There are 10 indications you work in a brain compatible setting. In quality brain friendly settings you’ll notice most:
1. Outspoken confidence that human brains are capable of almost anything and somebody there will both highlight and facilitate people’s talents.
2. Emphasis on excellence that draws from diverse gifts across genders, cultures, intelligences and beliefs.
3. Metaphorical crowns will be held over each worker’s head, and each will be inspired to grow into unique ways to reach and sport that crown.
4. Wisdom is welcomed through multiple intelligences and through evaluation tasks that double as learning tools.
5. People create daily rather than grow enslaved by other people’s rigid rules or one-way-only processes.
6. Regular roundtables will ensure interactive exchanges to solve work related problems across cultures, ages, and walks of life.
7. Change efforts will lead to continual renewal and departure from status quo ruts, one solution and one person at a time.
8. Rewards go out to workers who take risks, light new fires for others, and encourage unique approaches to reach shared targets.
9. Current theories will daily translate into doable practices for ongoing and bottom line growth.
10. Work is a social process where people advance by mentoring others even as they learn new skills themselves.
Do you work in a brain compatible organization?
Fact is, Dr. Ellen Weber, I do work at the workplace you describe, and it's one of the greatest privileges I've had. Number three means so much since you've been the cheerleader, mentor and charasmitic and transformational leader who helped me to do that!
Thanks for a great post.
Posted by: Robyn | June 23, 2008 5:27 AM | Permalink to Comment