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Neuroscience for Management
Format: 8x 3h interactive class (possibility to break up to 4x3h)
This course will teach you how to use neuroscience to become a more humane manager, and how to optimize your own (brain) performance. It is designed for business leaders and knowledge workers. It is a customizable offer that matches the newest offering of leading business schools, for instance Wharton’s Neuroscience for Business Impact.
This course will teach you how to use neuroscience to become a more humane manager, and how to optimize your own (brain) performance. It is designed for business leaders and knowledge workers. It is a customizable offer that matches the newest offering of leading business schools, for instance Wharton’s Neuroscience for Business Impact.
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This course presents a wide range of state-of-the-art valid neuroscientific topics. It combines findings from behavioral and neural sciences to elucidate how human beings make decisions. It aims to support the learners in developing their own understanding of the processes of their minds and managing their mental resources. It also teaches how to select and use valid scientific facts. Topics include learning and memory, valuation, reward and reward motivation, morality, belief formation.
Part 1. Neuroscience of decision making 4x 3hKeywords: reward, risk, moral value, subjective value, dopamine, neuroforecasting, belief formation
Part 2. Neuroscience for optimal performance 4x3hKeywords: emotion regulation, future thinking, creativity, optimism, gratitude, applied neuroscience
Course Objectives
*After completing this course, the students will be able to:Apply bio-scientific findings to support own brain-mind hygiene and self-management.
*Improve leadership capabilities by understanding the science of decision-making, including how neural constraints can lead to poor decisions and how to overcome them
*Read with comprehension current scientific literature in the fields of related to cognitive neuroscience relevant to managerial decision making
Propose future avenues for development of decision making support tools (e.g. neurotech, wealthtech)
Session Topics
1. Learning how to learn. Neuromyths, Brain plasticity, Memory and Motivation.
2. Value-based decision-making; Reward; Risk.
3. Emotional biases in decision-making. Belief formation.
4. Moral decision-making: Money, moral values and happiness in the brain.
5. From suffering to balance: neuroscience of emotion regulation and meditation
6. Future thinking workshop: design thinking method; new money, cognitive enhancement, AI, nootropics.
7. Applied neuroscience: case study – decision making for sustainability using brain as a predictor
8. Optimizing performance: creativity, gratitude and happiness
