Most leaders don’t pay enough attention to where they focus their attention currency. Attention is invisible but critically important in our daily workplace experience. I have been an Executive Coach for over 20 years and have never experienced leaders more distracted than now. Working from home means greater reliance on information coming in from multiple avenues (Slack, Zoom/Team meetings, emails, text etc). Phone notifications pinging, Alexa sounds an alarm for a child’s online school sessions, another email urgent request pops up —it’s a dizzying, crazy making environment absolutely full of distractions. We end up ping ponging all day long, like Pavlov’s dog, from one distraction to the next.
