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Anyone involved in leading a team under stress, or anyone needing to implement change in a business, or seeking to achieve high performance outcomes in easier ways will benefit from a one day intensive leadership workshop called “Leading to Improve Performance & Well-being,” which is scheduled for January 19, 2017 in Melbourne. This workshop teaches practical ways leaders operating in competitive and stressful environments can achieve authentic improvement in the often opposing areas of team well-being and team performance, by applying some of the latest cutting edge insights into human resource development as they relate to leadership.
The event is being run by Stuart Hayes, a Leadership and Coaching Consultant with a unique background as a ‘CEO Mr Fix’ it for some of the worlds leading consulting firms. Stuart is the founder and CEO of Stuart Hayes Leadership and has spent the last 21 years helping businesses under duress implement change, and in this intensive one day event he will cover issues such as:
What are the known negative impacts of stress in the workplace? What proven approaches exist to transforming stressed and under performing teams into happy and productive ones? How is new research into ‘Bridging the Heart and Mind’ helping innovative leaders achieve amazing improvements in the often opposing areas of well being and team performance.
At a briefing to media on the content of the workshop Hayes said “In 2016 the majority of human resource professionals and organizational psychologists realize the importance of balancing team well-being with performance, because the evidence clearly shows that stressed staff with negative emotions produce inferior work-place outcomes, while happy staff with positive feelings are consistently more efficient and productive. But in an attempt to help staff handle stress and achieve greater productivity, many businesses are using workplace well-being initiatives that are little more than box ticking exercises and don’t translate into meaningful productivity gains. That’s a waste of time and a missed opportunity” he said.
According to Hayes, the latest cutting edge research shows a new and innovative way forward he calls ‘Bridging the Heart and Mind.’ When bridging the heart and mind is done successfully by trained team leaders, it consistently facilitates a shift in team dynamics from negative to positive, resulting in a significant and measurable improvements in the achievement of K.P.I.’s and team objectives.
More details on the “Leading to Improve Performance & Well-being,” event can be found on the Stuart Hayes company website at http://leadershipcoach.melbourne/events/leading-im…
One final point Hayes covered in his media brief was the skepticism some people have about how a leadership focus on well being can lead to hard bottom line improvements in profitability.
“Many people say after the event that before they came, they thought this would be a ‘fluffy feel good exercise”, but after reviewing the science and case studies we present, they soon realize that this approach is producing measurable improvements in productivity, as well as improved well being outcomes”. He added further, “it’s funny really, we all have a heart, we all have a mind, and we all know how they work together instinctively, but the increasing emergence of research that proves how our heart and mind work together is incredible“ says Hayes, who has now spent the better part of the past 7 years studying this interaction and how it applies in the workplace.
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