How to Manage Your Cognitive State in a Meeting

If you sense that a conversation or maybe a discussion in a meeting is veering into the emotional realm, if the leader can objectively sit back and not get caught up in the emotions then they can have a discussion. A leader needs to be the one who's facilitating that discussion without so much as directing it. But what you're doing is labeling what's happening without going into the situation. You're giving it a label. And there's research showing that activates the brain's breaking system,. switches down the threat response, switches up the prefrontal by just kind of putting a label on what's going onWithout actually opening and opening the debate. It's a really helpful first step when threats are high