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Are you an Ideal Worker?

New research

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How confidence and leadership

My male colleague don’t do much of the "office housework" 

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Saying No to office hour work

research on the office environment

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The impact of warmth and light on productivity

Strengths based development

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The goldilocks of strengths

How do you want to feel at work today?

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What your clothes say to and about you

How we are judged and how we judge others

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Warmth and competence

8 reasons more women should be in senior positions

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8 reasons more women should be in senior positions

How an understanding of neuroscience can help create inclusion

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How neuroscience can help create inclusion

What's the brain got to do with it?

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Being a strategic HR professional:

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The Business Case for Flexible Working – webinar

How exclusion impacts performance, the business case for inclusion - Webinar recording

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How exclusion impacts performance

Getting men to support gender equality

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Getting men to support gender equality

Your business case for an inclusive culture

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Damage to your business created by exclusion

How to be an energiser - Webinar recording

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Being a strategic HR professional

We have all been in groups which lack energy. The experience is sapping.

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How to be an energiser

How to be an energiser - Webinar recording

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Characteristics of Energizing Conversations

Have we got authenticity wrong?

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Honest signals and authenticity.

we conducted research with companies about their diversity and inclusion initiatives.

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How to get Inclusion right

Warmth and competence: How we are judged and how we judge others

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Warmth and competence

What your clothes say about you and to you - the science

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What your clothes say

How we are judged and how we judge others

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Warmth and Competence

What are your clothes saying to you and to others?

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Dress code at work – the science

How do women fair as leaders when we look at 360 feedback and performance?

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Women’s leadership

Could it be because of a refusal to appoint the best rather than the usual?

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Leadership isn’t working….

Was your new year resolution to work smarter in 2018?

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Was your new year resolution to work smarter?

Women are said to be less ambitious than men. Is that true or do we just express our career goals differently?

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Are you limiting your career ambition?

Are stereotypes impacting your career and work decisions?

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Stereotypes impacting career & work decisions?

What is it and how you can overcome it?

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How to get the promotion you deserve

What is it and how you can overcome it?

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Are you suffering from Imposter syndrome?

Take the career audit

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Signs you might need a career tune-up for 2018

Getting the feedback you need for success. Webinar recording

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Getting the feedback you need for success

Are micro-behaviours undoing your inclusive culture? Part 2 Helping individual's manage micro-behaviours

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Micro-behaviours undoing inclusive culture?

Are micro-behaviours undoing your inclusive culture? Part 1 Micro behaviours and Talent processes

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Micro-behaviours undoing inclusive culture?

Are micro-inequalities stopping your culture being inclusive?

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Micro-inequalities

Creating an Inclusive culture as part of your diversity strategy

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Creating an Inclusive culture

Create an environment where people do their best thinking.

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Create a thinking environment

what strategies work when organisations want to create a more inclusive culture?

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Middle managers role creating inclusive culture

Does your manager make you feel part of the team?

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A culture of inclusion

Gender stereotypes and their impact….really still?

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Gender stereotypes and their impact

Is there a 'Harvey' in your company?
What are you going to do about it?

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Is there a ‘Harvey’ in your company?

Gender bias is still alive and raising its overbearing voice in workplaces

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Warning: sex stereotypes at work

This is an interview I did for the Brexit Human Resources Forum

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Preparing your workforce for Brexit

There are a whole lot of new words being created to explain the impact of bias and sexism which comes with it.

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A thinking environment creates inclusion

Does your manager make you feel part of the team?

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A culture of inclusion

Well-being programmes are now a major part of most companies' employee offering. But do they do much good?

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What label works – well-being or productivity?

How much business should HR professionals know and how do you achieve a business understanding?.

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For HR business knowledge is power….

What can neuroscience add to your reward policy?

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Neuroscience, motivation and reward

Measuring progress on your journey to Agile Performance Management

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Are we nearly there yet?

With the use of modern feedback platforms, you can have a rich source of data. Organisations can benefit from real time insights into their cultural DNA.

