Essential Conversations
Connecting with colleagues on the most vital issues.
Conflict is a double-edged sword. It can foster creativity and improve results, or it can undermine relationships and threaten productivity. Turn difficult discussions into a vehicle for personal growth and improved teamwork.
Human Brain vs. Reptile Brain
Inside our brain lives a little reptile called the amygdala. It is fast and excellent at keeping us from harm. The reptile brain triggers the fight-or-flight responses that protect us from physical harm, but sabotage essential conversations.
Our thoughtful, human brain has incredible power. It is also significantly slower than the reptile brain, which can derail feedback conversations before our human brain even realizes what has happened.
In this training, participants learn how to master the skill of receiving and giving feedback — in all its forms — while keeping themselves and others out of the reptile brain and in their human brain.
We put the learning back into conversations and help your people turn difficult discussions into a vehicle for personal growth and improved collaboration.
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The percentage of hiring managers who consider communication skills one fo the most important attributes for employees.
Companies ranked communication skills as the most important consideration when giving promotions.
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The estimated reduction in IQ when your amygdala is triggered and blood is shunted away from your brain to support the fight-or-flight response.
Ready to use your human brain?
