1. Carole Osterweil
Presentation to the Midlands SIG
May 2015
How Insights From Brain Research
Can Help You
Manage Projects and Influence Change
2. To give you
• a flavour of how the brain works
• a springboard for discussion and learning from each other
So you can
• reflect on your own situation and experiences,
• consider the implications for:
• you as a project/programme professional and,
• project/programme management as a discipline
Objectives
By making the invisible more visible
9. “Whether you like it or not, everything you say
or do as a project/ programme/ change
manager by way of communication by every
verbal and non-verbal means is transmitted
into the feelings systems of others…”
…and has an impact on delivery
Neuroscience for Leaders, Swart , Chisholm & Brown 2015
12. In Trios / Pairs
• Where have you seen all/ part of the project stress
cycle play out?
• What was the impact?
• Where can you now see opportunities to interrupt it?
Making the invisible more visible
13. We are constantly setting up ‘invisible’ dynamics
through our interactions with others which have a
profound impact on how projects proceed.
Now we know they exist, we can begin to identify
and influence them.
14. Get in touch
together we can spread the word
Carole Osterweil
carole@omqconsulting.co.uk