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NeuroColor uses modern neuroscience and today’s sophisticated technology to better understand personality. Dr. Helen Fisher, biological anthropologist and Co-Founder of NeuroColor, studied the biological literature - including genetics, disease, gender, drug and twin research and discovered that many measurable normal personality traits fall into four broad styles of thinking and behaving associated with four broad brain systems.
Discussions about the role and use of executive coaching often tend to focus on relatively “soft” issues. That may be appropriate in certain situations, but we take a tougher minded and more business centric view: We believe the objective of coaching should be to very directly help the individual help the business!
Once heretical, behavioral economics is now mainstream. Money managers employ its insights about the limits of rationality in understanding investor behavior and exploiting stock-pricing anomalies. Policy makers use behavioral principles to boost participation in retirement-savings plans. Marketers now understand why some promotions entice consumers and others don’t.
The word team gets bandied about so loosely that many managers are oblivious to its real meaning or its true potential. With a run-of-the-mill working group, performance is a function of what the mem-bers do as individuals. A team's performance, by contrast, calls for both individual and mutual accountability.
It might be helpful at the onset of our discussion to provide some general thoughts and learning’s from an extensive literature, as well as our professional experience, about what constitutes “best practice” in strategic approaches to talent management, development and succession planning.
Dr. Morgan McCall, Jr., writing about the lessons learned re leadership development, analyzed thousands of case histories – descriptions of particular experiences that executives reported as having shaped them and the lessons they learned therein. The data sorted into five large chunks that reflected what leaders must be able to do.
