Brainsmart Leadership Training
Huge technological advancements in the field of neuroscience opened the window to expanding our insight into the functioning of the brain, causing for the efficacy of traditional leadership development programmes to be put under scrutiny, dramatically shifting the focus to the fact that the complex modern business arena requires an approach dictated by being “brainwise”, having intimate insight into emotions, the unconscious motivations that drives behaviour, our reward systems, norms and beliefs and our functioning as social beings.
Brain Smart Leadereship Entails:
Professional Team
The Brain Smart team boasts professioanlly qualified Industrial Psychologists, with years of corporate exposure as well as extensive training experience.
A new perspective to leadership: Leading through brain power
The two most studied aspects of human behaviour in the workplace, since the Hawthorne experiments more than a century ago, has been the fields of motivation and leadership. In more than a century this still has not changed as the development of these elusive skills remain a major challenge for companies.
Leadership theories abound and there are almost as many theories as there are researchers and professors. These leadership models all offer some element of leadership based either on a behavioural or value-based approach. The question is how relevant are they still in the rapidly changing business environment of the new millennium – the information society and the dawn of the 4th industrial revolution, where physical and digital technologies combine to create a business environment that is changing at an unprecedented pace?
Since the late 1970’s, however, there has been little new insight into leadership theories and most new approaches have been little more than a regurgitation of exiting theories.
This programme brings an entirely new perspective to understanding leadership and developing leadership in that it focuses on the neuroscience approach in which the understanding of the brain forms the Basis for a brainsmart leader, including:
An intimate knowledge of the functioning of the brain
The brain is a complex set of over 86 billion neurons, all communicating to create our thoughts, behaviours, and functions. it is vitally important for leaders to know about the functioning of their own brains so that they might understand and influence the decision-making organs of their colleagues more by intention than by chance
Brain chemicals that inlfuence leadership
There are over one-hundred different chemicals at work in the brain. The main chemical that control behaviour are either neurotransmitters or hormones.
Neurotransmitters are chemicals that relay signals (information) between nerve cells (neurons).
Neurotransmitters are of two kinds: They are excitatory (they stimulate) or they are inhibitory (they calm).
- excitatory neurotransmitters cause action;
- inhibiting neurotransmitters inhibit activity.
The influence of hormones
Research in the field of social neuroendocrinology has shown that there might be an optimal mix of hormone levels that can prime a person for great leadership. The two key hormones influencing behaviour and emotions are cortisol and testosterone.
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