Have you ever considered using neuroscience to optimize engagement, performance, recruiting, and retention in your organization? At SmartTribes Institute, we continually strive to apply cutting edge neuroscience tools and resources to modern da

Why Leaders Need to Stop Their Thoughts

Dec 14th, 2019 9m 57s

Humans have one hundred billion available neurons...yet only 15% are activated, according to Heart Math Institute. Why? Because we tend to focus so heavily outside of ourselves.Today, I'd like to talk more about what mindfulness is, and how we

Are you telling the 5 types of truth?

Jan 4th, 2020 9m 38s

How much truth do you tell? The whole truth? The partial truth? The preferred truth?I’ve been noticing how uncomfortable truth can be for people to hear, and I’m getting really curious as to why we lie so often. When did it become “not ok” to s

3 Strategies to Help with Millennial Management Troubles

Dec 21st, 2019 9m 25s

Millennials (the generation born between 1980 and 2000) are perhaps the most social--and yet the most surprisingly isolated--employees in history. And no surprises here: they’re taking over the workforce. Raised in a very different world than

Working Through Personal Hardship

Dec 7th, 2019 7m 47s

Once you reach your 40s, or possibly even earlier, you’re likely to have experienced a profound personal hardship, which you had to navigate through while keeping your job. Whether it’s the death of a loved one, a divorce, a life-threatening di

Combining Leadership & Gratitude

Nov 28th, 2019 5m 46s

It is extremely powerful to combine leadership and gratitude. For starters, gratitude helps you feel generally better. Choosing to recognize and acknowledge all the good things in life (which is what gratitude practices help you do), creates a

Why Mindfulness & Meditation Matter in Leadership

Nov 23rd, 2019 8m 30s

What pushes your buttons? What makes you lose your equilibrium? Even when we know we should stress less over the small things, get more sleep, or handle a situation better...we're all human. And we all have issues that we can't control, or life

The 6 Phrases For Better Communication Skills

Nov 16th, 2019 4m 5s

Why do people struggle in relationships and with their communication skills?It’s because they don’t use the right words. Well, they might be the right words for you, but are they the right words that the other person needs to hear? Language str

3 Steps To Access Your Hidden Brain Power

Nov 9th, 2019 11m 7s

Spidey sense. Gut feel. Whatever you call it, it’ll make or break the most important decisions in your life. The most successful executives I coach have it in spades. We're talking about intuition, and digging into what it is and how it actuall

One Powerful Tool to Create the Reality You Desire

Nov 2nd, 2019 11m 2s

As a leader, in what area of your life do you need to shift from being disempowered to being empowered?We form our own reality based on visual, auditory, and kinesthetic cues. These cues recall our beliefs about the world and ourselves (our ide

The 7 Most Common Ways Leaders Unknowingly Sabotage Their Team

Oct 26th, 2019 8m 46s

Sometimes leaders call me saying they want help to fix their team. That’s always a red flag for me.A CEO of a west coast food company called me a while back. He said his team lacked accountability and he wanted me to “fix them”. As I asked him

Emotions Have Energy

Oct 19th, 2019 7m 29s

Emotional agility and resilience give leaders the edge they need to quickly pivot during stressful situations.Emotions Have Energy Thanks to the late great  David Hawkins, MD, PhD, we have proof that emotions contain measurable energy, which ca

The 5 Organismic (Fundamental) Rights

Oct 12th, 2019 11m 53s

We all have rights as human beings. But if we don’t know or acknowledge our fundamental rights, or if we don’t understand them, we’ll often suffer, cause others to suffer, and worst case, self-sabotage (which in turn sabotages those around us t

Propel Employee Engagement To Sky-Rocketing Levels

Oct 5th, 2019 10m 45s

Often leaders are focusing so intensely on growth that we miss the fact that our team’s emotional experience is suffering. And when they’re suffering, they’re in their Critter State (versus the ideal of being in their Smart State.) Why? Most l

Reframing: A Tool That Will Empower Your Team Everyday

Sep 28th, 2019 8m 59s

Our words shape our reality. And they are based on the stories we tell ourselves about the world, ourselves, and others. This is why Reframing is crucial for leaders and human beings overall: it’s a terrific tool to shape the reality you want.R

Are You Emotionally Agile?

Sep 21st, 2019 8m 36s

Have you noticed that life is moving at light speed and it’s only getting faster? Have you also noticed that people are more stressed out than ever? If you’re emotionally agile, you have not only noticed, you’re in a good position to not only s

Love 'Em or Lose 'Em

Jan 13th, 2022 8m 33s

What happens when a person leaves? Do you know it in advance? In a prior blog I wrote about the often unknown reasons that blindside employers when a rock star quits. Today, let’s look at taking a more proactive approach: checking in on what it

Do Your Employees Have Buyer's Remorse?

Dec 30th, 2021 10m 35s

Unemployment in the USA is now at 3.7%. Great employees are harder to find than ever before—and if you’re hiring, chances are really good that you’re raiding another organization’s rock stars. So once you get great hires on board, you need to

Want More Meaning at Work?

Dec 16th, 2021 11m 33s

Now more than ever we want to find and feel meaning in our work. And a cornerstone of meaningful work is who we are together, how we show up for one another, how our environment supports this, and how we know we are safe, belong, and matter at

Beat Zoom Fatigue in 4 Neuroscience-Savvy Steps

Dec 2nd, 2021 9m 1s

Do you often find yourself drifting off after only a few minutes in a Zoom meeting?Why?Most likely it’s because we’re not emotionally engaged at an optimum level. And when it comes to group meetings, it’s often due to the Ringelmann Effect. Rin

Beat Zoom Fatigue in 4 Neuroscience-Savvy Steps

Dec 2nd, 2021 9m 1s

3 Common Mistakes That May Be Killing Your Sales

Nov 18th, 2021 15m 34s

We all want better sales results—so what’s the secret?It lies in the brain, and knowing how to guide our sales people out of their Critter State, where they are overwhelmed, stressed, in fight/flight/freeze, and into their Smart State where the

3 Common Mistakes That May Be Killing Your Sales

Nov 18th, 2021 15m 34s

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Oct 21st, 2021 10m 31s

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