Podcast | Becoming Mind Fit For Future Challenges

Liggy Webb's Empowering Minds series takes you through five approaches your mind needs to stay strong and well-prepared for future challenges.

We go through all five and how you can build them in this episode!

Get ready to become more resilient, curious, flexible, creative and kind - as a person, but also in your teams.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro to Liggy Webb and the Mind Fit series.

5:55 Building the resilient mind.

12:50 Curiosity and how to improve it.

17:47 Don’t confirm your biases.

20:33 Becoming more flexible.

25:22 Reflecting on and auditing what you do.

27:37 Building a creative mind.

38:27 The power of kindness.

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Six lessons on becoming mind fit organisations for the future

“Change is the one inevitability in all our lives but growth is optional and how we approach some of those changes is entirely up to us - so it’s about opening our minds.” - Liggy Webb.

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1. Don’t jump in! We have to give people space to build resilience

“When it comes to human resilience we have to experience struggle, have to experience setback, you know we don't become resilient when life is really easy.”

And that is why we have to resist our temptation to jump in, and instead give people space to build resilience.

“I think sometimes what happens is we see people struggling and we think, I know I'll jump in and I'll make it easier for them. But what we're actually doing is we're taking away the opportunity for them to be able to learn, for them to be able to grow.”

“Sometimes other people struggling is part of their journey. And there's a big line, if you like, between trying to be helpful and actually interfering.”
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2. Resilience isn’t about toughing it out!‍

“Resilience is not about toughing it out at any cost to the detriment of our own wellbeing."

“Sometimes in the work that I do, I see examples of this happening. But a big part of resilience is self-care. It's giving the world the best of you instead of what's left of you." 

“So I think prioritising wellbeing and managing our stress levels is a huge part of what resilience is about.”

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3. Want to drive critical thinking? You need curiosity!

“Curiosity to apply critical thinking because we can't just take everything at face value. It's so important that we probe for really good evidence. So curiosity is just wonderful.

“If you're managing a team where they're constantly questioning you, brilliant! Because it's those kind of questions that are really going to open our minds to different perspectives and that stops us getting stuck because there is danger in getting stuck.”

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4. Workplace pressure can make us reactive, so we have to prioritise.

“What I've noticed a lot in the workplace is there's a lot of pressure. So there tends to be quite a lot of reactive behaviours. So then we react and start focusing on all the things that we perceive are urgent. But actually in the whole scheme of things, they're not very important.

“My dad actually always used to give us a really good bit of advice because he always used to say, if you want to go a bit faster, slow down and I think that that's a really good point.”

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5. A refresh audit will help you do more of your best work.

“I think refresh audits are very good at helping us to press the pause button rather than just making one mistake and jumping to the next one. It gives us a chance to step back and work out what we're doing. 

“I think it also gives us a great opportunity to celebrate the things that we're doing well so that we can reinforce them because sometimes we do things well accidentally.

“We might not always be aware of the impact that it has and it's a good habit to get into because it does slow us down so that we can work in a way that delivers more quality rather than quantity.”

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6. “If we always do what we've always done, we'll always get what we've always got.”

“We are living in a world that is an ideas economy for a lot of organisations. We have to do things and implement things faster than the competition. 

“And we need people in organisations to think creatively because complex problem solving is the number one employability skill.

“So we need to create space for people to play because that is such an important part of the creative process as well.

“And if we're to ask people to be creative and innovate, then we've got to be prepared for the fact that they're going to make mistakes. At face value, it might seem that we're wasting time, but in the long term, if you're going to come up with a better way of doing things, then it's not a waste of time, is it?”