What is Neuroleadership?
This Easy-to-Understand
Neuroleadership Model Explains
The Mind to Lead neuroleadership model explains how the new field of neuroleadership works and how leaders can use their brains to guide teams and organizations through tough economic times.
You're Important
Regardless of the size of your team or organization, you’re running the show. Without you, things would be running amok.
Because you're important, organizations invest in your leadership development. Training Magazine’s 2007 Industry Report showed that US employers spent a combined $21 billion on manager and executive training.
Has the investment paid off?
Some say, yes.
But, many of the leaders I work with don’t think so. They feel that traditional leadership training hasn’t fully prepared them for the complexities of today’s dynamic work environment including:
- Multi-generational workforce
- Continuously advancing technology
- 24/7 global competition
- Unrelenting pressure to achieve more with shrinking resources.
As a result of these and other challenges, most modern leaders suffer tremendous stress due to perpetual performance pressure.
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”This neuroleadership training offers you a new and different way to look at how you conduct business. It’s unique.”
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One Cause of Leadership Suffering: An Untrained Mind
No matter what’s happening outside you---regardless of how overworked, resisted, or alone you are externally---one cause of your suffering radiates from the inside, from your mind. Much of your suffering is due, in large part, to an untrained, out of shape mind.
The Solution: Train the Mind to Lead
There’s a solution to having an out of shape mind. It requires
developing a new relationship with your brain and mind. This brain-based leadership development model will introduce you to a new approach---a powerful, pioneering movement called neuroleadership.
Neuroleadership is a term coined by David Rock in 2006; it’s an innovative field that blends leadership development with an understanding of how the mind works (Rock and Schwartz, 2006).
My neuroleadership model gives you the mind tools to deactivate unpleasant sensations, thoughts, emotions and behaviors in yourself and others. Just like defusing a bomb, The Mind to Lead model moves you from negative to neutral.
And, neutral is the new positive.
Are you feeling too old or too busy to develop a new connection
with your brain?
Please don’t.
Regardless of your age or life experiences, your brain is very flexible.
Neuroplasticity
Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections. It’s like building new super highways between the towns and cities in your mind and body.
Neuroplastic changes create structural modifications in your brain (the hardware or gray matter looks different) that are accompanied by functional brain and mind changes (software improvements). These functional changes include:
- improved immune system
- enhanced emotion regulation
- better stress response
In short, the purpose of the Mind to Lead neuroleadership model is to teach you tools that change your brain and your mind, so that you feel better and are a more effective leader.
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”When training opportunities are available, I try to make the most of them. Other trainings are gone from memory, but this one stood out in a personal way. That was the value of it. I still reflect on it.
It definitely left an impression.”
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What Leaders Want
Over the last twenty years, I’ve trained thousands and coached
hundreds of leaders. When I asked what they wanted most, I repeatedly heard these three outcomes:
1. To stay calm
2. To be confident
3. To use power
I developed the Mind to Lead brain-based model to help leaders obtain these three outcomes regardless of the intense
challenges in their jobs and organizations. Staying calm and being confident are predominantly internal experiences, while using power is an external expression of leadership ability. Each outcome supports and builds on the others.
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”The Mind to Lead teaches you concrete tools
for being a really confident and effective leader.”
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The End of Leadership Suffering
My neuroleadership retreats help you to suffer less by developing a new relationship with your mind. I do this by helping you get your mind in shape, just like a personal trainer helps people get fit. A personal trainer would assess your fitness needs, develop a plan, and motivate you to reach your peak potential. That's what my extensive background in mindfulness and leadership coaching allows me to do for your mind.
Read about Suzanne's background.
My brain-based leadership development model will train your mind to:
- Eliminate distractions, and focus on completing projects
- Let go of frustration and anger about people, processes and
projects
- Overcome your procrastination, and finish nagging tasks
- Respond calmly to stressful situations
- Regain your confidence to make decisions and take risks
- Be firm, and hold your direct reports accountable
- Stop wasting time daydreaming about how things were great in the past or will be better in the future; be grateful for how things are right now, no matter what
- Resolve conflicts with irritating co-workers
- Be self-assured in meetings with your boss or senior
management
- Enjoy yourself, right here and right now, no matter what
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”In the Mind to Lead retreat, I picked up tools and a methodology to improve my leadership abilities in my daily work.
It will make me a better leader.”
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How Do You Get There?
The Mind to Lead neuroleadership model is based on training your mind for attunement. Attunement uses specific brain-based tools to get a sense of what’s going on for someone and then mirroring the person’s experience back. It allows the other person to feel heard and understood which contributes to positive mind states such as safety and trust as well as to improved job performance.
In order to effectively receive and interpret signals from another person, which is called interpersonal attunement, it’s helpful to, first, be able to recognize those signals in yourself. This heightened awareness of yourself is called intrapersonal attunement.
If you can’t manage and motivate yourself, you’ll never be able to lead others.
The three neuroleadership outcomes--- Calm, Confident Power---result from the use of three attunement processes: Mindfulness, Inquiry and Influence. This neuroleadership model shows how to use these three processes to increase both intrapersonal and interpersonal attunement.
Attunement = better work environment = improved productivity
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