The Science of Psychological Safety
Do any of these sound familiar? “If I did what is best for the company, long-term, I’d have to shut down production for a while for repairs and overhaul. My …
Best Practices in Experiential Learning
Lessons learned from 18 years of experiential learning and what science has taught us. Absolute-North has been a pioneer in experiential learning with its founders practicing heavily experiential learning methods …
B2B Sales and Trust
Trust is something that is vital to sales and to the B2B relationship and something that must be nurtured at various points in the sales process. I was viewing a …
Change is not difficult – if done right
One of the obstacles facing almost all organizations is change. The pressures of having to react to new market forces in everyday business is continually necessitating organizations to undertake change …
What North Korea can Teach Organizations about Building Culture
Companies can learn a lot about how to create a strong culture by studying North Korea and Kim Jung Un. Yes, you heard me correctly. North Korea is an amazing …
Building Trust – How to Release Oxytocin
I released last week (October 14, 2017) the companion book to our Leadership Brand Tool entitled The Elevator Pitch of You. The inspiration for writing that book came from seeing …
Trust and Well-being
Well-being has been a topic talked a lot about recently from a leadership and organizational point of view. The importance of employee’s well-being to the success of the organization is …
The Chemistry of Trust
Today’s neuroscience research focus is on the chemistry of trust and what the science tells us. The most potent chemical that we have in our brains governing trust and our …
Fear and Learning
Bad experiences from the past in school play a big part in preventing effective adult learning. Negative memories in our brains are easily recalled and will even produce the same …
Emotion & Learning
The latest research coming out of neuroscience supports heavily what we are doing. Our brains are governed by emotion. Most of what drives our actions and our memories are dependent on …
