Linking actions to goals, with Nina Field
“One of those examples is, we talk about articulating strategy, because strategic thinking is no good if it just stays in your head. So, we talk about articulating strategy and how you can get clear on that in your head, in order to communicate it and articulate it. That’s not just how do you write a strategy document, that’s how do you have day to-day conversations where you’re being clear with people, you’re leaving space for them to come up with their own solutions.”
This episode of the humans at work podcast features conversation with Nina Field, Business Psychologist. Nina shares her journey from her love of water to joining the Navy and then designing her own highly successful strategic thinking programme.
Nina and I talk about what its really like in the Navy, how organisational psychology and a love of strategy led to Nina designing a programme to help people translate the process of strategic thinking into tangible actions, and the value of understanding how you think.
Nina and I talk about:
- Working in the Navy
- The focus for organisational psychology
- The training foundation of defence work that enables readiness
- Strategic thinking from a psychological perspective
- Nina’s strategic thinking framework and programme
- Metacognition – the process of thinking about your thinking
- Jules’ decision-making practice work
- The link between thinking and decisions, and decisions and actions
- The need for clear articulation of your strategy
- Use of assessment tools in selection and development
- Cognitive Profile process and the value of understanding how you think
- The value of knowing your strengths and weaknesses and recruiting for complementary skills and capabilities.
Resources and Links:
To learn more about Nina:
Visit Nina at ninafield.co.nz/
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