Jodie Rogers - The Hidden Edge

1 COVER

2 TITLE PAGE The Hidden Edge Why Mental Fitness is the Only Advantage That Matters in Business Jodie Rogers

3 COPYRIGHT

4 DEDICATION

5 PREFACE

6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

7 INTRODUCTION

8 Part One: Leadership and the Hidden Edge 1 Under the Skin of Leaders and Their Teams What is Mental Fitness? If Mental Fitness is ‘the Hidden Edge’ of Business, How Can It Be Harnessed? Notes 2 The Business Case for Investing in Mental Fitness Mental Health: The Magnitude of the Problem The Tip of the Iceberg The Cost of Doing Nothing (or Not Doing Enough) The Benefits of Taking Action: The Bottom Line The Benefits of Taking Action: A Mentally Fit Workforce Notes 3 The Future of Fit Businesses

9 Part Two: The Power of Meaning and Emotions 4 Perception: Do You See What I See? The Science of Vision Changing Perception: The Ladder of Inference Notes 5 The Stories We Tell Ourselves Note 6 Everything Is Connected Our Thoughts Affect Our Feelings Our Feelings Affect Our Thoughts Both Our Feelings and Our Emotions Affect Our Behavior, and Vice Versa The Present The Past 7 Emotion and Decision Making Understanding That Our Emotions Matter Have You Ever Been ‘Hangry’? Applying Learnings to Your Life Notes

10 Part Three: Owning Our Thinking 8 Navigating Thinking Traps Identifying ‘Thinking Traps’ The Committee Positive Thinking and Interpretation Note 9 Fear Response and Neuroplasticity How Heavy Is Your Glass? Note

11 Part Four: Limiting and Empowering Beliefs 10 The ‘Rules’ We Should Be Breaking Why Do We Form Limiting Beliefs? Beliefs and Teams Spotting Limiting Beliefs How Does Our Focus Reinforce Our Beliefs? 11 How to Reframe Limiting Beliefs Reframing Technique

12 Part Five: Values: Principles We Live By 12 Values and Decision Making How Do Our Values and Beliefs Differ? 13 Uncovering Your Values Uncovering Your Values 14 Using Values to Navigate Conflict Using Values for Decision Making

13 Part Six: Stress and Performance 15 Stress and Control Changing Our Relationship with Stress Explaining the Matrix 16 Overcoming the Amygdala Hijack Four Ways to Take Back Your Amygdala Note 17 Flow Versus Frazzle How to Tackle Disengagement What Happens During ‘Frazzle’? What Happens When We're in ‘Flow’? Managing Stress: In the Moment Managing Stress: At Work Managing Stress: At Home Notes

14 MENTAL FITNESS IN PRACTICEUnilever: A Case Study

15 CONCLUSION This Is Just the Beginning …

16 INDEX

17 END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

1 Chapter 2Table 2.1 Global statistics on the scale of mental health illness.Table 2.2 UK statistics on the scale of mental health illness and work-related s...Table 2.3 Return on investment: mental health and well-being programmes.

1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 The Mental Fitness Spectrum.

2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 Factors affecting business performance.Figure 2.2 Benefits to having engaged employees.

3 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Young woman/old woman.Figure 4.2 What do you see?Figure 4.3 Can you see the cow?Figure 4.4 What's the emotion?Figure 4.5 Emotion word map.Figure 4.6 The Ladder of Inference.Figure 4.7 Example of the ladder of inference.Figure 4.8 How we climb the ladder.

4 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 Fact to fantasy.Figure 5.2 .

5 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 Internal impacts.

6 Chapter 8Figure 8.1 Common thinking traps.Figure 8.2 Recognising your Committee.

7 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 Neuroplasticity explained.

8 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 How to spot a limiting belief.Figure 10.2 The Reticular Activating System (RAS).

9 Chapter 11Figure 11.1 Reframing your thinking.

10 Chapter 12Figure 12.1 Aspirational versus non-aspirational values.Figure 12.2 Recognising incongruence.

11 Chapter 15Figure 15.1 Mapping your stressors.

12 Chapter 16Figure 16.1 Amygdala hijack.

13 Chapter 17Figure 17.1 The Yerkes–Dodson curve.Figure 17.2 Stress response.Figure 17.3 How stress affects the heart.

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