You’re at a professional development conference, and you turn to the stranger standing next to you. He also turns to face you, and in that instant your brain makes a thousand computations. Is he someone to approach or avoid? Should you flee or be friendly? Will he harm you or help you?
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Human-Capital-Blog/2013/08/The-Seven-Second-Advantage
Part of HP’s turnaround plan was to expand the reach of its corporate university organization-wide.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-Archive/2013/08/HP-University-Supports-Company-Journey
Crowdsourcing, ideation sessions, blue sky thinking, and visioning are all parts of the innovation process. And while the business world is littered with innovations, only a few ever get anywhere. Why? They do not fulfill three vital requirements for success.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Human-Capital-Blog/2013/08/Three-Requirements-for-Creating-An-Innovative-Culture
In my last post, we looked at leadership and how leaders can use their understanding of neuroscience to build a relationship with their followers. The “herd instinct” is another aspect of the leader-follower relationship that is illuminated by neuroscience. The neurochemical oxytocin triggers a “bliss response” in the brain whenever we are engaging in social behavior. The brain is an incredibly effective survival machine. One of our most successful survival techniques is our desire to find safety in numbers. When we belong to a group, this bliss response makes us feel warm, safe, and content. When we don’t have a connection with a group, our brain triggers behavior that will compel us to seek new connections until we can get that bliss response again. In the last post I mentioned that oxytocin has been linked to such seemingly unrelated feelings as orgasm and motherhood. The good feeling that we get from belonging to a group is simply another manifestation of our response to engaging with other humans for survival.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Human-Capital-Blog/2013/07/The-Brain-and-the-Herd-Mentality
An interview with David Vance, President, Manage Learning
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-Archive/2013/07/Long-View-David-Vance
It is amazing how much power your thoughts have over you. Your thoughts alone can determine how you live your life, how you respond to others, and how successful you are. When it comes to coaching, I find it essential to identify the thoughts of my clients. I use journaling to do this.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Human-Capital-Blog/2013/07/Coachs-Corner-Sams-Journal
No law says you must like your job, but what is it that motivates people to get up everyday and go to work? If your employee population all won the lottery tomorrow and were all financially set for life, how many would show up the next day? Surveys have suggested that 95 percent to 98 percent would bail out immediately. Can you afford to not understand what melts their butter, floats their boat, and fills their sails?
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/ASTD-Blog/2013/06/What-Melts-Your-Employees-Butter-Understanding-Their-Umps-Unique-Motivational-Profiles
As we’ve seen in other articles in this blog series, neuroscience has many practical applications in fields such as education, marketing, law, and human capital management. This explosion of popular interest in neuroscience coincides with our recently improved ability to understand the physical nature of human thought and behavior.
Dr. Martha Farah writes on the topic of neuroethics, exploring how these new applications may raise concerns regarding how we are treating the brains of our fellow humans. Let’s think for a moment about what our world might look like in the not-too-distant future.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Human-Capital-Blog/2013/06/Talent-Management-of-the-Future-a-Brave-New-World
When it comes to learning about my clients, I could not succeed as a coach without asking my clients to journal. In addition to weekly phone calls, I ask clients to journal online daily, with the assistance of journaling prompts. I respond to journal entries with a thought-provoking comment or a subsequent question, and this propels the client forward in the coaching process. The impact of journaling is significant.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Human-Capital-Blog/2013/06/Coachs-Corner-Ninas-Journal
As a coach, I ask my clients to journal daily in an online journal. I receive their journals and then respond by asking questions or providing a comment that pushes the coaching experience forward. I usually provide journaling prompts that guide the conversation, but sometimes my clients write in a ”stream of consciousness” and just share what they are thinking or feeling in the moment.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Human-Capital-Blog/2013/06/Coachs-Corner-Melissas-Journal