Ever felt that you're not part of the meeting? and that you're opinion are just being ignored? Six facts about the human brain can move you from being ignored - to getting your best ideas heard. There are reasons why some people get heard more than others at meetings, and these are not what you may think.
1. Brain fact - People resonate with what they already know and already do daily, because the brain's basal ganglia keeps some people trapped in the safety if the old, comfortable or familiar.
Brain-based response - Hook your new idea onto their familiar approaches. How? Say you want to propose a new accounting system. Suggest how this innovation can enhance one popular part of the current system - before you show how it will fix another problem part.
1. Brain fact - People resonate with what they already know and already do daily, because the brain's basal ganglia keeps some people trapped in the safety if the old, comfortable or familiar.
Brain-based response - Hook your new idea onto their familiar approaches. How? Say you want to propose a new accounting system. Suggest how this innovation can enhance one popular part of the current system - before you show how it will fix another problem part.
2. Brain fact - Humor helps because it releases enzymes into the brain for openness and ability to go with a new possibility.
Brain-based response - Make them laugh with a funny joke. Lets say you are still going for an accounting adjustment idea. Tell them, "An accountant dies and St. Peter says, 'You look so young for a 144 years old.' The accountant shoots back, 'But I'm only 42.' 'Sorry ' St Peter says, 'We got your age from your reported time sheet.
3. Brain fact - Advanced organizers enable the human brain to see and act on a clear plan.
Brain-based response - Avoid confusion by showing bare boned parts or bullets to overview your key ideas.
4. Brain fact - Serotonin prepares a place in people brains o help them take new risk.
Brain-based response - Offer incentives like monetary benefits for each of them if they adopt your new idea. For instance, they might earn a bonus, save on taxes, and cut waste for the firm at the same time.
5. Brain fact - Cortisol impacts tone negatively and so it can shut down people, ides, adventures, and opportunities before you get your point across.
Brain-based response - State the dilemma clearly and show it as a reason and justification for your plan and then quickly move into the solution.
6. Brain fact - Melatonin, the hormone for sleep, increases in a darkened room and puts folks to sleep whenever the lights are too low.
Brain-based response - Use bright lights to avoid people nodding off before you get to the punch line. You may also know that too much talk works against the human brain.
Brain-based response - Make them laugh with a funny joke. Lets say you are still going for an accounting adjustment idea. Tell them, "An accountant dies and St. Peter says, 'You look so young for a 144 years old.' The accountant shoots back, 'But I'm only 42.' 'Sorry ' St Peter says, 'We got your age from your reported time sheet.
3. Brain fact - Advanced organizers enable the human brain to see and act on a clear plan.
Brain-based response - Avoid confusion by showing bare boned parts or bullets to overview your key ideas.
4. Brain fact - Serotonin prepares a place in people brains o help them take new risk.
Brain-based response - Offer incentives like monetary benefits for each of them if they adopt your new idea. For instance, they might earn a bonus, save on taxes, and cut waste for the firm at the same time.
5. Brain fact - Cortisol impacts tone negatively and so it can shut down people, ides, adventures, and opportunities before you get your point across.
Brain-based response - State the dilemma clearly and show it as a reason and justification for your plan and then quickly move into the solution.
6. Brain fact - Melatonin, the hormone for sleep, increases in a darkened room and puts folks to sleep whenever the lights are too low.
Brain-based response - Use bright lights to avoid people nodding off before you get to the punch line. You may also know that too much talk works against the human brain.



















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1 comments:
Humor does so much for a person..Could a person use these ideas anywhere in life to generate support for their ideas?
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