Saturday, May 30, 2015

Four Key Energy Elements: Mental Energy


Did you know 76% of employees spend too much of their time reacting to immediate demands rather than focusing on activities with longer-term leverage?  69% of employees have difficulty focusing on one thing at a time and are easily distracted during the day – especially by email

Multi-Tasking
• Many people pride themselves on being great multi-taskers…this is actually        
  a misnomer!
• Human brains process information sequentially and cannot process two
  cognitive tasks at the same time. What their really doing is “task switching.
• This movement between tasks prompts significant costs!  It’s incredibly less
  efficient!

Impact of low mental energy:
  • Continuous partial attention increases completion time by 25% and errors by 30%
  • Short term reactive thinking drives narrow, shallow, and less nuanced results instead of creative problem solving, spotting trends, and higher level analysis.
  • Lack of boundaries and clear end points to work leads to burnout and turnover.
  • Increased distractions diminish feelings of accomplishment and job satisfaction.
Our attention is under siege! More information than ever is instantly available to us, and it is coming at us in more ways than ever. 



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