Coaching & Neuroscience

As leaders, you’re often told to that in order to stem overthinking, you need to “get out of your head.” And while it’s true that too much introspection causes either oversimplification or excessive rumination, a new leadership book suggests that you should consider what’s going on in that noggin of yours. Want to improve your leadership? The place to start is your mind.

There's a newly discovered secret to learning that locks in what you learn quicker and better. The secret is overlearning and this is how to do it.

Professional development is meaningless without personal growth

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.

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Giving memorable and persuasive presentations is more than an art. It's brain science.

Memories begin when your neurons respond to outside stimuli—and compound to rewire your brain.

A solid base of soft-skills can help you rise above the pack and future-proof your career. Here's the six most sought after soft skills by employers.

Here's all 188 cognitive biases in existence, grouped by how they impact our thoughts and actions. We also give some specific cognitive bias examples.

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By Denise Ahlquist - Curiosity stimulates overall brain function, which research shows helps students learn across the curriculum and in their lives.

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

Author, blogger, and life coach Laurie Buchanan guest posts on the differences between intention and attention. Let's use this info to make positive changes!

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.

We all do our best to learn new simple skills in general. They are supposed to help us to get a good job, to get a date, to live better.

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The ability to keep your wits in a crisis isn't a character trait; it's a skill that you can learn in minutes.

If you're focusing on making yourself a better leader, you may just be focusing on the wrong person. Jac Phillips on servant leadership.

A culture of trust yields higher engagement, happier employees, greater productivity, and higher profits. And it all starts in the brain.

Being in charge shouldn’t be confused with being a leader, writes Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison.