Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Have you ever noticed that when you expect good … that good seems to find you faster…? Researchers now confirm that when it comes to your brain… expectation shapes reality….  Your mental map… which includes you’re your ideas about how things should work … and your attitudes… plays a far more critical a role in your viewpoints than previously thought. This fact is well demonstrated by the placebo effect. When people believe they have swallowed a painkiller they tend to experience a huge reduction in pain. The brain’s deepest pain centers show systematic changes when people sense they have sent help to the pain they feel.

Because your expectations… whether conscious or buried in your subconscious brain centers …  play such a large role in perception … it is critical to maintain a positive view of customers if you wish to offer good service. For strong teams… a healthy respect for peers is critically important. And, for new possibilities beyond problems you encounter at work…. You’ll want to expect to discover new possibilities.

How then … does expectation influence change at work? The impact of mental maps suggests that one way to achieve more at work… or in your personal life … is to cultivate reflective moments where you visualize or mentally sketch improvements you’d like to see. It only makes sense that full organizational change would require a collective  change of mental maps.  This in turn requires some kind of event or experience that allows people to focus, and in effect, to change their attitudes and expectations by visualizing what could be.... What do you expect...?