Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Leadership Psychology With Tony Brooks
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Leadership Psychology With Tony Brooks
In this episode of the podcast Gavin is joined by Tony Brooks about his journey into leadership psychology, coaching, mentorship and how survival thinking can hijack us.
You can donate to Gavin’s JustGiving page for The Ocean Cleanup by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3DRZefO
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to The Ocean Cleanup, so it's the most efficient way to give - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The quality of a leader’s thinking is paramount because it will dictate how they see the world, and the actions and results that they get. Leaders can have the greatest strategy, but they can be hijacked by their thinking. Over the last couple of years I’ve been looking at how our survival instinct can play out way more than we believe and are conscious of.
- Survival thinking can impact in five ways: 1. You can think you’ve got imposter syndrome which can definitely trip leaders up when they step into a more senior position. 2. The challenges of defensive mindset, where leaders aren’t great if there’s a mistake made or they get negative feedback. 3. The challenges of ego and the need to protect self, which can be damaging to the leader themselves, but certainly damaging for the people around them. 4. Negative self-talk, often a lot of the thoughts we’re constantly having aren’t productive if they’re doubtful or negative. 5. Tribal behaviour, which can manifest in a number of ways including an ‘us and them’ mentality between managers and workers, or blame culture in different parts of an organisation, or you can get breakaway tribes where people that are potentially toxic can start to influence other people.
- Get a better grip and understand the way that you think and your ability to have greater control over that. That’s been the greatest life lesson for me: that ability, as a human being, to raise your level of consciousness above your thinking to be able to disconnect from your thinking and be able to make better choices with your thinking.
- A lot of our psyche is set up to make us feel not good enough. A lot of that originates from survival thinking because we are continually tracking and monitoring for things that can go wrong and we look internally at where we’re weak, vulnerable, and flawed. That leads the majority of people to spend too much time in that place where they’re not good enough – as an employee, business owner, leader, parent, husband, wife – and a lot of people under the surface are battling with that. You need to get to a place of self-love or where you feel good enough as a human being and contentment with yourself
BEST MOMENTS
‘Open your eyes to all the possibilities in front of you and don’t be uncomfortable making some mistakes and failing.’
‘If you’re having thoughts or behaving in ways that make you unhappy, why would you choose to do that? There isn't a clear choice going on there, you’re either making poor choices or you’re reacting in an unconscious way to what’s going on.’
‘People can get way too focussed on results and material success at the expense of the more important things that are the bigger things, in my opinion.’
‘A lot of our thinking is past- or future-focussed, and we spend a very small amount of our time actually being in the moment.’
ABOUT THE GUEST
Tony Brooks is an Inspirational Speaker, Leadership Psychologist, Coach, Author and Psychology Academic with a proven track record in delivering strong results for leaders, businesses and organisations.
Through his work as a motivational speaker and trainer, he has an enviable record of significantly raising the performance of leaders and their people, delivering sustained profitable growth and positive company culture.
His work as an inspirational and motivational speaker is based around his experience as a Leadership Psychologist, his Leadership Philosophy “Think. See. Do.” and his book PI Leadership, which is a practical guide to applying positive techniques to the way we view ourselves, our situations and other people, to achieve greater success and fulfilment.
CONTACT METHODS
https://thetonybrooks.com/
ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.
Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.
Why?
Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!
How?
Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.
CONTACT METHODS
[email protected]
View all episodes
By Gav ScottIn this episode of the podcast Gavin is joined by Tony Brooks about his journey into leadership psychology, coaching, mentorship and how survival thinking can hijack us.
You can donate to Gavin’s JustGiving page for The Ocean Cleanup by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3DRZefO
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to The Ocean Cleanup, so it's the most efficient way to give - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The quality of a leader’s thinking is paramount because it will dictate how they see the world, and the actions and results that they get. Leaders can have the greatest strategy, but they can be hijacked by their thinking. Over the last couple of years I’ve been looking at how our survival instinct can play out way more than we believe and are conscious of.
- Survival thinking can impact in five ways: 1. You can think you’ve got imposter syndrome which can definitely trip leaders up when they step into a more senior position. 2. The challenges of defensive mindset, where leaders aren’t great if there’s a mistake made or they get negative feedback. 3. The challenges of ego and the need to protect self, which can be damaging to the leader themselves, but certainly damaging for the people around them. 4. Negative self-talk, often a lot of the thoughts we’re constantly having aren’t productive if they’re doubtful or negative. 5. Tribal behaviour, which can manifest in a number of ways including an ‘us and them’ mentality between managers and workers, or blame culture in different parts of an organisation, or you can get breakaway tribes where people that are potentially toxic can start to influence other people.
- Get a better grip and understand the way that you think and your ability to have greater control over that. That’s been the greatest life lesson for me: that ability, as a human being, to raise your level of consciousness above your thinking to be able to disconnect from your thinking and be able to make better choices with your thinking.
- A lot of our psyche is set up to make us feel not good enough. A lot of that originates from survival thinking because we are continually tracking and monitoring for things that can go wrong and we look internally at where we’re weak, vulnerable, and flawed. That leads the majority of people to spend too much time in that place where they’re not good enough – as an employee, business owner, leader, parent, husband, wife – and a lot of people under the surface are battling with that. You need to get to a place of self-love or where you feel good enough as a human being and contentment with yourself
BEST MOMENTS
‘Open your eyes to all the possibilities in front of you and don’t be uncomfortable making some mistakes and failing.’
‘If you’re having thoughts or behaving in ways that make you unhappy, why would you choose to do that? There isn't a clear choice going on there, you’re either making poor choices or you’re reacting in an unconscious way to what’s going on.’
‘People can get way too focussed on results and material success at the expense of the more important things that are the bigger things, in my opinion.’
‘A lot of our thinking is past- or future-focussed, and we spend a very small amount of our time actually being in the moment.’
ABOUT THE GUEST
Tony Brooks is an Inspirational Speaker, Leadership Psychologist, Coach, Author and Psychology Academic with a proven track record in delivering strong results for leaders, businesses and organisations.
Through his work as a motivational speaker and trainer, he has an enviable record of significantly raising the performance of leaders and their people, delivering sustained profitable growth and positive company culture.
His work as an inspirational and motivational speaker is based around his experience as a Leadership Psychologist, his Leadership Philosophy “Think. See. Do.” and his book PI Leadership, which is a practical guide to applying positive techniques to the way we view ourselves, our situations and other people, to achieve greater success and fulfilment.
CONTACT METHODS
https://thetonybrooks.com/
ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.
Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.
Why?
Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!
How?
Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.
CONTACT METHODS
[email protected]