Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

» Stress Masks as Diligence and Strikes As Serial Killers from BrainBasedBusiness
The problem with stress is that it masks as diligence or self-righteousness – so we miss its warning signals as people fail to spot signs before a serial killer’s strike. Stress kills … 1. Economic prosperity. According to the Decemb... [Read More]

» Increase Your Communication IQ from BrainBasedBusiness
Do you walk into a room with the air of confidence and zip that you admire in charismatic friends? What if you were to think more like a genius communicator – much like Aristotle or Einstein thought? Increasing  evidence shows... [Read More]

» Brain Waves for Sleep or Peak Performance? from BrainBasedBusiness
At your peak performances your mind is energized by the highest brain waves – called beta waves. Start to daydream during a boring committee meeting, and your brain waves shift down a gear to alpha brain waves. You’re still awake but... [Read More]

» Think You're Smart? Survey Brainpower in Your Workplace from BrainBasedBusiness
Think you’re smart? Here are 25 questions ... each with revolutionary new facts about the human brain ... that can benefit your workplace.How many questions can you answer from the following survey about brainpower in your organiza... [Read More]

» Tip to Handle Tone Problems at Work from BrainBasedBusiness
Each time we use good tone in tough situations we impact tone in a workplace, because that's how the human brain works. Unfortunately though, we can no more change another’s tone than we can change a person’s diet. Since poor ... [Read More]

» Questions College Students Asked About The Brains and Boredom from BrainBasedBusiness
If you were a college student at any age and a conference leader asked you this question – how would you respond? What questions could  today’s symposium answer to  help you gain more tangible benefits from your brain’s amaz... [Read More]

» Tone Turns Disagreement into Organizational Growth from BrainBasedBusiness
 I enjoyed Nick Smith’s ideas in  Never be Afraid of Conflict and Tammy Lenski’s article How to Appreciate Workplace Conflict which shows conflict as a benefit. So why then, do so many people fear disagreement? Or why do... [Read More]

» Bank any Serotonin Today? from BrainBasedBusiness
Some people show up at work in great spirits and their tone suggests they seem to hold onto hope even when conflict comes. Their brains appear to be wired for zip and others tend to reward them with promotions, or monetary incentives.... [Read More]

» 5 Surefire Ways to Zap Brainpower from Any Room from BrainBasedBusiness
Here are 5 surefire ways to zap brainpower from any room you enter. 1. Tell people how great you are and how much experience you have in any topic they raise. Why learn new skills or make spaces for other... [Read More]

» 5 Reasons Bad Bosses Get Their Way and 5 Tips to Get Yours from BrainBasedBusiness
Believe it or not brain based research points to reasons for bad leadership - where few people think to look. Workers suffer daily from poor decisions made while bad bosses get rewarded because…1. Blame usurps the  courage it takes for... [Read More]

» What Do People Hear In Words You Speak? from BrainBasedBusiness
 You’ve likely seen it happen…. He brought her down without any awareness that he undermined her career. She dismissed his good ideas without realizing she excluded her colleague. Have you seen people damage good relationships –... [Read More]

» Change Brings 9 Comebacks and Yours from BrainBasedBusiness
People react in surprisingly different ways - to proven changes - introduced to advance their lives and workplace. How do you respond?Here are typical reactions to change I’ve observed in over thirty years as change agent for brain based approach... [Read More]

» 10 Incentives to Think It Through from BrainBasedBusiness
Wherever you spot a highly successful visionary and leader … you’ll also see reflection as a growth engine. That’s because reflective people tend to ride the bus – while pushing it at the same time. How so?  Successful ent... [Read More]

» Will Your Brain Burn Out or Burn Strong Today? from BrainBasedBusiness
Before you answer the question about burning out or burning strong … check out the list that colleagues would use to describe you today: Burning out Instructions: 1. Criticize any failures you spot in your day.2. Vent to somebody who’s... [Read More]

» From Stress to Learning Adventures from BrainBasedBusiness
How do you spark stress free conversations that are both interesting and informative. Research shows that we each get hit with about 22 stressors each day. Were you aware, though, how good tone turn stressors into learning adventures.People who tend... [Read More]

» How You Communicate is Who You Become from BrainBasedBusiness
Does this mean that on that day when you snap at a co-worker … that you become a cranky snapper? Or does it mean that you’d become a caring communicator simply stepping back to communicate carefully if another person diminishes... [Read More]

» MITA Brain Based Manifesto (Part 5 of 5) from BrainBasedBusiness
In this final post of this manifesto series I’d like to suggest how reflection works here at the MITA Brain Based Center. 41 Successful leaders tend to be those who reflect on both their past and futures in ways that... [Read More]

» The Entire MITA Manifesto from BrainBasedBusiness
Here’s the entire MITA manifesto. Which theses below would turn your business around this week?1. People of every race contribute solutions faster when asked key questions with solutions in mind.2. To transfer winning ideas into profitable practi... [Read More]

» 50 Smart Skills for Brain Based Business from BrainBasedBusiness
 How many of these 50 smart skills … which combine traditional hard and soft skills … does your firm use? 1. Diverse.2. Transferable.3. Collaborative. 4. Innovative.5. Relevant.6. Intelligent.7. Efficient.8. Communicative.9. Progress... [Read More]

» Brainy People A to Z from BrainBasedBusiness
Learning institutes are endlessly reframing what brainy really means. Who’s smart and who’s not where you work? Some say that IQ makes or breaks genius possibilities …  and is likely fixed at birth. Others stress mental developm... [Read More]

» Words that Whack or Win from BrainBasedBusiness
Have you ever wished you’d added a word of hope … when a situation seemed grim? Or have you regretted that you tossed in words of defeat … rather than insights for a solution? Words tend to shape the direction... [Read More]

» Spttzer Sabotaged by Choice from BrainBasedBusiness
 Today we’re all poorer because Eliot Spitzer sabotaged himself, his family and the rest of us … by choices he made to visit prostitutes on the side. Some have extended the olive branch of compassion in response to his fall.... [Read More]

» Working with Your Brain in Mind? from BrainBasedBusiness
   Do you benefit from facts about the human brain that build business and bank bucks where you work?Want more capacity to detect and manage change opportunities in rapidly shifting workplace horizons? Wherever you discover brain based&n... [Read More]