Is Brainstorming Dead?
I can’t tell you how many meetings I’ve attended where teammates have been asked to brainstorm ideas. Everyone comes prepared with some thoughts, everyone listens to all the ideas, and the best ideas rise to
How Good Leadership Can Reverse Turnover
Staffing is the lifeblood of my HR career. It’s where I truly got my start and really thrived. It’s one of the toughest jobs in our practice, in my opinion, and not just because I
The Basis of Leadership Is Born in the Brain: Why Leaders Should Care about Neuroscience
Want to be a better leader? Want to motivate and engage your employees to great success? The old way of doing things relied on collecting data, running numbers, and looking at spreadsheets. Employers motivated employees
The 7 C’s of Change Management: Making Change Easier With Neuroscience
Change is rarely easy, especially when a habit has been formed. Just think about how difficult, stressful, and even annoying it can be when someone asks to change your morning routine or you are forced
11 Ways to Run Your Business with Neuroscience
In Beyond Brain Basics, we mentioned the importance of creating a brain-based work environment. Changing the way things are done can be difficult and time-consuming but we propose a few practical ways to run your
Your Brain on Hormones: How Neuroscience Can Make You a Better Leader
Hormones affect us every second of our lives. Our emotional and physical health is dictated by how these hormones interact with the cells in our bodies and our brain. Neuroscience has been able to show
Beyond Brain Basics: 5 Neuroscience Lessons for Leaders
In Brain Basics, we looked at many of the structures in the brain and how they function. In this section we will look more specifically at how they impact leadership and the workplace. Since these are
Zenefits’ Company Culture Turnaround and Employee Engagement
Following suit to so many small and big companies alike, Zenefits is yet another example of company culture turnaround, lead by a new CEO. The company recently made news headlines with new CEO David Sacks’s
Brain Basics: Neuroscience in Business
More and more, the word neuroscience pops up in various aspects of life. Knowledge of the brain has entered the mainstream, everywhere from education to business, and even to pop culture. The Disney-Pixar movie Inside
How Social Leadership is Changing the Way We Lead
There was a time, and are still times, when being emotional or empathic were viewed as weak skills that had no place in effective management. In today’s business climate, to navigate the increasingly complex factors