Tag Archives: Coaching

Climb Onto The Bandwagon! But Does It Have Wheels?

Resilience is a term that is used more and more these days. In these times of recession, stress and adversity we are told that we must develop resilience and that we must ‘future-proof’ our businesses to weather the storm.

Today and next time, I talk about future-proofing ourselves. But am I just peddling more snake-oil or is there truth (or *evidence*) that we can indeed develop resilience and be better able to deal with the slings and arrows that the world throws at us?

The Real Deal with Stress in Leadership Training

Leadership Training reveals the truth about stress and explains why great leaders need to know about it. The new leadership trainings that take brain science into account produce great results. Show The Transcription I’m Amy Brann from Synaptic Potential.com. Stress often gets a bad press and we’re going to look at an example that shows [...]

Should Female Leadership Training Be Different

Leadership Training can educate us on differences between male leaders and female leaders through a comprehensive leadership training. Show The Transcription I’m Amy Brann from Synaptic Potential.com and we’re looking at whether female leadership training should be any different to male leadership training. My answer in brief is maybe, or at least, women & men [...]

Positioning Leadership Trainings

Leadership Training can require positioning, to companies, to team players, to other leaders. This is an important part of leadership training. Show The Transcription I’m Amy Brann from Synaptic Potential.com and we’re looking at some of the challenges with introducing the idea of new leadership training into an organization. Some leaders can feel that they’ve [...]

Neuroscience Transforming Leadership Trainings

Leadership trainings can be based on guesswork and they can be based purely on what people have observed and people’s experience, but while it is hugely valuable that’s only one side of what’s going on. Show The Transcription I’m Amy Brann from Synaptic Potential.com and we are looking at neuroscience and if it is transforming [...]

Leadership Training on Multitasking

Multitasking does have a place in modern leadership training and there’s an opportunity to go much deeper into it. Show The Transcription I’m Amy Brann from Synaptic Potential.com and we’re looking at whether multitasking has a place in leadership training today.  The reason for this is because if our aim is to create leaders who [...]

Leadership Training-Handling Conflict

Leadership Training addresses the important issue of handling conflict using what we know about the brain for maximum leadership training effectiveness. Show The Transcription I’m Amy Brann from Synaptic Potential.com and we’re looking at conflict. Conflict is something that quite often leadership trainings can overcomplicate and make out it’s a very complex issue and a [...]

The Power of Praise

How did you feel the last time you achieved something tricky? What about the last time someone paid you a sincere compliment? A recent study looked at the real weight a person’s self esteem had. We know from personal experience that feeling good about ourselves is important and as you reflect you’ll probably notice that [...]

Are your teams learning from one another’s successes or from their failures?

It is popular to think that people learn from how other people succeed, and that failure doesn’t really exist…only an opportunity to learn. This could be even more true than we previously realised. A quick way to improve your efficiency is to learn from other’s mistakes. Save yourself the time of having to go through [...]

Managing opinions; are you favourable?

Do you remember being around a colleague when they are speaking poorly of someone else? How did it make you feel? What about someone who is known for tending to speak negatively about lots of different people? We have a natural response when people are speaking negatively about others. Perhaps you remember feeling uncomfortable when [...]