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Performance Feedback- Mining Data

We have a natural bias to notice threat and negative emotions. Maybe that’s why there is so much written about them.

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What’s the purpose of positive emotions?

no longer just about a stiff upper lip

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The role of emotions in business

Many people think that the workplace should be an emotion-free zone.

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Emotional control in business

One area of emotional control is to regulate you background mood.

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Positive mood

In our research on gender in the work place several HRD’s told us that they knew ratings of female employees were harsher than for males.

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Bias in performance reviews

Is your leadership competency framework describing gender bias requirements? Have you checked the language? Does your talent process favour the status quo?

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Is your leadership competency framework bias?

Creating a coaching culture has many benefits to managers, employees and the bottom line.

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Creating a coaching culture with the right mind-set

Lots of companies tell us they are creating a coaching culture. But what does that mean companies are doing?

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Mind-set and a coaching culture

Jan Hills talks effective leadership development & change with CEB International Executives Forum

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Effective leadership and work habits

What it means and how you can change mind-set

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Fixed and growth mind-set

Ever wondered how the collective mind-set of people in an organisation impacts the culture?

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Mind-set in organisations

New research has recently found some issues with how people are using Dweck’s work on mind-set.

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False growth mind-set

New science on the male and female brain

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Mindset for success

New science on the male and female brain

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The myth of the male verse female brain

In this second webinar recording on the importance of social connection in business

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Social connection – Exceptional client skills

See through the fog

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Tips for emerging leaders

Should you buy red sneakers for work and start behaving oddly?

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The choice, conformity or difference?

What are the signs of social connection in your organisation?

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Social Connection – A Super Power

Establishing and managing relationships is one of the crucial success factors for leaders.

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Brain-savvy relationships

Researchers have found that even small amounts of physical activity can make you happier.

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Exercise and be happy

The secret of changing behaviour – take tiny steps

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New Year resolutions

Applying an understanding of threat and reward to business. Looking deeply at change.

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Change, threat and reward webinar

Is there a leader today who is not involved in a change situation?

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Brain-savvy change

Our answer to Secret Santa dilemmas (and a half price offer for our Brain-savvy Business Community)

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Our answer to Secret Santa dilemmas

New science - There is it seems an essential element or step we need to take to effectively use feedback and change behaviour.

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New Science – Utilising feedback successfully

What's actually happening in your brain and nervous system is that you're picking up unconscious signal that a person is a threat?

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Min threat & max reward in business

Manager initiated feedback is an over rated management tool. Here is a review of why & what can be done.

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When feedback works

How do you minimize threat and where is threat likely to be the biggest issue? And what do we mean by reward and how can we maximize it?

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Minimizing Threat and Maximizing Reward

What are the skills, knowledge and attributes of highly successful HR Leaders? What is the difference that makes the difference between the best and the rest?

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The Success Profile for HR leaders

The real challenge in every organisation is convincing people to change.

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CORE model for change in business

What we are discussing here is how people stay active, fit and how much they sleep, all of which can have a dramatic impact on focus, memory and ultimately productivity.

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Walk & sleep our way to better productivity

Getting some sleep after learning new information may make it easier to recall what you studied and relearn what you’ve forgotten. And the positive impact lasts over time.

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Sleep and learning

People tend to feel sleep is optional. Great performers are an exception. Typically, they sleep significantly more than the rest of us.

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Have a good night…..Sleep

The more research is done on exercise the clearer it is that if you do nothing else, take up a regular exercise routine.

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Just do it….Exercise and productivity

Movement - Can we walk and sleep our way to better productivity?

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Walk & sleep to better productivity

No obviously not but an understanding of some aspects of how the brain is ‘wired’ can help you to increase the likelihood of people being engaged at work and avoid creating situations that destroy engagement.

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Neuroscience and engagement

Have we approached performance management reform in the wrong way? I think so. Read on for why.

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The impact of removing ratings?

Given the amount of uncertainty since June and the Brexit vote some recent research is timely.

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Uncertainty causes more stress than knowing

Engaging your senior leaders in productive work habits. A better tactic than wellbeing?

