Neuroleadership and Effective Communication

Abstract

To enhance better understanding of effective communication and the role of a leader, a field that combines both neuroscience and leadership is studied. This chapter will include meaningful insights from neuroscience and its valuable contribution to improve communication of the leaders with their teams. This will include aspects like emotions and communication, active listening and nurturing psychologically secure environments for making open dialogues. An understanding of how our brain works during social and formal interactions can make leaders better communicators and lead to a healthy organizational environment. Study of neuroleadership can help build upon the strategies to make leaders augment their communication skills. Several aspects of neuroscience will be further studied in this chapter. The aspects like brain processing mirror neurons, brain attention capacity, role of prefrontal cortex and emotions, how trust and oxytocin are related, importance of storytelling, benefits of feedback loops, and how to minimize the cognitive load. Understanding of these aspects along with empathy can help create organizations' comprehensive and collaborative work environments.