Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Here are 5 surefire ways to zap brainpower from any room you enter.

1. Tell people how great you are and how much experience you have in any topic they raise. Why learn new skills or make spaces for other people’s multiple intelligences when you have so many of your own already in operation?

2. Snap at pretty much anybody who disagrees with any of your great ideas. Tone is a blatant silent killer you can use in any circle and is bound to shut down opposition and pretty much everything else.

3. Lead people to think you like things you hate - just to keep them quiet. Meta messages are sure to confuse people so they don’t know what you are saying or thinking any longer – or even how to respond with any sincerity.

4. Tell people about all the problems you face daily and never offer any hint of a solution of any kind. Make sure you leave them with a full sense of your victim-hood for best effects here.

5. Talk about others when they aren’t around – tell leaders what others do wrong and make sure you create lots of conflict and chaos in any project you undertake. Stress literally shrinks the human brain and shuts it down  – so this one is a real ringer for those who want to make a spectacular splash with any group.

Have you seen other surefire hits to short circuit brainpower where you work?