Neuroscience and Human Performance
​Your leader's social and emotional intelligence and their ability to recognize and address organizational psychosocial risk factors is critical to modern team optimization.
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​It Starts with Your Leaders:
Gallup's 2024 engagement data revealed that 70% of the variance in a team's level of engagement is due to the manager. It also revealed that managers themselves are stressed and disengaged, meaning that many are a huge threat to your overall culture and engagement.
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Program Purpose:
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Provide leaders with an enhanced understanding of the brain, stress, and human behavior.
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Provide daily strategies to manage variations in team stress responses and human performance factors.
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Provide leaders with easy to implement strategies and a framework to proactively manage psychosocial risk and enhance employee health, mental wellbeing and engagement.
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Provide strategic consultation to help integrate the learnings into daily workflow to maximize benefits.
Core Objectives:
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Equip your managers to better balance their own stress and performance.
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Improve your leaders’ emotional intelligence so that they can lead with empathy, improve social connections, reduce stress, and improve engagement within their teams.
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Improve your leaders’ ability to assess and address workplace factors that impact psychosocial risk.
Applications:
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As a stand-alone Leadership Development Program
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As an adjunct to enhance the effectiveness of existing leadership training, bridging existing training and effective implementation
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Content Overview:
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Neuroscience factors that influence behavioral patterns, performance, stress response, burnout, short and long term cognitive function, mental health, immune system function and physical health.
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Sample neurobehavioral profiles and an explanation of why individuals within a team may respond very differently to a given workplace situation or life event.
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Tangible strategies and a framework based on the science to:
- Maximize personal health, performance and mental wellbeing
- Maximize team performance, engagement, health and wellbeing
- Proactively manage psychosocial risk -
We explain, in layman’s terms, neuroscience fundamentals as well as how brain chemistry and neural pathways impact the stress response, cognitive function, health, and performance. We also explore the latest science relating to growth mindset and positive psychology along with ways to adapt it to your daily workplace challenges.
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We explore the science behind “Automatic Behaviors.” Particularly as awareness that under stress, a strength can become a weakness if overdone. We educate on mechanisms at play and the solutions to implement.
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Delivery Options:
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In-Person: Foundation Sessions (half-day or 2 x 90 min)
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Webinar: Foundation Sessions and follow up implementation series
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Online Training Options: Self-paced micro learning or selective modules
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Train the Trainer Modules: To enable internal delivery
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HBD has delivered executive health and human performance programs across the globe to a variety of organizations including Deloitte, GlaxoSmithKline, Dolby, Electronic Arts, Holcim, Crunchyroll, DENSO and Hershey's.
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Locations currently and previously serviced include: India, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Pakistan, Japan, United States, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, France, Croatia, Belgium and Spain.