{"id":2696,"date":"2021-11-03T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/167.172.54.60\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:41:11","slug":"you-dont-have-to-fly-the-plane-the-impact-of-survival-mode-on-our-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.talking-talent.com\/us\/you-dont-have-to-fly-the-plane-the-impact-of-survival-mode-on-our-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"You don\u2019t have to fly the plane: The impact of survival mode on our decision making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"hero-article-6a038ae946f67\" class=\"hero-article page-block page-block--pdtop-reg page-block--pdbot-reg\">\n\t\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"hero-article__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"pill-tag pill-tag--blue-20\">Wellbeing<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"hero-article__date\">3 Nov 2021<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero-article__title\">You 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'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;\"><i class=\"fa-brands fa-x-twitter\"><\/i><\/a>        <\/div>\n        \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.talking-talent.com\/us\/insights\/blog\/\" class=\"ui-btn ui-btn--outline-b sticky-content-sidebar__back\"><span>Back to articles<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n\t\t<div class=\"sticky-content-sidebar__content\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"body-content\"><p>What does your nearest petrol station look like today? Hopefully by the time you read this, it\u2019ll be normal. But cast your mind back to the end of September, when the government told us not to panic about the no lack of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>After that first announcement, I walked past my local BP and its mile-long queue, and I could see people laughing, shaking their heads at those waiting to fill up. And part of me, I\u2019ll be honest, did wonder about a shortage of common sense\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But then I thought: yeah, I get it.<\/p>\n<p>I get why you\u2019re acting as if the world\u2019s about to end.<\/p>\n<p>Because in your head, <em>it is<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For the last 20-or-so months, our threat detection system has been on high alert. So as soon as people heard \u2018please don\u2019t panic buy fuel\u2019, they remembered the Great Loo Roll Shortage of March 2020. The footage of people fighting over bags of pasta and tinned fish. The empty supermarket shelves last December.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the pandemic, we\u2019ve got little-to-no tolerance to distress and difficult situations. And we haven\u2019t yet recovered because we\u2019re in afterburn.<\/p>\n<p>Afterburn is when someone emerges from a period of drastic change or trauma, and they\u2019re emotionally hungover. It\u2019s painful, and difficult, and challenging \u2013 and it\u2019s what we\u2019re going through as a society.<\/p>\n<h2>Are \u2018survival\u2019 decisions taking over your business?<\/h2>\n<p>When we make a decision, we have the choice to react or to respond. Right now, we\u2019re in a reactive place: we feel out of control and stressed, so we make immediate decisions. Survival decisions.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s key to remember there\u2019s a space between reaction and response. And in that space, we have the opportunity to make proportionate decisions. The opportunity to think about our plans for the upcoming week and whether half a tank of petrol is enough \u2013 rather than the knee-jerk reaction to fill up.<\/p>\n<p>Afterburn, and its long-term effect on mental health, is something you need to closely monitor in your organisation. Because when someone\u2019s mental health spirals, their ability to give a proportionate response lessens. And decisions made in survival mode \u2013 reactive and immediate \u2013 are rarely the best ones.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one thing to sit in a queue for an hour while panic-buying petrol: that\u2019s just affecting you. But at work, an individual\u2019s decision can impact many people. What happens if someone makes a reactive decision during the hiring process? What are the consequences of survival mode when budget planning?<\/p>\n<p>So, help your people recover from afterburn \u2013 and move your organisation out of the react zone, and into the respond zone. There\u2019s plenty you can do: from <a href=\"\/insights\/podcast\/\">prioritising care in the workplace<\/a> to creating safe spaces to discuss issues. (And <a href=\"\/contact\/\">I\u2019m happy to help<\/a> you build that strategy for better workplace wellbeing.)<\/p>\n<p>But to get started, here are three changes you can make in the workplace:<\/p>\n<h3>1. Encourage time without notifications<\/h3>\n<p>At the start of the pandemic, one of my coachees switched on notifications from BBC News. But the app threw up so many alerts that she got trapped in a cycle of needing to know the latest news headline.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re being bombarded by notifications and updates and changes, it\u2019s hard to focus on your response. Instead, you get panicked into immediate action.<\/p>\n<p>And often, as the saying goes, that hasty decision isn\u2019t the right one.<\/p>\n<p>So, encourage your teams to turn off their notifications. Not just for their newsfeeds either: emails, Slack, Teams \u2013 all of it. Start off with an hour a day, or on Friday afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>Not only will this remind people the world won\u2019t end if they don\u2019t reply to that email instantly, but it gives them the chance to get some deep work done. And if this is organisation-wide (or, at the very least, department-wide), employees will feel able to commit.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, encourage digital detoxes.<\/p>\n<p>Detoxing for a week or two can help bring down levels of cortisol \u2013 the stress hormone \u2013 in our bloodstream. When that runs rampant through our veins, it limits our ability to think well or think clearly. A short break then makes it easier to respond, rather than to react.<\/p>\n<h3>2. Adopt work-life choice rather than work-life balance<\/h3>\n<p>I often tell my coachees not to strive for work-life balance. Instead, we should own a work-life choice, recognising there are consequences of the choices we make.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a subtle but empowering switch, and helps people feel more in control of their world, rather than letting external events control them.<\/p>\n<p>For example, maybe Jane from Accounts knows she has a busy week coming up, so makes an active choice to work an hour extra every day. Instead of framing this as \u2018failing\u2019 to keep her work-life balance in check, she owns the decision of choosing to work late.<\/p>\n<p>Mental health starts to spiral when circumstances control us. And taking back agency is a solid step towards protecting ourselves.<\/p>\n<h3>3. Understand responsibilities at work<\/h3>\n<p>A colleague once explained that her fear of flying came down to a lack of control: she wouldn\u2019t be able to help if there was a problem with the plane.<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s the thing: <em>no one\u2019s going to ask you to fly the plane.<\/em> No one\u2019s going to ask you to solve the shortage of HGV drivers, or to fix import issues with the EU.<\/p>\n<p>In the workplace, make sure your people have control and autonomy over what they do. When people feel over-faced, those feelings of helplessness and stress erode resilience and send them straight back into that state of reactive decision-making.<\/p>\n<h2>Save hyper-vigilance for the zombie films<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s a real sense of dis-ease in society at the moment, and it\u2019s not good for anyone\u2019s mental health. And it <em>will<\/em> take time for us to rest, recover, and rejuvenate.<\/p>\n<p>But adopting the three practices above will give your teams the control they need to protect their mental health and to work sustainably \u2013 without fear of crashing the plane.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"\/about\/meet-the-team\/\">Rob Bravo<\/a>, <em>Coaching Director and Head of Wellbeing<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"sticky-content-sidebar__related-insight\" aria-labelledby=\"related-insight-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sticky-content-sidebar__related-insight-header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"related-insight-heading\" class=\"sticky-content-sidebar__related-insight-heading h6\">Related insight<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"h6 sticky-content-sidebar__related-insight-title\">Creating Your Personal Brand In The Workplace<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a 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