Coaching & Neuroscience

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Learn about three words that you can safely ban from your vocabulary. The results are mind-boggling. You will instantly sound more confident and persuasive.

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.

Don’t let your perfectionism take the fun out of life. If you find that happening more than not, perhaps re-evaluating your perspective is the perfect thing to do.

“Don’t forget managers are key to creating a culture of service,” says Vicki Halsey, coauthor with Ken Blanchard and Kathy Cuff of the book Legendary Service: The Key is to Care. “Manager

The Innovation Excellence community is home to articles, webinars, videos, training and education - powering growth in the innovation management profession.

The Innovation Excellence community is home to articles, webinars, videos, training and education - powering growth in the innovation management profession.

Smart advice from TED speakers to help you rediscover your joy on the job

Have a problem with follow-up on your team? Neuroscience can help.

Cramming got you through college, but it’s probably paying diminishing returns in your career. Here’s the scientific reason why.

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.

Servant leadership guru Ken Blanchard shares a discussion framework how managers can communicate effectively with the people who report to them.

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

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.

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.