Crack The Behavior Code
79 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsChristine is known for creating strategies that are responsible for hundreds of billions of dollars in new revenue and company value. Imagine if she was able to sit down with you and SHARE all of her knowledge and insight!
Since that isn’t physically possible, this podcast is the next best thing!
Christine uses each episode of Crack the Behavior Code to give you a glimpse into her strategic approach to business and leadership. She brings you on a journey to leverage neuroscience-based tools in order to promote behavior change and begin understanding what all humans need (and how you can provide it)!
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What Stress, Change And Isolation Do To Your Brain
May 28, 2020 16:00 - 10 minutes - 14.6 MBLet’s dive into the neuroscience of stress. Your brain releases stress hormones, like cortisol, which then fire up excessive cell-signaling cytokines which alter your physiology. Suddenly your ability to regulate your behavior and emotions is compromised. Your ability to pay attention is compromised, your memory, learning, peace, happiness are all compromised. Why? Because all that change has caused your system to be overloaded with stress. And excessive stress often causes us to withdraw i...
12 Stress-Busters Happy Healthy People Know
May 21, 2020 16:00 - 7 minutes - 12.4 MBEmail. Texting. Voicemail. We’re constantly connecting with others, so why do so many people feel so disconnected–which is a key factor in excessive stress? According to Dr. Edward Hallowell, an expert on anxiety and stress, there are twelve ways in which people need to connect in order to have full, rich, healthy, long lives. I had no idea how much more connected I could feel until I read his outstanding book, Connect: 12 Vital Ties That Open Your Heart, Lengthen Your Life, and Deepen Your...
Guarantee Work-Life Balance With These 3 Daily Actions
May 14, 2020 16:00 - 6 minutes - 11.1 MBWhat is your life experience when the work day is complete? Are you spending time doing things that you love or are you too drained to do anything other than recoup before the next workday begins? We spend a lot of time at work and the brain-based tools that I teach my executive coaching clients show them how to maximize their efforts, stand in their energetic weight and master executive presence. If you aren’t having fun when you aren’t at work, it may be time to reflect. Life is a balanc...
Become A More Emotionally Intelligent Leader in 4 Simple Steps
May 07, 2020 16:00 - 9 minutes - 16.1 MBThe CEO tells the VP Marketing candidate he’d hire her if she lost 20 pounds. She’s “too fat to represent our company.” The VP Operations tells her team if they were competent they would’ve achieved their quarterly goals. The CFO sends the Controller an angry email saying his budget “sucks and is pathetic.” The VP Product Development says “deal with it” when the favorite lead engineer and keeper of the culture quits. What do all these leaders have in common? They aren’t emotionally inte...
Reduce Drama In 3 Proven Ways
April 30, 2020 16:00 - 7 minutes - 11 MBCultivating the Witness To witness yourself, to keep the ego in its appropriate role (the ego is the CEO for the vast majority of humans, like 99.99999999%!), we need to catch it at its tricks. Here’s an initial list. You may want to keep it on your phone and add to it when you notice a new trick it tries to play on you! Also note when the ego tries to take over it’s helpful to use the Feedback Frame on your current life experience (ask what’s working and what you’d like to see more of, b...
The Three Essential Agreements Every Team Needs
April 23, 2020 16:00 - 10 minutes - 14.7 MBAmbiguous or unspoken agreements often cause pain. Lots of it. This is why more and more organizations are creating agreements for expectations of one another. These aren’t employment agreements—these are behavioral agreements. These agreements, or codes of conduct, help an employee both be easy to manage as well as to bring their personal best. As a Leadership and Culture Coach, I’m often asked by leaders to “change their people.” They want their team to care more, be more present, more ...
What Keeping Secrets Does to Your Brain
April 16, 2020 16:00 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MBSecrets. We all have them. One of our clients recently had to let an executive go for non-performance reasons. The tricky part was the executive was well-loved in the organization and a large number of the employees reported up through his department. Prior to the termination, my client had to, of course, keep a secret of it. He had to self-censor, to watch what he said to whom and when. He had to be careful not to reveal the secret when long-term plans were discussed that the to-be-termina...
Stressed At Work? 4 Fun Ways Leveraging Neuroscience Can Help
April 09, 2020 16:00 - 7 minutes - 9.74 MBStressed? Grumpy? Need to lighten up? Our brains need passion, play, and release at work. They’re essential to keeping us emotionally connected and engaged, to feel part of the tribe, to blow off steam, to create shared experiences. As a leadership and culture coach, I repeatedly find that our clients who implement the four tips I’m about to share have more productive and profitable workplaces… oh, and people have more fun and are more loyal too. Here are four ways to have more fun at wo...
Want A More Creative Team? Help Them Be More Mindful
April 02, 2020 16:00 - 10 minutes - 13.9 MBRecently our team had tons of complex deadlines where they were doing work that was new to them. New challenges, new people to collaborate with, new aspects of the project that they couldn’t control. These are the situations where you truly want to have a more creative team. In this case, however, we weren’t experiencing the benefits of creativity. Instead, it was stressful. And even though my team is great at navigating stress, they went into Critter State (fight, flight, freeze). As the ...
