Coaching & Neuroscience

January 28, 2019 - Adaptability is critical to any leader’s success, emotional intelligence expert Daniel Goleman writes.

Only about a third of US employees qualify as "engaged." It's up to management to create the habits that can boost that figure.

Research shows that using feedback is how organisms — and organizations — stay alive. Here’s how leaders can make the most of the anxiety-producing process.

Changing your behavior isn't easy, but it can be done, and your brain can help you in the effort. Here's the science behind doing that.

MIT neuroscientists have discovered making decisions that require weighing pros and cons of two choices is dramatically affected by chronic stress. In a study of rats and mice, they found stressed animals were far likelier to choose high-risk, high-payoff options. They also found that impairments of a specific brain circuit underlie this abnormal decision making.

A new study finds that great coaches don't focus on finding and fixing their teams' weaknesses. They do this instead.

Leaders who understand how brains work can make themselves and their teams more nimble, innovative, and resilient.

According to researchers, familial relationships in movies affect the reactions in the viewer's brain to moral dilemma addressed between characters.

Four in-built mechanisms that shape the way that our Brain perceives the world.

Due to the effects of bias, managers may be conducting performance reviews in such a way that sets employees on unwanted career paths for years.

Microsoft turned to the NeuroLeadership Institute to enlist our help in designing a new approach to feedback — one grounded in the neuroscience.

Once we are aware of the shortcuts our minds take when deciding who to listen to, we can take steps to block those shortcuts.

Here are four proven principles, straight from neuroscience research, that allow you to consciously recall what you want to learn.

Lead Change is a leadership media destination with a unique editorial focus on driving change within organizations, teams, and individuals. Lead Change, a division of Weaving Influence, publishes twice monthly with SmartBrief. Today's post is by Dick and Emily Axelrod. Neuroscience provides insights into leader behaviors that create effective meetings. Here are five tips that will make your next meeting an engaging and productive experience.

Many offices are similar in appearance, with mazes of cube dividers, bland colors and little to no natural light. Office design has always been about funct

The human brain is the most amazing thing in the universe. It got us to the moon, built the pyramids, cured smallpox … And it also can’t seem to go 6 minutes without checking Facebook. The idea of an attention span is evaporating. Focus is a lost art.

There are a number of ways to disrupt social engineering, but they require breaking the habit loop we develop in our brains.

While we suspected these three things were important, now we have the neuroscience to help us scientifically understand what successful people do differently at work.