Meta-messages come from undeveloped interpersonal or linguistic intelligences, and they torpedo the very people you hoped to win. Have you noticed when we speak meta-messages we leave victims running for escape hatches? We begin to question flaws between their lines because what we hear is not what speakers mean. How… Read more »
Our brain leaps to discovery when we embrace novelty and follow its lead. 50 strategies below add brainpower to derail workplace toxins and launch innovations leaders crave for a new era. Understand your proclivity for novelty, and begin to step toward more innovative outcomes for success in a new era…. Read more »
Talents and intelligences hold a great deal in common, and both come from the same mental spigots. Do you possess that sense wonder that rolls out unique talents? When organizational growth depends on making more products, in less time, with fewer people for increased dollars, what do you grow? If… Read more »
What would it take to sustain hope as a go-to center in your brain? When hope yields to daily mandated routines, our brains slip into dangerous ruts! Do your routines rob our hope? What about mandated routines? Looking for tips to reboot magical hope for a new season? I like… Read more »
Our brain engages curiosity or fear, yet it cannot engage both at the same time. Does your community cultivate curiosity or foster fears that drown innovation? Brain based games work especially well to optimize learner brainpower and empower teacher transitional opportunities to help growth happen! No question, curiosity is central… Read more »
Cynicism is another way of accepting cortisol that exacerbates any problem by diminishing brainpower and blocking solutions. Queen Rania told NPR that the world cannot afford to be cynical. Do you agree? Listen here to the Queen’s conversation with NPR to encourage opposing views to learn from different perspectives. People… Read more »
Do you engage additional intelligences that improve your day? We all come equipped with multiple literacies of which we use very few as learners. Take your brain back to the last lecture or meeting you endured, and you’ll likely agree with research that shows how lectures work against human brains. … Read more »
Are you looking for lectures or learning? The reason I ask is because brain research shows how lectures rarely go together with learning as we’d once hoped. That leads to the next obvious question, “Have you ever wonder why we give talks and lectures as if unaware that listeners retain… Read more »
Why not identify a personal change you’d like to make, and then let’s consider together how to get there? People tend to join in and innovate faster if we ask questions they’d most like to answer. What problem lies in your way at the moment so that you feel unable… Read more »
Expect agility to follow when we combine hard and soft skills to lead change for the 21st Century. Agile learners develop smart skills to build flexible and resourceful communities, where problems get solved and people find support. It’s more than hard or soft skills, yet it builds a learning community… Read more »
