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Case Study: A Deep Dive on DEI with CVS Health

Your Brain at Work - June 12, 2024 14:53 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
On this episode of Your Brain at Work Live, Christy Pruitt-Haynes (Distinguished Faculty, Performance and Leadership; NLI) connects with CVS Health's Erneshia Pinder (VP of Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Belonging). Together, they discuss the firm's journey to radically accelerate inclusion —...

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How to Get Virtual Learning Right to Maximize Training Impact

Your Brain at Work - June 10, 2024 17:14 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
In today’s fast-changing work environment, the “skill half-life”—the time a skill remains relevant—is shrinking faster than ever. For leaders, this means continuous learning is essential. But the same old ways of training just won’t cut it anymore. Effective leadership training must align with h...

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The "Aha" Moment: How Insight Transforms Organizations

Your Brain at Work - June 04, 2024 15:02 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Insights aren’t like butterflies that land by chance. They can be cultivated through specific skills, and these skills are crucial for leaders navigating today’s complex, rapidly advancing business landscape. The rise of AI underscores the urgency for organizations to master insight generation t...

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Case Study: AI and a New Kind of Leader with DBS

Your Brain at Work - June 03, 2024 19:25 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 183 ratings
The only thing certain about 2024 is continued uncertainty.   2024 will be a breakthrough year for artificial intelligence, which has already started to transform marketing, sales, customer service, and many other functions.   It’ll be up to leaders to figure out how to leverage this powerfu...

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Case Study: Organisational Growth Mindset at Work with Terumo

Your Brain at Work - May 07, 2024 02:51 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Join our Co-founder and CEO, Dr. David Rock, and Probir Das, Group Executive Officer at Terumo APAC, to be inspired by the journey of this global leader in medical devices. Terumo has been in operation for over 100 years and in 2022, embarked on a global journey in partnership with the NeuroLeade...

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The Neuroscience of Habit Activation: From LMS, to LXP, to HAP

Your Brain at Work - April 15, 2024 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
How do you scale learning and leadership development effectively across an organization? What methods of measurement work best for understanding behavior change — and return on investment — when it comes to learning initiatives? How are enterprise learning experiences evolving to meet the volati...

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Minisode: DE(A)I Part I: Mitigating Bias in Technology Adoption

Your Brain at Work - April 15, 2024 05:18 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Seemingly overnight, Artificial Intelligence has taken workplaces around the world by storm. But while there's tremendous excitement about the potential this rapidly evolving tool might unlock, there's also trepidation — and perhaps there should be. Even as we begin to integrate AI into our ever...

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Why Delegation is So Hard, and How to Get it Right

Your Brain at Work - March 22, 2024 14:12 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Do your managers struggle to delegate effectively? They're not alone. Leaders often delegate too little or too much, hurting both efficiency and employee morale. On this episode of Your Brain at Work, Dr. David Rock and Dr. Emma Sarro bridge the gap between knowing you should delegate and doing...

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Accountability V.S. Psychological Safety with Dr. Amy Edmondson

Your Brain at Work - March 18, 2024 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Is it time for the pendulum to swing back toward a focus on performance and less on people?     Many CEO’s today feel the pendulum has swung too far toward the employee, and cringe when they hear about increasing psychological safety.       Are they right, or are they missing something im...

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Leadership Essentials Pt. III: The Neuroscience of Driving Results

Your Brain at Work - March 13, 2024 04:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
It’s easy enough to read biographies of leaders past, some of whom are considered exceptional for this or that extraordinary reason. Surely, leaders of old have been studied and judged for the times in which they lived and the business landscape in which they operated.  But today’s leaders need...

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Leadership Essentials: The Science of Team Motivation

Your Brain at Work - March 06, 2024 19:06 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Learn more about our groundbreaking new leadership development program — LEAD: The Neuroscience of Effective Management — here: https://neuroleadership.com/LEAD Keep up-to-date on the latest NLI content at our blog: https://neuroleadership.com/your-brain-at-work/ Join us for upcoming events: h...

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Leadership Essentials: The Science of Self-Management

Your Brain at Work - February 05, 2024 18:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Learn more about our groundbreaking new leadership development program — LEAD: The Neuroscience of Effective Management — here: https://neuroleadership.com/LEAD Keep up-to-date on the latest NLI content at our blog: https://neuroleadership.com/your-brain-at-work/ Join us for upcoming events: h...

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2024: Leadership Trends to Watch

Your Brain at Work - January 18, 2024 17:29 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Hot on the heels of his recent publication on leadership trends in Fast Company, Dr. David Rock welcomes our global head of research, Dr. Emma Sarro to Your Brain at Work Live to discuss the quiet signals unfolding on the leadership landscape — and key trends to watch and influence as the year u...

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How AI Could Augment Human Performance — Ft. Dr. Teodor Grantcharov

Your Brain at Work - November 15, 2023 21:54 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Over the last several months, there's been a great deal of talk about the use cases for artificial intelligence. Millions around the world are excited about the creative potential, labor, and time savings that AI might unlock. But AI's use cases don't end there. In this episode of Your Brain At...

