Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas are the principals at Co-Creation Partners and co-authors of Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Performance and Employee Wellbeing. As experts in business development, Gaurav and Mark favor a people-centered, mindful approach to business transformation, and they work closely with organizations to help shift mindsets, change behaviors, and increase productivity.
In this episode, you’ll hear from Gaurav and Mark on:
- (00:17:45) What fear can teach us. They discuss the normal human reaction to fear, and Gaurav points out that finding the courage to confront our fears can make us more creative, innovative, and achievement-orientated.
- (00:20:49) Connecting to our infinite potential. Gaurav explains how we can let go of our limiting beliefs by using our imaginations to change the narratives of our lives. Plus, Mark talks about overcoming the brain’s natural negativity bias and learning to focus on positive experiences.
- (00:43:50) The inside-out process. Mark and Gaurav describe how they prefer to work on individual mindsets and team interactions before moving on to dealing with an organization as a whole and implementing appropriate policies, strategies, and structures.
- (00:44:54) Critical mass theory. Gaurav reveals that it only takes the support of 30% of the most influential people in an organization to reach a tipping point and trigger significant change and improvement.
- (01:00:21) The relationship between performance and wellbeing. We talk about how people perform better and feel happier when they find meaning and purpose in their work and believe they’re making a valuable contribution to an organization.