The Focus Factor: The Power of Attentional Flexibility
As an Executive Coach, the ability to focus is perhaps the single biggest struggle that I see clients facing. With incessant demands on our time and attention, endless collaborative opportunities, distributed work environments, and dependency on multiple communication platforms, it has become increasingly difficult to simply focus and get things done. But we must look beyond these external realities and ask ourselves: how does focus work and moreover, how do we get focus to work for us? In digging into these questions, I found very splintered views on what kinds of focus are useful and which are not. This article argues a few key principles: That there are distinct styles of focus that exist on a continuum That each style of focus has value to tap and limitations to manage That a key to high performance is the ability to fluidly shift between these styles of focus We know from everyday experience that there are…