What does it take to bridge the current skills gap? There are 4 areas to consider, summed up with the acronym K.A.T.S.
K = Know-How
A = Attitude
T = Tools
S = Skills
Joseph Grenny, author of Crucial Conversations, points out that very early on, people are taught they can’t be truthful without being hurtful. Think about being a child and telling your Grandma you didn’t like a meal she made you… You probably would have been told pretty quickly that you’d said the wrong thing! But in his research he’s found that it’s absolutely possible to be very honest in a way that didn’t diminish anyone.
Jutta Tobias, scholar on the connection between mindfulness and performance at Cranfield University in the UK, notes that as a result of more complex and volatile surroundings, children’s stress levels today are one standard deviation higher than they were 15 years ago.
"Mindfulness," Jutta says, "helps calm people and lowers their fight or flight responses. And what’s more is that mindfulness helps improve cognitive skills. Researchers have found that a high level of working memory predicts success, and studies show that mindfulness actually increases working memory."
We have a negativity bias that was quite useful for survival, but can be detrimental in modern settings. Our negativity bias ensures that we expect the worst, which may have served us well in highly competitive kill-or-be-killed scenarios, but success today really depends on collaboration.
This video from the fourth lesson of Elad Levinson's Praxis You course Thriving on Change: The Evolving Leader's Toolkit. Register for the course here: [ Ссылка ]
