Effective Communication Archives - Page 4 of 15

Brain Power: Practical Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Brain to Improve Thinking, Learning, and Performance

Webinar Description

Understanding how our brains work can transform our daily lives.

Fortunately, brain scientists know a good deal about the things that impact our brains.

In this training we will explore 12 brain rules highlighted by molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, and how we can use them to improve thinking, learning, and performance.

The 12 Rules we will explore are:

Exercise
Survival
Sleep
Stress
Wiring
Attention
Memory
Sensory Integration
Vision
Music
Gender
Exploration

Understanding the impact of the 12 rules on our brains can help us maximize they way we live and work!

Cognitive Bias: Uncover Blindspots in Your Thinking and Decision Making

Webinar Description

A cognitive bias is an error or blind spot in our thinking and decision making.

It convinces us that we have an accurate understanding of a person or situation, when we actually don’t.

Cognitive biases lead to:

Unfair treatment of others.
Decisions with unintended consequences.
Decisions that backfire in the long term.
Decisions (and actions) that have a negative impact on people we serve.
Overconfidence in our knowledge and understanding.
Unwillingness to listen, learn, and improve in certain areas.

In this training you will learn: (Learning Objectives)

Common cognitive biases.
Strategies to combat biases.
How to make better decisions that are less influenced by biases.

Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World

Webinar Description

We limit ourselves by looking too often at the big picture, and at other times too long at the fine detail.

However, there is great power in these misperceptions. We can learn to leverage perceptual illusions if we know when and how to use them to our advantage.

In this webinar Social Psychologist Emily Balcetis will share four powerful yet largely untapped visual tactics that you can use to improve outcomes in several situations.

In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives):

Narrow Your Focus – How narrowing your focus helps you exercise effectively, save money, and find more time in your day.
Widen the bracket – Seeing the forest instead of the trees reduces temptations and helps you recognize when a change of course is in order.
Materialize your plan and your progress – Creating checklists and objective assessments inspires better planning and adjusts your gauge of what’s really left to be done.
Control your frame of reference – Knowing where to direct attention improves your ability to read others’ emotions, negotiate better outcomes, foster stronger relationships, and overcome fear.
Successful people literally see the world differently.
In this training you will learn how anyone can leverage this “perception gap” to their advantage!

About the Speaker: Emily Balcetis

Emily Balcetis is a renowned psychologist and associate professor at New York University. She specializes in social psychology, with her research focusing on perception, motivation, and goal-setting. Balcetis has conducted extensive studies on how people perceive challenges, pursue goals, and stay motivated, often integrating visual and cognitive processes into her research.

She is known for her work on “motivational vision,” which explores how people’s visual perceptions can shape their motivation and behavior. Her findings have been applied in diverse fields, including health, education, and personal development.

Critical Thinking: Solve Problems, Succeed in Life

Webinar Description

Whatever you are doing right now is determined by the way you are thinking.

Whatever emotions you feel are influenced by your thinking.

Whatever you want – all your desires – are determined by your thinking.

If your thinking is unrealistic, it will lead you to many disappointments.

If your thinking is overly pessimistic, it will deny you due recognition of the many things in which you should properly rejoice.

In this webinar you will learn the tools the best thinkers use in their work and personal lives.

You will learn how to implement these qualities of the best thinkers:

How to reflect on your thinking.
How to be more purposeful.
Intellectual tools to raise the quality of your thinking.
How to distinguish thoughts from feelings and desires.

This webinar will help you reason well through the problems and issues you face at work and in your personal life.

About the Speaker: Dr. Brian Barnes

Dr. Brian Barnes holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Louisville.

Barnes is a veteran of the US Army, along with other non-academic careers, and currently teaches face-to-face and online classes at several universities in traditional philosophy topics, along with courses in sustainability, critical thinking, and Japanese sword practice.

He has co-authored articles examining critical thinking strategies and tactics for the National Teaching and Learning Forum and is the author of the textbook, The Central Question: Critical Engagement with Business Ethics (2013).

Barnes co-hosts the weekly radio show, Critical Thinking for Everyone!, on 106.5 Forward Radio in Louisville, and he also created the critical thinking comic book series, Adventures in Critical Thinking. Dr. Barnes is a Scholar of the Foundation for Critical Thinking, and was a direct student of Dr. Richard Paul.

Decision Making: What Magic Tricks Reveal About Free Will

Webinar Description

Psychological scientist and author Dr. Alice Pailhès has pioneered the scientific research on magicians’ mind control tricks, called forcing techniques.

But these mind control tricks don’t just exist in the world of magic – they’re part of your everyday decision-making process.

In this webinar you will learn: (Learning Objectives)

How forcing techniques work.
How to identify blindspots.
Invisible forces that shape our decision making.

This is guaranteed to be a fun and enlightening session that will take your thinking and decision making to a new level!

About the Speaker: Dr. Alice Pailhès

Dr Pailhès has pioneered the scientific research on magicians’ mind control tricks, called forcing techniques. Her studies focus on investigating magic tricks to study psychological principles such as illusory sense of agency and freedom over choice, decision-making processes, memory malleability, or placebo effects.

Her research has been published in high-impact journals (e.g., PNAS, JEP: General or TiCS) and has gained visibility through diverse media and public talks (e.g., TED, The Financial Times, BBC and BBC the One Show, the Wellcome Collection…).

