Management Training

There is a Sea Change on the Way – Neuroplasticity

Anthony Bennett CISA, PMP

Anthony Wright

 

Howard Hughes  Interview “What is Neuroplasticity?”

 

 

“The burgeoning field of neuroscience—the study of the nervous system and the brain—has gone mainstream. The race is on to translate its insights into practical applications at work.“ John R Ryan Business Week

 

” Management mainstays such as feedback and data-based decision making sound great, but it turns out the human brain is wired against them both. Advances in neuroscience are showing that many of our trusted management methods simply……………. don’t work.“ Joe Rominiecki

CIPD the UK HR organisation:

“Neuroscience can inform your approach to performance, bias, learning and leadership. “
“Interactive workshops will explore how neuroscience links to HR and learning, which will enable more effective delivery and improved results”

 

The American Society for Training and Development say

 

” it is important to recognize and consider the role of human neuroscience in how we think and act.“
“The neuroscience of leadership is rapidly breaking new ground in leadership training, deepening our understanding of how the brain works and how to maximise our potential to improve effectiveness at work and build better relationships. Ultimately, better knowledge about our own and others’ brains helps to inform a wide range of interpersonal skills, as well as project planning and management practices that have a positive impact on organisational performance and aid the creation of an agile learning organisation.“ CIPD – the professional body of HR and people development

A new understanding?

Current trending styles in the USA seem to point the way and American Industry is beginning to realise that understanding how our minds function and being able be in control of our thought processes is a prerequisite to learning process, methods and procedures. The sea change is beginning to change the way businesses manage and train worldwide. Neuroscience is earning its rightful place in the management armoury.
The advent of the fMRI machine means we can now follow exactly what is happening in the brain report on where neural activity takes place and how the brain reacts to stimuli. We understand the body and the brain are one whole system and that they affect each other. When either the mind or body are stressed in any way the effect is felt by both. Together with the considerable developments in psychology since Napoleon Hill wrote his masterpiece in 1937 we know very much more about the brain and how it functions how our subconscious processes our reactions to stimuli, the biochemistry which drives our behaviour and how we can take control.
We are learning that the brain is a living growing organism which can continue to grow and develop over its lifetime and even repair damage, rebuilding abilities which have been destroyed by illness of physical trauma. We are learning how beliefs and behaviour patterns are laid down and how we can change lifelong habits remarkably easily and quickly when we are aware of the mechanism which etches them into our subconscious.

 

Neuroplasticity is the future.

If the word ‘Neuroscience’ sounds foreboding, relax. Together neuroplasticity expert Anthony Wright and Psychotherapist Tony Bennett have combined to present the latest learning in a way that not only makes it easily accessible but empowers managers and employees to take control of their goals and objectives and manage themselves for the mutual benefit of themselves and their employers.
With psychology you have focus, direction and motivation. With neuroplasticity you have management, resources and growth. The combination is unstoppable.

 

 

 

Executive Summary

 

1. Background – what is happening? 2. What is neuroplasticity? 3. Why link Neuroplasticity and Psychology? 4. Who is Tony Bennett? 5. Who is Anthony Wright? 6. Neuroscience for Business and Industry? 7. What are the benefits for the client company? 8. Neuroplasticity 9. Neuroplasticity at work 10. Who will be interested? 11. Why would your company be interested in the course? 12. One day workshop
Contents

“Neuroscience can inform your approach to performance, bias, learning and leadership. ”
“Interactive workshops will explore how neuroscience links to HR and learning, which will enable more effective delivery and improved results.
Success isn’t possible without changing the day-to-day behaviour of people throughout the company.
Cipd – the professional body of HR and people development also say
“The neuroscience of leadership is rapidly breaking new ground in leadership training, deepening our understanding of how the brain works and how to maximise our potential to improve effectiveness at work and build better relationships. Ultimately, better knowledge about our own and others’ brains helps to inform a wide range of interpersonal skills, as well as project planning and management practices, that have a positive impact on organisational performance and aid the creation of an agile learning organisation.“

Writing in the Centre for Association Leadership Joe Rominiecki reveals..

“Management mainstays such as feedback and data-based decision making sound great, but it turns out the human brain is wired against them both. Advances in neuroscience are showing that many of our trusted management methods simply don’t work.”
In a Business Week article John R Ryan asserts that
“The burgeoning field of neuroscience—the study of the nervous system and the brain—has gone mainstream. The race is on to translate its insights into practical applications at work.”

