Brain-Based Boss

People engagement expert Terry Williams talks about how to get better buy-in.

Episode 38: Challenging Assumptions 07/17/2019

Episode 38: Challenging Assumptions Pattern recognition, recency and familiarity biases can impact our perceptions and responses. If you're hiring a librarian and the applicant doesn't look like your preconceived notion of what a librarian looks like, does that impact your assessment of them? If your high school bully was named Toby, does that affect your impressions of other Tobys you meet later? On average it does. Don't be average. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/10548320

Episode 37: Change and Overcoming Passive Aggressive Avoidance 04/11/2019

Episode 37: Change and Overcoming Passive Aggressive Avoidance The odds are very high that any people you’re leading, and from whom you’re trying to get buy-in for change, have had leaders like you try it with them before. On average, it’s likely that those previous efforts and results have not been great. Overt and obvious opposition is easy to spot and you're compelled to actively deal with it but how do you spot and proactively manage those that don't actively oppose change but 'drag the chain'? /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/9352655

Episode 36 Getting Better BuyIn: How to motivate your people to move with you 11/20/2017

Episode 36 Getting Better BuyIn: How to motivate your people to move with you Practical things a frontline leader can do to make a difference in the motivational levels of your people. The thing about behaviour change is that you can’t do it for them, nor can you always be around when the going gets tough. For those people doing the actual moving towards behaviour change, they need to: /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/5963527

Episode 36: Bad Use Of Feet, Forks, And Fingers 11/01/2017

Episode 36: Bad Use Of Feet, Forks, And Fingers Our longevity, health, quality of life and personal productivity are due 30% to luck and 70% to our choices and behaviours. What are 10 choices we can make, any one of which would actually diminish our odds of decline or disaster? How wrong are we when it comes to estimating where our problems will occur? /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/5863547

Episode 35: Prolonging Personal Productivity 10/24/2017

Episode 35: Prolonging Personal Productivity What are the habits of those who do live longer and remain happy and meaningfully productive for longer? What are the signs to watch out for that maybe now is the time to start taking control rather than continue to rely on your body's and mind's good luck? What clues are there that the fad you're reading about is snake-oil quackery? /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/5863514

Episode 34: Addressing Poor Sleep 10/18/2017

Episode 34: Addressing Poor Sleep Though researchers don’t know the exact mechanism, it seems that chronic lack of sleep causes inflammation, elevates blood pressure and heart rate, and affects glucose levels, leading to a much higher stroke risk in the sleep-deprived. Sleep increases the ability of the four main healthy lifestyle habits (a healthy diet, exercise, moderate alcohol consumption and not smoking) to protect the body against cardiovascular disease. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/5852420

Episode 33: Impact Of Poor Sleep 10/10/2017

Episode 33: Impact Of Poor Sleep Poor sleep can increase your risk of a stroke by 400%. Ineffective sleep makes you less productive immediately, not at 3pm the next day. If you pour red bull into your laptop, it doesn't work as well. The same goes for your body and brain. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/5827220

Episode 32: Structured Behavioural Event Interviewing 08/23/2017

Episode 32: Structured Behavioural Event Interviewing Much time, effort and expense is wasted on hiring the wrong people. Job interviews are critically important, yet the vast majority of people conducting job interviews have received zero training at job interviewing. Here is a walk-through a simple but consistently effective approach to conducting job interviews. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/5667528

Episode 31: Connection To Your Future Self 09/04/2015

Episode 31: Connection To Your Future Self People with strong connections to their future selves make better decisions. In the absence of time travel technology like the Terminator movies, how can we generate such connections? /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3690920

Episode 30: The Influence Of Workspaces 08/24/2015

Episode 30: The Influence Of Workspaces A half dozen or so studies on how physical space influences behaviour, decisions and relationships. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3690907

Episode 29: The Way Things Are Done Around Here 08/17/2015

Episode 29: The Way Things Are Done Around Here When we start a job, how accepting are we of the way things are done around here? Where's the challenge or validation of things that may have lost their point or been surpassed? /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3690897

Episode 28: Reciprocity 08/10/2015

Episode 28: Reciprocity A quick snapshop of a couple of studies on how our behaviuour can be nudged by others through small positive actions. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3657869

Episode 27: Sleep 08/03/2015

Episode 27: Sleep A few tips and techniques on getting the right amount of sleep consistently and optimising its quality, plus a breakdown on some consequences longterm for not doing so :-( /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3657860

Episode 26: Debriefing 07/27/2015

Episode 26: Debriefing I talk about debriefing in a training context then a workplace context, plus recommend an HBR article by Doug Sundheim. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3657828

Episode 25: The Dangers Of Cash Incentives 07/20/2015

Episode 25: The Dangers Of Cash Incentives Some thinking around the inter-relationships and conflicts between social norms and marketing norms when it comes to influencing the behaviour of others. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3638965

