While everyone knows ...most everyone... that gardening and playing in the dirt is good for you, now the scientists have come up with a demostration. Go tolhttp://www.livescience.com/health/070411_happy_bacteria.html to read the story.
There is a much higher level of skill required to lead in leadership, customer service, consulting or just plain achieving. Sensing the energy behind the words is a part of it. Laura Reid of Arlyn Reid (a HR and recruiting firm located in Vancouver) once asked me if you could teach people to communicate from source - their energy source. The answer is of course yes but you can not start from here to get to there. The journey involves becoming more body aware and energy sensitive. The whole idea of sensing energy as part of the 94% of non-verbal communication might seem flaky but the customer knows the difference when dealing with a sales or customer service agent that is disengaged with what they are doing. Humans naturally have this quality. To illustrate, there is an interesting experiment reported in Discover at http://discovermagazine.com/2007/apr/lingua-franca where a dog's bark, the level of frequency and tone indicate the message. If people can pick that up from a dog's bark it is a given that you can pick up the same signals from a co-worker or supervisor. This is where the person who intentionally sends out a mixed message ...tell them one thing while meaning and doing another, is totally busted. The listener knows. The big question is: Do you as a speaker know what emotional source you are communicating from?
A Mensa member tipped me off to the resource offered by the Royal Society, free until December. It is the archives of their scientific publications going way back. If you love reading science this is a great opportunity. http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1373
With increased receptivity to new science , which is really science that has been around awhile, science is becoming an important part of the basis for personal and professional growth work being done. This is imperative for effective learning to take place.
Most learning technologies have focused on the cognitive omitting the important emotional intelligences from which behavior is managed. Neuroscience and cellular biology are changing that, as business grasps that 'doing what has always been done and expecting different results' will not create the great leap out of reacting to outside threats.
To shift to the next level, business must embrace the creative mind more than the analytical which has excelled at taking things apart to the point where the interconnectivity gets lost. When the interconnectivity is lost so is the dynamic and an understanding of what powers the situation from the deeper levels.
This is not a time to be content with tinkering with superficial solutions. It is time to rattle the chain, bridge what looks to be irrelevant or possibly good theory, into expanding the corporate mind. As Danah Zohar's book, Rewiring the Corporate Brain, puts it restructuring and reengineering are surface solutions. The 'ra ra' motivational approach to change has to shift to the step- into-it kind of change.
"Deep transformational change requires that we literally rewire our brains, that we grow new neural connections." (Zohar). Neuroscience, quantum coherence, cellular biology all apply. There is no time like the present to utilize the knowledge to ramp up our ability to learn, expand and revitalize the corporate mind to achieve radical change.
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