 

 

Background – what is happening in the marketplace

 

Neuroplasticity, also known as brain plasticity, is an umbrella term that encompasses both synaptic plasticity and non-synaptic plasticity—it refers to changes in neural pathways and synapses which are due to changes in behaviour, environment and neural processes, as well as changes resulting from bodily injury. Neuroplasticity has replaced the formerly-held position that the brain is a physiologically static organ, and explores how – and in which ways – the brain changes throughout life.
The role of neuroplasticity is widely recognized in healthy development, learning, memory, and recovery from brain damage. During most of the 20th century, the consensus among neuroscientists was that brain structure is relatively immutable after a critical period during early childhood. This belief has been challenged by findings revealing that many aspects of the brain remain plastic even into adulthood.
Decades of research have now shown that substantial changes occur in the lowest neocortical processing areas, and that these changes can profoundly alter the pattern of neuronal activation in response to experience. Neuroscientific research indicates that experience can actually change both the brain’s physical structure (anatomy) and functional organization (physiology). Neuroscientists are currently engaged in a reconciliation of critical period studies demonstrating the immutability of the brain after development with the more recent research showing how the brain can, and does, change.

 

What is Neuroplasticity?

“Neuroplasticity is a process by which a brain learns or acquires new skills, thought processes or emotions. It is a useful indication of both mental capacity and future potential. The process can be encouraged or nurtured. Hence the interest of the Training industry both here and in the USA.”

 

 

Why link Neuroplasticity and Psychology together?

 

Psychology offers the focus, achievement orientated thinking and the direction
Neuroplasticity offers the resources, the capability and the functionality
Basically, motivation plus means = Achievement

Management of the brain functionality both for individuals and for companies is key to optimum performance. Anthony`s experience is that Neuroplasticity is something that can be nurtured to improve cognitive or intellectual abilities and he have first-hand experience of the process.

The training industry has always sought to train, motivate, inspire and develop people to achieve greater things. In one sense a limiting factor has always been how receptive the delegates are and are they in the right mental frame to receive the information they are being offered. The advent of greater neurological understanding (how the brain works) shows clear indication that the modern “over busy” or over stressed workplace actually impairs both the thinking process and development of the individual and their efficiency.
In the current business environment there is a need for increasing innovation and positive response to change. The individual needs to be at the top of their game, fully engaged. While the environment itself, is frequently perceived as stressful, over busy and overloaded and increasingly hampering these requirements.
Neuroscience understanding has progressed to the point that applying knowledge gained in recent decades impacts hugely not only on performance and profitability but also on company morale.
By helping them understand their own and other thought processes and the infinite capacity of the brain to grow and adapt we can now enable employees, managers, directors or whole teams who may be perceived as having more potential than they are delivering to fully realise their promise.

 

Neuroscience is trending in the Leadership and HP worlds both in the U.S. and in the UK.
“Management mainstays such as feedback and data-based decision making sound great, but it turns out the human brain is wired against them both. Advances in neuroscience are showing that many of our trusted management methods simply don’t work.“ – Joe Rominiecki Centre for Association Leadership

 

Why is there a need for this type of course?

 

Changing behaviour is hard, the way we ‘do stuff’ is burned into our subconscious even when adopting new habits can mean the difference between life and death. In many studies of patients who have undergone coronary bypass surgery, only one in nine people, on average, adopts healthier day-to-day habits. The others’ lives are at significantly greater risk unless they exercise and lose weight, and they clearly see the value of changing their behaviour. But they don’t follow through. So what about changing the way an employee behaves at work or even the culture of a whole organization? The consistently poor track record in this area tells us it’s a challenging aspiration at best.
During the last two decades, scientists have gained a new, far more accurate view of human nature and behaviour change because of the integration of psychology (the study of the human mind and human behaviour) and neuroscience (the study of the anatomy and physiology of the brain). This has helped researchers develop an increasing body of theoretical work linking the brain (the physical organ) with the mind (the human consciousness that thinks, feels, acts, and perceives).
The implications of this new research are particularly relevant for organizational leaders. It is now clear that human behaviour in the workplace doesn’t work the way many executives think it does. That in turn helps explain why many leadership efforts and organizational change initiatives fall flat. And it also helps explain the success of companies like Toyota and Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation, whose shop-floor or meeting-room practices resonate deeply with the innate predispositions of the human brain.

