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How to Use Brain Science to Maximize Employee’s Peak Performance
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| Guest post by: Dr. Maynard Brusman |
Article Overview: The ability to select, motivate, develop, engage and retain top people is critical to a company’s success. If you want to build a company where people love to work you have to know how to hire and keep the right people.
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How to Use Brain Science to Maximize Employee’s Peak Performance
Maximize Employee’s Peak Performance
The
ability to select, motivate, develop, engage and retain top people is critical
to a company’s success. If you want to build a company where
people love to work you have to know how to hire and keep the right people.
Great
companies and managers start with optimistic, change-resilient, and committed
people whose values fit the workplace culture.
Retaining peak performing people involves creating a healthy work environment where
people can use all their knowledge, creativity, and skills. Self-managed
organizations create work environments where people can continuously learn and
make decisions.
Using
Brain Science to Bring Out the Best
While
no management guru has found the golden key to unlocking the full panoply of
human potential at work, several diverse areas of research shed new light on
the possibilities.
Dr.
Edward M. Hallowell, author of Shine:
Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People (Harvard Business Press,
2011), synthesizes such new research into five sequential steps managers can
apply to maximize employees’ peak performance. A
psychiatrist and ADD expert, he draws on brain science, performance research
and his own experience to present a proven process for getting the best from
your people:
1. Select: Put the right
people in the right job, and give them responsibilities that “light up” their
brains.
2. Connect: Strengthen
interpersonal bonds among team members.
3. Play: Help people unleash
their imaginations at work.
4. Grapple and Grow:
When the pressure’s on, enable employees to achieve mastery of their work.
5. Shine: Use the right
rewards to promote loyalty and stoke your people’s desire to excel.
“Neither
the individual nor the job holds the magic,” Hallowell writes.
“But the right person doing the right job creates the magical interaction that
leads to peak performance.”
Hallowell
refers to the five cited essential ingredients as “The Cycle of Excellence,”
which works because it exploits the powerful interaction between an
individual’s intrinsic capabilities and extrinsic environment.
Are you working in a professional services
firm or other organization where executive coaches provide leadership
development to grow emotionally intelligent leaders? Does your organization provide executive
coaching to help develop peak performance leaders? Peak performance leaders tap
into their emotional intelligence and social intelligence skills to fully
engage employees and customers.
One
of the most powerful questions you can ask yourself is “Do our managers put the right people in the right job,
and give them responsibilities that ignite their brains?” Emotionally
intelligent and socially intelligent organizations provide executive coaching as
part of their peak performance leadership development program.
Working
with a seasoned executive coach and leadership consultant trained in emotional
intelligence and incorporating assessments such as the Bar-On EQ-I, CPI 260 and Denison Culture Survey can help you
create a culture where all employees are fully engaged. You
can become a leader who models emotional intelligence and social intelligence,
and who inspires people to become fully engaged with the vision, mission and
strategy of your company or law firm.
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About the Author: Dr. Maynard Brusman RSS for Dr. Maynard's articles - Visit Dr. Maynard's website Maynard is a consulting psychologist and personal, career and executive coach. He is the president of Working Resources, a leadership consulting, training and transformational coaching firm that develops people and organizations. We specialize in helping companies assess, select, coach, and retain top talent; leadership development; 360-degree feedback; emotional intelligence; competency modeling; succession management; career development and executive coaching. Maynard is an instructor with The College of Executive Coaching. He specializes in Executive Coaching with Attorneys. He is a highly sought-after speaker and workshop leader. He facilitates mission, values, and vision retreats. Maynard has been chosen as an expert to appear on radio and TV, MSNBC, CBS Health Watch and in the Marin Independent Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal and Fast Company magazine The Society for Advancement of Consulting (SAC) has announced two rare "Board Approved" designations for Dr. Maynard Brusman in the specialties of Executive/Leadership Coaching and Trusted Advisor to Attorneys and Law Firms. This signifies that Dr. Maynard Brusman has provided validated evidence from clients of exceptional performance in this area of consulting, has adhered to the ethics pledge of the organization, and has performed at this level for a prolonged period. Dr. Maynard BrusmanConsulting Psychologist and Executive Coach Box 471525 San Francisco, California 94147-1525 Tel: 415-546-1252 E-mail: mbrusman@workingresources.com Web Site: http://www.workingresources.com Subscribe to Working Resources Newsletter: http://www.workingresources.com Visit Maynard's Blog: http://www.workingresourcesblog.com Connect with me on these Social Media sites. http://twitter.com/drbrusman Click here to visit Dr. Maynard's website Developing Executive Presence What Really Matters Five Habits of a Trusted Advisor The Leadership Clients Perspective Gritty Bosses The True Grit Mindset Executive Wisdom for Smart DecisionMaking Wisdom in Action Emotions The Secret Sauce of Leadership |
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