What is NEUROSCIENCE?

These days you may be hearing a lot about neuroscience in business, leadership, and Project Management. But what is neuroscience?

A useful working definition in our context is:
Neuroscience is about understanding how the brain works, so we can learn to control our responses, manage behaviors, and make resourceful choices.

Projects are all about people and the profession of project management is one of coordinating people to do difficult things for other people.

That’s what makes neuroscience a valuable study for project managers. The more we know about the topic, the better we can do our job.

The Heart of Neuroscience
Different brain structures deal with:
1. Survival: largely the brainstem
2. Emotions: largely, the limbic system
3. Reason: largely the cortex

Neuroscience tells us we need to do two things to keep our thinking brain in control:
1. Minimize perceived threats, or
2. Maximize perceived rewards

• Status
• Certainty
• Autonomy
• Relatedness
• Fairness

A good understanding of neuroscience will help you reduce stress in and around your project, increase motivation, improve communication, boost creativity, and sharpen decision-making.

Recommended Videos
Carefully curated video recommendations for you:
🎬 What is the SCARF Model?
🎬 Neuroscience & Psychology for Project Managers [Livestream]
🎬 Neuroscience for Project Managers with Carole Osterweil (author of Neuroscience for Project Success)
🎬 What is NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming?
🎬 What is Positive Psychology?

📖 Recommended Book
Neuroscience for Project Success, by Carole Osterweil

🎒 A while back, I asked Project Managers in a couple of forums what material things you need to have, to do your job as a Project Manager. They responded magnificently. I compiled their answers into a Kit list.
Note that the links are affiliated.

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One of the biggest impacts a Project Manager can create on raising Project Management skill level is an understanding of the basics of neuroscience. Let’s start by understanding what it is.

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[Amazingu]

Wow! Project Management is about people. Well said.

[Amazingu]

We match on this too. I would encourage PMs to learn and master the human science.