Wednesday, 21 October 2009

What are You Challenged by at Work?

David Rock

When to do deeper work... the Goldilocks of the brain... we're talking about the most complicated thing in the non-universe: the brain... one of the things that activates strong emotions in a big way is uncertainty...

Meet Emily and Paul, the parents of two young children. Emily is a newly promoted executive in a large corporation, while Paul has his own business as a consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. For them, just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.

Welcome to a Leadership Channel Podcast on TotalPicture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. David Rock is the founder and CEO of Results Coaching Systems, which has operations in 15 countries across the globe. David works with Fortune 500 clients specializing in embedding internal coaching capacity within organizations to develop leaders, retain talent, improve performance, and change culture.

David Rock is one of the thought leaders in the global coaching profession. The integrated coaching system he developed in the mid-90's has been taught to over 10,000 professionals in more than fifteen countries.

He is the author of 'Personal Best', 'Quiet Leadership' 'Coaching with the Brain in Mind' , and 'Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long' published in October, 2009 by HarperBusiness.

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How to Talk So People Listen. Connecting in Today's Stressed-Out Workplace

"This is a Time of Improvisation. This is a Time of Finding New Ways." Sonya Hamlin

Welcome to a Leadership Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting.

Sonya Hamlin

Communicating in Today's Workplace - Do People Listen When You Talk? Do Others Understand You? Do You Get What You Want? Joining us today is Sonya Hamlin, president of Sonya Hamlin Communications, a nationally recognized expert in many phases of communication. Sonya Hamlin's major focus is on business communication --both verbal and visual. She conducts seminars worldwide and consults privately with CEOs and senior executives in many corporations - she is the author of several books on communication skills, including How to Talk So People Listen Connecting in Today's Workplace.

Whether making a presentation to a large audience or dealing one–on–one with a client or colleague, or communicating by email, Hamlin's book teaches us that one of the keys to making people listen is to think about and respond to what motivates them – namely, self–interest. She then provides tools to assess others' self–interest and use it to get them to listen to your message. Hamlin also explains how to capitalize on the latest visual aids we have at our disposal today. We learn to determine what information needs or lends itself to visual presentation, and how to make visuals active, so that they serve as an extension of the speaker.

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Management Innovation and Leadership Skills are Impossible if You're in the Middle of a Amygdala Hijack

Janet Crawford

“Applying neuroscience to leadership matters. Intelligence is our greatest strategic asset, yet we live and work profoundly out of sync with our own biology. The fundamental role of great leadership is to create places of work where the highest level of collective intelligence can emerge and flourish. If any one of your employees is not showing up to work with full brain/ body engagement, you are squandering your only true competitive advantage." Janet Crawford

Welcome to a Leadership Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton Reporting. Joining us today is Janet Crawford, a leadership consultant I met at the NeuroLeadership Summit in New York. Janet’s professional background began with a decade of experience as an environmental scientist and leader in technical environments.

Based in San Francisco, Janet has consulted and coached in the Hi-tech, Bio-tech — Pharmaceutical, Financial Services, Education, and Non-profit sectors. She works on a variety of uses of neuroscience in organizations, including applications in the areas of innovation, diversity, decision-making, strategy and organizational resilience. An example of that work is a recent speaking engagement at the opening session for the Kauffman Fellows on the Entrepreneurial Brain. The Kauffman Fellows Program is a prestigious two year development program for up and coming venture capitalists.

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