‘It's about getting clear about where you need to get to and why you need to get there'
In this episode, Gavin is talking with Dave Allen, consultant and coach in leadership who has considerable expertise in the area of ‘deep thinking' and the impact it can have on teams and how successful they are within organisations.
Gavan and Dave discuss how different deep thinking and fast thinking are and why understanding how we are thinking can be the ultimate key to making effective and successful decisions in the workplace.
If you want to understand more about how to achieve clarity and the desired outcome then listen in.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Do we really give enough time to understand our own mind and the bias and influences in our thinking?
- The purpose in life for thinking is to arrive at a decision.
- We are being fed information in lots of different ways but don't really understand how we think about things
- Fast thinking is the intuitive, responsive and automatic thinking.
- Deep thinking is really thinking about what you do.
- Having clarity on the outcome of the process guides you through to the desired outcome.
- Without a strategy and clarity of outcome, anything that comes along looks like it's part of your plan and it can be easy to get distracted.
- To make a meeting constructive having a structured agenda with a tight focus guides the thinking process and you can get straight through to the critical discussions and decisions.
- The concept of priming is about understanding what has influenced you prior to the decision being made.
- Schedule time to think and understand your business do what do you need to do to move the business forward and challenge your own bias.
BEST MOMENTS
‘All of us have made some great decisions and we've all made decisions that are not'
‘It's having a well-structured agenda to guide people through the thinking process so you can get straight to the critical discussions'
“People are reading headlines, making an assumption, forming an opinion and becoming involved emotionally'
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Business Mastermind Podcast
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston
Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and
high-performance Coach. He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.
Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline
Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance
Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership
Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder
Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.
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