Is Your Team Struggling? Their Dysregulation May Impact Your Performance.
There is a lot of talk these days about how organizations could facilitate a return to work or redesign their operations to enable greater worker flexibility. It’s an important discussion, particularly in the context of diversity and inclusion. Yet in all of the discussions about the health and wellness of workers (from whether or not to require vaccinations and masking to ensuring employees can identify safe and comfortable commutes), are we actually helping to reduce worker stress? Perhaps the solution is not about creating a menu of options, but, instead, teaching workers how to have agency, or the ability to access choice in any moment.
Trauma can lead to dysregulation
Earlier this year, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry, principal of the Neurosequential Network, senior fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy and adjunct professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago and the School of Allied Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria Australia, published What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing. One of the most important takeaways from that book is the concept of dysregulation, which they define as being “out of balance,”…
