These ideas have persisted and over the last 10-15 years, the two sides of the brain have come to symbolize two different sides of human nature. The left brain is seen as “logical,” “analytical” and “intellectual. The “intuitive” right brain is viewed as the home of...
This is a short extract and link to our Employment Today article that was on Productivity. In the 1950’s Management Guru Peter Drucker coined the term knowledge worker to distinguish from manual worker. Thomas Davenport, who has studied knowledge workers for...
Seems like a pretty sensible idea you might think. Unfortunately, it is also a seriously flawed concept in today’s workplaces. It is a unsound idea in practice because: 70:20:10 is too often used to justify cutting learning and development budgets. This is done...
Surely that means most organisations are conducting some sort of impact measurement? Perhaps I am cynical, but I am not at all convinced activity on Engagement Surveys is driving value-add to our organisations. I am also unsure we can be confident of effective...
So one of the first things we do when working on leadership development for large organisations is based on helping leaders to understand the impact of the brain at work. Neuroscience is beginning to identify more effective ways we can be working with our biology...
