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

✍ Scribed by Amy Brann

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Half-title page
Dedication
Title page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowlegements
Introduction
How to read this book
Meet the coach
Meet the professionals
Part 1 YOU
01 Can a marshmallow predict your success?
Possibilities
Prioritization
Picturing your goal
Starting with the end in mind
Prefrontal cortex
Practical prioritization
New information
Multi or mono
Your plastic brain
Reassuringly flexible
Enriching your potential
Action
02 Is your hippopotamus under attack?
Stress: the classic culprit
Predictability and stress
Perhaps pounding the pavements is the answer
Negative connotations
Checking out of stress and into normality
Hippo attack
Mirror neurons
Possibilities
Lack of control
Stress busting
Focus
Action
03 Learning how to influence what feels out of your control
States, emotions and feelings
To know or not to know
Controlling our feelings
Controlling our emotions
Practically possible
New for Ben
Why anchoring is vital
About the cup
The importance of smell
Action
04 The challenge of being everything to everyone
Possibilities
Distractions
Benefits of braking
Getting stuck
Strategic planning
Getting unstuck
Decision making
Filtering incoming data
Emotional area
Action
05 Is a busy brain a clever brain?
The brain in action
In one ear, out the other
Full head
Enriching your environment
Knowledge into practice
A leopard can change its spots
A lot of hard work
Practically possible
06 Getting results easily and with less effort
The neuroscience behind habits
The reality of the chocolate habit
Reprogramming a habit
How a faulty circuit can be fixed
What is possible
Neuroplasticity and habits
‘Damaged’ as a child
Neural Darwinism
Competitive plasticity
How you create new habits
Why bad habits sometimes return
Action
Part 2 YOUR COLLEAGUES AND CLIENTS
07 Working and living in balance
Work–life balance
Expectations: theirs and yours
Conflict
Causes of tiredness
Time versus energy
The importance of control
How the mind works optimally
Action
08 Upgrading your life one step at a time
What the brain has to do with getting stuff done
Brain areas of goal achievement
Getting specific
Real or imagined
The neuroscientist’s biggest kept secret
Motivation
Your state matters
Deserving a reward
Action
09 The minefield of motivating people
Motivating others
What motivates you
Some rewards motivate
Higher purpose
Power of expectations
Motivation zappers
Power of control
Power of certainty
Power of confidence
Mood and motivation
10 The resilient brain – did you receive yours?
Explore the short easy ways resilience can be built
Mental rehearsal
Can you increase your mental endurance?
Challenging perspectives
11 What to do when everyone demands innovation
Myth busting
Core components of creativity
Improvization
Cognitive flexibility
Mental workouts
Brain during creativity
Glorious sleep
Daydreaming
Play
12 Appearing competent to others
Insights
How to predispose yourself to having more insights
Why you forget
Real or fabricated
Episodic versus semantic
Brain areas
Working memory
Emotions and memory
Unconscious memories
Priming
Part 3 YOUR COMPANY
13 Leading with your brain switched on
Leaders today
The synaptic circle
Confidence
Understanding status
Mirror neurons
Certainty
Celebration
Control
Connection
Contribution
14 A culture of more than psychological safety
Bold Jessie
Creating a culture of psychological safety yields an organizational environment in which employees can explore and express their full brain potential
15 Managing people, managing brains
Managing people – a brain perspective
Trust
Predictability and ambiguity
Fairness
Social reward
Neuromanagement
Feeling
Thinking
The evaluator
The conflict manager
Interpreting
Action
Reward
Notes
Further Reading
Index