Season Highlights
February 01, 2020 12:00 - 23 minutes - 15.6 MBWhether you're new to the show, or you've been with us all along, we wanted to take a moment to review just a few of this season's big takeaways: Emotional agility is a key trait for leaders, as emotions have energy. What we focus on, we fuel! Sometimes leaders focus so much on growth, that they miss out on the reality that their team's emotional state is suffering. Safety + Belonging + Mattering = Trust Emotional agility is a superpower! We can shift our emotional state to achieve the ...
4 Content Marketing Mistakes That Will Wreck Your ROI
January 25, 2020 12:00 - 8 minutes - 8.44 MB4 Content Marketing Mistakes That Will Wreck Your ROI Here’s what we know: content marketing is a massively effective method of increasing ROI and overall customer engagement. Also: content marketing is not as easy as whipping up some content and tossing it into the oven of the Internet. Careful consideration and strategy is required, and sometimes, even with the best intentions, major mistakes can be made right from the get-go. So let me ask? Are you happy with your content marketing res...
Busting 3 Massive Myths About Employee Engagement
January 18, 2020 12:00 - 11 minutes - 8.11 MBThere’s a lot of buzz about employee engagement these days. But the sad truth is that engagement stats worldwide are still dreadfully low. And to throw some fuel on the fire, myths about what actually creates engagement are rampant—and are making the problem worse. Here’s what I know for sure is true, from the 1,000+ organizations I’ve helped to boost employee engagement over the past 30+ years. There are three (if not more!) prevalent myths I come across constantly—and it’s time to bust t...
3 Ways Leaders Can Improve Work-Life Balance
January 11, 2020 12:00 - 7 minutes - 7.32 MBWhat is your life experience when the work day is complete? Are you spending time doing things that you love or are you too drained to do anything other than recoup before the next workday begins? We spend a lot of time at work and the tools that I teach my executive coaching clients show them how to maximize their efforts, stand in their energetic weight and master executive presence. If you aren’t having fun when you aren’t at work, it may be time to reflect. Life is a balancing act, a...
Are you telling the 5 types of truth?
January 04, 2020 11:00 - 9 minutes - 6.37 MBHow much truth do you tell? The whole truth? The partial truth? The preferred truth? I’ve been noticing how uncomfortable truth can be for people to hear, and I’m getting really curious as to why we lie so often. When did it become “not ok” to say what was really going on? When did we start dancing around our needs, our truth, our beliefs? Did it really make us more safe? Enable us to belong? Enable us to matter? I read Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations with God – Part 2 recently and l...
How to Feel Better in 12 Minutes
December 28, 2019 11:00 - 9 minutes - 11.8 MBHave you ever considered using neuroscience to optimize engagement, performance, recruiting, and retention in your organization? At SmartTribes Institute, we continually strive to apply cutting edge neuroscience tools and resources to modern day businesses and people. If you'd like a taste, check out our upcoming Culture Camp! And, of course, apply the practices in these podcast episodes as well. We’ve all felt how draining fear-based emotions can be. Nothing saps our life force more than p...
3 Strategies to Help with Millennial Management Troubles
December 21, 2019 12:00 - 9 minutes - 11.4 MBMillennials (the generation born between 1980 and 2000) are perhaps the most social--and yet the most surprisingly isolated--employees in history. And no surprises here: they’re taking over the workforce. Raised in a very different world than prior generations, millennials grew up surrounded by computers and cell phones. 80% have sent a text message in the last 24 hours, compared to 63% of Generation X-ers and only 35% of Baby Boomers. It’s no wonder they have less experience with face-...
Why Leaders Need to Stop Their Thoughts
December 14, 2019 12:15 - 9 minutes - 12.3 MBHumans have one hundred billion available neurons...yet only 15% are activated, according to Heart Math Institute. Why? Because we tend to focus so heavily outside of ourselves. Today, I'd like to talk more about what mindfulness is, and how we might use it. Last week, I mentioned how there was an 8 week study done that showed how meditation can start actually regenerating gray matter in the brain. We can increase our brain and cell function when we meditate. That impacts our ability to en...
Working Through Personal Hardship
December 07, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutes - 6.35 MBOnce you reach your 40s, or possibly even earlier, you’re likely to have experienced a profound personal hardship, which you had to navigate through while keeping your job. Whether it’s the death of a loved one, a divorce, a life-threatening disease, a significant injury or something else, personal hardship takes its toll on us all at one point or another. Here are some tips to care for yourself and others when these twists and turns of life occur: Check In with Yourself – The Emotion Whe...
Combining Leadership & Gratitude
November 28, 2019 12:00 - 5 minutes - 5.05 MBIt is extremely powerful to combine leadership and gratitude. For starters, gratitude helps you feel generally better. Choosing to recognize and acknowledge all the good things in life (which is what gratitude practices help you do), creates a more positive outlook. In addition, when you establish a true gratitude practice you're able to anchor that feeling of gratefulness and positivity into your body. This anchoring creates an emotional reserve you'll be able to call on later. Another...
