Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Most would agree that the workplace in 2008 will change drastically … based on how we use brain facts handed to us in 2007. Just look at predictions from brainy leaders over the last year … to see the changing horizons that face us for the coming year. It’s a good thing whenever we rise to the challenge. Will your firm step to the cutting edges in 2008?

Here are MITA's 5 key questions to consider for more success in 2008:

1.  How can we build quality workplaces and reduce toxic settings?

Employees and many leaders are feeling the strain of toxic workplaces as never before. There are many reasons people add toxins that poison their work setting. We each get hit with an average of 22 stressors daily for instance. It’s not long before these mental hits take their toll on any group. Brain based tactics … such as banking serotonin … can turn toxins around … where leaders engage the question as an entry point to create change.

2. Why do some talented workers remain disengaged?

Successful entrepreneurs are teaching us all how to move multiple intelligences into the mix at work. Rather than traditional diversity training … the best firms out there in terms of quality growth control … look for novel ways to use and evaluate multiple  intelligences evident at work. Factor in gender differences and watch new strengths energize both men and women for talented outcomes.

3. How can organizational communication benefit the bottom line?

Take another look at tone where you work, and begin to insert one or two changes that would offer productive tone to the finish line of your next project. Consider how tone works for or against clients and employees in many similar ways. With a few workers talented in tone tactics … set a strategy in place to turn poor communication into organizational growth.

4. How do high performance minds ratchet up their bottom lines?

Discuss with your colleagues how people you’d consider as millionaire minds … use their strengths to open new spigots of profitability. If you programmed one or two tips from the experts … you can also tilt brains in the direction of significant profitability. Start with a question – and others around you will offer winning tactics in response.

5. How could your firm generate more solutions than problems?

Why not insert a few new practices one morning weekly … to boost people’s business intelligence.  For instance … you may wish to consider using more laughter, music and working memory all of which hold practical opportunities that benefit business growth.  It’s simply a matter of inserting one new practice that rolls out these practices.
 
What question would you add to benefit your organization in the coming year?