NeuroScience of Leadership - Self-Regulation strategies to grow high performance teams
Jason Hibberd,Deputy Principal - Head of Campus (MEd, BEd, Adv Dip Bus/Marketing, St. Francis Xavier College

NeuroScience of Leadership - Self-Regulation strategies to grow high performance teams. This workshop sets out to outline how the brain works in relation to the notion of threat and reward. This gives an insight then into how best to manage teams to create positive, psychologically safe environments where students and staff can thrive. The 5 main principles of this presentation include: 1. The brain's main objective - to act/react according to threat and reward, this has implications for not teachers and leaders in education as it can help promote an environment to enhance learning. 2. Upper Brain v Lower Brain - the key to self regulation is to understanding the core components of the brain that are responsible for eliciting emotional and well thought out responses. The limbic system v the executive brain and the key to success is to train the brain to process information in the upper brain for the optimal outcome. 3. Self regulation strategies to help us do this include the SCARE model which helps individuals label their feelings/emotions in a certain domain which then helps us regulate our emotional state. Each domain here will be unpacked along with strategies to help us self regulate our emotions. 4. Principles of High Performing teams and the neuroscientific principles that govern behaviors that leaders can promote with thier teams to enhance moral, positivity and psychological safety. 5. The final concept to unpack is another self-regulation model know as the LION model, using this concept highlights a process to allow individuals to change the way they think about a certain stimulus or event and thus, their emotional response to it.