Know Your Brain, Transform Your Performance!

TRANSFORMATIONAL COACH- PREETHA BALAKRISHNAN 1

FIRST SESSION


My Background

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Preetha Balakrishnan, ACSTH ICF

Transformational Coach and Behavioral Trainer

BE/PGDBM. Worked in HR with Infosys, Ivy comptech, GE & Intergraph

India Limited. Worked for close to 15 years in Facilitation, Consulting ,

Coaching and Human Resource.

Certified psychometric tools practitioner and Behavioral Trainer

My Coaching Exp.: Brain Based Methodology of Coaching

The Reason I Coach: Love people and connect well with people. So I feel

can make a difference in their lives.

My Strengths: My energy , passion and honesty. Understanding of

Business coupled with tools to help people through their inner journey.

MY VISION:

“Helping Leaders and Women Entrepreneurs Direct Their Brain Chemistry to Eliminate

Overwhelm, Reduce Stress, & Improve Productivity; Allowing Them To Create Balance Between

Their Business, Self care And Family”

Coaching Credentials & Professional Expertise


CLEAR THE SPACE



THE BRAIN

COACHING, WHICH INVOLVES GETTING PEOPLE OUT OF AUTOMATIC PILOT

AND INTO MORE CONSCIOUS THOUGHT, TAKES SIGNIFICANT EFFORT TO

LEVERAGE THE BRAIN PREFERENCE OF HARDWIRING TRANSFORMATIONAL COACH- PREETHA BALAKRISHNAN

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BRAIN

Conscious Brain- PFC

• 4-5% of the volume of the rest of the brain

• Making decisions and solving problems relies on this small region

Unconscious Brain • Another part of the brain holds all our

hardwired information and habits

• Massive capacity

• It can multi-tsk effectively

• All the things we can do without really being able to explain them

The Prefrontal Cortex (PFC)

PFC

DOPAMINE

NOR- ADRENALINE

Over and

Under Arousal

Peak mental performance requires just the right level of stress, not minimal stress!

Stress/Boredom


GOING LIMBIC

Amygdale detects brain’s temperature

Hippocampus detects not only facts but feelings about

facts

Emotional experience is connected to a large brain network called the limbic

system Bring your dopamine level up when needed, using novelty in any form, including

changing perspective, humor, or expecting something positive

TRANSFORMATIONAL COACH- PREETHA BALAKRISHNAN

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CHEMISTRY OF ALERTNESS AND INTEREST

Peak mental performance occurs when you have intermediate levels of

Dopamine and Noradrenaline

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1) Increasing Adrenaline levels by bringing

“Urgency to a Task”

2) Fear brings in Deep Alertness


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TOWARD OR AWAY

The toward emotions are subtle, more easily displaced,

and harder to build on, than the away emotions

The brain has an overarching organizing principle to minimize danger ( an away response) and

maximize reward( toward response)

The away response is stronger, faster, and longer lasting than the toward response


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TIME IS OF ESSENCE

Situation selection

Situation modification and

Attention deployment

Express

Suppress and

Cognitive change

Once an emotion kicks in, trying to suppress it either doesn't work or makes it worse

Suppressing an emotion reduces your memory of events significantly

Suppressing makes other people feel uncomfortable

Labelling an emotion can reduce limbic system arousal

Practicing assigning words to emotional states to reduce arousal once it kicks in helps


GETTING IT JUST RIGHT

Involves using your strengths.

Set of you have become good at.

Bring Dopamine or adrenaline level down by activating other regions of the

brain other than the PFC


COACHING ENGAGEMENT PROCESS

NEED OF THE CLIENT PRIMARY.

In the first session, we would cover how a coaching engagement with me would be with setting 3 primary goals, which will be the focus of the work ahead

We will co-create a framework to achieve each of your goals

In sessions 3 through 11, we will work with the framework for each goal

In Session 12, we will celebrate your progress, growth and learning.

ONE HOUR DILEMMA DISCUSSION WELCOME, spanning it out for a day.

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IF LOOKING FOR LIFE CHANGING OUTCOMES, WE WOULD

NEED 10 to 12 Sessions.

Leadership & Management

Know Your Brain, Transform Your Performance!