Why Mindfulness & Meditation Matter in Leadership
November 23, 2019 14:00 - 8 minutes - 7.43 MBWhat pushes your buttons? What makes you lose your equilibrium? Even when we know we should stress less over the small things, get more sleep, or handle a situation better...we're all human. And we all have issues that we can't control, or life events that take us off guard. So how can we protect our health in the midst of all that? Research tells us that there are many ways to improve brain functionality and mental health. For instance, you probably know that practices like meditation and...
The 6 Phrases For Better Communication Skills
November 16, 2019 13:24 - 4 minutes - 3.55 MBWhy do people struggle in relationships and with their communication skills? It’s because they don’t use the right words. Well, they might be the right words for you, but are they the right words that the other person needs to hear? Language structures reality. Language sets the tone for respect, kindness, safety, belonging, mattering and more. And it can do the opposite too. Language helps us understand what another person is experiencing, how to support them, how to honor them. And it ca...
3 Steps To Access Your Hidden Brain Power
November 09, 2019 15:00 - 11 minutes - 9.69 MBSpidey sense. Gut feel. Whatever you call it, it’ll make or break the most important decisions in your life. The most successful executives I coach have it in spades. We're talking about intuition, and digging into what it is and how it actually works. Oprah has it. Steve Jobs had it. Mark Zuckerberg has it but recently didn’t listen to it and paid a huge price. Elon Musk made the same mistake. How—And Where—Intuition Actually Works Here’s how to make your intuition stronger right now....
One Powerful Tool to Create the Reality You Desire
November 02, 2019 15:00 - 11 minutes - 9.7 MBAs a leader, in what area of your life do you need to shift from being disempowered to being empowered? We form our own reality based on visual, auditory, and kinesthetic cues. These cues recall our beliefs about the world and ourselves (our identity), which results in either feeling good or feeling bad. If you’re on a sales team that feels bad, chances are you won’t be achieving your quota because your energy will be low as well as your motivation and creativity. Is there anything you can ...
The 7 Most Common Ways Leaders Unknowingly Sabotage Their Team
October 26, 2019 15:00 - 8 minutes - 7.67 MBSometimes leaders call me saying they want help to fix their team. That’s always a red flag for me. A CEO of a west coast food company called me a while back. He said his team lacked accountability and he wanted me to “fix them”. As I asked him questions a disturbing trend appeared: his retention was some of the lowest I’d seen in my 30+ year career. Even his executive team didn’t stick around—the longest tenure there was under 2 years, and the CEO had been around for over 15 years! What w...
Emotions Have Energy
October 19, 2019 15:00 - 7 minutes - 6.4 MBEmotional agility and resilience give leaders the edge they need to quickly pivot during stressful situations. Emotions Have Energy Thanks to the late great David Hawkins, MD, PhD, we have proof that emotions contain measurable energy, which can either foster or negate actual cell life. Dr. Hawkins’s groundbreaking work, as explained in his book Power vs. Force, shows how a person’s log level - the measurable energy level in their magnetic field - increases as that person experiences mo...
The 5 Organismic (Fundamental) Rights
October 12, 2019 16:00 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBWe all have rights as human beings. But if we don’t know or acknowledge our fundamental rights, or if we don’t understand them, we’ll often suffer, cause others to suffer, and worst case, self-sabotage (which in turn sabotages those around us that count on us). To live in a state of emotional agility more consistently, we need to build the mental muscles of self-awareness. And one of the best ways to increase our self-awareness is to get in touch with our Organismic Rights. Your Rights...
Propel Employee Engagement To Sky-Rocketing Levels
October 05, 2019 13:00 - 10 minutes - 9.47 MBOften leaders are focusing so intensely on growth that we miss the fact that our team’s emotional experience is suffering. And when they’re suffering, they’re in their Critter State (versus the ideal of being in their Smart State.) Why? Most likely because safety, belonging or mattering are missing. But how do you know who needs what, and when? When I do culture coaching I use three main tools to find out: SBM Behavior Decoder to help leaders understand what a behavior is communicatin...
Reframing: A Tool That Will Empower Your Team Everyday
September 28, 2019 11:39 - 8 minutes - 7.92 MBOur words shape our reality. And they are based on the stories we tell ourselves about the world, ourselves, and others. This is why Reframing is crucial for leaders and human beings overall: it’s a terrific tool to shape the reality you want. Reframing is a way of viewing and experiencing events, ideas, concepts, and emotions to find more useful alternatives. It is a practical and valuable tool to shift perception, including your perception of yourself or others’ perceptions of themselves....
Are You Emotionally Agile?
September 21, 2019 05:03 - 8 minutes - 7.52 MBHave you noticed that life is moving at light speed and it’s only getting faster? Have you also noticed that people are more stressed out than ever? If you’re emotionally agile, you have not only noticed, you’re in a good position to not only survive, but to thrive. Emotional Agility is, simply, essential. You need it to navigate turbulent times, you need it to keep your sense of humor, you need it to deal with the perpetual uncertainty of daily life. No matter what external situations you ...