27 September 2023

Traction: The Neuroscience of Leadership and Performance

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Reviewed by Rama Gaind.

By Kristen Hansen, Dennis Jones & Associates, $24.95.

As the sub-title states, this book will transform the way you think and enhance decision-making, nurture resilience and develop a better means of connecting with people round you.

Is boosting brain efficiency the key to successful leadership? According to Hansen,

you will be able to accelerate your leadership based on the NeuroTREAD model.

Hansen provides a revolutionary way to learn how to Think, Regulate, Engage, Adapt and Develop with the brain in mind.

Neuroscience is transforming leadership development all over the world. By understanding the mechanics of your own brain, managers can become the engineers of change in themselves and their teams.

It’s been said, “Kristen has finally given us the scientific backing we need to facilitate leadership growth”.

The neuroleadership specialist draws on experience after helping more than 7,000 managers across various industries. Kristen shows readers how to:

  • Discover an easy 30-second circuit breaker to reset when under pressure
  • Develop valuable tools to get your brain performing at its peak for longer
  • Understand emotion contagion and how to motivate high performance in individuals
  • Explore why leading change is hard and how to become an adaptive leader
  • Learn how to have better conversations through a brain-based coaching approach

Become an ‘agile’ leader of change and performance through neuroscience principles.

Discover how to build self-awareness and improve emotion regulation, maximise decision-making, resilience, engagement, motivation, adaptive leadership, performance conversations, coaching and feedback.

If you correctly tell us how to ‘accelerate your leadership skills,’ then you could win one of two personally autographed copies of Traction by Kristen Hansen. Entries should be sent to [email protected] by next Monday, 18 June 2018. Names of the winners will be announced in Frank Cassidy’s PS-sssst…! column next week.

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