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Work habits rather than wellbeing?

What can neuroscience add to your reward policy?

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Neuroscience, motivation and reward

No obviously not but an understanding of some aspects of how the brain is ‘wired’ can help you to increase the likelihood of people being engaged at work and avoid creating situations that destroy engagement.

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Neuroscience and engagement

This animated video describes some of the ways we design brain-savvy training.

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Brain-Savvy training

Organisations are still struggling to develop leaders. Understanding how people learn and change behaviour can help to make development more successful

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Four ways to improve leadership development

Are you a strategist or a people person? By understanding how your brain works you could be both.

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Play to your strengths

‘The goal of a presentation to your boss is not to get him to think you’re smart, but to get him to think he’s smart to support your idea’. Here is how neuroscience can help you do it.

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Want to get your HR initiative agreed?

Why are stories a powerful means of communication? We look at what is happening in the brain and how you can make the most of stories.

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Once upon a time ….. Stories and your brain

ROI is the holy grail for training but whether or not you have a methodology using the understanding from neuroscience to design and deliver training will get you a better return for your investment

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Increase the ROI on your training investment

“The problem with business is that it is afraid of dealing with the business of people.” We look at EQ and neuroscience

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Emotional Intelligence – the evidence

People are often expected to multitask but there is a cost in productivity and attention

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Multitasking. What’s the productivity cost?

Some common ways people cause their brain to underperform at work. And some suggestions on what to do about it

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How your work habits may hinder your brain

Why does HR need to be “brain-savvy”? Our book will tell you and guide you through how understanding neuroscience can help you be more successful.

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Brain-savvy HR: a neuroscience evidence base

8 principles from neuroscience and how to apply them. Our third book in the brain-savvy series show you how to apply the neuroscience findings to business

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Brain-savvy Business

This Breakfast Club webinar looks at what neuroscience can tell us about more effective interviews.

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Neuroscience, Motivation and Reward Policies

How teams really work from the perspective of the brain

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Do teams need to storm before they perform?

How many times have you heard people in HR say something like this? “I keep telling them they should be using coaching…”

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Coaching vs telling: what works?

The science of achieving better performance.

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Brain-savvy Leading

Leadership development has adopted role models as the way to breakthrough some of the challenges of passing on requirements to future leaders. The thinking goes ‘if we can point to the role models, tell people who they are and suggest they copy what they do, our leadership problems will be over’.

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Using Role models for development

The science of achieving better performance.

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The power of positivity in the work place

The big questions for leaders are: What values do we need in the business and can values truly be shaped to drive behaviour and the organisation’s strategic execution? Some of the answers suggested by neuroscience research my surprise you. Keep reading.

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Neuroscience and organisational values

Welcome to the first round of our information on neuroscience and interviewing

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The Neuroscience of Interviewing 1st round

Welcome back to our second round of information on neuroscience and interviewing

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The Neuroscience of Interviewing 2nd round

Habits are one reason change is hard. Here is how to master habit change

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How behaviours become habits

Evidence would suggest we are all bias. So what can you do about it?.

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Making better decision

What creates and destroys energy in organisations?.

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Energy in organisations

The consulting process and the brain.

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The consulting process and the brain

Why is change so hard and can an understanding of the brain make it easier?.

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You can achieve anything if you change your behaviour

As companies re-engineer their performance management approach there is an increasing reliance on quality feedback.

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The Feedback Debate

2nd addition completely revised with additional tools.

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Brain savvy leading: neuroscience tips & tools

Changing behaviour means creating new habits. How can this be done in a business context?

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Changing behaviour Part 2

Do leaders continue to adopt a growth mind-set once they are successful & senior and if not how can HR help them?

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Growth leaders

Business tends to assume that good decisions are rational decisions. But is that even possible?.

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Making and Influencing Good Decisions

As companies re-engineer their performance management approach there is an increasing reliance on quality feedback.

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The Feedback Debate

What are companies actually doing in PM and what is neuroscience saying which will help you create a better performance management approach.

