Neuroscience

Optimizing Your Brain with Emotional Intelligence

– Posted in: Emotional Intelligence, Neuroscience
brain with colors to show its activity and connections

EMOTIONS AND THE BRAIN In their search for understanding how the brain works neuroscientists discovered emotions. And it turns out that emotions play a big role. They are necessary to thinking and decision-making and are in general much more important than we used to believe. In our Western culture environment, which highly values analytical and [...]

Leadership Message From A Maestro

– Posted in: Emotional Intelligence, Neuroscience
Maestro Gernot Schultz and the Lake Shore Symphony Orchestra

Watching an orchestra rehearse and a conductor interact with the ensemble, manage and lead, provides a powerful analogy of leadership skills and behaviors. This parallel has been mentioned in various writings on leadership.  In addition, it’s even been used in an executive education course case study offered by such prestigious schools as Harvard in Boston [...]

Halloween Spook – Social and Emotional Skills for Leadership

– Posted in: Emotional Intelligence, Neuroscience

Social and emotional skills are critical for leadership. The best leaders are able to be both task focused and people focused. They get things done while connecting with others and building strong relationships. “Many companies have long overlooked the importance of social skills in leadership, often to great detriment. Simply put, without robust social skills [...]

What happens to your brain when you “flip your lid”?

– Posted in: Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Positive Psychology

Dr. Siegel has a unique ability to make complicated scientific concepts exciting and easy to understand and here he is explaining that “flip”. Dr. Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and the founding co-director [...]

Starved for time? Overwhelmed? Here is how to recharge

– Posted in: Emotional Intelligence, Life Balance, Mindfulness, Neuroscience

  The Holiday season often brings us more time pressures, with additional family and social obligations and activities. So instead of enjoying the holidays we end up stressed out and scramble to juggle it all. This makes me wonder why do we always feel starved for time? It seems that we have all forgotten how [...]