 

 

What will be the benefit for you ?

 

If you are still reading but don’t really want to get into the complex world and unfathomable language of brain science you can relax. As a metaphor we are talking ‘how to drive the car’ here not ‘the theory and practice of the internal combustion engine’.
Nor are we asking you to follow the beliefs of the ancients, to believe in spirits and deities or any other “newspeak”. We have taken the latest psychology, proven by our own history, scientific study and daily clinical practice and wrapped it in an easily digestible format the application of which will, enable you to take control of your mind and body and will, if you let it, change your life forever.

 

 

Neuroplasticity

 

It’s just the way I am – nature or nurture
For a hundred years we have known that patterns of behaviour can be inherited in our DNA and since 1992 we have also known that DNA is not set in stone, we can change our DNA and shake off the handicaps willed to us by our ancestors.
Discovery Magazine writing of the discovery twenty years ago by Molecular Biologist and Geneticist Moshe Szyf and Michael Meany an neurobiologist both from McGill University Montreal said…
“The genome has long been known as the blueprint of life,” they said but the epigenome (new events added to DNA in later life) is life’s Etch A Sketch: Shake it hard enough, and you can wipe clean the family curse. ” We can all shake our personal etch a sketch and change our and our descendants genetic inheritance. ”
Yet still the fiction that inherited traits are unchangeable persist, they may take a little more work to shift, that’s true, but the first belief we are asking you to adopt is that no matter what traits or tendencies you were born with you can.

 

 

NeuroPlasticity II

 

Just as with DNA recent discoveries have shown that the belief, widely held in the last century, that the brain ceased to develop after early childhood, is wrong. The brain changes throughout life and neuro-scientific research indicates that experience can actually change both the brain’s physical structure and functional organization. Put simply your brain continues to learn from experience and repair damage caused by trauma throughout your life. In 2005 a study found that the effects of neuroplasticity occur even more rapidly than previously expected. Medical students’ brains were imaged during the period when they were studying for their exams. In a matter of months, the students’ grey matter increased significantly.
A surprising consequence of neuroplasticity is that the brain activity associated with a given function can move to a different location; this can result from normal experience and also occurs in the process of recovery from brain injury. It can repair itself and grow back functions it had once lost.
The benefit of this new knowledge for a person whose, such as the co author of this white paper Anthony Wright, who had lost part of his brain functionality after life saving surgery is self evident. Research then application rebuilt his cognitive function to within 95% of its former capacity.
Anthony’s clear demonstration of what can be achieved to change repair and develop cognitive and sub conscious abilities has huge value for the corporate world. Armed with the information of what and how they need to change in their thinking employees no longer start at a peak and deteriorate into old age, with the right education and training they can continue to develop and constantly improve, harvesting the fruits of previous training and experience.
Employees, managers, directors and entrepreneurs can continue to build on skills and knowledge throughout their working lives. Low performers can be energised to begin to realise the potential they were once employed for, recruitment costs can be slashed and individuals social and financial performance enhanced.
How can this be achieved? By helping individuals to understand how their mind and body work together and how they can take control to achieve mastery of their thoughts and actions.
Of course rebuilding a damaged brain takes time. However a normal healthy brain may need very little re-wiring, just improved management– a rapid and dramatic change brought about by the most up to date information detailing the changes in belief and behaviour maybe all we need to take in to function at our most efficient.
What can understanding and applying the understanding of Neuro Plasticity do for Individuals?
It is enables improved self-development, supercharges learning and sponsors creative capability,
Enhances memory and mental capacity.
Improves stress management and productivity.
Sponsors ambition and brings ambitious goals and objectives within reach.
What are the benefits For the client Company?
In a competitive world of increasing change and innovation it is crucial that the human resource is functioning to its best ability. These understandings enable the individual to fulfil the hopes and expectations the company saw in them on appointment to the full reducing turnover, reducing and increasing productivity.
Intellectual knowledge/capacity/capability is a resource that can be nurtured and developed. Understanding of the neuroplasticity process is key to this development.
Creativity and problem solving are crucial skills in the modern business environment an understanding of neuroplasticity will assist these processes.
Increasingly communications overload, stress and mental fatigue will be the limitations that will hold both individuals and companies back. Ultimately limiting both growth and future potential. The neuroplasticity approach enables improved management of these issues

