Wednesday, September 16, 2009

6 WORDS TO GET YOU HEARD AT YOUR NEXT MEETING

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.

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.



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1 comments:

Greg said...

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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