Tony Faulkner Managing Director

Neuroscience research is revealing the social nature of the high performance work place.

The human brain is a social organ. Its physiological and neurological reactions are directly and profoundly sahped by social interactions. Most processes operating in the background when your brain is at rest are involved in thinking about other people or yourself

The brain experiances the work place first and foremost as a social system

The fundamental organizational principle of the… Show more

Neuroscience research is revealing the social nature of the high performance work place.

The human brain is a social organ. Its physiological and neurological reactions are directly and profoundly sahped by social interactions. Most processes operating in the background when your brain is at rest are involved in thinking about other people or yourself

The brain experiances the work place first and foremost as a social system

The fundamental organizational principle of the brain is to maximize rewrad minimze danger.

Leaders who understand this process can more effecticly engage their employees best talents, support collaboarative teams and create an environment that fosters change. Indeed the ability to address the social brain in the service of optimal performance will be a distinguishing leadership capability in years ahead.

Are you wearing your SCARF today?

Five particular qualities enable employees and executuives alike to minimize the threat respones and instead maximize the reward response

The five social qualities are

STATUS
CERTAINTY
Autonomy
Relatedness
Fairness

If you are a leader every action you take and every decision you make either supports or undermines the percieved levels os SCARF. This is why leading is so difficult

The SCARF model brings a means of conscious awerness to all those potentially fraught interactions. It helps alert you to peoples core concerns and shows you how to calibrate your words and actions to better effect.

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Growing a winning culture within academy football. How the past still has an important role in the future. A PhD research project. The primary purpose is
1) Define just what is a 'winning culture'
2) Society and academies may be developing young people who don't have the resources to deal with the demands elite level football will place on them
3) Identify what are the psychological characteristics required to operate within a winning culture

4) Design and implement coaching… Show more

Growing a winning culture within academy football. How the past still has an important role in the future. A PhD research project. The primary purpose is
1) Define just what is a 'winning culture'
2) Society and academies may be developing young people who don't have the resources to deal with the demands elite level football will place on them
3) Identify what are the psychological characteristics required to operate within a winning culture

4) Design and implement coaching resources grow a winning culture within academy football Show less