These slides are used regularly by Martin Palethorpe and Pragma associates at conferences to present the concept of Quality of Mind. In the slides, you'll find information about what is Quality of Mind, data collected from our Quality of Mind indicator, and insights into how to improve your quality of mind.
2. Who we are
The Pragma Group
We’re a UK-based performance consultancy
We provide Executive Coaching & Team Development
Our foundation work is transforming how people use their minds
3. How people function
psychologically.
It affects everything and is the key
determinant of your behaviour, and
therefore your performance.
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What is Quality of Mind
6. The Untapped Dimension
Beliefs, Values, Personality, Identity
Outcomes
Behaviours
Skills, Knowledge, Experience
Visible factors
Traditional
leavers
The Human Mind
Untapped
dimension
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Understanding the mind
- enables people to
transform how they
think unlocking a way
of working & living
that they never
thought possible.
7. The three affecting factors
The environmental factors
Natural differences
The thinking factor
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15. Three lowest scores - confidence
I worry about what others think of me 4.2
I need praise or encouragement from others to feel confident 4.6
If I'm not good at something, it negatively impacts my self-belief 4.7
I have a tendency to put myself down with negative self-talk 5.0
I feel comfortable with who I am and what I do 7.0
I believe in myself 7.2
16. I exercise regularly 5.7
I eat nutritiously 6.1
I rely on stimulants (such as coffee or alchohol) to get me through 4.5
I create time in my week to reflect 4.5
I do things in my life, which give my mind a break 6.5
I manage my work and life in a way that feels balanced 6.0
I feel guilty when I am not working long hours 5.9
I find it easy to switch off and relax 5.4
I fill many of my spare moments by going on my smart phone apps or on
social media 4.3
Three lowest scores - wellbeing
17. I worry about things that have not gone well or about events in the
future 3.8
When there is an issue, I find myself dwelling on it or over-analysing 4.8
I need holidays just to recover from my work schedule 4.8
I feel stressed or overloaded at work 5.6
I am not good at managing myself when I have low moods 6.5
It is easy for me to blame others or external factors for how I feel 6.6
I am resilient; I pick myself up and bounce back when things go badly 7.5
Three lowest scores - resilience
18. Your thinking creates your entire experience
High quality of mind is the human default
‘Quality of Mind’ snippets
26. High quality of mind is the human default
Performance = Potential – Interference
27. High quality of mind is the human default
Performance = Potential – Thinking
28. “The Quality of Mind Programme is extremely powerful. I highly recommend it to
anyone looking to improve how they use their mind at work”
Will Kernan, CEO at Wiggle
“The quality of your thinking is such an important topic, and yet it’s usually ignored. The
Quality of Mind programme is a different perspective to anything else I’ve experienced.”
Lisa Hopkinson, Former Buying Director at The White Company
“The difference in the team was unbelievable. Trust, honesty, common language and
ideas were flying everywhere. I keep expecting it to end; luckily I know it will only grow!”
Caroline Cromar, Brand Director at Pret a Manger
Quotes from Retailers
29. Next steps
Complete the QoM Indicator
- If your company completes >25, we’ll present the data for free
Read Martin Palethorpe’s blogs on LinkedIn
Visit our Pragma youtube channel
Attend our 3-day Quality of Mind programme
Editor's Notes
It never ceases to amaze me that we overlook developing the no.1 aspect that can most impact on business and life performance.
Our objective here:
Talk about QoM
Share some data
Challenge your thinking
Fascinated in money and time spent on the material – the strategy, the product, the customer, the tangible.
The one thing – your mind and how you use it.
What is Quality of Mind?
It’s the quality of your thinking in any moment.
Sports people!
It’s so important because - massive impact on your effectiveness and your wellbeing.
And the world we live in today – economy, technology, politics, the sector…
Fast-paced, changing, uncertain.
More stress, less effective use of the mind.
The continuum
Discuss all words
The environment - company culture, the board composition, approach to maternity, pay, life balance etc.
The natural differences - Female vs male energy
The thinking factor
If you haven’t completed it, please do – free personalised report with nuggets.
It’s a practical assessment. But this is invisible in nature.
In work, we’re suggesting there’s ten aspects where QoM plays a role.
What’s High
What’s Low
We’re all the same, slight differences
Men – lower on leadership, energy, openness
Women – lower on wellbeing, confidence, demeanour, resilience.
The things going on for people.
The things going on for people.
Gruffalo – nature to eat mouse.
Became scared of a mouse. That’s like a lion running away from a zebra!! His thoughts…
Thoughts you’ve got about yourself, others, the company.
Thoughts about being a women, or a man, or having red hair or blonde hair, or being fat or thin.
Paradigms – fleas in a jar.
Potential = Capability – Thought
This is not technique. You don’t need to manage your thinking, you need to learn about how the mind works.
Potential = Capability – Thought
This is not technique. You don’t need to manage your thinking, you need to learn about how the mind works.
Potential = Capability – Thought
This is not technique. You don’t need to manage your thinking, you need to learn about how the mind works.