“The Glamorous 7 For Leading With Personality”
1 “Laughing Is The Best Medicine For Learning”
2 “From Old To Bold”
3 “Our Brain Loves Comparisons”
4 “Not Only Yawning Is Contagious”
5 “The Recipient Is Always Right”
6 “Strengthening Strengths”
7 “Be Human. Stay Human.”
1 “Laughing Is The Best Medicine For Learning”
Emotion beats reason
Donald Hebb’s Synaptic Plasticity and Active Adaptability of the brain
Intensity and emotions are the dung of neuroplasticity and thus the motor of change and a driver behind your glamor factor. Emotions have a direct impact on our brain chemistry, in particular on the emission of neurotransmitters. These are crucial for transferring signals and for creating neural synapses and pathways, activating changes in the brain.
2 “From Old To Bold”
Skill follows mindset
Niklas Luhmann’s Sociological Systems Theory
In an effective, professionally managed change process (training/coaching), we begin with a careful approach, in which everyone can perceive and address any issue without reservation and verbalize emotional experiences. In a step-by-step dialog, we establish new mindsets and behaviors, transforming old dogmas into new, bold beliefs.
“Our Brain Loves Comparisons”
Experiences leave marks on your brain
The Franz Hütter Connecting Principle
The brain’s memory function is based on wiring. This means that the brain can only link new information to existing “data”. If the new information doesn’t match any existing content, the brain struggles. In the coaching process, we help you make new connections to experiences that have been structurally imprinted in the brain. This makes it possible to establish links with new information.
4 “Not Only Yawning Is Contagious”
Extrinsic motivation is cognitive nonsense
Gerald Hüther’s Neurobiology
Only if you are able to identify and address other people’s motives, if you can inspire them and create mutual trust, connection and dialog, will you be able to promote intrinsic activation. Mirror neurons are our intuitive hardware. The respective software is empathy and learning by imitation.
5 “The Recipient Is Always Right”
Communication doesn’t start with the sender
Paul Watzlawick’s Axioms
A sender transmitting a message can only assess its effect once it has been understood by the recipient, and the further communication is based on it (acceptance phases, cognitive understanding): What’s your opinion? What are you thinking? How are you feeling?
6 Strengthening Strengths
Neurons that fire together, wire together
Hebbian Learning
The more you focus on old patterns of behavior, flaws and problems, the more mistakes and weaknesses will become cognitively anchored. The Appreciative Inquiry Method (Cooperrider & Whitney, Fritz Walter) focuses on what works well and is emotionally charged. By overestimating rather than underestimating yourself and your potential, you learn to believe in yourself and your strengths and develop them.
7 “Be Human. Stay Human.”
The 4 psychological basic human needs
Klaus Grawe’s Consistency Theory
Humans have a need for Attachment. We have to be able to satisfy this need to create motivation and activate a feeling of belonging. Humans also have a need for Orientation and Control. This can lead to resistance, along the lines of “We’ve always/never done it that way.” To transform this resistance, you will have to provide maximum transparency, addressing WHY you are changing things, WHAT you are changing and HOW you intend to do it. Learning by Example means that you will have to lead by example to maintain control. Our need for Self-Enhancement is fulfilled in a coaching process through verbal appreciation, praise and recognition. The individual is put at the center of the process. Our need for pleasure and avoidance of pain means that we have to successfully replace a person’s Avoidance System with a Reward System based on individual stimuli and intrinsic motivation.