Leveraging Neuroscience in the Workplace

Course details

Understanding the working of the brain—a field known as neuroscience—can positively impact how we work with and lead others. Knowing how to change the brain to motivate and engage people, for example, allows leaders to focus on brain-based behaviors that can be changed to move their teams in the right direction. In this course, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and business consultant Srini Pillay shares insights from the latest neuroscience research on how to leverage the brain for maximum impact. Learn how to change your brain for the better, build confidence and resilience, and align the brains of your team so you can focus on common goals. Plus, find out how to use neuroscience to solve common management challenges, such as increasing team diversity, performance, speed, innovation, and focus.

Learning objectives
Changing your brain
Developing confidence
Building team resilience
Synchronizing brains on a team
Improving team diversity
Increasing strategic speed
Improving innovation and focus

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Your brain and business
02 - Overview of brain-based tools in the workplace

1. Applying Neuroscience at Work

03 - Change your brain to change your performance
04 - How coaches and learning and talent professionals can use neuroscience in the workplace
05 - Why grit and deliberate practice may not help

2. Neuroscience's Role in Confidence and Resilience

06 - Targeting the brain to build confidence
07 - Targeting the brain to manage uncertainty at work
08 - Targeting the brain to overcome resistance to change
09 - How mindfulness changes the brain to improve work performance
10 - Brain-based methods to build team resilience

3. Neuroscience and Team Building

11 - How to manage contagious emotions
12 - Changing your brain to enhance collective intelligence
13 - How leaders can synchronize their brains with followers
14 - Changing the brain to improve team diversity

4. Improving Strategic Speed

15 - Leveraging your brain to increase strategic speed
16 - Motivating your brain with a sense of purpose
17 - Activating your brain to innovate
18 - Changing your brain to improve focus

Conclusion

19 - Next steps

Leveraging Neuroscience in the Workplace

Authors

Srini Pillay