The Steadfast Leader: Control Anxiety, Make Confident Decisions, and Focus Your Team Using the New Science of Leadership

CHAPTER 7

Cultivating Instinctive Leadership for a Steadfast Foundation

Now that you have a good understanding of how the Polyvagal Theory applies to employee behavior and overall outcomes in the workplace and how to apply its lessons to challenges in departments and organizations, let’s look at it as a road map for cultivating instinctive leadership. In this chapter, we’ll narrow down the attributes and skills leaders need to use to strengthen their rational and nonrational decision-making capabilities in the organizational setting. Afterward, we’ll illuminate how leaders can navigate through obstacles that emerge from their interactions with different organizational groups, such as customers and supervisors. Finally, we’ll clarify how the ...