Make Your Brain Work

How to Maximize Your Efficiency, Productivity and Effectiveness
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7494-6757-9
Verlag: Kogan Page Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

Everyone wants to be more effective at work and to get maximum impact from minimum effort. Make Your Brain Work shows you how to do this, using the latest insights from neuroscience about how our mind works and what really makes us tick. Author Amy Brann is an expert in brain science, but you don't have to be: she has distilled the key findings you need into non-technical, practical guidance. Read this clear, engaging book and discover the things you can do to get yourself functioning at the top of your capabilities, more of the time. Learn the habits, techniques and behaviours that will get you the results you want, by making your brain work for you. Leave stress, overwhelm, negative moods and poor time management behind - Make Your Brain Work is your passport to a new improved you!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brann, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaft: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - ONE: You; Chapter - 01: Can a marshmallow predict your success?; Chapter - 02: Is your hippopotamus under attack?; Chapter - 03: Learning how to influence what feels out of your control; Chapter - 04: The challenge of being everything to everyone; Chapter - 05: Is a busy brain a clever brain?; Chapter - 06: Getting results easily and with less effort; Section - TWO: Your colleagues and clients; Chapter - 07: Working and living in balance; Chapter - 08: Upgrading your life one step at a time; Chapter - 09: The minefield of motivating people; Chapter - 10: Transforming meetings; Chapter - 11: Making every presentation count; Chapter - 12: Appearing competent to others; Section - THREE: Your company; Chapter - 13: Leading with your brain switched on; Chapter - 14: Simply authentic sales; Chapter - 15: Managing people, managing brains

Über Autor(innen)

Brann, Amy
Author, consultant and global speaker Amy Brann is the founder of Synaptic Potential, through which she works with companies including Warner Brothers, EY, Twinings, the NHS and Mondelez International, to help them better understand their teams, clients and organizations as a whole. She was named by HR Magazine as one of the most influential HR thinkers in 2023.

She is the author of Make Your Brain Work and Neuroscience for Coaches, published by Kogan Page.

Amy Brann studied medicine at University College London during which time she became passionate about training people in leadership and communication skills. Realising that a lot of the material available was very surface level in its approach, she left medicine to find a discipline that gave added depth. Neuroscience was that discipline. Through her business, Synaptic Potential, Amy works with many companies to help them better understand their teams, clients and organisations as a whole. Amy is the creator of the successful online community, 'Neuroscience in Business'.