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THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® gives you a deep understanding of how to improve leadership skills and drive greater business performance. For most of us it appears that external situations, circumstances, other people and even the weather creates how we think and feel at any moment. But at Capital Shift we know this is not the case. Science now likens the mind to a projector and recognises that we are not simply observing and reacting emotionally to the world but rather individually creating our own experience, moment to moment. And with this understanding of how the mind works there are major implications for the way we live, lead and perform in the workplace.

Call us to help you understand how we can help you transform your leadership capacity and improve your time management skills, productivity and reduce stress at work to drive greater business performance.

 

WHAT IS THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE®?

how our brains work

THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE®is an understanding of the psychological principles that create human experience. In simple terms – understanding how the mind works and what is really going on for us all.

BUT WHY IS THIS HELPFUL?

‘Thought’ is at the root of everything we do. It is at the heart of how we feel, what we experience, how we behave and ultimately how we perform.

Understanding how thought works or THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® is at the centre of truly understanding human performance and therefore working to improve leadership skills and enhance performance in the workplace.

And when we begin to understand how the mind works and the nature of human thought, the result is a fundamental reduction in the volume of mental noise we experience daily AND AN ABILITY TO ACCESS OUR TRUE POTENTIAL.

We discover we can experience clarity, reduce stress, feel calmer at work and build resilience in any moment or during any situation. How powerful is that.

 

 

 


THE BUSINESS IMPLICATIONS

By focusing on the nature of thought rather than the content of thought there is a natural and significant performance consequence.

Our research shows a positive correlation between an increased understanding of THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE®, and an increase in team and human effectiveness outcomes.

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THE SUSTAINED IMPACT OF INCREASED
THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE®

Personal Effectiveness and Leadership

  • Greater agility, capacity and speed of delivery
  • Improved resilience
  • Reduction in stress
  • Authentic leadership and improved relationships
  • Ego is removed from decision making
  • Able to navigate change and the unknown with more confidence, pace and ease

Team Effectiveness

  • More innovation, creativity and problem solving
  • Greater alignment within the team
  • Improved relationships
  • Fast conflict resolution
  • Authentic co-operation and collaboration
  • Navigate change and uncertainty with confidence, pace and ease
  • More productive and effective meetings

WE USE A SIMPLE PERFORMANCE EQUATION

THE PERFORMANCE EQUATION

PERFORMANCE
=

POTENTIAL

A person’s skills, knowledge and natural capabilities. A company’s products, strategy and processes

INTERFERENCE

The volume of mental noise and stress that interferes with clarity – everything that gets in the way of us delivering to our potential

KEY CONSIDERATION

Decreasing mental interference always leads to an increase in performance. Increasing potential (i.e skills etc.) does not always mean an increase in performance.

Increased understanding of THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® = INCREASED PERFORMANCE

Potential is a person’s skills, knowledge and natural capabilities. Interference is the volume of mental noise and stress which blocks clarity, i.e. everything that gets in the way of us delivering to our potential in the workplace and everyday life. Increasing potential doesn’t necessarily result in an increase in performance, yet a reduction in interference always increases our performance. Imagine a situation where people arrive at work with limited mental noise; unhindered by their personal anxieties and thoughts of bias, judgement, expectation, values, ego, culture and future projection. If these were removed, what would remain is clear thinking, a reduction in work related stress and infinite possibility. Experience tells us that the outcome of increasing THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® and thus decreasing the level of mental noise are:

  • Innovation and creativity flourishes
  • We are no longer limited by past experience and self-created limitations
  • Leaders and managers act from a place of authenticity
  • Teams experience fewer negative conflicts and team dynamics are improved
  • People have little or no fear of change nor of each other
  • Leaders navigate change and the unknown more readily, with speed and ease and managers’ skills are improved

Think of the net impact this would have on performance and engagement within your team or organisation…

THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE®

THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE® – gets behind the scenes and really understands HOW ‘Thought’ is at the root of everything we do. Understanding how thought works, or THOUGHT INTELLIGENCE®, is at the centre of truly understanding human performance.

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