Read this great article somewhere. And looked up on Youtube and found this link. Its worth your time!
Neural Pathways:
Great teachers….
• Create vision and strategy
• Establish clear expectations
• Help their students to solve problems themselves
• Support them in making their own decisions
• Give consistent positive feedback on performance
• Change is pain. Organizational change is unexpectedly difficult because it provokes sensations of physiological discomfort.
• Behaviorism doesn’t work. Change efforts based on incentive and threat (the carrot and the stick) rarely succeed in the long run.
• Humanism is overrated. In practice, the conventional empathic approach of connection and persuasion doesn’t sufficiently engage people.
• Focus is power. The act of paying attention creates chemical and physical changes in the brain.
• Expectation shapes reality. People’s preconceptions have a significant impact on what they perceive.
• Attention density shapes identity. Repeated, purposeful, and focused attention can lead to long-lasting personal evolution.
• 1. To take any kind of committed action, people need to think things thru for themselves:
• 2. People experience a degree of inertia around thinking for themselves due to the energy required;
• 3. The act of having an aha moment gives off the kind of energy needed for people to become motivated and willing to take action
• We have a limited amount of working memory
• Once people have done a job for some time, they are unconscious much of their workday
• It’s almost impossible to change any hardwiring that’s been imbedded in the brain
• Big difference between a thought (a map held in our working memory) and a habit (a map that’s hardwired in the deeper part of our brain)
• Neurons need positive feedback in some form to create long-term connections
• Instead of looking for behaviours to fix in others, become fascinated with identifying and growing people’s strengths
• Directions a conversation can go
– Philosophical
– Detailed
– Problem focused
– Solution focused
• It only takes 10 to 20% of the time to use a self directed approach than it does to make suggestions
Remove the word ‘why’ from our conversations, and we’ll become more solution-focused
• Assume that people have the answers, and we’re just here to help them to think
• When other people are able to make their own mental picture of what we’re saying, their brain sends a signal to the head to nod a little
• Advice rarely works
Questions you could ask to deepen people’s learning
• What was your big insight this week?
• What did you find out about yourself?
• What other insight did that open up?
• What did you discover about your thinking or habits?
• What new habit did you notice starting to emerge?
• According to neuroscientist John Ratey, any kind of physical activity helps the brain process ideas
• Have a lie-down. A recent study showed people came up with better ideas while horizontal
• Goleman (in Emotional Intelligence) found that social isolation was roughly twice as detrimental to our health as smoking
