The Neuroscience of Effective Coaching

You're trying to help others change - but is it working?

Helping others is a good thing. Often, as a leader, manager, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. But even the most well-intentioned efforts to help others can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on trying to "fix" people, correcting problems, or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn't work well, if at all, to inspire sustained learning or positive change.

There's a better way. In this powerful, practical presentation, emotional intelligence expert Richard Boyatzis introduces a clear way to help someone learn and change while connecting to that person's positive vision of themselves or an inspiring dream or goal they've long held. This is what great coaches do--they know that people draw energy from their visions and dreams, and that same energy sustains their efforts to change, even through difficult times.

This session will address the following:

1. A process for developing sustainable improvement on EI, resonant relationships, and the central role of compassion in it.

2. Understanding the psycho-physiological role of the Positive Emotional Attractor and the Negative Emotional Attractor in motivating change or encouraging the status quo regression.

3. Perceiving how coaching with compassion is effective in helping people change in sustainable ways, but coaching for compliance is not. And why it is crucial to the sustainability of the leader (i.e., the coach) as well.

4. Understanding the neural activations involved in these two forms of coaching and why one prepares a person to consider change and learning and the other closes their minds.

5. How to coach others to develop EI, resonant leadership, and to sustainably change.

1.5 Core Competency CCEs