Learning to create a mindset that overrides the stress response is an invaluable skill in today’s workplace wrought with lightening-fast change, complexity and unrelenting demands. It is the neuroplasticity of your brain that enables you to change brain structure to extinguish stress reactions and amplify higher brain function. When we are able to move our mind into this higher brain function, it is then that we work smarter, we are more innovative, and we improve our emotional intelligence. Furthermore, when we are using our higher brain function, the following benefits arise:
• The usual networks that generate the brain’s executive functions grow larger and become more fully integrated with other neural networks. This means you increase your skillfulness at planning, decision-making, error correction, and troubleshooting. You build strong cognitive abilities and can think abstractly.
• Gamma wave activity is far better organized and coordinated, signaling the higher mental activity and heightened awareness found in peak performers.
• The right brain and the prefrontal cortex work together to elevate intuition and creative insight into practical innovation.
• Activity in the left prefrontal cortex, the seat of positive emotion, swamps activity in the right prefrontal cortex, the seat of negative emotion. This condition enables you to achieve a high level of emotional intelligence.
• There is greater activity in the center of the brain, especially the caudate and right insula, generating the social intelligence that sustains interpersonal resonance.
• Your physiology functions at optimum, securing a high level of health and energy.
Ensuring that your work force is operating at that higher level of brain function, is a must in today’s work environment. If an individual or company is not actualizing the mindset that transcends stress to empower higher brain function, they are not maximizing the full extent of the fluid, creative, emotional, and social intelligence of either themselves or their workforce. Learning the skill of Positive Presence develops your ability to create and adjust to a positive and energized mindset (higher brain function) through conscious thought processes that results in higher-level brain function and engaging and effective workplace behaviours.
Catherine is the President and CEO of CORPORATE HARMONY, providing virtual solutions for leadership development and organizational culture change. Her leadership and coaching experience as a Project Manager in an ever-changing, fast moving technological organization with unrelenting demands drove her to the realization that a positive mindset and strength-building behaviors are essential for today’s complex and chaotic organizational systems. CORPORATE HARMONY’s virtual platform of programs, coaching and performance measurement, is an innovative online technology of tested proprietary content. The world-class content of CORPORATE HARMONY’s Positive Presence Program develops the skill of ‘Positive Presence’ and the necessary ‘Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies’ for maintaining a positive and energized mindset and increased performance in today’s complex work environment, and leading to a culture of collaboration and connection. Catherine’s vision for Corporate Harmony is to bring the skill of “Positive Presence” to the corporate world as it becomes more complex, ambiguous and chaotic. Catherine is uniquely positioned to impact organizations’ productivity and long term success, with her powerful vision of eliminating bad stress from every workplace around the globe, bringing purpose into the people equation to promote healthy, productive and meaningful work cultures and turn the tide on the neglect of mental health on a global scale. Catherine is author of the book: “CORPORATE HARMONY – The Performance Link for Today’s Modern Organization” Catherine can be reached at: Catherine.Osborne@original.corporateharmony.ca or go to ‘contact us’ on our website www.original.corporateharmony.ca. Catherine is available for consultation, and can be reached by 519-695-3407.