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The future Leadership brain: implications of neuroscience for
learning in business
Dr. Tara Swart
UNICON
10th April 2013
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Overview
• Brain integration & learning new habits
• Empathy, neuroplasticity & trust
• Maintaining brain resilience in tough
economic times
• Neuro-chemicals, risk-taking and decision
making
• Leadership
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Across
Vertical
Horizontal
Planes through the body
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Planes through the brain
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Vertical: brain-body
Brainstem
Cortex Limbic system
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Horizontal integration
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Corpus callosum
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Across: gender, culture, generations
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Additional change and novelty
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The integrated brain
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NeuroSynthesis Leadership Model © Swart & Storer
YOUR BRAIN
LOGICAL/ ANALYTICAL THINKING
Scope, Scale, Competencies
EMOTIONS
Emotional intelligence,
Empathy
PHYSICAL FEELINGS
Resilience, Listening,
Energy CREATIVITY/ IMAGINATION
Versatility, Adaptability,
Vision
GUT INSTINCT
Intuition, Judgement, Decisiveness
MOTIVATORS/ DRIVERS
Values, Legacy, Integrity
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The brain and learning
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What is the 6 letter word?
Bmusic
When you’ve got it, raise your hand rather
than calling out please!
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Empathy
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8 basic emotions SURVIVAL
ATTACHMENT
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‘The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those
who cant read and write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn and relearn’ Alvin Toffler
Patterns
Po
ssib
ilitie
s
Qu
estio
ns
Influence
Connecting ideas
Changing
Em
erg
ing
Combining
The future belongs to ambiguity surfers
and adaptive learners
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T
R
U
S
T
EXCITEMENT
Stuck
Scared
Engaged,
empowered
people; High
performing
organisation
Survival mode L
H
L H
Performance Indicator
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Financial implications
A 10% improvement in
performance is the equivalent
to an extra 23 working days
annually
AXA PPP
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Effort - Reward imbalance model
Efforts required
Job
imbalance
Job
reward
Reward can be provided by: Appreciation from others Occupational status
Job satisfaction Esteem Security Promotion Opportunity Money
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The RVLPFC and performance
RVLPFC
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Signs of stress
• Sleep – difficulty falling asleep, lying awake early, and/or not feeling refreshed after 6-8 hours sleep
• Heartburn, acid indigestion
• Headaches, muscle aches, fatigue
• Irritability, anxiety
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What to do
• See your GP about physical symptoms
• Do at least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise, at least 3 times a week
• Talk to an executive coach or psychologist
• Yoga and/or meditation
• Keep a journal of your feelings
• Anything that expels negative emotions from your system
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OUT
IN
• Emotional regulation
• Bias suppression
• Multi-tasking
• Problem solving
• Flexible thinking
• Creativity
• Oxygen
• Glucose
• Simplicity
• Rest
• Humour
•Hydration
Your brain at its best
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What happens in the brain when
conditions are optimised?
• PFC regulates the emotional processes
that are interacting with decision making
• Multiple information is processed quickly
• Unwanted information is suppressed
• What is important is seen
• The best choice or decision is made
• 3 principles or questions for yourself
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The brain is a constant scanner
• Generally the brain
likes to know what
is coming next…
• Trust uses more
resources than the
default mode of
mistrust
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(Un) Fairness
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Threats to the brain at work
• Novelty
• Uncertainty
• Uncontrollability
• Learning
• Physicality
• Power stress: too much to do, dealing
with uncertainty, being watched by
others
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What happens in the brain during
uncertainty or when “things go wrong”?
• PFC mis-regulation leads to human error
• Neurochemicals adapt trust, risk-taking ability and stress management
• Freeze
• Perception blurs
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Neurochemicals & insight
• DA - reward
• 5HT – happiness
• Oxytocin - trust
• Testosterone - risk
• Cortisol - stress
• Adrenaline - freeze
• NA - intensity
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Emotions and decision making
• Emotions bias all decisions
• Stress/fear biases decisions to the
emotional system through the cortisol
pathways
• Oxytocin shapes the neural circuitry of
trust adaptation
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Implicit and explicit learning
Left: learning by instruction
Right: learning by experience
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People use two decision-making systems
Gather facts and data
Select option to maximise objectives
Create and evaluate options
“Cortical” – reflective, rational
“How do we know it’s right?”
Potential for
misalignment,
delay, resistance
Gather experience
Match to experience and decide
Recognise situation
“Limbic” – intuitive, automatic
“It just feels right”
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Read out the colour that the words
are written in
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Read out the colour that the words are written in
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A distillation of
Leadership essentials
Connect Be courageous
Be clever enough Walk own talk
Inspire others
into action Be worth following
Social neurosciences
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Distributed leadership
Only tries to change two behaviours at a time
Uses “we” instead of “I”
Promotes intelligent risk-taking
Gives praise
Trusts others judgement and expertise
Leaves decisions to those responsible
Encourages alignment Neuroleadership
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Key conclusions
• Integration or synthesis of brain structure and function is key to maximising personal impact
• Integrated Leaders and high performing organisations flourish through the effect of trust on brain reward systems
• New knowledge about neuroplasticity means that interventions such as brain-based coaching can make a profound difference
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Recommended reading
‘Mindsight’ by Daniel Siegel
‘The Brain that Changes Itself’ by Norman Doidge
‘An Attitude for Acting’ by Andrew Tidmarsh and Dr. Tara Swart
‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman
‘Nudge’ by Richard Thayler
‘Predictably Irrational’ by Dan Ariely
‘The hour between dog and wolf’ by John Coates
‘How to be interesting’ by David Gillespie & Mark Warren
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