Coaching With the Brain in Mind

Coaches can help clients notice the patterns that their performance reveals. As a result, coaching may involve helping a client: • Manage a daily schedule—for example, planning what time of day to do certain types of work

The more often we perform that action, the stronger the connection and likelihood that it will present itself as a readiness potential.

Flow can be achieved by creating enough challenge to demand complete attention to the task at hand, but not so much challenge that the individual becomes overwhelmed and unable to proceed.

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The first step in coaching with the brain in mind is to know ourselves.

Attention density is either the sum or the product of the quality and quantity of focus.

1. Through repetition, they have hardwired an activity

Neuroscience has the potential to confirm a basic coaching tenet: that what we choose to value makes a difference in how well we move through life.

is incorrect, the problem never gets fixed by what we keep doing. Even for people without OCD, trying to change a routine behavior triggers messages in our brain that something is not right.

experienced coaches do not accept as final the first idea a client articulates. Instead, they probe for deeper meaning, more elemental insights, richer connections, and more solid ground for ongoing commitment and action.