This document provides an overview of a webinar on neuroleadership. The key points are: - The webinar will help participants understand neuroleadership and its benefits, review neuroscience approaches to leadership coaching, and apply neuroleadership strategies using the SCARF model. - Neuroleadership draws from developments in neuroscience to improve decision-making, emotional regulation, influence, and facilitate change. It can benefit various groups like business schools, consultants, and leaders. - Important areas of the brain for leadership include the prefrontal cortex, which controls thinking, and the limbic system, which manages emotions. Neuroplasticity shows how the brain can rewire through practice.

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Learning Facilitator :
Eval Wari, ACC
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At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
• Build an understanding of neuroleadership and its benefits.
• Review neuroscientific approaches to leadership coaching.
• Apply neuroleadership strategies in coaching with SCARF Model
• Investigate developments and discoveries in neuroscience and
neuroleadership.
• Name the benefits of neuroleadership.
Session Objectives:

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The Learning Journey
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Industrial
Hunters/Gatherers
Agrarian
Information/Knowledge Work
AGES OF CIVILIZATION

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MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
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Why Change Efforts Fail

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•Australian Author of Quiet
Leadership: Six Steps to
Transforming Performance at Work
and Your Brain at Work.
•Originator of the term
"Neuroleadership"
•Founder of the Neuroleadership
Institute, a global initiative bringing
together neuroscientists and
leadership experts to build new
knowledge for leadership
development.
DR. DAVID ROCK
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Who can Benefit from Neuroleadership?
•Business schools wanting to bring more science into
how they develop leaders.
•Organizational consultants looking for more effective
tools to drive positive change.
•Leaders looking for insights into improving
performance.
•Educators looking to understand how to improve
learning.
Ringleb, A.H. & Rock, D. (2008). The emerging field of leadership. Neuroleadership Institute.

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New neuroscience discoveries can help us
become better leaders, improving our:
•Decision-making and Problem-Solving
•Emotional Regulation
•Ability to collaborate with and influence others
•Ability to facilitate change
The Benefits of Neuroleadership
Ringleb, A.H. & Rock, D. (2008). The emerging field of leadership.
Neuroleadership Institute.
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This Is Our Brain Anatomy

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Three Key Areas
(PFC)

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PREFONTAL CORTEX (PFC)
• Decide
• Understand
• Recall
• Inhibit
• Memorise
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LIMBIC SYSTEM
• Manage emotions
• Create mood
• Label an event as something
that would affect the body
inside
• Record emotional memory
• Motivate
• Keep the relationship

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The BRAIN House
Taken from Henslin, S. (2008). This is your
brain on joy. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, p. 21
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Ways to Remember Brain Parts
•Prefrontal Cortex (PFC) – Presidential Control Center.
This area of the brain controls thinking and logic. The
prefrontal cortex is in the Frontal Lobe.
•Cingulate Gyrus – Circular Gerbil Wheel. This area of the
brain can cause inflexible thinking when overactive. The
cingulate gyrus is in the Frontal Lobe.
THINK OF A HOUSE
Adapted from Henslin, S. (2008). This is your brain on joy. Nashville: Thomas Nelso

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Ways to Remember Brain Parts
•Temporal Lobes – Temper Lofts. Cause anger and rage
when overactive.
•Basal Ganglia – Basement of Giant Fears. Helps you avoid
dangers, but causes anxiety when overactive. The basal
ganglia are in the temporal lobes.
•Deep Limbic System – Depressed Low Mood Space.
Imbalanced limbic systems are responsible for
depression. The limbic system is within the temporal
lobes.
THINK OF A HOUSE
Adapted from Henslin, S. (2008). This is your brain on joy. Nashville: Thomas Nelso
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The Brain Facts

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•Enough sleep
• The brain needs rapid eye movement (REM) sleep for memory
retention.
•Learning in bite-sized increments
• Our prefrontal cortex can generally only handle 20 minutes of new
information at one time.
•A healthy work environment
• Prolonged stress increases cortisol levels and shrinks the
hippocampus.
•Social fairness & respect
• Praise produces a chemical boost of serotonin, but criticism increases
cortisol levels.
What our brains need to be effective leaders
http://www.leadershiphabitude.com/resources/thebrainatwork.pdf
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•Active learning techniques
•Clear expectations
• Clear expectations increase dopamine levels and help people think
more clearly.
•Practice of needed skills.
• Practice really does make perfect!
•Exercise increases productivity and brain health.
What our brains need to be effective leaders
http://www.leadershiphabitude.com/resources/thebrainatwork.pdf

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•Our brains are “wired” to perceive all change as a
threat. It activates a flight-fight response.
•Neuro-research shows that employees must “own”
change initiatives for success.
•Leaders need to learn to recognize, encourage and
deepen team member’s insights. At the moment of
insight, new brain connections are being created.
•Encourage others to focus on positive outcomes.
Neuro-leadership & Change
Lafferty, C. & Alford, K. (2010). Neuroleadership: Sustaining research
relevance into the 21st century. SAM Advanced Mangement Journal, 32-40.
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Rock, D. & Schwartz, J. (2007). The neuroscience of leadership. Reclaiming
Children and Youth, 16(3), 10-17.
Peter Drucker said:

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A CHALLENGE FOR SENIOR LEADERS
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The Brain

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8 ICF Core-Competencies
A. Foundation
1. Demonstrates Ethical Practice
C. Communicating Effectively
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Listens Actively
Evokes Awareness
2. Embodies a Coaching Mindset
B. Co-creating the Relationship D.Cultivating Learning and Growth
3. Establishes and Maintains
Agreements
Cultivates Trust and Safety
Maintains Presence
8. Facilitates Client Growth
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The Brain’s Organizing principle

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1. The brain is a connection machine
2. Up close, no two brains are alike
3. Hardwires everything it can
4. Hardwiring drives automatic
perception
5. Practically impossible to
deconstruct our old wiring
6. We can create new wiring
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Growth Mindset : Learn from mistakes
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Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset

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NEUROPLASTICITY
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Brain Based
Coaching
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Brain
Neuroplasticity
After Practice
NEUROPLASTICITY

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NEUROPLASTICITY
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Neurotransmitter

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Impact of a Threat Response
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The Deeply social brain

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The survival instinct
Rock, D. (2008). SCARF : a brain-based model for collaborating with and influencing others SCARF : a brain-based model for
collaborating with and influencing others. NeuroLeadership.
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Implications of SCARF

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How to stay cool ..
1. Labelling
2. Reappraisal
3. Mindfulness

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In 2005, under fMRI
at NYU they experiment coaching

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Brain Based Coaching
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The Four Face of INSIGHTS

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