Make your brain work : how to maximize your efficiency, productivity and effectiveness

✍ Scribed by Brann, Amy

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Using the latest insights from neuroscience about how our mind works and what really makes us tick, Make Your Brain Work explains how to be more effective in the workplace and to get maximum impact from minimum effort. Author Amy Brann is an expert in brain science, and she has distilled its key findings into non-technical, practical guidance. She presents an entirely different type of training: training based on the science of the mind. Offering soft skills training through the lens of neuroscience, her engaging book helps readers discover how to function at the top of their capabilities and learn the habits, techniques and behaviors that will get positive results. Challenges addressed include: frustration with management, work-life balance, motivating people and achieving goals. Make Your Brain Work shows readers how to leave stress, negative moods and poor time management behind and become more efficient at work.--  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter - 00: Introduction
Section - ONE: You
Chapter - 01: Can a marshmallow predict your success?
Chapter - 02: Is your hippopotamus under attack?
Chapter - 03: Learning how to influence what feels out of your control
Chapter - 04: The challenge of being everything to everyone
Chapter - 05: Is a busy brain a clever brain?
Chapter - 06: Getting results easily and with less effort
Section - TWO: Your colleagues and clients
Chapter - 07: Working and living in balance
Chapter - 08: Upgrading your life one step at a time
Chapter - 09: The minefield of motivating people
Chapter - 10: Transforming meetings
Chapter - 11: Making every presentation count
Chapter - 12: Appearing competent to others
Section - THREE: Your company
Chapter - 13: Leading with your brain switched on
Chapter - 14: Simply authentic sales
Chapter - 15: Managing people, managing brains

✦ Subjects

Performance Psychological aspects Work Mental efficiency Management Efficiency Processes psychology PSYCHOLOGY Applied Psychology SELF HELP Personal Growth General Happiness Success