She’s the author of The Psychology of Magic, a co-written with Dr. Gustav Kuhn, gathering scientific insights about magic to make it useful and accessible to the magic community.

She is also a committee member of SoMA – the Science of Magic Association – an interdisciplinary organization that promotes rigorous research directed toward understanding the nature, function and underlying mechanisms of magic.

Dr Pailhès is a regular keynote speaker on the topic of the psychology of magic, decision-making, illusory freedom over choice and the quirks of our mind.

Contagious Culture, Contagious You. Your Presence is Your Impact

Webinar Description

Your success and influence as a professional depends upon your ability to relate to others, to create impact with your clients and team, and in being an inspiring authentic human to be with.

It’s the quality of your presence that ultimately determines your ability to succeed—your presence is your impact, and for good or bad, you are contagious.

In this webinar, Anese Cavanaugh will share the the following (Learning Objectives)

The power of using intention, service, and self-care as magic
How to use the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence) to create impact
Frameworks for up-leveling your leadership presence and (positive) contagiousness.

About the Speaker: Anese Cavanaugh

Anese Cavanaugh is devoted to helping people show up and bring their best selves to the table in order to create significant positive impact in their lives.

She is the creator of the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence®), an advisor and thinking partner to leaders and organizations around the world, a keynote speaker, and author of CONTAGIOUS CULTURE: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization That Thrives, CONTAGIOUS YOU: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want, and THE LEADER YOU WILL BE: An Invitation (a leadership storybook).

As a leading voice on intention, energy, and presence in leadership and culture, she helps people unlock greater leadership potential, collaborate more inspiringly, create more openly, intuit more bravely, and lead more joyfully and effectively.

Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully

Webinar Description

Having a seat at the table doesn’t mean that your voice is actually welcome.

Knowing something is wrong doesn’t mean it’s easy to speak up.

In fact, there are incentives for many of us to stay silent.

Why speak up if you know that it won’t be received well, and in fact, often makes things worse?

Only by unlearning silence can we more fully unleash talent, speak our minds, and be more complete versions of ourselves.

In this webinar presented by author Elaine Lin Hering you will learn (Learning Objectives):

How we have learned to be silent.
How we have benefited from silence.
How we have silenced other people.
How to recognize and unlearn unconscious patterns so we can make more intentional choices about how we want to show up at home and at work.

About the Speaker: Elaine Lin Hering

Elaine Lin Hering is a facilitator, speaker, and writer.

She works with organizations and individuals to build skills in communication, collaboration, and conflict management. Elaine has worked on six continents and with a wide range of corporate, government, and nonprofit clients.

She has trained mental health professionals, political officials, religious communities, and leaders at companies including American Express, Capital One, Google, Nike, Novartis, Shell, Pixar, and the Red Cross.

Elaine is a former Managing Partner of Triad Consulting Group and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, specializing in dispute resolution, mediation, and negotiation.

Personality: Leverage Strengths and Mininmize Weaknesses to Improve Performance

Webinar Description

Many of us have taken a personality assessment at some point in our lives. These often happen when we are getting hired or as part of team building exercises.

Whether it was the Myers-Briggs, DiSC, Strength Finder, Enneagram or something else, we learned our natural strengths and weaknesses and those of our teammates as well.

A common outcome is to finally feel understood by our co-workers. I am what I am. Now THEY know how to adjust to work better with me.

In other words, we experience validation and gain some insight, but don’t grow or change.

There is a better way.

In this training we will explore how to better utilize personality assessments to leverage our strengths and minimize weaknesses.

You will learn: (Learning Objectives)

Popular personality tests and what they reveal.
How to use the personality assessment to identify areas where you can improve your performance.
How to use the personality assessments to better understand how others view you, and help you adjust to others.
A ‘work style’ assessment that will help you more easily adapt and work effectively with others.

Leading From Your Best Self: Develop Executive Poise, Presence, and Influence to Maximize Your Potential

Webinar Description

Are you showing up as the best version of yourself? Are you aware of how others experience you?

By cultivating executive poise and presence, we not only improve how others see us but enhance our capacity to lead a life of our choosing.

Get ready to learn proven techniques for building self-confidence, making personal connections, and developing a professional presence that’s powerful, authentic, and effective.

You will also learn how to increase your poise, presence, and influence no matter the position you hold.

Finally, you will learn (Learning Objectives):

How to be present and open.
How to create a solid foundation of self-confidence and your own genuine leadership style.
How to develop a System for learning, a platform for failure, and a mindset of excellence.

About the Presenter: Rob Salafia

Driven by a passion to coach leaders to develop their presence, tell compelling stories, and establish authentic connections, Rob Salafia combines two decades of experience as a top leadership development executive with a stellar past career in the performing arts.

In his current professional role, he assists leaders in their quests to build sharper levels of emotional and narrative intelligence, transition into higher organizational levels, and share their visions and strategies in compelling and relevant ways.

Rob is a Lecturer in several MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Education Programs, and an MIT Leadership Center Master Executive Coach.

He also cultivated a lasting partnership with Harvard Business School resulting in the integration of experiential programming within the Harvard MBA curriculum and Executive Education Leadership Programs serving thousands of global leaders.