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The Connection Conundrum Ft. Khalil Smith (Akamai Technologies)

Your Brain at Work - October 30, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
In the three years since flexible work has transformed from emergency mode to a mainstream way of working, it’s encountered no shortage of unique challenges and opportunities along the way. Among those challenges? Intentionally building and maintaining workplace culture — shared everyday habits —...

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The role and purpose of L&D in the organization

L&D Spotlight - October 27, 2023 15:00 - 42 minutes
In this episode, we talk about L&D's role and place in the organization, both in terms of org structure and purpose. We dive into L&D's internal customers, how to improve L&D's understanding of the business, the access to the company's strategy and how L&D can contribute, the multidisciplinary a...

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From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Managing Threat Response in the Workplace

Your Brain at Work - October 23, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
What are the connections between cognitive capacity, motivation, threat, and reward? How do organizations that prioritize psychological safety differ — in terms of business performance — from those that don't? What cognitive levers should organizations think about when executing change initia...

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Key Insights from the 2023 NeuroLeadership Summit

Your Brain at Work - October 13, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
On the season 10 premiere of Your Brain at Work Live, we'll dig deep into the trends, breakthroughs and scientific insights uncovered at the 2023 NeuroLeadership Summit. Facilitated by our Director of Leadership, John Edwards, and featuring leaders from all three of our practice areas, we'll sh...

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Special Episode: The Science Behind the NeuroLeadership Summit

Your Brain at Work - September 05, 2023 12:50 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Register for the 2023 NeuroLeadership Summit, taking place this Oct. 4 & 5 by Sept. 21 to lock-in early bird pricing: https://summit.neuroleadership.com/register/ Explore NeuroLeadership institute content on the Your Brain at Work blog: https://neuroleadership.com/your-brain-at-work/ Learn mor...

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Zeitgeist-Proof Your DEI Strategy with Janet M. Stovall

Your Brain at Work - August 22, 2023 13:20 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Learn more about our upcoming DEI Master Class and join our September cohort: https://neuroleadership.com/deinext   Learn more about our DEI Community of Practice: https://neuroleadership.com/practice-area-diversity-equity-inclusion   Register for the 2023 NeuroLeadership Summit, taking plac...

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Future-Proof Your Leadership With Neuroscience Pt. 3: A Case Study Featuring with the Aerospace Corporation

Your Brain at Work - August 16, 2023 20:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
When it comes time for organizations to flex their mindsets and set leaders up for success in an environment of constant change, what can science tell us about how to get it done? How do we build a regenerative, resilient, and adaptive talent ecosystem? Who's demonstrating what great looks like i...

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The Challenges and Opportunities of Learning at Scale in the New World of Work

Your Brain at Work - August 04, 2023 21:33 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
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 ...

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The Transformative Power of Internal Coaching

Your Brain at Work - July 18, 2023 21:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
In times of change, we rely on our leaders for guidance and support. However, not all leaders feel comfortable coaching, or haven't figured out how to help employees feel psychologically safe enough to voice their questions or experiences. Join Dr. David Rock (Co-Founder & CEO, NLI) and Alyssa A...

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Future-Proof Your Leadership With Neuroscience Pt. 2: Goal Focus & Outcome Focus

Your Brain at Work - July 07, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
In the second in a series of episodes on human-centric leadership hosted by Matt Summers, the NeuroLeadership Institute's Global Vice President of Culture & Leadership, we explore how leaders can overcome the employee apathy conundrum by understanding that goal focus and people focus don't have t...

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Future-Proof Your Leadership with Neuroscience Pt. I: Human-Centric Leadership

Your Brain at Work - June 30, 2023 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Why is it that there's a crisis of confidence in leaders impacting organizations around the world right now? What can organizations do about their talent pipeline and employee development lifecycle? How does the neuroscience of learning figure into all of this? In the first of a three-part s...

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The Neuroscience of Effective Organizational Change

Your Brain at Work - June 23, 2023 04:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Why is it that so many business transformation initiatives fail — sometimes before they've even launched? What can leaders and teams do to avoid that costly, morale-burning outcome? What does the science of behavior change tell us about what it takes to turn our change management initiatives in...

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Juneteenth Special: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Resilience

Your Brain at Work - June 16, 2023 04:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
It wasn't until June 2021 that the United States Federal Government formally recognized Juneteenth as a federal holiday — but while that recognition may have been delayed, the wisdom we can take from stories of African-American resilience have been with us all along. In this episode, we welcome ...

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Exploring Generational Diversity at Work

Your Brain at Work - June 09, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
For the first time in history, five generations — representing nearly a century of experience — are active in today's workforce. With that comes both challenges and opportunities in terms of communications, expectations, and compliance. In this episode of Your Brain at Work, we bring a generatio...

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Pearls of Performance - June 02, 2023 07:00 - 26 minutes
In this episode, I want you to meet Sharief Hendricks, a valued colleague, a close personal friend, and a fellow thalassophile (a lover of the sea). Sharief is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town and a visiting research professor at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. He is a resea...

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A New Approach to Doing More With less

Your Brain at Work - June 02, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 183 ratings
Maybe this line sounds familiar: You've got to do more with less — less time, less funding, and fewer resources. In an economic environment where reductions in force and demands for ramped up productivity — with sustainable business margins — are commonplace, does efficiency have to mean austerit...