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NEUROSCIENCE OF CHANGE
8 critical capabilities for
navigating an unpredictable
world
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Future trends & skills required
• Explore the impact of exponential disruption and changes in how we live, work and interact
• Unpack shifting jobs, roles and the critical skills we will need to navigate an unpredictable world
Neuroscience of change
• Understand the imperative for rapid learning and change agility
• Examine why behavioural change is so hard and what it takes to create new habits
Understanding our brains
• Dive deeper into how our brains and bio-chemistry enable or inhibit new ways of thinking, feeling and being
• Gain awareness of our addictive relationship with the hormones of stress and their impact on our creativity,
health, relationships, performance and results
6 brain shifts
• Gain insight into the psychology of flow and peak experience through 6 Brain shift techniques
• Practice the power of intention & attention, Imagination, Metacognition, Refractory period, coherence and
repetition
The Power of Choice
• Enable yourself to bring back choice through cultivating identities, beliefs, feelings and habits
• Examine your own experience of the identity of the self-master vs the self-saboteur
NEUROSCIENCE OF CHANGE
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A DISRUPTIVE WORLD
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Artificial
Intelligence
Autonomous
technology
Extended
Reality
Internet of
Things
Next Gen Mobile
Connectivity
Big Data & Data
Science
Quantum
Computing
Fintech / Digital
Money
Sensor
Technology
Robotics
Distributed Legers
/ Blockchain
FUTURE TRENDS – WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
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FUTURE TRENDS – WHAT CAN WE SEE?
Structure
Operating models, agile,
blended, outsourced,
COPs, partnerships, smart
teams
Process
Customer experience,
innovation, optimisation,
standardization, decision
making, communication,
collaboration
Technology
Digitization strategies,, next
generation architecture,
systems, tools, automation,
AI, shared services, digital,
programming & data skills
People
Talent strategy, culture,
trust, remote work,
employee experience,
global pool, mobility,
gig economy, sourcing,
managing, retaining
Customer &
Competitive
Landscape
Respond … change … how we organize, execute, enable, engage
Strategy
scenario planning, market
intelligence, alignment,
resource allocation, sense and
adapt
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FUTURE SKILLS REQUIRED
Digital
Tech trends, digital savvy,
eco-system, remote work,
tech & data concepts &
processes, data analytics &
visualisation, AI, security
Cognitive
Critical thinking, problem
solving, creativity, innovation,
scenario planning,
complexity thinking, project
management
Social
Relationship skills, leading,
influencing, remote teaming,
engagement collaboration,
customer connection, conflict
management
Resilience
Self-awareness, confidence,
growth mindset, adaptability,
focus, effectiveness, stress &
energy management, mental
wellbeing
Are you, your team and your organisation … RELEVANT, RESILIENT AND READY?
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CRITICAL CAPABILITIES – WHAT IF?
From safe spectator…
To curious explorer
CURIOUS
From cautious dreamer…
To possibility connector
CREATIVE
From anxious controller…
To courageous adventurer
COURAGEOUS
From distracted operator …
To wise discerner
CONSCIOUS
From passive resistor…
To maze navigator
CHANGE NAVIGATOR
From default thinker…
To meaning maker
CRITICAL THINKER
From status consumer…
To community builder
CONTRIBUTOR
From independent competitor…
To trust cultivator
COLLABORATOR
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COURAGE
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Criticism Change Loneliness Failure
Rejection /
abandonment
Poverty
Offending others Uncertainty Humiliation
Something bad
happening
Success
Existential – not
living my best life
Getting hurt Being judged Not good enough
Making a
mistake
Death Money
Loss of income Ill health Inadequacy Loss of freedom
Not being loved /
accepted
Intimacy
Being alone Being disabled
Making a
mistake
Speaking in front
of people
Commitment Getting old
WHAT ARE YOU REALLY AFRAID OF…?
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HOW DO WE CHANGE THE PROGRAM?
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Anxious Controller Courageous Adventurer
Anxious
Vigilant
Controller
Resilient
Optimistic
Adventurer
COURAGE
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Passive Resistor Maze Navigator
Passive-resistor
Passenger
Dramatiser
Path Finder
Maze Navigator
Change Influencer
CHANGE NAVIGATOR
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BRINGING BACK CHOICE
Belief
I believe …
E.g. I am afraid, I can’t do it, I can’t
change
E.g. I am brave, I am not afraid
to fail, my actions create my
reality
Feeling
I feel …
E.g. I feel anxious, worried, a
failure, weak
E.g. I feel optimistic, confident,
strong
Habit
I act ….
E.g. I keep procrastinating; I
worry what others think of
me
E.g. I embrace learning, and
change, I try new things
Identity
I am ….
E.g. I am AN ANXIOUS
CONTROLLER
E.g. I am a A COURAGEOUS
ADVENTURER
Automatic
vs Choice
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LEARNING AND CHANGE IS HARD!
…
How many of you have tried to …
• change a bad habit
• learn a really difficult skill
• achieve a really challenging goal?
What does it take?
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HOW MUCH CAN WE CHANGE?
By 35, 95% of who you are is a set of memorized behaviors and emotional reactions that create
and identity subconsciously. Dr Joe Dispenza
60000-70000
18 - 254 days
90% same
70% negative
 How many thoughts?
 How many the same?
 How long to change a habit?
 How many are negative vs
positive?
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WHY IS CHANGE SO HARD?
Our brains …
 Record of past
 Hardwired for comfort &
safety
 Memories as emotions
 Triggers – stress response
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STRESS RESPONSE
THREAT
FIGHT, FLIGHT,
FREEZE
NO THREAT
REST, DIGEST,
RENEW
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Our brains don’t know the difference
between an imaginary threat and a real
one.
We create stress by thought alone
We become addicted to the chemicals
of stress
We cannot think, create, solve or
choose effectively in a state of stress
We cannot learn, change, connect or
heal in a state of stress
STRESS RESPONSE
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OUR BRAINS
Our brains …
 giant computer - 100 billion
nerve cells
 electrochemical signals –
throughout body
 “synapses” store chemical
messengers – enable
communication
 paths and clusters in high
traffic areas - become hard
wired
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VIDEO: LEARNING & UNLEARNING
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SOME DAYS
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OTHER DAYS …
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SURVIVAL OR CREATIVE RESILIENCE?
STRESSED SURVIVAL
CREATIVE RESILIENCE
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ENERGY FOR CHANGE
You can’t pour from an empty cup
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“Our energy flows where
our attention goes”
#1 ATTENTION TO INTENTION
“What we intend to,
and pay attention to,
become our reality”
John Keehoe
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#2 IMAGINATION
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#3 METACOGNITION
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#4 REFRACTORY PERIOD
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#5 COHERENCE
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#6 REPETITION
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6 BRAIN SHIFTS
CHANGE
“Our energy flows where our attention goes” Tony Robbins
Intention + Attention
Coherence
Imagination
Repetition
Refractory
period (EQ)
Metacognition
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HOW ARE YOU MAKING CHOICES?
SELF-SABOTEUR SELF- MASTER
In the moment | Spontaneous | Reactive Aware | Disciplined | Responsive
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CALL TO ACTION!
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we look forward to joining you on the
Master Leader Program … soon
THANK YOU
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