​Pay close attention during your next team meeting. Observe how your team is coping with today’s complex business challenges. Listen to the way your team communicates in the face of constant change, ambiguity, and increased diversity. What do you notice? Is your team engaged in the battle of best opinions? Or is your team working to cultivate a ‘Coaching Culture’?

​A Coaching Culture is the opposite of the battle for best opinions. A Coaching Culture is the collective set of group beliefs, values, and behaviours, that when supported by the right environmental conditions and leadership practices, cultivates mindful curiosity and supportive team member development. This cultivation of mindful curiosity and supportive team member development allows for new shared understandings of the world to emerge. Such new shared understandings of the world are essential for innovation in today's increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. In the words of Albert Einstein "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”.

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Seven daily essential mental activities to optimise brain matter and create well-being.

​​Focus Time
When we closely focus on tasks in a goal-oriented way, we take on challenges that make deep connections in the brain.

Play Time
When we allow ourselves to be spontaneous or creative, playfully enjoying novel experiences, we help make new connections in the brain.

​Connecting Time
When we connect with other people, ideally in person, and when we take time to appreciate our connection to the natural world around us, we activate and reinforce the brain's relational circuitry.
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Come and join the group for the next Brains in Business meeting on December 7th from 5pm - 7pm.

We thought we would ask you, the people who have supported the group for the last few years…we are inviting anyone who would like to give a 7 minute presentation on any aspect of the brain and work. This could be something you’ve learned, something you’ve applied or something you promote or sell - the only criteria is it MUST be solidly brain based - no tenuous links please 😄

Please let Kailee (kailee@continuumconsulting.co.nz) know your topic by Friday 19 January and we’ll organise an order of play.

Look forward to seeing you all.​

Meanwhile… watch Dr Paul McDonald talk about the brain and leadership at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Qz5mbKh5Y&t=26s 
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RSVP to LIG@continuumconsulting.co.nz

With the emergence of the information age people have been promoted based on their ability to think.    As information quickly became a source of competitive advantage, this ability has become more and more valued.  We are inundated with data, and we expect our people to be able to keep up with it all, at the same time as being “learning agile” and developing themselves and others.

In spite of this increasing demand, business has not paid much attention to the very tool that each of us has at our disposal in this battle for competitive advantage – the brains that belong to the people who come to our workplaces each day.

Organisations such as Google are learning from the field of neuroscience and creating brain friendly workplaces and practices – giving people the means and space to think effectively, while at work.
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Join us for the next Brains in Business meeting on June 27th from 5pm - 6.30pm. We are delighted to advise that we will be having Michelle Dalley talk with us. Michelle will share the findings on Conversational Intelligence. In this session, you will get to have an experience of what conversational intelligence is and how you might apply it to help yourself and others to transform conversations. Your facilitator for this session is Michelle Dalley who is a certified Conversational Intelligence coach and part of the inaugural group of international coaches to learn this methodology.

RSVP to LIG@continuumconsulting.co.nz

Join us at our next Brains in Business Local Interest Group meeting at 5pm on September 29th. We are pleased to host two speakers:

Workplace Resilience 
With Dr Dee Alexander
Resilience is the ability to remain calm, effective and focused under pressure. Resilient people behave differently. We can each discover how to bounce back from adversity, show courage, develop our creativity and live in connection with others. By building integral daily practices we learn how to master our well being, and increase our resilience. 


An Analysis of Impediments to Collaboration in the NZ Public Sector
With Nasi Jenkin
This presentation outlines opportunities for the public sector and provides some insightful strategic thinking. Nasi’s research goes beyond the why and moves into the what and how of delivering successful collaborative initiatives, with demonstrable benefits and outcomes. This presentation will be an opportunity to summarise and breathe life into some of her findings.