Using psychology to become a better leader with psychologist and educator, Dino Signore

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Our episode guest is Dino Signore, manager of entrepreneurial education at the Edward Lowe Foundation and president of Signore Group. Dino is an entrepreneur, educator, and psychologist.

Five things you’ll learn from this episode:

1. What the SCARF method is and how it can be used to improve leadership.
2. How to influence others by using knowledge of how the brain works
3. Why past management techniques no longer work
4. How stress affects your ability to think clearly
5. How the limbic system and prefrontal cortex work together to influence our responses to the world around us

Quotables

• “Leadership can be defined a lot of different ways, and one way I like to define it is that it is an act of influence.” — @DinoSignore
• “We use our prefrontal cortex to make sense of the world. But the challenge is that if somebody has their limbic system activated, and in some cases hyperactivated, it is biologically impossible to be able to think.” — @DinoSignore
• “What are the things that you're doing leadership-wise, management-wise, that could be pushing people away from you versus pulling them toward what you want them to do?” — @DinoSignore
• “One of our accolades is that we went 63 months with zero turnover at our agency, and a lot of that had to do with listening and being collaborative, and giving autonomy.” — @jasonmudd9

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About Dino Signore

Our episode guest is Dino Signore, manager of entrepreneurial education at the Edward Lowe Foundation and president of Signore Group. Dino is an entrepreneur, educator, and psychologist with a Doctorate in Business Psychology. He leads all of the learning events at the Edward Lowe Foundation. Through the Signore Group, Dino coaches and consults directly with second-stage entrepreneurs and executive directors on the management challenges that stem from growth.

Guest’s contact info and resources:

• Dino Signore on LinkedIn
• Dino's website
• Send Dino an email

Additional Resources:

• More on SCARF from the NeuroLeadership Institute
• Books by Dan Ariely on behavioral economics
• Books by Dan Pink on behavioral science

Episode recorded: Oct 28, 2021

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