What if the biggest obstacle to your team's performance isn't skill or strategy? What if it has more to do with your team being survival mode?
In this video, Jonathan breaks down a core idea: raising a team's "consciousness", simply defined as their level of awareness, helps your team solve problems more easily and leads to quantum leaps in performance.
The key to this shift is getting your team out of survival mode.
When team members feel threatened (by stakeholders, leadership, or even each other), stress hormones kick in and their awareness narrows to focus solely on the perceived threat. From this state, possibilities shrink as attention is limited to focus on the threat.
The solution isn't to eliminate stress entirely, stress can be helpful in certain moments. The solution is teaching teams to self-regulate, both individually and collectively.
When a team can maintain an open, relaxed, and emotionally regulated state, consciousness is elevated and new possibilities are available that weren't available before.
