How neuroscience can improve your skills and understanding of others? How can it can help you grow on your leadership path?
Be more agile, able to change and make faster decisions – Break old habits and choose actions that rewire your brain for new situations.
Recover, remap and reorganise – Use neuroplasticity to strengthen the brain networks that help you think better, learn more and remember well.
Communicate better – Make your messages clear, consistent and transparent, so people don’t fill in the gaps with wrong information. Pay attention to what you say and do.
Be more self-aware – Know your emotions and how they affect your behaviour. Control your impulses and reactions with the help of your prefrontal cortex. Use empathy to relate to others’ emotions.
Have greater emotional intelligence – Understand how different brain areas handle emotions and how strong emotions can block rational thinking, creativity and empathy. Learn how to manage your emotions and others’.
Use intuition more effectively – Trust your gut feelings, which are based on your past experiences, beliefs and behaviour. Use them for quick and accurate problem solving, especially when you have a lot of experience.
Make better decisions – Know how your brain processes information and makes choices. Break poor patterns of behaviour and take charge of your decisions.
Increase trust and rapport – Use language and communication skills that connect with people’s brains. Listen actively, evaluate quickly and effectively, and use verbal and non-verbal cues.
Deal with stress well – Know the difference between short term and long term stress and how they affect your brain and body. A little stress can boost your performance, but too much stress can harm your health and outcomes.
Stop multitasking – It lowers your productivity and quality of work. Multitasking means switching between tasks and losing attention and focus. It causes fatigue, exhaustion and agitation. It also hurts your learning and memory. Let people focus on one task at a time and schedule other matters for later.