iLeCT Workshop – The Brain at Work: Conversations That Drive Positive Change

Are you tired of trying to help your staff see how to improve their work performance or to embrace new ideas or changes in the workplace? Or you feel there must be a better way to have conversations that impact positive change? If you want dramatically different results then you need to have significantly different conversations. This workshop will provide you with an introduction to tools needed to achieve powerful improvements in your employees’ performance through presenting unique and highly effective approaches to coaching and communicating.

This workshop combines the best ideas of current experts in neural science, coaching, communication and leadership with a focus on communicating in ways that best work with brain function and how people think. The presentation will provide leaders, managers and supervisors with the opportunity to learn how to have conversations that facilitate positive change in employees. A resource guide, the PowerPoint of the workshop and practice opportunities will be provided.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the effects of communication and coaching in the workplace.
• Apply some foundational communication and coaching skills in your daily conversations with employees in order to facilitate positive change in their performance.

• Dave Byers, Associate Director for Performance Development, OBFS Training, Performance Development, Communications, and Policy