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 | What prevents people from working effectively together? Everyone comes to their work situation with good intentions. Teams are carefully chosen and trained to support the optimal functioning and goals of the firm. Everything should be in place for success. However, over time tensions can build and teams can lose their effectiveness. And even the best of teams can be challenged under the stresses common to today's business environment. Individuals may recognize the difficulties and yet their efforts may not be sufficient to overcome the obstacles. Stress Management Stress is more than a distraction or annoyance. It causes workers to "downshift" into the most basic survival instincts, causing them to react emotionally rather than respond rationally. This results in impulsivity, frustration, impaired communication, loss of focus, illness, and more, eating away at the firm's bottom line. When stress is dealt with proactively, the result is an upsurge in energy, productivity, effectiveness, creativity, diplomacy, good humor, and well-being. Brain Gym© techniques help to actually "download" stress, enhance access to rational thought centers of the brain, and help participants gain perspective that reduces the "stress trigger" of demanding situations and events. Participants experience their own innate ability to be grounded, centered and focused, and learn techniques that allow them to prompt this awareness at any time. Creativity Enhancement When the stress is out of the way, creativity emerges effortlessly! The "flip side" of stress is creativity. It spontaneously springs forth in the absence of the fear and contraction that stress leaves in its wake. Creativity enhances everyone's ability to perform. Finding the solution to a problem is an act of creativity, as are coming up with just the right words with a client or co-worker, sensing the right timing for a response or specific action, finding new means of organizing or maintaining flow or structure. A creative state is one of ease, comfort, and emotional safety. Ideas come fluidly and spontaneously. A creative workplace is one where solutions manifest easily, harmony is enhanced through clear, effective communication, and work is accomplished through a spirit of cooperation and mutual support. Brain Gym techniques allow participants easy access to their own inner, creative state. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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