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What’s Your Stress Free Zone?
How will your week find you in stress-free zones?
Change Filters – Insert New View
This article is not about how you create these filters, nor is not about how personal filters are impacted by your gene pool. Those facts discussed in the book Making Change Easy.
This post invites you to grow new filters that will improve your choices, by consciously looking at your day through another’s perspective.
Talent Growth through Mutual Mentoring
Have you ever tossed hot new ideas back and forth – much like an enjoyable game of catch? It’s called mindguiding – a unique form of mutual mentoring – that ignites seasoned experts and inspires novice explorers. Or have you watched both sides lose when experts deliver, or when explorers ignore proven possibilities? Most [...]
Power of Moods and Choice!
What new neuro-discoveries could offer new awareness to your moods, so that others find spaces to grow around you when their chips are down? Identify that good mood chemical and electrical circuitry for your brain, and you also choose daily how to remap that for benefit to boot!
Guest Post – Changing Behaviors
Dr. Ellen Weber’s Guest is Dr. Donalee Markus – and the post is Filters of your Brain
Use Your Words
My Christmas rang with unforced rhythms of grace in the form of a simple strategy offered to my little grandson. It happened after a busy day of trains – when a one and the half year old took his tired voice to the table and his parents responded.
Why Most Meetings Suck
When Tom Hansen said most meetings suck, he hit on a rampant waste of human talent today. Given research that shows CEOs spend on-third of their working time in meetings, begs the question: How do you engage more talents at meetings? Consider that: Only 5% of what’s heard sticks. Tone determines who bullies or motivates. [...]
15 Million Jobs for Innovation Era
Some say with relief that the old economy’s gone. Other’s say that new markets may never emerge. I say that leaders can invigorate wealth and open opportunities in at least 10 amazing areas. What do you say?
10 Windows into Innovation
Have you ever sat with a good friend near an open window, on a warm spring day? Scents of new life ride on gentle breezes that refresh the entire room. In contrast, when gridlock enters a room, you see stuffy settings and breathe stale air with little escape from its deadlock. Emotions get manipulated [...]
2 Stories – 2 Upshots
Stories pinpoint the best and the worst of times. Some people share stories of money and health problems daily, and cortisol follows to create a potent reason to go down with the trends. Other stories brim over with hope for a wider reach, regardless of setbacks. Have you noticed? Narrative that focuses on gloom, without [...]
Communicate under Attack
How do you handle personal attacks? It could be anything from a boss ignoring your ideas, to a peer who respects you in public – only to destroy you behind your back. Has it happened to you? It’s easier to teach brain-compatible tone skills to others, than to model them in tough situations we all [...]
25 Ways to Boost Brainpower in a Recession
How are you riding rough waves or unfair performance reviews – see Forbes – that shout recession at work? Perhaps you’re looking for opportunities that fit your skills. Keith Hall, commissioner of the US Bureau of Labor Stats, spoke to Boston Globe staff this week, about the severe recession that left us down 8.4 million [...]
5 Surefire Torpedoes for Innovative Brainpower
You may find it interesting to discover that one can flick on a molecular brainpower switch, and disengage innovations. It’s done daily – any time – any where. Handy to know? Perhaps for those who’ll snipe at change-agents this week, before they lead others forward. How so? Here are 5 surefire torpedoes for downing innovative [...]
Plasticity’s Pathways to Innovation
Have you seen good ideas crushed by bullies, cynics or naysayers where you work? Before Michael Merzenich became the world’s leading researcher on brain plasticity, cynics with hard science credentials, insisted brainpower and intelligence was fixed. Simply put, people insisted that elderly brains don’t change much, for instance, and that broken brains stay broke. In [...]
Focus on Funds for Downfall – Focus on Innovation for Growth
Does your organization speak more about innovation than money matters? Do leaders where you work encourage risk-taking for the sake of invention? Or do people slip into lockdown mode – where change initiatives get imprisoned by hard-line barriers of fear or stress? When recession first hit my area, most leaders demanded lower expenses from their [...]
25 Clues of University Brainpower
Looking for a college campus, where brainpower predominates, people are capital, and renewal is on-going? Here are 25 newly discovered brain facts, that will invigorate your search, and offer clues to renewed higher education: Faculty and students radiate enthusiasm for their work, and express genuine interest in one another’s. Brain Fact: Boredom is more [...]
Yikes – Accreditation Clobbers Innovation!
Why do organizations postpone winning growth initiatives to accommodate compliance demands? Leaders complain they can’t implement any new anything – as if reviewers reward only ruts, routines and rigid rules. Supervisors who vow they’ll return to consider innovations, if they survive accreditation, miss the point of both innovation and compliance. The opposite is also true. [...]
20 Questions Determine a Brain’s Leadership Fate
Some say brains are born to lead. Others see leadership as a learned skill. I say that gene pools play a part – yet what you do daily can rewire your brain for transformational leadership. What do you say? Your brain’s equipped to leap toward new challenges or default to harmful ruts, and you decide [...]
