Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Are you doing better today than you did yesterday? Did you make good progress over the last week? The last month? What kind of growth do you predict for the coming year?

How do you know where you started to improve and how much improvement you’ve nailed? Truth is … most people have no idea how to track their progress, and so they lose the motivation that comes when the brain spots where you started and where you expect to arrive.

To know and track personal progress is to draw from your intrapersonal intelligence. Here are five smart skills that can make it happen….

1). Question old routines, and make changes in any one area at work today. Look at doing some routine in a new way and expect your brain to trigger an innovative approach for improved results.

2. Target specific results from the new approach you implement. Be specific! It can be as simple as asking the boss to lunch to discuss a staff safety plan you have.

3. Expect specific results from your target. For instance, you might expect to teach the safety program, motivate far more safety standards to your team, or reward leaders who come up with better safety measures. The idea here is to lay out expectations that can be measured.

4. Move your multiple intelligences into action in ways that will accomplish specific targets you set by using different intelligences that you used in past projects. For instance you might create a safety contest to challenge people to set and achieve higher safety standards using several intelligences.

5. Reflect by asking yourself or the group at work, “Where to from here?” Without regular reflection, you stagnate. The key is to capitalize on the power of reflection to spot what went well, identify a few things that worked less well that day, and determine what can be done tomorrow to improve.

That step-by-step daily progress will boost serotonin, a chemical for well-being, will counteract the hormone cortisol – which holds people in ruts, and will ultimately create progress that can be tracked, and intelligences that open your brain to amazing capabilities, as well as new dendrite cell growth for ongoing improvements at work.