Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Would others where you work describe your brain as a millionaire mind? While some workers are absolutely committed to delivering results – based on leading information about the human brain’s impact on business -  other people seem less passionate, less driven and less curious. Where do you stand?

Is all the fuss about brain based business justified? Leaders I work with often express surprise about this era’s unprecedented revolution of new facts about the business brain.

It’s only reasonable that talented people would want to apply strategies for current research about how the human brain processes, interprets and stores information. So why does so little brain based information find its way into the workplace?

Opportunities should increase steadily as new brain facts emerge to help people create the right setting for success and meet the demands for change at work. Never before have we been more aware of benefits that come to business from neuroscience, when talented people accept the challenge for change.

Thanks to rapidly growing research more businesses have the potential of becoming successful in the technology and health industries, than ever before, for instance. Not that we have a magic bullet, but we do have incredible promise for significant growth – based in hidden or often unused resources in the human brain.

When it comes to brain based progress, it’s often more a matter of using smart skills, to tackle something you’ve never encountered before. It’s more about showing evidence of smart skills that adapt to a commercial world, than testing proficient in hard or soft skills that served earlier generations.

In my research and travels to many countries, I find the most successful firms tap into more and more brain based tactics to teach the skills and provide the evidence. People who ask probing new questions about the brain’s potential … for instance … and coming up with strategies to push the edges into higher profitability for their organizations. Does that happen where you work?

Yet what about the skeptics, who like things the old way… and see no need for change based on brain research? Do leaders where you work optimize new information about the brain’s advancement? Do they see past the rhetoric about reform to support practices consistent with new models we have for the human brain’s capability for high performances experienced by people interviewed for, say, Stanley’s book…  “The Millionaire Mind?”

What would it take to have peers describe you as a high-performance-mind?