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Brain-savvy Performance Management

Why is change so hard and can an understanding of the brain make it easier?

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Changing behaviour Part 1

Habits make up around 70% of what we do. We know it is easier to create a new habit rather than change an existing habit.

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Creating new habits at work

Engagement is a hot topic but how do you engage the brain as well as the body?

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Working those engagement survey scores!

Consulting is a key skill for business, understanding how your brain response will make you better at it.

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Consulting and the brain

Holidays should give the brain a rest

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Managing your brain

Trust has many benefits in business not least improving engagement.

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The neuroscience of trust…

How to use the brain more effectively at work; the way we work in most businesses challenges effectively using our brain.

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Are your work habits hindering your brain?

This animated video describes the characteristics of a brain-savvy leader and how to create them.

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Brain-Savvy leaders

Brain health isn’t a nice to have – it’s the essential pre-requisite to enable us all to flourish.

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Neuroscience – the Perfect Business Partner?

What creates and destroys energy in organisations?

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Managing energy in organisations

Our answer to Secret Santa dilemmas (and a half price offer for our Brain-savvy Business Community)

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How Steve Jobs can help leaders and worried mothers

One of the underlying assumptions about success in business is that we have to control ourselves and our emotions. But how is that best done, what should we be teaching leaders?

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Emotional control and success

What can mindfulness do for leaders and business?

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Mindfulness: The new science of performance

We are often exhorted to have more willpower but is it really the answer to achieving goals and is there some clear science that might help us?.

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Willpower

If we’re not careful just going through the process of setting the goals can become the end in itself. What we need to remember is the purpose is to achieve the goal, so we need to keep our focus firmly on action. This webinar helps with tips and tools.

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Neuroscience and goals

In part two of this article we look at what the research suggests you can do to create a happy culture; one that is more productive, meaningful and creative.

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Happiness at work – Part 2

People management and clients skills are essentially the same but trained in different ways. Here is how to combine the learning and accelerate the adoption of new skills.

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Save half your training budget – core skills

Is happiness a nice to have or a valuable part of a high performance culture?

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Happiness at work, why it matters – Part 1

Most companies have change programmes going on. How can science help them to be more successful?

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5 discoveries to save your change programme

In this blog I examine what Steve was famous for as a leader and how our Success Profile research might help you to pick the practices that will enhance your leadership.

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Steve Jobs leadership

We hear a lot about the importance of empathy for leaders but its close relative is perspective taking. How do the two differ and which works best when?

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Empathy or Perspective?

Business acumen is a key skills for HR professionals. Our Business Factors gamification elearning builds those skills.

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Business acumen for HR

Virtual or web based training is generally disliked but looking at this approach to training through the lens of how our brain works means we can produce a positive experience and make training more accessible.

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Virtual training programmes are the future

We believe and our research bears out that understanding how the brain works is one way of helping leaders become more effective.

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Brain-savvy leading: the science

Using neuroscience and physiology to manage your performance

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Are you in Cat or Lion mode?

No obviously not but an understanding of some aspects of how the brain is ‘wired’ can help you to increase the likelihood of people being engaged at work and avoid creating situations that destroy engagement.

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Can neuroscience increase your engagement scores?

Understand how your mind-set determines success.

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What is your mind-set?

Murray and other athletes are using an understanding of neuroscience to change their performance for the better. So can you.

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Andy Murray’s awareness monitor

This Breakfast Club webinar looks at what neuroscience can tell us about more effective interviews.

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Interviewing and Neuroscience

Neuroscience is finding that traditional change management practice make change harder not easier. This is what leaders should understand about how the brain works and the implications for change projects.

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The brain and change

Understanding neuroscience for leaders.

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Brain basics for leaders

Understanding some of the ways the brain reacts to being told what to do verses people coming to their own insight may help to put a coaching culture into the context of better work patterns.

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Coaching Verses Telling which Works Best

What are companies actually doing in PM and what is neuroscience saying which will help you create a better performance management approach.

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Neuroscience and Performance Management

Why traditional employee evaluation is flawed.

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Brain Response to Performance Rankings