Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Remember our Driver Safety Program Question asked …

What would a driver safety program  look like - with more of the brain in mind?

The safety program Targets included:

- Align tasks in your driver program to match Road Safety Authority facts
- Compare five personal safety habits with five from the Health and Safety Authority
- Show safety implications from  road crash stats and road safety strategies
- Apply new standards for vehicle registration plates to create safety precautions

The time has come to lay out what exact criteria is expected in the program.

These five specific traits show what criteria will be measured for success, failure and hopefully for safety growth. These five provide a guide or advanced organizer to the driving student’s brain and as a guide to the instructors assessment of safety practices.

That need for an advanced organizer and assessment tool  leads to the MITA step 3 …

EXPECT: 

1. Smart skills used effectively for safer driving practices
2. Multiple intelligences used as solutions to driver safety problems
3. Evidence that Road Safety Authority facts are applied to safe driving
4. Growth from hebbian habits for poor driving to safe brain based practices
5. Ability to drive more often under serotonin influences than cortisol influences

Do you see how each of the above brain based criteria  measure traits that will be expected at the end of the program? Expectations act as guides to drivers' growth and also allow drivers-in-training to see precisely what is expected for their successful completion of the program.

The human brain operates better when people know what is expected.

Knowing what is expected is a mere beginning to reaching these criteria however, and this is where MITA step 4 adds wonderful new opportunities to transfer what you know to improve what you do.

MOVE … or Step 4 of MITA programs moves multiple intelligences into action as tools for learning to drive safely. In the next post … see how this step builds on the safe driver question, roots itself in each target and illustrates precisely what drivers-in-training were told to expect.  

Have you found yourself doing better when you knew ahead what to expect?

If so, you were working with – rather than against the human brain and were also operating as part of the MITA brain based learning process. It’s not that hard but you can likely see why it will get quality driving results.