neuroscience
Are you using the newest science to achieve great performance?
My colleague Rick Grbavac, vice president at Cerebyte, and I were in a meeting recently and were showing the latest enhancements on Sofia, our neuroscience-based cloud and mobile application that captures and organizes your experts’ knowledge at extraordinary speed. One of the people made a comment that Sofia’s use of the text seemed “old” and that…
Read MoreMaximizing Your Unfocused Mind
I just finished reading a great book called “Tinker, Dabble, Doodle, Try” by Dr. Srini Pillay. In full disclosure, Dr. Pillay and his NeuroBusiness Group are a Cerebyte partner. Srini is a Harvard professor of psychology though much of his work with us is in neuroscience and this book is mostly neuroscience. I wanted to…
Read MoreHow to “retrain” your workforce using self-directed learning
I recently read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal titled, “Amazon to Spend Big to Retrain Employees.” The article focuses on a commitment Amazon has made to spend $700 million to retrain its people – about $1,200 per year per person. The article sites two reasons for this initiative, 1) Amazon needs to…
Read MoreMaking Promotions Work — Fast
Promoting someone is almost always a positive event for an organization. A person’s past accomplishments are recognized and a new opportunity is created for the person and the organization. It’s very exciting and energizing when someone gets a promotion. But newly promoted people often struggle with significant changes to their role and work. Many of…
Read MoreDisruptive Technology for Leading, Learning and Organizational Transformation…Speed, Speed and More Speed
We live in a Twitterized world. Everything is in 140 characters…or now its 280 characters. The fast-paced, “what have you done for me lately” world has made it even more challenging for companies and their employees to be successful. Most leadership initiatives and change programs take days, weeks and sometimes years to complete and, honestly,…
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