The neuroscience of positive, vision-based coaching

By Greater Good Science Center | April 21, 2014

Good coach­es get results, respect, and awards. But what makes a coach or men­tor good? One school of thought says they should hold their mentees to spe­cif­ic per­for­mance bench­marks and help them reach those bench­marks by tar­get­ing their per­son­al weak­ness­es. But new research sug­gests a dif­fer­ent tack—namely, to nur­ture a mentee’s strengths, aspi­ra­tions for the future,…

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Update: The SharpBrains Guide, adopted as core reader in neuroscience and coaching course

By SharpBrains | July 30, 2013

Time for Sharp­Brains’ July 2013 e‑newsletter, fea­turing a vari­ety of resources and arti­cles at the fron­tier of applied neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and brain fit­ness. Enjoy the brain food! New resources: Inter­view: The Sharp­Brains Guide, adopt­ed as core read­er in neu­ro­science and coach­ing course New Dis­cus­sion Guide for The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness “Use it or lose it” requires…

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Interview: The SharpBrains Guide, adopted as core reader in neuroscience and coaching course

By SharpBrains | July 22, 2013

Dr. Justin Kennedy holds the posi­tion of Pro­fes­sor of Orga­ni­za­tion­al Behav­ior and Region­al Dean of Africa at UGSM-Monarch Busi­ness School Switzer­land. He holds a Doc­tor of Pro­fes­sion­al Stud­ies with UGSM-Monarch Busi­ness School Switzer­land as well as a Bach­e­lor of Social Sci­ence in Psy­chol­o­gy from Rhodes Uni­ver­si­ty, SA. Dr. Kennedy returned to the aca­d­e­m­ic field after…

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Physical and mental exercise to prevent cognitive decline

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 19, 2008 |

We offered some Brain Fit­ness Pre­dic­tions in our Mar­ket Report , includ­ing… “7. Doc­tors and phar­ma­cists will help patients nav­i­gate through the over­whelm­ing range of avail­able prod­ucts and inter­pret the results of cog­ni­tive assess­ments. This will require sig­nif­i­cant pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment efforts, giv­en that most doc­tors today were trained under a very dif­fer­ent under­stand­ing of the…

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Gratitude and Appreciation: from Theory to Practice

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 7, 2007 |

Psy­chol­o­gist Robert Emmons recent­ly told us about the many ben­e­fits of prac­tic­ing grat­i­tude. — “First, the prac­tice of grat­i­tude can increase hap­pi­ness lev­els by around 25%. Sec­ond, this is not hard to achieve — a few hours spent writ­ing a grat­i­tude jour­nal over 3 weeks can cre­ate an effect that lasts 6 months if not…

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