Growth is good for business (and brains!), but growth means change. Change can be hard on the brain, because we perceive uncertainty as a potential threat to our wellbeing or survival.

In this lesson, you’ll learn about:

• The neuroscience of change, and why brains both hate it and need it;

• Why procrastination is actually an emotional regulation issue, and what to do about it.

Change is necessary for growth, cognitively generative, and, well - constant. So our ability to make meaningful progress in our lives is, by definition, either limited or amplified by our ability to manage uncertainty.

In this lesson, you’ll learn:

• How reframing our perception from change to challenge improves our ability to navigate uncertainty; and

• Where “Growth Mindset” comes in…

How do we give ourselves the best chance of reaching our personal and organizational change goals? 

As a leader, the first step in learning how to bake capacity into your strategic plans is clear: improve your Emotional Intelligence (EQ).

In this lesson, you’ll learn why Emotional Intelligence is a critical leadership skill, and explore some resources that can support your EQ development.

In this lesson, you’ll learn what impacts our physical, emotional, and mental capacity. 

• Physical capacity allows your body to power your brain.

• Emotional capacity allows your brain power to be directed to the higher-order cognitive functions necessary for goal-directed thinking and behavior

• Mental capacity allows you to further refine that power, boosting executive functioning and improving HOW you think (not just whether you can).

In order to assess whether someone has the capacity to execute our tactical plan, we first need to identify and define our destination - what is our desired outcome, and what will it take to reach it?

By first understanding demand, we are more able to identify gaps in supply.

In this lesson, you’ll have the opportunity to practice identifying the capacity demands of a plan you’re currently developing at work.

In this lesson, we’ll explore capacity-assessment questions that will help you understand the supply you’re working with, so that you can strategically embed EQ tactics that bridge the gap between where folks are, and where they’ll need to be for the plan to succeed.

You’ll have the opportunity to practice applying physical, emotional, and mental capacity assessment questions to your real-world scenario.

Effective change management plans leverage emotional intelligence to notice and proactively address gaps between the physical, emotional, and mental demands of the plan and the physical, emotional, and mental capacity of the real human beings responsible for executing the plan.

In this lesson, we’ll explore a variety of concrete strategies you can employ to proactively elevate your team’s capacity, ensuring they’re able to show up and perform at the highest level.

In this lesson, Colleen will walk you through “The Human How” Worksheet - a quick-reference tool you can use to think through how to support your team through a change management (or any other) plan moving forward!