Safeline R2B What is Red2Blue Session 1 Deck.pptx

Safeline R2B What is Red2Blue Session 1 Deck.pptx

1. Performance Under Pressure Presented by: Alejandro Arguelles Bullon Date: 14.05.2024

2. Gazing concepts have been delivered to people in a range of sectors including Business, Sport, Education, Healthcare, Military and Police. Who are Gazing We help people perform under pressure and get better at what they do.

3. On your paper, please draw the following: A line 0----------------100 A triangle 3 circles © Gazing Limited 2024 3 Before we begin

4. Where do you think you are? Adapting Moving Stuck Direction 0% 100% © Gazing Limited 2024 4 Mindset and Performance: A Perspective

5. Example Learning new Focus on familiar Remote and virtual Example Accepting the discomfort Engaging deliberately Connecting with others Example Clear purpose / direction Resetting and reframing routines Ways to measure progress UNDER PRESSURE Mindset Skillset Structure Direction 0% 100% © Gazing Limited 2024 5 The Performance Equation

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7. Exercise: Make a list of things that can happen which contribute to a bad day in the ‘office’. Don’t feel restricted by work issues alone. Please include anything you feel negatively impacts on the performance of either you or the team. © Gazing Limited 2024 7 Bad Day ‘in the office’

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9. 0% 100% Direction Skill vs. Problem         Clarity Accuracy Intensity UNDER PRESSURE Mindset Skillset Structure © Gazing Limited 2024 9 Starting with Mindset

10. Where our attention goes… Energy follows. Therefore the prime issue is control of attention

11. Can’t Control Can Influence Can Control © Gazing Limited 2024 11 What is the Skill?

12. 12 Can Influence Can’t Control Can Control Recognise Accept Choose © Gazing Limited 2024 12 Recognise where your attention is… move

13. Disconnect Connect Doubt Dialogue Trust Stillness Overwhelm Fixated Past/Future Loop Concentration Overview In the present Specific Red to Blue On Task Diverted © Gazing Limited 2024 13 The prime issue is control of attention

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17. Increase awareness and therefore control ( recognise ) Use Red head Blue head language – it’s normal and OK (accept) Common language becomes part of the environment for developing mental skills (choose) © Gazing Limited 2024 17 How does the Map help?

18. What are your typical ways of diverting? What is different about you when you are really connected and engaged? Choose some of the words / make your own ‘recognition’ template © Gazing Limited 2024 18 Recognising your Red Head

19. © Gazing Limited 2024 19 Homework: Recognition Radar

20. People do this already This is about getting better at moving from Red to Blue Performance gains © Gazing Limited 2024 20 Practice

21. Awareness Acceptance Letting go © Gazing Limited 2024 21 Releasing attention Exercise

22. Body Check Ritual Exercise When you start to become aware of yourself slipping into the ‘Red’. Do something physical – e.g. holding the wrist, brushing hands, stamping foot. The action will be largely dependent on the context and situation you’re operating in. Place your attention on something external. Notice its shape, texture. Notice the space around it. Choose the next task. © Gazing Limited 2024 22

23. When you start to become aware of yourself slipping into the ‘Red’. Place your tongue on the bottom of your mouth. Feel the ground under your feet. Feel your stomach move in and out as you breath. Count your breaths. Hold the first two fingers of your left hand (optional). Grounding Exercise © Gazing Limited 2024 23

24. When you feel your Red Head coming… © Gazing Limited 2024 24 Get Physical

25. Accept the discomfort Deliberately Choose © Gazing Limited 2024 25 Everyone is vulnerable

26. ‘Blue head’ is about deliberate focus of attention: clear focus on clear tasks. Most pressure is predictable. Preparing for how the pressure will feel allows you to free up your focus: zoom out to zoom in. © Gazing Limited 2024 26 Embracing the pressure

27. © Gazing Limited 2024 27 A great example of performance under pressure

28. Lucky Landing? Denial “This cant be happening” Disbelief “This doesn’t happen to ME” Acceptance “This flight probably will not end on a runway with the aircraft undamaged” © Gazing Limited 2024 28

29. Aviate Navigate Communicate THE GAZING PRINCIPLE Zoom out / Zoom in Checklist OVERVIEW DETAIL © Gazing Limited 2024 29 The Gazing Principle

30. Zoom out Reset Zoom in © Gazing Limited 2024 30 Critical Skill