Posts Tagged ‘neuroscience’
How to Thrive in Tough Times
This interview with Sandy Vilas, the CEO and owner of Coach U, author, speaker, and the man who built the largest coaching practice in the world, is an excellent resource for those of you who are feeling overwhelmed and anxious about the economy. If you’ve been feeling afraid because your job is in danger or gone, if you want to attract more business in 2009, or if you are looking for some tips that you can put into action today, this is an hour well spent.
Take a Leadership Role: Build Priceless Business Relationships
Dean LIndsay came to speak at my Winning the Game Lunch in Plano, TX last Friday. His talk not only gave me a different framework for talking about the importance of relationship networking, but also reminded me how important it is to you and yours to take a leadership role as a networker. In this article, Dean provides a 4 step process to becoming a great networker. These are also great tips for how to succeed in any environment that requires service, collaboration and trust.
Roaring LION Attracts Opportunities, How About You?
I have done a 180 shift in the last three months when it comes to LinkedIn.
I used to subscribe to the view that I should only connect with people I know and trust and leverage those connections to help others to connect and find opportunities. What I discovered is that I don’t need LinkedIn for this; I have Outlook. LinkedIn helps me to reach the circle of influence of the people with whom I’ve connected, but only when someone else takes action by making that introduction.
Less Job in the New Year?
Happy New Year!
I was reading a career advice column in the Dallas Morning News while I was taking a holiday last week. The letter was from a person who works at a small firm, who likes her job and who was informed that in order to avoid a layoff, everyone in the company will be taking a 15% cut in pay starting on January 1. Her question was whether she had to “roll over” and take it.
Assuming Your Team is Executing Your Plan?
Most of my prospective clients answer yes to this question. And, when I ask them “Based on what evidence?” or “How do you know?” I usually get a vague answer referring to some quarterly all-hands meeting (or worse yet, the yearly one). Business owners and Executives: If you aren’t keeping your vision and goals at the forefront every day, neither is your staff. It is too easy to be caught up in the day-to-day happenings and emergencies to keep the eye on the prize that was mentioned fleetingly in a powerpoint presentation delivered months ago.
Free Teleseminar to Land Your Dream Job
Miriam Salpeter just posted on her blog about our upcoming free Teleseminar: Land Your Dream Job: 8 Strategies for Outrageous Success. This is our gift to those of you who’ve been affected by the recent downturn in the economy and for those of you who are scared to death that your job might be next. It is free which makes it risk-free to you. 
Top 3 Reasons Why Gift Giving is Good
I’ll start this with an admission: we abdicated on the holiday season this year. There are no latkes, no tree, no gifts, with the exception of those to non-profits such as Best Friends and the Heifer Project.
I didn’t miss any of it until today.
Imperfect Action Strikes Again
Confessions of an Blog Killer and Accidental Spammer
I don’t like bothering my web designer for small things.
You see, my background is in Information Technology. Nearly a decade ago, I was a web developer for about a minute. Adding an RSS Feed button shouldn’t be a big deal for someone with my vast experience with HTML coding, and so, I added that myself. I didn’t like what the About this Place said on the side bar, so I changed that, too. I didn’t like the paragraph color, so I changed that in my style sheet, too (in production, without taking a backup). All was well, until I got a call from Jeremy McKane, my web developer, “What did you do to your blog!”
Managing Group Politics With a Bitch : )
A Case Study of How One Poor Hire and a Merger Changed the Culture of an Organization
Transform your Overloaded, Underperforming Brain into an Efficient, Overachieving Machine (Part 3)
In part 1, we touched on some highlights about what neuroscience has taught us about learning, patterns and their impact on thought. In part 2, we looked at how those thoughts determine emotion and how anger and fear impact the quality of thinking. Over the year, we’ll be examining other forms of overload and providing some concrete actions to mitigate or avoid them. Today, we are going to tie this together with the answer to this question:






