50 Acts that Enhance Novelty at Work

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.

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New research about novelty’s power in the brain – only yields its elixirs to those who take advantage. How so?

1 – Step up with confidence.

• Replace fears, fueled by dangerous cortisol, with confidence that comes through serotonin.

2 – Join a social media group.

• While brains default back to ruts, human minds also hold equipment for rejuvenation.

3 – Ask advice from a novice.

• Mind-bending revelations open to those who question, and curiosity enables adventure guided by great questions.

4 – Don’t try to avoid risks.

• Dynamic neuro discoveries can help to create new cutting edge tools for improved leading and learning.

5 – Reconsider negative opinions.

• To live more successful realities is also to accept fewer myths from cynics who reduce brainpower for renewal.

6 – Become what you’d like others to see in you.

• Define your interpersonal roles in people’s lives and you’ll succeed more in living those roles with purpose and passion.

7 – Act like a genius who values humility.

• How you are smart is less tied to numerical scores than to visible expressions of developing multiple intelligences.

8 – Use both sides of your brain to solve a problem.

• Question with two feet and the brain sparks curiosity and motivates solutions in response.

9 – Discuss a problem with solutions in mind.

• Ongoing renewal tends to come from curious minds that question broken systems with solutions in mind

10 – Be specific about improvements you want.

• Brainpower increases through multiple intelligence use and can be tracked through growth surveys.

11 – Listen to your tone during a difficult exchange.

• Tone offers leaders and learners a segue into solutions for stubborn problems in tough times

12 – Prioritize 5 top tasks to complete in order.

• In contrast to multi-tasks that bottleneck the brain, targets enable you to visualize and follow clear pathways forward.

13 – Focus on one new growth area.

• To learn new skills, move past distractions, or take risks, it pays to draw more on working memory.

14 – Build goodwill with somebody during a disagreement.

• To disagree well is to lead well, and they both have more to do with brainpower tools than most people realize.
  

15 – Share opposing views of a controversial issue.

• Those who neglect to engage opposing views also tend to cause flame wars that destroy lessons from diversity.

16 – Ask compelling questions during a boring meeting.

• To target multiple intelligences is to run from lectures that fail to actively engage learner brainpower.

17 – Try a new approach to learn something new.

• Renewal that comes from the brain’s plasticity to rewire daily can also race teens and faculty to the top for higher achievement and motivation

18 – Take advantage of chemical and electrical circuitry to advance past a struggle.

• New research shows how to gain or lose full advantages of adult brain cell regeneration

19 – Benefit more from gender differences.

• Target differences between male and female brains to derive far more brainpower from both genders.

20 – Chill with ethical people

• Target neurogenetics of ethics and draw on brainpower for values that vastly improve your situation.

21 – Hire an older worker.

• Expect outrageous agility that inspires seniors to live voraciously rather than settle for gracious old age.
  

22 – Go for top capabilities others want from you.

• Build new neuron pathways and become the person you want others to see in you.
  

23- Facilitate winning solutions for people who differ.

• Human minds are capable of increasing peace and warding off violence in favor of winning solutions.
  

24 – Design an innovative project that discourages bullying.

• While bullies appear to thrive and aggressive behavior benefits some, brains hold tactics to prevent bullying for finer rewards,
  

25 – Congratulate  groups where racism rarely appears

• In spite of innate racism, the human brains can fuse racial differences into mutual dividends.
  

26 – Remain calm under pressure by taming your amygdala

• Expect calm under pressure through brain chemicals equipped to tame the amygdala when confronted with conflicts.
  

27 – Laugh at the little things.

• Brain benefits come from humor that respects all and laughs at self rather than diminish others.
  

28- Speak up and feel heard.

• Evidence of brain based facilitation skills appear in people’s ability to speak and feel heard on any topic.
  

29- Listen to catch names and use them as you communicate.

• Add value to a circle’s collective brainpower and release chemicals for well being through using people’s names.

30 – Remember more by outsourcing facts.

• Expect more memory by outsourcing key facts through regular use of brain based memory devices.
  

31 – Discourage cynical encounters.

• Tone doubles as tools to open opportunities not available to critics who counter creativity.
  

32 – Use mistakes as stepping stones to success.

• To move past regret by doing its opposite is to create stepping stones forward from past mistakes.
  

33 – Convert beliefs into actions that benefit others.

• Nudge beliefs into actions when multiple intelligences raise community IQ for progress.
  

34 – Get help beyond technical glitches into innovative results.

• Move beyond technology that glitches to engage the brain’s innate ability with mechanical tools.
  

35 – Reconfigure people as capital for higher ROI.

• With people positioned as precious capital at the center, systems increase ROI and inspire more meaningful innovations.
  

36 – Renew without fear.

• While renewal stretches a brain’s plasticity into growth and change, limit action through fear or anxiety and you inhibit brainpower dangerously.
  

37 – Move younger people into pathways of growth.

• It’s no secret that current systems stunt teen brainpower, or no longer a mystery what strategies boost brainpower for a new era.
  

38 – Help to fix broken systems by offering your talents.

• It will take multiple intelligences from diverse brains to replace broken systems with higher performing communities.
  

39 – Seek innovative solutions when you meet routine problems.

• Move Innovation into Invention from the moment a problem is spotted and solutions stir creatively.
  

40 – Increase your leadership IQ.

• You can move intelligences up a notch today since IQ is not fixed and grows with regular use.

41 – Make one significant change.

• To reflect for change is to engage an intense and complex series of brain states that require more neural resources than methodological reasoning.
  

42 – Find one growth possibility in unexpected setbacks

• Reflect widely and prepare the brain for sudden landings and successful approaches at unexpected emergency runways.

43 – Act opposite one habit that holds you back.

• To reflect is the sure segue to create ongoing change that moves yourself and others to a better place.
  

44 –  Replace one limiting myth with a new reality.

• Without reflection you miss new facts about the human brain and likely settle for living myths that limit mental progress.

45 – Change one routine to add room for growth.

• Reflection improves the brain’s executive skills as it prompts change and sustains ongoing growth.
  

46 – Run a highly interactive meeting.

• Rather than feel trapped in meetings, reflect on ways to either bolt or engage mental approaches to override your brain’s propensity to default back to ruts.
  

47 – Contribute to an ethical climate by modeling high values.

• Request values that show leaders reflect in a brain powered climate beyond deceit for personal gain.

48- Use an online tool to advance an innovation.

• Reflect for brainier online results that engage serotonin, a miracle drug for success and prevent cortisol, the chemical that can cause failure.
  

49 – Reflect on approaches to engage all for mutual dividends.

• Leaders who reflect for long range benefits tend to jumpstart peace plans rather than incite violence, sparked by one-sided leaders

50 – Use smart skills that combine hard and soft.

• Change and innovations for a new era follow reflection when smart skills replace hard and soft skills