Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

If you know the person in charge of business holidays, I’d like to propose a yearly celebration to repair stale brains. Call it “Reboot your Business Brain Day,” or something … a focus on fun and fixes for the human brain. I’d start with showcasing chemical and electrical systems that nurture and sustain brain cells. How?

Well…  first I’d hire a few gifted musicians to show how favorite tunes can move and track your brain waves into better moods and creative adventures. Don Campbell could come to tell us how to …”Tap the power of music to strengthen the mind and unlock the creative spirit at work.”

I’d enlist sleep experts too. They’d show how we remain alert during the day, when we sleep better at night. I’d enlist Gilio Tononi’s  ideas from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to help the brain rewire during a good sleep.

My brain based business holiday would also gather respected comedians to help us link laughter and intelligence in our workplaces. It’s easily done – whenever we laugh together to improve the chemical and nerve cell communications across the brain, yet it takes skill.  Scientists compare what can happen here … to data flows between high-performance computers, routers and servers that fly magically across the internet. Laughter adds these high-performance parts to healthy brains.

Then, an Olympian star would lead us in a series of movements that draw from kinesthetic intelligence. People would improve mental functions in every area of the organization – think of it in terms of profitability. Kinesthetic intelligence grows as simply as deep breathing exercises or as committed as taking up a fun new sport. Take on a kinesthetic adventure and you also boost the brain’s output for more excellence in what you already do at work.

Finally, a naturalistic expert would stop by on this day off - to help unlock naturalistic parts for a healthier brain.  It could happen through showing nature as the playground for the mind at work, to rethinking how rivers near you impact new marketing plans in your area.  

By the way, who’s in change of creating business holidays anyway? Think they’d go for in one day a year to reboot your business brain for incredible benefits?