Episode 24: Ego 07/13/2015

Episode 24: Ego Short n sweet - a quick story about a quirky psych study showing how we perceive that others take far more notice of us than they actually do. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3638949

Episode 23: Fatigue 07/06/2015

Episode 23: Fatigue What is a 'shift worker'? Is a tired employee 'fit for work'? /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3638936

Episode 22: First Impressions 06/29/2015

Episode 22: First Impressions You never get a second chance to make a first impression. What tricks do our lazy brains pull on us and others? How can we prevent or lessen these, or, how can we leverage these to our advantage? /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3604190

Episode 21: The Future Of Work Part 2 06/22/2015

Episode 21: The Future Of Work Part 2 Continuing on from the last episode, we look at the criteria by which we assess our past jobs and provide a tool with which we can steer towards future jobs. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3604112

Episode 20: The Future Of Work 06/15/2015

Episode 20: The Future Of Work My responses and reactions to a speaker I MC'd at a conference last week who spoke about career planning. What jobs are coming and going? Too many of us too often think about our careers and ask, "What next?" A smarter road is to ask, "Where to?" /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3604033

Episode 19: Inattentional Blindness Part 2 06/08/2015

Episode 19: Inattentional Blindness Part 2 Following up last week's episode about how our brains fill in the gaps and make up memories, this episode gives a great case study, suggests some solutions and there's a neat optical illusion activity to prove our actual blind spots. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3595315

Episode 18: Inattentional Blindness 06/04/2015

Episode 18: Inattentional Blindness We often miss things. We often remember things that never were. We are very reluctant to believe that we miss things or remember things that never were. Memories are less like CCTV footage and more like all of us being directors of reboots / reimaginings of our lives. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3595204

Episode 17: Challenge Assumptions 05/04/2015

Episode 17: Challenge Assumptions In this episode, I look at several pieces of research around the illusion of familiarity and how evolution and experience has shaped us into preferring the safety of the familiar and distrusting the novel. This impacts on people in the workplace - the aversion to change in many and the errors people make in perceiving patterns in randomness. A higher performing workplace culture builds into its processes self-correction and the challenging of assumptions. How can we tweak our workplace cultures to be more like that? /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3506980

Episode 16: Deliberate Practice 04/27/2015

Episode 16: Deliberate Practice Gladwell drew a lot of attention to the notion of expertise requiring 10,000 hours. In this podcast, I talk about the original researcher, the very narrow application of the theory, and the set of practical steps anyone can apply for themselves and those they lead (as long as you're really keen and passionate about what performance you're trying to improve.). /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3506971

Episode 15: Feedback, Positivity Ratios & Functional Fixedness 04/20/2015

Episode 15: Feedback, Positivity Ratios & Functional Fixedness We might imagine that a tremendously positive workplace envrionment is a productive place to work. Research shows that a totally positive workplace isn't as productive as you might think. There's a place for negativity in proportion. How can we, individually and in teams, see things and behaviours as they actually are and critique them? /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3481190

Episode 14: Effective Coaching And Natural Learning 04/13/2015

Episode 14: Effective Coaching And Natural Learning So often we try and teach others or coach others or supervise others in a way that clashes with the way people naturally learn. It's quicker, cheaper, more effective and longer-lasting if we can plug into the way people learn naturally. In this episode, I talk through some techniques to quieten our unhelpful inner mental critics and guide people to leverage the power of their own subconscious minds to practise and learn experientially in a way that sticks and drives purposeful changes in behaviour. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3481036

Episode 13: 'Flow' And Workplace Interruptions 04/07/2015

Episode 13: 'Flow' And Workplace Interruptions Picture if you will a vertical axis called 'Challenge' and a horizontal axis called 'Skill.' Various combinations of challenge and skill can result in a person being in a state of apathy, worry, control... but what we're aiming for more of is 'FLOW' - a magical (not really magical) state where a high level of skill meets a high level of challenge. Time flies and good things happen. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3427699

Episode 12 - HR 2115 03/30/2015

Episode 12 - HR 2115 Extrapolating current trends to ridiculous extremes. Will there be jobs for humans in 2115? /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3373473

Episode 11 - Feedback And The Dunning-Kruger Effect 03/23/2015

Episode 11 - Feedback And The Dunning-Kruger Effect The highly skilled and the highly unskilled have something in common - a poor ability to accurately judge their own skill level. It's just that the skilled judge themselves too low and the unskilled judge themselves too low. Just watch every talent show audition process ever... For a limited-time promo free copy of my book 'Live Work Love: #Add10QualityYears', check it out at amazon /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3373453

Episode 10 - Mindset 03/16/2015

Episode 10 - Mindset A primer on the work of Carol Dweck and how people's behaviour towards effort and mistakes reveal our true mindsets and how those mindsets, unless we choose to change them, can affect our outcomes. /episode/index/show/brainbasedboss/id/3373421

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