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Your team member falls into your office. They are emotional. Something has happened and they need to get it off their chest. You know that you just need to give them the opportunity to vent. During that venting process, there is a lot of blaming, regret, frustration…but at least they are getting it off their […]
Sometimes it’s useful to get back to basics. On a daily basis I hear of the motivation and engagement challenges that leaders face. We live in an evolved, sophisticated social world, yet our brains have not evolved at the same rate and are still designed to survive and respond in a relatively primitive social […]
Someone will always win – let it be you! My friend ‘Harold’ and I were yesterday discussing the critical impact that conversations have on the culture and performance of an organisation. Harold is a highly respected and experienced businessman and consultant, semi-retired, and currently Chairman of the Board of a very large institution embarking on […]
I’d like to hedge a bet and say never, or at least rarely! One of the challenges of being human, is the limited capacity of our ‘thinking’ brain. Whilst it is powerful in many ways, it is also quite limited in its capacity to think though complexity. The pre-frontal cortex (the bit that makes us […]
‘We are heading into a two-year change transformation phase’ I hear this all the time from clients. What do they really mean? They mean that things are not quite working the way they want or need, and they need to change how things are done – they need to change the culture. On the […]
Having a theme for the year has served me well over the past few years. There is a part of your brain called the RAS (Reticular Activating System) that decides what data – from outside and inside your body – your brain will pay attention to. You need your RAS because there is way too […]
I’m 50 years of age. And despite all my life experience, and how much I know about the human brain, I still make crap decisions – though I think many fewer than I used to! In my youth I was one of those people who stood out as having ‘potential’ and was given many opportunities […]
Energy is such an important thing. We know that our energy builds and wanes over the course of the day for a number of reasons…we use it up, we have a natural circadian ‘dip’ in energy mid-afternoon (and 3 am just out of interest), emotional arousal drains our energy, or we simply fail to live […]
Funny how we can have the same goals month after month, year after year…and yet never feel like we are getting any closer. Or at least we can feel totally frustrated that we can’t achieve something that seems so simple on the face of it. As leaders (or really busy people), with so much going […]
In our last blog, I mentioned our B.E.T.T.E.R Conversations (TM) model. The acronym stands for: B – Brain-friendly conversations work that with our brain, not against it. E – Emotionally balanced conversations where strong emotions don’t get in the way. T – Toward focus … making sure we focus on the right ‘hardwiring’ in […]