Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

If you’re part of the multitasking generation, you’d enjoy Larry Rosen and Michael Weil’s article, titled, Multitasking Madness, at C Magazine. With a few good alternatives offered, they remind us that “technology can multitask forever. We cannot. 

Along with the proliferation of facts and the increased speed of information, through, people often feel frustrated to keep up. The first reaction is that multitasking is a good idea, and yet I took a second look, since multitasking can work against your brain’s efficiency.

Multitasking can waste your time, and rob your excellence, according to researchers at the University of Michigan .

So, if multitasking is counterproductive, how can people work more efficiently with the fast flow of information, and the constant interruptions that creates during a workday?

Fast Company suggested 6 tips to better manage your time. Ideas range from picking tactics that work best for you, to filing paper piles, to delegating more. Check out their post titled, The Art of Multitasking. 

Increasingly as neuroscientists tell us how parts of the brain which act as a CEO of sorts to help us shift from one task to another, are not meant to be move so many tasks simultaniously, we are left with new choices.  With the increasing research to show how multi-tasking works against the human brain’s ability to focus and reflect, well, how will you handle the interruptions?

Targets are central to MITA’s brain friendly practices for handling interruption problems, through mental rebooting.  Where target listing includes new facts about your brain, and where practices reflect that integration,  you will begin bust mental barriers and hit targets that successful people set.