The Neuroscience of Leading High-Performance Teams
This course is part of Neuroscience of Leadership: Leading with Your Brain.
This comprehensive course explores how neuroscience principles can transform your leadership approach to build high-performing teams. In today's business environment where employee engagement is critically low, you'll discover powerful brain-based techniques to motivate teams, create psychological safety, tell compelling stories, and coach effectively. Based on the latest research in social cognitive neuroscience, the course provides practical tools to enhance motivation, set better goals, build trust within your team, improve collaboration, master storytelling, think on your feet, and develop coaching skills that drive performance. You'll learn how the brain's reward network functions, how trust and psychological safety impact team dynamics, the neural basis of collaboration and influence, the science behind effective storytelling, and compassion-based coaching approaches that facilitate behavior change.
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What you'll learn
Understand how the brain's reward network impacts motivation and goal-setting
Apply the SCARF framework to build psychological safety in teams
Master the neuroscience of influence and collaboration
Harness the primal power of storytelling to lead effectively
Develop coaching techniques based on compassion rather than compliance
Recognize how stress and fear impact team performance
Skills you'll gain
This course includes:
2.5 Hours PreRecorded video
6 assignments
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There are 5 modules in this course
This course examines leadership techniques through the lens of social cognitive neuroscience and psychology, focusing specifically on leading and coaching high-performance teams. The curriculum is structured around five key modules: Motivation and Goal Setting, Psychological Safety, Collaboration and Influence, Storytelling and Improvisation, and Transformative Power of Coaching. Each module combines video lectures with extensive research readings to provide both theoretical understanding and practical applications. Students learn how the brain's reward network affects motivation, how to create psychological safety using the SCARF framework, the neural basis of collaboration and influence, the science of storytelling and improvisation, and approaches to coaching with compassion that drive behavior change.
Motivation and Goal Setting
Module 1 · 7 Hours to complete
Psychological Safety
Module 2 · 4 Hours to complete
Collaboration and Influence
Module 3 · 4 Hours to complete
Storytelling and Improvisation
Module 4 · 3 Hours to complete
Transformative Power of Coaching
Module 5 · 4 Hours to complete
Fee Structure
Individual course purchase is not available - to enroll in this course with a certificate, you need to purchase the complete Professional Certificate Course. For enrollment and detailed fee structure, visit the following: Neuroscience of Leadership: Leading with Your Brain
Instructor
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Ron Duren Jr. joined the Engineering Management Program as an instructor in 2015, after spending 18 years in the corporate world with a Fortune 500 company as a Mechanical Engineer in the data storage industry. He has extensive experience managing outsourced global project teams in Asia. As a design Engineer, he is the owner of four design patents. He now owns a Leadership Coaching and Consulting practice, in addition to his teaching. He specializes in Leadership development and training executives to perform at their very best under stressful situations. A personal area of interest is performance psychology, in sports and business. His belief is that owning your “mental game” is the secret to being a warrior in whatever endeavor you pursue.
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