Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Have you ever attended a great workshop, and experienced an aha moment, only to find people forget to roll out any new insights back at work? It’s no coincidence that workshops waste money, and tend to defeat their purpose, if you look at how the brain learns and retains new ideas. How so?

While the brain synapses with fast driven ideas, with mentally charged fuels and an impetus for improvement at workshops, change requires more.  It takes time and applications with guidance to override the brain’s natural proclivity to default past former ruts.

Life-changing improvements are implemented through extended guidance that increases serotonin hormones for learning and growth. Yet significant changes tend to be abandoned shortly after brief workshops. Participants drop inspired facts from their working memory. It's how human brains are designed to work, and it makes sense when you think about it.

For years we offered brief MITA Brain Based workshops, saw unusual excitement for new ideas and change, only to find people frustrated, and the efforts of a few hampered by cortisol chemicals and not much support. No more, we turn down offers weekly and suggest that people save their money and our time instead.

Success comes from institutes where people certify to create action plans based on new information learned. This process allows newly learned insights to filter into the brain’s basal ganglia where the brain stores more permanent ideas, intentions and practices that can lead to concrete change.

It takes guidance and human support to roll these new ideas out in ways that replace or rejuvenate broken practices. When people try an idea for the first time, they tend to see gaps that can come during lectures where they took in facts without any opportunity to try them out or ask questions when problems arise.

Can you see why workshops waste money and at the same time,  can even hamper the urgent changes many crave?