Onsite Programs - Personal Productivity Improvement

Working in the "Zone" Training

Skills and Strategies for Optimizing Leadership Health and Performance

Description:
This one-day course will introduce you to the Zone Performance Model-a tool that helps leaders to improve their work performance and reduce the health risk of their people by understanding the four zones of performance.

Though people may work long and hard, they may not be working at peak or optimal levels of performance.  As a leader, your overall effectiveness will be largely determined by your ability to wisely manage and develop your people.  This learning module will introduce participants to a very powerful tool for increasing the overall effectiveness of people by learning to identify which "performance zone" they are working in, and by helping them to recognize ways they can move toward more optimal levels of performance.  

You will learn to help yourself and your people to better:

• Recognize and avoid working in the "danger zones" of ongoing burn out or rust out in order to reduce health risks and inefficiency
• Maximize the time you spend working in 'The Zone" of optimal performance-which is characterized by having:
  • A sense of control, choice and self determination in doing your work
  • A level of challenge that is attainable yet growth enhancing
  • Clarity regarding the goal and leader's expectations
  • A sense of confidence and commitment to being successful in your work
  • A sense of "flow" free from strain
  • An enthusiasm for work
• Learn to manage your team and help your team members to manage themselves to work more of the time in the "learning zone" where there is a healthy balance of challenge and self development taking place.

In your role as a leader, you are looked upon to model wise ways of working and to monitor, inspire and coach the performance of your people.  Learning and applying the principles necessary for optimizing performance and working in "The Zone" are essential for working wisely and efficiently.

Key Points

• Maximal effort/time is not sustainable and will not yield optimal performance
• Health and performance are optimized when working in The Zone
• Risks and problems associated with stress, illness, poor judgment, inattentiveness, inefficiency, rework, conflict, etc. increase when people are in the zones of burn out or rust out
• Applying the Zone Performance Model to life and work promotes continuous and life-long learning
• Optimal performance depends on continually increasing the capacity of yourself, your people, your team and organization to live and work effectively with increasing complexity

Applications for Leaders

• Navigation tool for optimizing personal, team and organizational performance
• Being mindful of which Zone you or your team members are in increases your capacity to optimize performance
• Avoid the inefficiencies, risks and dangers of working in a "rust out" and "burn out" mode
• Increased vitality and quality of life-work-health
• Enhanced learning
• Improved attitude toward work
• Increased resilience and sustainability of effort

Target Audience
Formal and informal leaders