Ep135 Leaders Using Both Sides of the Brain, with Sonia Jeantet

Manage Self, Lead Others: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership for Managers

Neuropsychology demonstrates that the human brain cannot ignore a question. Questions activate the relevant parts of the brain to provide relevant answers. The trick is to know what questions to ask!

Author of The Integrative Brain, my guest is Sonia Jeantet who developed the Integrative Leader model, leveraging the full potential of one's thinking abilities through wholebrain thinking.

[9:00] An integrative leader is going to take a look at the business. It's almost like, if you were doing a body scan and you were trying to see like, well, what parts of is, is my head healthy, is my heart healthy, is my stomach healthy?

Start wherever you want to start. Ideally, you start in the left brain because that's where it requires more of the analytical part.

And so you basically say like, so what business are we in?

What is it that we really do here?

What is it that we really are known for?

Is that still relevant today?

And then the next one would be to go to the right brain and try something else is going to the why. And basically, it's the understand, why are we doing this?

Why are we using this technology?

Why are we in a specific market?

Why?

Why would . . .?

Why do our . . . ?

e.g. why do our clients use our products?

Why do they use our services?

So then at that point in time, you sort of the overall bigger picture of the business.

Now, let's go into how . . .

How would we implement it?

return on uh implementation

who should be involved with this,

who, who are, who should be on the project,

who are our clients,

who do we need to interact with in order to make this happen?

And then stepping outside of that into the bigger picture, taking all four quadrants into consideration is so based on all of that,

Where are we? Are we at the beginning phase? Are we at the end of a particular era?

Do we need to start thinking about doing something differently?

And then the last one is so when do we do this?

When do we launch, when do we make this happen?

ABOUT SONIA JEANTET

Sonia Jeantet is Founder of Cima Executive Development, a coaching and consulting firm in Southern California. Sonia has been an international master personal and executive coach with Fortune 500 companies, and a Fortune 100 sales executive with Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment Corporation. Having coached more than 400 senior executives to grow and sustain profitable results, Sonia Jeantet is author of The Integrative Leader.

• Contact: cimaed.com

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