Chain of Learning: 85| It’s Not the Workload, It’s the Thoughtload: Move from Overwhelm to Focus [with Liane Davey]

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Enter for your chance to win a copy of “Thoughtload” by Liane Davey: http://chainoflearning.com/85
Giveaway ends October 9th at 11:45pm Pacific Time.

Your team isn’t resisting change. They don’t have room for it.

It’s not just workload that’s overwhelming us, it’s what Liane Davey calls our “thoughtload”: the invisible tax on our performance and presence.

Liane is an organizational psychologist who works with CEOs and executive teams leading organizational transformation. In her latest book she uncovers how complexity, decisions, and emotional weight are draining us, leaving us feeling like there’s too much to do and no space left to think.

We bring home what’s weighing on us at work, and what we’re worried about comes to the next meeting with us. We end up half-present, consumed by what’s going on inside, not what’s in front of us.

Liane shares how to lighten the noise inside your head to focus your attention, work through what you’re carrying emotionally, and get your energy back.

Urgency, constant change, and the pressure to deliver aren’t going away. But thoughtload is something you can manage, before it turns into leadership burnout for you or your team.

You’ll Learn:

  • Why the person pushing back on your organizational change isn’t a resistor, and what is actually going on inside their brain
  • Why we’ve become intolerant of iteration, and how to position a decision so that correcting course doesn’t land as flip-flopping
  • How your team can be busy, productive, and still not moving toward the outcome
  • How a heavy thoughtload keeps you from having a hard conversation, and how avoiding productive conflict makes your load heavier
  • What it means to “metabolize your thoughtload”, and why filling every walk and commute with input leaves no room to think

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TIMESTAMPS FOR THIS EPISODE:

03:00 Why it’s not the workload—it’s the thoughtload

06:00 How thoughtload undermines team performance

08:00 Why overwhelm shifts leaders from reflection to reaction

11:00 Three ways to manage your thoughtload

12:00 Why being productive doesn’t mean you’re effective

16:45 The problem with having too many priorities

19:00 How leaders can lighten their team’s thoughtload

20:45 Why your brain needs space to process, not more input

23:00 What change leaders miss about resistance

24:30 Why labeling people “change resistors” gets it wrong

29:30 How avoiding conflict makes your thoughtload heavier

32:30 Why managing thoughtload means saying no to good things

36:15 When changing direction is learning—not flip-flopping

37:25 What deserves to be in your thoughtload?

Enter for your chance to win a copy of “Thoughtload” by Liane Davey: http://chainoflearning.com/85
Giveaway ends October 9th at 11:45pm Pacific Time.