Author Kristen Hansen
TRACTION. The Neuroscience of Leadership and Performance
Based on the NeuroTREAD™ model, how to Think, Regulate, Engage, Adapt and Develop with the brain in mind.
“TRACTION” summarises the latest neuroscience research on how to transform managers into agile leaders of change and performance.
Over 25,000 managers across various industries have benefitted from Kristen’s neuroscience approach in the last ten years.
By understanding the mechanics of their own brain, managers can engineer their own change and support change in others.
THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- Discover an easy 30-second circuit breaker to reset when under pressure
- Does your brain run out of steam mid-afternoon? Learn valuable tools to get your brain performing at its’ peak for longer
- Understand emotion contagion and how to motivate high performance in individuals
- Explore why leading change is hard and how to become an adaptive leader
- How to have better conversations through a brain-based coaching approach
Based on the NeuroTREAD™ framework. Think, Regulate, Engage, Adapt and Develop with the brain in mind.
- Are your managers technical experts but not leading and developing your staff?
- Are your executives overwhelmed and stretched facing significant change and expectation?
- Are your sales advisors not connecting and converting?
How to Think, Regulate, Engage, Adapt & Develop with the brain in mind.
Key programs include:
Manager to Leader in 90 days
Leading through change
Coaching for Performance
Resilience
– Understand the anatomy of “thinking”, cognitive capacity, influences, the limitations of and ability to renew our thinking capacity
– Understand the brain’s overarching principle of safety and how that impacts everything
– Leaders will learn how to have clearer thinking, the impacts of multi-tasking, ability to have more “insights” and creative solutions to complex problems
– Leaders will understand the link between our emotions and thinking capabilities.
– Regulate emotions and manage stress more effectively
– Understand the impact of mental, physical and social strategies to regulate emotions and improve thinking when in stressful, overloaded or negative situations
– Understand how mindfulness improves thinking, emotion regulation and increases the functionality and flexibility in thinking. Learn simple, quick and effective mindfulness techniques that you can do anywhere, anytime and in a short space of time.
– Learn how to use “brain breaks” to renew cognitive capacity and creative thinking
– Understand the social brain and why it’s so important
– Understand the social motivators in the brain and those most likely to send us into “threat” and “reward”
– Leaders will learn more about their own social motivators and how they differ from others
– Leaders will learn how to adapt their communication and style to influence and collaborate with others more effectively
– Finally, leaders will understand the neural basis of emotion contagion: how their mood and emotions impact others and how to create a strong positive leadership culture
– Why is change so challenging, yet understand our brain is wired for change
– Understand processes to make changes in your thinking, emotions and behaviours
– Understand habit formation and how to create new healthier, productive habits
– Understand the brain’s challenge with change and steps to overcome this
– How to help others accept and embrace change
– Develop focusses on the neuroscience of brain-based coaching models
– Why is “coaching” so effective in helping others change and how it can be more effective
– How to set and achieve goals using the full capability of the brain (both left and right hemispheres)
– Learn how to enhance people’s thinking so they are able to solve problems using their conscious and non-conscious processing
– Learn how to provide feedback that is non-threatening and more empowering
