There is no such thing as keeping our personal and professional lives separate, one has an impact on the other. Organizations that recognize this and offer employees supportive tools, especially when challenges arise, can improve performance and profoundly impact culture.
BrainCog's professional development programs help organizations retain the best employees by identifying and optimizing employees' unique talents and building a culture that attracts and empowers employees.
How BrainCog's professional development executive function coaching helps:
- Identifies and supports unique skills of each employee
- Helps organizations foster change
- Brings teams together
- Creates synergy needed for change
For businesses & non-profits: executive function coaching for all levels of an organization, from individual to small group coaching. We bring psychiatry, neuroscience and lifestyle coaching into professional development. Focusing on what motivates in the workplace, how to identify employee talents, how to create a culture shift, communicating with empathy, and habits that impact the brain and work performance.
For schools: professional development seminars focus on relationships between neuroscience and learning. How children learn, the impact of technology, how sleep impacts learning. Tactics and tools to implement in the classroom.
What professionals say about Brain Cog professional development:
Online course topics
*Sequence of topics may change
Module 1:
Executive Functions: Our Brain's Conductor
Are we really left or right brained? In this very basic overview of brain anatomy, we explore common myths and misconceptions of how the brain functions and why understanding how our brain works is critical to harnessing its power.
Module 2:
Sleep-Deprived & Goal-(DIS)oriented: A MYTH
We all know sleep is important – so why don’t we make it a priority? Learn how sleep impacts executive functions, what your sleep style is, and how to use it to maximize cognitive control.
Module 3:
Cognitive Control: Finding Your “Flow” to Get Stuff Done
Do you feel like you’re working more and producing less? Do you feel overwhelmed or losing motivation? Learn some tools to get to and stay in ‘flow’ to produce value for yourself and your work.
Module 4:
Hijack Your Brain: Recharge your Willpower
Module 5:
Anxiety and the Brain: How to Calm Ourselves for Maximum Achievement, Happiness and Harmony
How does anxiety sabotage? It doesn’t go away, so learn to make peace with it and override the fight, flight, or freeze mechanism in your brain.
Module 6:
Defrag Your Brain: How to Manage Your Mind in a Distracted World
Module 7:
Never Good Enough: Cultivating a Growth Mindset
Adults get caught up in the mindset they developed during adolescence. Whether a fear of success or failure, we get stuck in thought patterns, and it is hard to break free. Learn ways to override how you speak to yourself and create new neural pathways to success.
Module 8:
Dropping the F Bomb: Failure is My Favorite F Word
Why do we avoid failure? If you haven’t failed at something you’re either lying or not trying. Why is there such stigma around the word failure? Learn why you should invite failure into your life and why failure is necessary on the path to success.
Module 9:
Myth of the 8-hour Workday
You can provide value in fewer hours! Most of us feel we’re working more than we should, but at the end of the day feel we haven’t accomplished anything we set out to do. Learn to use cognitive control so you can leave work at work and truly shut off. Constantly thinking about work zaps happiness and drains energy.
Module 10:
Executive Functions: Pulling it all Together
Setting your path for goals and accountability and becoming the expert of your own life. You have made an investment in yourself that most of the population isn’t even aware of. Congratulate yourself and feel good about being the driver of your own life.