SERVICES
Leadership Development
Erin Quinane Performance can craft bespoke leadership development programs that drive sustainable high performance and enhance physiological wellbeing. Our expert-led sessions are designed to empower leaders with the skills and knowledge necessary to foster sustainable high performance habits and behaviours in themselves and the people they lead. By integrating cutting-edge strategies in cognitive endurance, stress and recovery management, and high performance, we ensure that your leaders are not only effective but also healthy and balanced. Below is a sample of sessions that we can deliver.
Leading high-performing teams with psychosocial safety in mind
Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC): PSC is a work stress theory that challenges an organisation’s commitment to stress prevention and protecting employees’ psychological health. Psychological safety, on the other hand, means that employees and leaders feel an absence of interpersonal fear. When psychological safety is present, people are able to speak up with work-relevant content and hold a shared belief across a team that the team is a safe environment in which members can take interpersonal risks. From a team high-performance perspective, psychological safety and accountability work hand in hand to build high-performing teams. Psychological safety and accountability are two dimensions of high performance. In this module, we will explore: - How to fuel team productivity and performance in a psychosocially and psychologically safe way. - What psychological safety and accountability at work look like and how you can use each element to fuel team performance and productivity. - How to learn from failure and mistakes and encourage teams to grow through challenging work environments. - Critical insights and practical interventions on how leaders and boardrooms think about psychological health and wellbeing at the organisational level.
Know thyself
Discovering Authentic Leadership: Authentic leaders start by truly knowing themselves. According to Avolio et al. (2004), authentic leaders are deeply aware of their thoughts, behaviours, and how others perceive them. They understand their own and others' values, knowledge, and strengths. This kind of leadership helps leaders find new meaning in their work, build trust, and foster commitment within their organisations, benefiting everyone involved. Self-Awareness and Leadership Development: We'll explore what it means to be self-aware, focusing on the strengths we bring to the workplace and opportunities for leadership growth. Key to this is a leader's ability to honestly and transparently reflect on themselves, accept feedback, and act on it. Understanding Metacognition: We'll also delve into metacognition, which is our mind's ability to reflect on and understand itself. Stephen Fleming describes it as knowing how we remember, perceive, decide, think, and feel. Metacognition involves two processes: one that unconsciously estimates uncertainty and another that consciously monitors our internal state and actions. Understanding these processes helps us engage better in various situations and continuously improve our leadership performance. After this module, participants will: - Understand authentic leadership, and its relationship to knowing thyself and team psychological wellbeing. - Comprehend what it means to know thyself and to accurately assess personal strengths and opportunities for growth. - Understand the importance of knowing who you are and being anchored in your values, which not only helps you be true to yourself but also becomes a strategic imperative in times of chaos. To make better decisions, we need to build self-awareness and consciously open our heart and soul to other avenues of thinking and find meaningful solutions to crises. - Realise that self-awareness is not a destination point, but rather an emerging process where one continually comes to understand his or her unique talents, strengths, sense of purpose, core values, beliefs, and desires for stronger leadership performance and effectiveness.
Decision making under pressure
Decision making is foundational to leading and managing effective teams and delivering successful large-scale programmes of work. Rapid advances in neuroscience and physiology have allowed us to uncover how brains make decisions, how to overcome poor decision-making, and what parts of the brain leaders need to engage to make effective decisions. We cut through the complexity of evidence-based scientific research to provide leaders with actionable insights, practical tools, and “neuro-hacks” to enhance effective decision making. Partnering with F-35 Fighter Pilots to deliver this session, we will provide a unique perspective on decision making under pressure and leading teams under pressure. After this module, participants will: - Understand the fundamental processes and networks underlying human decision-making and its impact on leadership style and day-to-day team management. - Appreciate the fundamental trade-off between the speed and accuracy of decisions, assess the pros and cons of different strategies for navigating this trade-off, and practice deliberate awareness of when to “think fast” and when to “think slow.” - Understand how basic features of brain physiology limit and constrain our ability to make good choices, and how this knowledge can be used to improve decision-making. Furthermore, appreciate how brain physiology impacts our ability to make consistent decisions over the course of the day, week, month, and year because of decision fatigue, and how to avoid it. - Understand that individuals differ in their decision-making tendencies and describe how these differences can be assessed and harnessed, particularly in collective decision-making forums. - Appreciate the impact of stress and mental health on decision-making, and how to navigate these challenges to optimise better leadership performance and impact to legal teams.
How does the macro environment affect talent attraction and retention, and building long-term workforce cognitive endurance and sustainable high performance
Part 1: Macro-environment Every leader is facing a multitude of strategic challenges: Global labour shortages; delivering high-stakes transformation at rapid speed; staying ahead of cyber security threats; geopolitical instability; navigating an increasingly complex regulatory landscape; keeping abreast of changing social demographics; and redefining the employee value proposition to attract and retain top talent. Each of these challenges is not an 'of the moment' issue. They will persist over the next three to five years, bringing enormous cognitive endurance pressures for current and emerging leaders at the individual and organisational level. While leaders are required to rise to the challenge of perennial change, old approaches which were designed to effectively equip leaders to navigate environmental change are no longer fit-for-purpose. After this module, participants will: - Understand how macro-environmental shifts can place downward pressure on workforce cognitive endurance, performance, mental health and workplace psychosocial risks. - Understand what tools and techniques can be used to buffer “environmental noise” and subsequently fuel the cognitive endurance and performance of teams. - Understand how to account for perennial change in delivery, to fuel the cognitive endurance and performance of leaders and their teams. Part 2: Talent attraction and retention Talent attraction and retention is a key issue all leaders are facing. Attracting and retaining talent can be even more challenging when coupled with building high-performing teams that are geographically dispersed or facing different performance pressures across a diverse business and stakeholder group. After this module, participants will: - Understand how to build sustainable cognitive endurance performance work practices to attract and retain top talent. - Understand how to reduce cognitive fatigue, burnout and stress to retain top talent over the long-term. - Identify new ways in planning and delivery of work schedules to fuel executive and long-term team endurance and performance. Partner with Erin Quinane Performance to cultivate a leadership team that excels in both sustainable high performance and wellbeing, paving the way for long-term success and growth.