Conduct your best performance – Part 1

Distractions in the workplace are very common and often costly and yet taking regular breaks can boost productivity as it can allow us to recognise a comfortable pace to be super efficient. So how can you identify and then turn distractions into creative tools to get you into a daily rhythm? Many people need to have a strong discipline to get the jobs done and this may be your innocent distraction for the day but it is also a tool to recognise your daily rhythms.o edit.

​Can you recognise what distractions you have and bring them back to your core common purpose?

​Here are a few lateral or off tangent points to consider:

1. In music there is a term called “call and response”.
   Ask yourself do you call or respond enough with clients or colleagues or are you too distracted? Try breaking your day up into rhythmic chunks and make a dedicated time to call or respond with clients and colleagues.
2. Music makes you move.
   Do you move enough at work or are you slowly cutting off blood supply whilst sitting too long? This makes you sleepy. What if your work environment had a programmed playlist that gets you moving again? Short fun surprising sound bursts may just jolt the energy back into the office routine.
3. Feeling downbeat?
   Another musical term that can have an alternative upbeat. Sometimes there is no quick fix but if you notice someone who is downbeat then that will affect how and where you work. As part of Health and Safety the morale is everyone’s responsibility.  How does your work environment provide this?
4. Music can be fast or slow but the sequence of getting things right on time is what makes your team grow. Who is the conductor of the pace in your work environment?
5. Is your work environment too noisy or not noisy enough?
   Find the volume control for your office and bring some sound into the workplace when you need it most. (N.B. Carefully placed plants in the office can reduce unwanted noise and of course someone has to get up and water them - see point 2.)
6. Time signatures.
   Yes, even music has a signature that marks the rules and signifies how the music is measured. A business calendar is a measure of time and tasks and at times it can be even and at times it can be odd. That is another similarity with music in that it can take a form that flows in an even and recognisable way but what if you could recognise and react to what was odd? 
7. Teams work with different tasks but ultimately bring them together to be on the same band width and objective. Is everyone in the right band?
   

​How many times have great decisions been made away from the normal workflow? Creativity in the workplace can be recognised by observing all the distractions and making them part of your core purpose.

​Step out of the routine for a while to recognise patterns in a workflow and yield new ideas with rhythm games in both a linear and circular format to allow your team to un-personalise the task to build trust and strengthen morale. Twin Wave interactive and energising team building workshops can shape or build upon your company culture by increasing creativity and improving your teams' group dynamics and health.

​With more than 25 years experience as a change facilitator and rhythmologist, our facilitator helps corporate teams and community groups get the mind and body moving in sync, reducing stress, increasing creativity and solidifying relationships. He’s a specialist in helping people be fit for business and life. 

​For creative team building activities contact Twin Wave to help you conduct your best performance.

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