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Being a leader involves extremely demanding and challenging work, regardless of whether you are leading at the coalface or within the highest levels of the organisation or society. Leaders must navigate competing tensions and make decisions that can have consequences on them personally, their professional reputation, and their organisation. Yet, when achieved well, leadership is one of the most rewarding ways to find meaning at work and within one鈥檚 life, and even more broadly in society. The challenge leaders face in their decision making is that as individuals we are not rational and make decisions based on the cognitive patterns of the brain. Therefore, there is value for leaders to learn about different cognitive neural signals such as mind-wandering and daydreaming and how these signals influence decisions, how decisions and not rational, and how the mind dictates what an individual says and does. There is value for a leader to develop of advanced cognitive behavioral skills that can be gained by helping leaders to distinguish between mindless thought and action, versus mindful and creative solutions that challenge the auto-pilot functions of the brain. This course will encourage sophisticated cognitive skills by recognising how the brain functions and how to apply these different cognitive strategies to typical organisational problems, irrespective of organisational context.

In this course, you will discover the differences between self-assessment and self-awareness. You will learn a range of advanced cognitive strategies designed to overcome the typical neural functions of the brain that limit the effectiveness of individual decision making. Here, you will gain advanced knowledge about brain functions and how to identify when different thoughts, feeling, and emotions take over the executive decision-making function of the brain. Moreover, you will learn different cognitive strategies related to self, team, and organisation and why a leader's actions and decisions depend on their ability to identify their cognitive limitations as well as their cognitive potential. You will be able to practice different cognitive strategies that help to develop more proactive and benevolent decision outcomes by identifying narcissistic, egoistic, and self-serving behaviour. You will be asked to diarise the assumptions and worldviews you bring to work, to critically reflect on the cognitive strategies you have employed in the past to solve workplace problems, and to collaborate to develop a response to a leadership problem that invokes mindful solutions on the part of leaders.

On completion of this course students should be able to:

1. evaluate the stock of knowledge related to self-awareness, mindfulness, mind wandering and daydreaming;
2. collaborate to distinguish between different mindfulness techniques and examine how these techniques can benefit one鈥檚 leadership practice;
3. critically reflect on different mindfulness techniques and compare these with traditional leadership self-assessments;
4. apply wise compassion, focused involvement, selflessness, interconnectedness and trust to personal, practical exercises at work.