Change with the Brain in Mind:
Supplying More of Your Capacity to Meet the Demands of Change

Our brains are designed to deal with change in small steps. Significant changes – in the way we work, in where we live or earn our income, in our employment or personal relationships, and elsewhere in our lives – impact us down to the cellular level in our brain and body.

This workshop will provide you with a brain-friendly model, easy-to-use reference materials, and a variety of practical experiences that will help you to understand, anticipate, plan for, and manage and lead change more effectively. You’ll be better prepared to work with and support your colleagues, family members, and others around you who are going through change – particularly when it’s significant.

Program Topics

Why is change about supply and demand?

• Discover the first significant experience of every change process.
• Complete a diagnostic that will help you to see yourself in the midst of change.
• Find out why leaders of change and participants in change are in such different places.
• Learn what your brain is always doing to help you deal more easily with new experiences.

What happens to your supply of capacity during change?

• Identify the main elements of your capacity.
• Discover the three critical elements that you can manage to enhance your capacity.
• Find out where to focus your attention to minimize your stress during change.
• Take home at least a dozen ways to make change easier for everyone.

Why does change make demands on your capacity?

• Discover the most effective way to deal with the first issue in change.
• Realize when and why productivity decreases significantly during a change process.
• Find out how steps in the change process link to activity in different parts of your brain.
• Learn what to communicate when in order to minimize demands on the capacity of others.

How can change help you to succeed?

• Find out what to do if you need to change course during a change process.
• Learn when to focus on helping people to get to self-motivation.
• Discover the best time to celebrate (hint: it’s not when the process is all done).
• Take home the question that can help you to mobilize change to support you.

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Anticipate and plan for change in healthier and more productive ways.
• Lead, manage, and otherwise participate in change more effectively.
• Use more of your enhanced capacity to successfully respond to the demands of change.
• Share and apply an effective model of the change process with your colleagues, family members, and others.
• Understand more clearly what to do and what not to do at each stage in the change process.
• Communicate more effectively throughout the change process.
• Develop and implement your personal change plans, and help with the change plans of those around you as the need arises.
• Apply your practical understanding of the change process to help produce more of your desired results – by taking charge of, and experiencing change with your brain in mind.

Who Should Attend?

• The more that change is an issue for you, your colleagues, your family, and others around you, the more that you and they will get excellent value from this workshop.
• Recognizing that change is ongoing, sometimes significant, and not always anticipated, this workshop has value for anyone who wants to build or enhance their capacity or the capacity of those around them. Being better prepared for change will always help you to produce and enjoy better results.
• Anyone who wants to learn about, and take better care of, their brain and overall health.