Neuro plasticity at work

For the company – In a competitive world of increasing change and innovation it is crucial that the human resource is functioning to its best ability.
•Increasingly the term Neuroplasticity will be interlinked with improved thinking and problem solving skills. The forward thinking corporations understand that mental/intellectual capacity of the workforce is a resource crucial to the company’s future development and success.
•Intellectual knowledge/capacity/capability is a resource that can be nurtured and developed. Understanding of the neuroplasticity process is key to this development. Creativity and problem solving are crucial skills in the modern business environment an understanding of neuroplasticity will assist these processes.
•Increasingly communications overload, stress and mental fatigue will be the limitations that will hold both individuals and companies back. Ultimately limiting both growth and future potential. The neuroplasticity approach enables improved management of these issues maximising the mental resources of the manager, improving skillsets and efficiency.

 

Who will be interested?

 

For the individual: The individual will recognise that long term success and security ultimately depends both on mental capacity and the ability to adjust to change. In many regards retaining or developing their own capability will improve these outcomes.
•It is integral to self-development improved learning and creative capability
•Assists with memory and mental capacity.
•Improves stress management and productivity.
•Part of management development
Neuroplasticity is the future.
Cipd – the professional body of HR and people development say:
“The neuroscience of leadership is rapidly breaking new ground in leadership training, deepening our understanding of how the brain works and how to maximise our potential to improve effectiveness at work and build better relationships. Ultimately, better knowledge about our own and others’ brains helps to inform a wide range of interpersonal skills, as well as project planning and management practices, that have a positive impact on organisational performance and aid the creation of an agile learning organisation.“

“Neuroscience can inform your approach to performance, bias, learning and leadership. “
“Interactive workshops will explore how neuroscience links to HR and learning, which will enable more effective delivery and improved results
There is a growing trend in the USA and the United Kingdom for the understanding of brain functions to be incorporated into management and training. The term Neuroplasticity will increasingly become integral with achievement and development materials. Along with increased understanding of brain fatigue, cognitive overload and stress related issues. It is a paradox that the modern workplace in which thought process/contribution represents an increasing part of the workplace requirement – the actual workplace environment is often counterproductive to this effort.
Solutions will be sought and offered in the sector- How can we maximise our employee’s contributions to the company’s success in the current overloaded workplace environment?
Paradoxically Anthony Wright`s experience of brain damage and subsequent cognitive recovery combined with Tony Bennett’s psychology insight creates a unique course experience that has no equal in the sector.
Spearhead are providing a solution at the leading edge of training insight.

 

Why should your company be interested in the course?

 

This 1-day, interactive workshop is a stimulating blend of Neuroscience, Physiology and Psychology designed to enable individuals and teams to function at peak performance.
Delegates are given a clear understanding of how their habits of thought affect their performance and emotional well-being as well as the interdependence between Body and Brain and are given simple blend of small changes in their habits which will enable them to enhance and develop their mental capacity.
Recent understanding of Neuro Plasticity (the ongoing development of the brain and its capacity for recovery) from extreme trauma is given flesh by the living example of presenter Anthony Wright who lost essential functions such as balance, sight and hearing after life saving surgery to remove a brain tumour. Anthony’s story of recovery clearly demonstrates that our brains can grow, adapt and improve throughout our lives and no matter what challenges are put in our way.
Co –Presenter Psychotherapist Tony Bennett who, as an entrepreneur, built a international multi million pound company now lectures on the psychology of achievement. The areas of nutrition, exercise, stress optimisation, performance psychology are all addressed. The learning outcome is a proven, easily applied, neuroscience-based method for changing behaviours to ensure that the program has a long-lasting impact. On individual achievement, company moral and profitability.
This is an accessible, science based course which will enable delegates to realise their full potential and take control of the challenges which may have been perceived as getting in the way of their goals and ambitions. They will understand that they need never be limited by their genetics, their upbringing, their family history , their education, the influence of their peer group, their colleagues, their bosses, finance limitations, health, medical challenges or anything else, they will learn that the answer is entirely under their own control.
The processes and procedures taught by current and bygone management and lifestyle gurus are helpful and relevant so why can’t they heed Nike’s advice and ‘Just Do It’
Cutting edge Neuroscience has revealed how your mind and simple body chemistry and new understanding of Neuro plasticity drives our emotional responses good and bad, and the simple steps anyone can apply to take control of your outcomes.
Neuroscience of Peak Performance Workshop

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