by Amy Brann | Jul 26, 2013 | Creativity, Neuroscience in Action
There’s a treatment for phobias called ‘systematic desensitization’. If you had arachnophobia and I placed a spider on your arm, you would react ‘badly’. Perhaps your heart rate would go up a little… you might have a tendency to move out of the way – away...
by Amy Brann | Feb 11, 2013 | Emotion & Outlook, Mental Health and Well-Being, Neuroscience in Action
Resilience is a term that is used more and more these days. In these times of recession, stress and adversity we are told that we must develop resilience and that we must ‘future-proof’ our businesses to weather the storm. Today and next time, I talk about...
by Amy Brann | Jul 5, 2011 | Emotion & Outlook, Leadership, Mental Health and Well-Being
Stress often gets a bad press and we’re going to look at an example that shows why it really deserves that bad press in this particular set of circumstances. Stress can occur in many different ways and each individual is different in how they create a stress response...
by Amy Brann | Jul 5, 2011 | Leadership
In this article we’re looking at whether female leadership training should be any different to male leadership training. My answer in brief is maybe, or at least, women & men should understand the biological differences in our brain and how this can enable them to...
by Amy Brann | Jul 5, 2011 | L&D General, Leadership
Some leaders can feel that they’ve heard it all before. They can feel that they’ve been into lots of leadership trainings and by now they know what they’re doing and they really don’t have anything more to learn. This can be one viewpoint that leaders come from....
