Organisation, structure and setting up your day as a leader/CEO/CXO

It started with an 8 week training course in self organisation, planning, productivity, and systems all designed to improve the grades and performance of college students.

While this group were learning the tricks of the trade another group of students (group 2) were being taught the neuroscience of learning while going through the process of iteration. ie produce, review, improve, repeat.

Both groups were then tracked for the remainder of the year.

Group 2 were taught two things,

How the brain works and how to use it to continue to grow in what ever direction THEY believed was right for them.

The first group were taught everything they need to know to become effective, efficient and organised.

It came as quite a surprise then at the end of the study when they found that this group not only made ZERO improvements in grades (not one single participant) but none of them were applying ANY of the tools they had been taught.

The second group made huge improvements many so staggering that their teachers were struggling to comprehend what had happened.

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I speak to leaders all the time who are pulling their hair out because they can’t get all of their teams to consistently do those little things that make the biggest difference.

Structure meetings.

Planning their day.

Managing their time.

Reviewing their day.

Prioritisation.

Each of which make a huge difference not only to productivity but to stress, overwhelm, autonomy, and mastery.

The truth is that most people know what to do. They just can’t get themselves to consistently do it.

Think about how true that is for you too.

Do you eat how you think you should?
Do you exercise, sleep, drink water how you think you should?
Do you totally control your phone use?
Do you have zero habits you wish you didn’t?

Training in these things almost immediately provokes the thought

“I already know that”.
“This just sounds like more work”
“You must think I’m stupid”

The brain puts up these largely unconscious layers of resistance to protect it from increased energy expenditure, lost of freedom or facing incompetence.

The truth is that most teaching does not produce learning because it doesn’t produce the best next step for the specific individual. Or in a way that’s specific to how that individuals seems themselves and their challenged right now.

So what’s the answer?

Give yourself and your leadership team an experience of neuroscience immersive iterative learning.