Power Up Your Mind: Learn Faster, Work Smarter
Bill Lucas
Language: English
Pages: 0
ISBN: 1489087370
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Bill Lucas, a leading international expert on life-long learning, shows that while we have learned more about how the brain works in the last decade than we have everknown, only a fraction of this is grasped and applied by most people. PowerUp Your Mind applies this practical knowledge for the first time and shows you how to learn. Drawing on research from a wide variety of subject areas, from neuroscience to psychology, from motivation theory to accelerated learning, from memory to diet, this book shows how everyone has the capacity to succeed and how most people use only a very small portion of their talents. ‘At last – a powerful and practical new book for learners who want to become leaders’ ― Mike Liebling, Director of Trainset and formerly of Saatchi & Saatchi ‘An excellent book about learning. It puts the ultimate learning resource – the brain – centre stage and helps us to understand how to get the best use out of it. Actioning even a fraction of Bill Lucas’s suggestions will transform your life’. ― Dr Peter Honey, author and expert on learning and human performance
An analysis like this examines and puts a value on the kinds of things that learning brings to a business: the knowledge of its customer base and its potential, the capability for innovation and creativity within the organization, and its human capital—the levels of competence and potential of the Skandia workforce. Another Swedish company, Celemi, has gone a stage further and produced a useful tool to help companies work out their own human capital value, the Celemi Intangible Assets Monitor.
you rather work at your own pace? GETTING YOUR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT READY Before you embark on any period of concentrated learning, it is worth taking stock of your immediate environment. If you were getting ready for a holiday, you would be thinking about the clothes to take and the equipment you needed, and beginning to imagine yourself in the environment you had chosen to visit. You need to exercise at least the same care over your own learning, wherever it happens. You should think
their own pace and concentrate on the information that was relevant to them. This approach enabled Centrica to learn about its customers and their changing needs in a fast, cost-effective way. It also allowed employees to connect with the bigger picture of Centrica as a new kind of business selling a range of products, mainly bought from the home, in addition to gas. How could you organize more imaginative communication at work? Knowing what you now know about the need to give out information
Taylor and her staff and she has written it in the personal work book she carries around with her. It is useful because each of the words has a clear meaning and together they serve as a regular useful reminder of the sort of business that Discovery wants to be. Acronyms work best when they act as a peg for key elements of a belief system or, as British accelerated learning expert Colin Rose has shown, when they help you to remember the ordering of an important process. Rose applies the acronym
Nordstrom, Funky Business, Talent Makes Capital Dance, Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2000. Colin Rose and Malcom Nicholl, Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century, Dell Publishing, 1997. Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life, Pocket Books, 1998. Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, SQ: The Ultimate Intelligence, Bloomsbury, 1999. Here are a few useful organizations: Accelerated Learning Systems Ltd, 50 Aylesbury Road, Aston Clinton, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP22 5AH, UK