The Threat Loop In Leadership

A Necessity To Overcome For Success

As a Leader, part of your role is to Drive Change.

However, it is extremely difficult to accomplish the Change necessary for Success in today’s world.

A large part of the Reason this is True for Leaders is because Human Psychophysiology gets in the way.

One aspect of this that most Leaders don’t understand is what is known as the “Threat Loop” which plays out frequently with Employees.

Now, I know what you are probably saying right now — There are no Threats in my Organization, Business, and/or Teams!

Technically Speaking, you may be “Correct” — you may not have Leaders who are “Actively” Threatening Employees in the “Traditional” sense.

(If you do… that is something you should fix IMMEDIATELY with your HR Representatives).

But, in Human Psychophysiology a “Threat” may be COMPLETELY different from what we traditionally consider a “Threat”.

I think most of us would recognize that Yelling, Bullying, or Physical Violence are all “Obvious” Threats.

Yet when we look at how Humans work, just about ANYTHING can become seen as a Threat under the right conditions.