Do you budget for new software or use the spend to grow your team? Adding on new projects or delegating out? Do what’s best for the team or do what’s right for the company?
Leaders bear the daily weight of making key decisions that guide and shape the future of organizations. But what leaders are facing today, now more than ever, is increasingly complex demands we call tensions.
The best way for leaders to step up to these difficult challenges is to stop trying to solve them and learn how to recognize and balance them.
The bottom line is tensions are here to stay. It’s not something you can fix, it’s not something you can resolve, but it is something that can be learned and navigated to steer teams in the right direction.
The analysis paralysis
Organizational tensions are like contradictory directions. For example, you need to pursue wellbeing for your employees and help them feel engaged while still needing to drive high productivity and ensure they’re not burnt out.
You feel pressured to make a decision to the point where you may feel trapped into making a bad one or not deciding at all. What you’re experiencing is what we call ‘analysis paralysis.’
To shake out of this state, leaders need to learn how to attune. Researched, crafted, and practiced by expert behavioral scientists here at MindGym, attunement allows leaders to better read their environments and turn tensions into bigger opportunities for success.
Traditional models are out
Tensions are constantly evolving, and organizations look to leadership models in hopes it can make things a little easier. The problem is traditional models are static in the face of a changing current reality—when what leaders really need is an understanding of how to be more dynamic and flexible to overcome challenges.
MindGym's Leadership and Development solution is built around attunement and the Four Practices: Noticing, Sense-making, Choosing, Acting. By applying these practices, leaders will have something that, unlike leadership models, works in the long term. They will be better equipped to balance tensions, respond to ever-evolving situations, and cultivate positive impact to drive happy successful teams.
Tensions hold potential
Tensions shouldn’t be viewed as something bad. Quite the opposite actually. The truth is we need tension for momentum and growth.
Think about tensions as a rubber band, holding the elasticity of it and being able to make it tense and then shoot it off in that tense state is what gives it momentum. Without tension, you’re not going to have that increase in performance, engagement, and innovation.
Leaders who can navigate tensions successfully are the ones who can unlock the potential they hold. MindGym’s Leadership Development solution is here to help your leaders better adapt to your organizations' specific needs, get things back on course, and spot challenges that may come in the future.
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