR): https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-to-be-a-visionary-leader-and-still-have-a-personal-life

How to practise strategy in an uncertain world (Strategy+Business): http://bit.ly/2OaojhB

10 principles of strategic leadership (S+B): http://bit.ly/3q14kQm

How to reinvent your organisation in the middle of a crisis (HBR): https://hbr.org/2021/02/how-to-reinvent-your-organization-in-the-middle-of-a-crisis

How to convince people that a crisis is also an opportunity (Forbes): https://www.forbes.com/sites/lbsbusinessstrategyreview/2020/04/28/how-to-convince-people-that-a-crisis-is-also-an-opportunity/?sh=441e32b830f8

What she realised when she found out about neuroscience in 2006
State of maturity of neuroscience in business
The benefits of applying neuroscience
How trauma gets hardwired into your brain and your cells
How to respond to things that freak you out
How to deal with high octane individuals
The power of being the smiling assassin
Being called feminine by Sir John Whitmore
What you would do to coach people to be more compassionate
How do you protect yourself in coaching – playing the role of a servant
The importance of creating a space of absolute trust and safety
The power of focusing on what you want
How to create a safe space and trusting bond in coaching conversations
How resilience is about “bouncing forward”
Using distance as a strategy for building resilience
Talking about what’s really going on in meetings
What Josie is most excited about, and hopeful for, in 2021