Your Brain at Work

In a world where people can locate information with a few keystrokes, how has learning changed? What makes learning effective — and what pitfalls do leaders face when trying to make learning accessible and sustained? In this episode of Your Brain at Work Live, Alyssa Abkowitz — our global head of Product and Content — interviews Dr. David Rock about the first principles we should all keep in mind as we navigate new paradigms in learning at work. Listen closely — you might just find some insights for the AGES.

Explore the benefits of internal coaching and its transformative power. Learn how organizations can implement internal coaching programs for leadership development. Discover the fit of coaching in different organizations and the readiness of coaches. Explore the effectiveness of internal coaching and its impact on organizational health and growth.

The podcast discusses how leaders can balance goal focus and people focus to overcome employee apathy. It explores the use of neuroscience to achieve this balance and highlights the challenges of measuring the return on investment in people. The speakers also discuss unconscious biases in decision-making, the role of middle managers in addressing them, and the importance of social networks. Additionally, they touch upon mindfulness, virtual reality, and the historical mindset that prioritized efficiency over employee well-being.

In this podcast, the first of a three-part series on Human Centric leadership, they explore the crisis of confidence in leaders impacting organizations worldwide. They discuss the talent pipeline, employee development, and the neuroscience of learning, emphasizing the need for more adaptive, innovative organizations. They also address challenges faced by leaders and employees, the importance of investing in leadership development and building trust, understanding digital technology and AI in leadership roles, and the pathway to a better future through rethinking leadership and work.

Rachel Cardero, NeuroLeadership Institute's Senior VP of Consulting, discusses the neuroscience of effective organizational change. They explore the reasons behind failed change initiatives, the importance of behavior change, defining success, the three elements of effective change, the significance of behavior change in transformation, and taking the end user perspective.

Dr. Michaela Simpson and Janet M Stovall discuss resilience, chronic stress's impact on the brain, understanding different experiences, intergenerational trauma, mental health's importance, and DEI initiatives.

Dr. Michaela Simpson, Nichole Hoskins, and Ariel Roldan discuss generational diversity in the workforce, including self-identification of different generations, the connection between time freedom and remote work, perspectives on remote work, training programs, intentional inclusion, and embracing a growth mindset for generational diversity in the workplace.

Exploring strategies for improving talent and business outcomes by improving talent density, building an elite team, the importance of exceptional performers in every role, collaboration and humility, implementing a growth mindset, reducing stress levels through feedback request, exploring the optimistic view of AI, and the potential of doing more with less.

How do you plan for the future when you're more uncertain than ever about what that future looks like? How do we keep each other striving for that finish line when we've lost sight of it in a fog of anxiety, ambiguity, and doubt? People tend to see change as threatening. We crave certainty and tend to avoid change as much as possible. When we can't, we become focused on all the ways change puts our safety in jeopardy, which shuts down our cognitive functions and kills our performance. In this episode of Your Brain at Work LIVE, Andrea LaBarbera (Head of Global Talent and Engagement, Zimmer Biomet) joins Dr. David Rock (NLI CEO and co-founder), and Rachel Cardero (NLI Vice President of Consulting) to discuss how Zimmer Biomet focused on their people to continue building their strategic road map, pillars, and guiding principles throughout the COVID-19 pandemic — and how we can learn to become nimble, resilient, and deliberate in the face of uncertainty today.

What does the future hold for your organization? And what are you doing to define that legacy? Tumultuous times are a challenge all their own. But, in preparing for them and navigating through them, it’s important to remember that, thanks to where we’ve been, we’re more prepared to handle them than ever before. This week on Your Brain at Work LIVE, Dr. David Rock (NLI CEO and co-founder) and Tina Drews (Salt River Project Director of Talent), discuss how, through an illuminating partnership with the NeuroLeadership Institute, Salt River Project focused on supporting the needs of their teams to develop the psychologically safe climate that equipped them even further to face crisis head-on in the present and through the future.