The Brain Savvy Advantage Change Leadership Series

Presentation #1: Understanding the Brain and Change

Today all leadership is change leadership.

 If you are going to spend your valuable time and energy getting really good at anything, it needs to be leading change.

Let's be real …even when change is well planned and carefully implemented, it disrupts the workplace and distracts and destabilizes people. 

It’s inevitable … as a leader and change maker you are dealing with intense feelings and emotionally charged reactions to change - your own and other people’s.

Timelines are tight, resources are limited, and the stakes are high! 

Being smart and business savvy is very important, but it is no longer enough. We must also be emotionally intelligent, resilient and brain savvy.

What does “Brain Savvy” have to do with great change leadership? The short answer… everything!

The key to being change ready, change “able” and resilient in this world of unrelenting and continuous change is not rocket science. It’s brain science. 

Neuroscience (the study of the brain and behaviour) is offering a new lens for understanding:

·  How our brains work, at work (and work at their best)

·  Why change is so hard

·  How people can change (yes even mindsets and behavior) 

·  How we can make changes that stick

When these insights are applied to today’s biggest change challenges, we can break though barriers to successful and sustainable change. 

In this powerful presentation you will discover: 

1.   What is really happening in our brains when we are facing workplace change 

2.    How to break down brain barriers to successful change – fear, frustration and emotionally charged resistance

3.   Brain savvy tactics and tools, based on rock solid science that enable people to work at their best, even when the requirements for change are continuous, accelerated and overlapping

Presentation #2: Leading Your Team Through Change with the Brain in Mind

To lead through uncertainty, complexity and continuous change, leaders require new ways of thinking, leading and leading change! 

Even when change is strategically sound, well planned and orchestrated it will disrupt the organization and distract and destabilize people. Productivity and performance will dip or plummet. Morale and commitment will drop. These impacts to people and operations cannot be eliminated but they can be reduced, and recovery accelerated through skillful, brain savvy change leadership. 

What does brain savvy have to do with skillful change leadership? Well the short answer is everything! 

Application of powerful insights from neuroscience and performance research can help leaders and change makers:  

·      Minimize negative impacts to people and operations 

·      Engage, enable and empower people throughout the entire change process 

·      Foster workplace climates that foster great thinking, deep learning and high performance.

·      Create conditions essential for successful, sustainable people and culture change

 This presentation is designed to build your confidence and competence to lead change and lead your team through change with the brain in mind.

Discover a brain savvy model, methods and tools to: 

1.    Effectively communicate and translate change messages

2.    Maximize people's engagement and empowerment in the change process

3.    Attend to the human side of the change experience (people's core needs, feelings and emotionally charged reactions to change)

4.     Influence a positive workplace climate and culture supportive of continuous learning and adaption