People often wonder why an inspired talk on a Friday afternoon loses its zip by Monday morning. In other words, why do people hear and even buy into great ideas – but then soon after - return to their old ways?
The culprit? Growth is stumped less by unwillingness or closed-mindedness and more because people lack of brain based approaches that facilitate lasting improvements. 
What amazing innovations lost steam lately where you work?
Here are 2 tips to transform great ideas into successful outcomes at work – both based on how the mind works.
1. Call on more effective facilitators who turn high-performance-mind-tools such as an MI growth survey into bridges between employee strengths and the firm’s vision for excellence.
How does the mind works for change through facilitators? Speakers alone cannot create these bridges or foster lasting change because lectures work against the human brain.
2. Move ideas into practical applications in incremental stages, as they are presented. Inspire workers to teach others as they learn new skills themselves. For example I taught a session on Dendrite Brain cells for a Competitive Edge … to a group of top leaders.
After our discussion about brain facts such as laughter that spells success and tone that can benefit or bust a business – I invited this leadership group to create a practical plan to implement the following day at work.
The purpose? To change one ineffective practice into an approach for higher productivity. How so?
The transformational tasks so energized these leaders so they looked for tactics to reduce stress that masks as diligence at work, and then to measure and reward progress.
As they learned and taught others at the same time - they unpacked valuable lessons about how the mind works and how current brain facts can raise productivity.
It’s better to teach others as you learn yourself, than to passively listen to a motivational speaker. Why so? Great ideas deposited into the minds’ working memory fall away just as an unsaved Word program vanishes when you shut down your computer. To hit the saved button on inspiration for the mind is to deposit great ideas into people’s basal ganglia. How so?
New research suggests that it is better to teach a dog your innovative ideas – than to listen to another wonderful talk about innovation. What do you think?
Hello Ellen:
I think this is a marvellous post. I've experimented with some of the rudiments of the brain based approaches that you speak of at this blog and seen participants become for more engaged and productive as a result. Probably the best way to stifle innovation is to spend time talking about it. :) By the way, doesn't the term facilitation come from the Latin facilitare , meaning to make easy. It's supposed to be easy on the participants, not the facilitator.
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