Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Most people write because they know stuff, but I write to investigate and discover something new and refreshing. It's different, but it works.

Curiosity and wonder keep me writing the same way when my writing is published into books about how adults learn like MI Strategies, or Business leadership magazines like Capital, as I also write when nobody reads or agrees with my 2-bit unpublished ideas.

So when I read Ben Yoskovitz’ challenge over at Instigator Blog to post what we learned in 2006 I was jazzed.  How did what I wrote last year teach me and how did it prepare me for changes in the coming year.

In 2006 I wrote my way into several cool discoveries about the brain.  Since I lead the MITA International Brain Renewal Center, I tend to learn by the hour because most of the people around me are far smarter than me.

To learn in 2006 though, was often to read the latest research, to zap my daily work with cutting  ideas from smart business leaders, and to test brain based ideas for evidence of improvement and mind-bending profitability.

Here’s my list of ten bests, to show how I learned that …

1. Diversity training stinks!

2. Lectures work against the brain
3. Questions reboot your brain

4. Tone can loom into a silent killer

5. People run better on eight cylinders

6. Negative people burn you out

7. Smart skills jumpstart the human brain

8. Cortisol reduces your business brain
9. Serotonin fuels success at work
10. Stress and laughter are choices for new neuron pathways

Wow – it’s fun to step back and see what you learned over a year! Thanks Ben, for asking the question, “What did you learn this year?”  Prepares a person to tackle another cool adventure in 2007!