Performance Improvement Archives

Brainwave Entrainment: Boosting Workplace Performance and Learning

August 6, 2024

By Phillip Tanzilo, CPTD, MHRM

During my time working with John Assaraf, a renowned behavioral neuroscience researcher, I developed a deep fascination with the power of the human brain. This led me to explore organizations like the Centerpointe Research Institute, where I discovered the incredible potential of brainwave entrainment. Through my research, I found that this technique can significantly boost creativity, learning, memory, resilience, and focus while reducing stress, impulsiveness, and mental fog.

I’ve always been amazed by entrainment – it’s this incredible process where things start to sync up when they’re near each other. Back in 1665, a Dutch scientist named Christiaan Huygens noticed this happening with pendulum clocks.… Read More “Brainwave Entrainment: Boosting Workplace Performance and Learning”

Highly Stressed at Work? Maximize Your Workspace

October 8, 2019

Highly stressed at work? Never able to get ahead of the mounting work on your desk. Losing things? Up late wondering where that report on your desk went you had ready to deliver to your boss?

SUBJECT: The pace in the workplace is getting faster each day. Being organized and lessens your stress load.

PROBLEM: Managing the clutter on your desk provides improves physical and mental performance.

SOLUTION: Commit to eliminating clutter and follow through on a plan to maximize your work area efficiency.

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FACT: Did you know most people average a loss of close to 18 hours each month looking for lost paper?… Read More “Highly Stressed at Work? Maximize Your Workspace”

THE SECRET: Change the Channel to HAPPY-Shift Your Brain for Improved Productivity

January 31, 2017

I found this #TedTalk to be quite interesting. Changing the lens through which we view success and happiness is key. Most of us are wired, work hard to be successful, work harder to be more successful. How long can this last before the Peter Principle kicks in for many of us.

This video is among the most popular of all #TedTalks. Steve Anchor, a leading psychologist, is brilliant, intelligent and his masterful delivery relaxes your brain as you laugh. This opens the brain to fresh ideas.

Consider the question he proposes. “We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards?”… Read More “THE SECRET: Change the Channel to HAPPY-Shift Your Brain for Improved Productivity”