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A fellow Meta-coach from our coaching community,
Danny Tuckwood, recently referred to a young
“previously disadvantaged” person as “recently
empowered”. We were so impressed with this new
outlook on life, that we decided to try it out
on several “recently empowered” young graduates
that we have been mentoring and assisting in
their careers.
Mentee no. 1, on
hearing our invitation to consider herself
“recently empowered”, began to smile from ear to
ear, laughed exuberantly and grew 5 cm in
stature. Mentee no. 2, on hearing the same
invitation, spent a few seconds in thought and
then nodded his head confidently, saying “that’s
me!”.
Maestro
Performance is privileged to be in the business
of helping people, teams and organisations to
leverage their strengths and to enhance their
performance. People perform to the level of
expectation that is set for them – how much more
encouraging is it to feel and be viewed as
“recently empowered” versus “previously
disadvantaged”!
In this
newsletter, our articles include enhancing
productivity through personal meaning,
Government initiatives having real impact and
growing ones mind as on on-going imperative.
Best wishes to you
all for 2011 – may your initiatives lead to the
true empowerment you desire for yourselves.
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An article in
the January 10 & 17, 2011 issue of Newsweek got
our minds working!
(Can You Build a Better Brain by Sharon Begley)
As some of us
start reaching certain age milestones, our
thoughts move towards keeping our brains active
and living for as long as possible. The 2010
meeting of the Society for Neuroscience had some
very interesting research presented.
Greater cognitive
capacity comes from having more neurons or
synapses, higher levels of neurogenesis (the
creation of new neurons, especially in the
memory–forming hippocampus), and increased
production of compounds such as BDNF (brain
derived neurotrophic factor) which stimulates
the production of neurons and synapses. Both
neurogenesis and synapse formation boost
learning, memory, reasoning and creativity.
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Don’t you wish that there was the same level of
urgency in this country as that recently
demonstrated in Greece (admittedly they have
needed a €120 billion bailout). Driven by the
Prime Minister George Papandreou, he has
initiated the following changes in only a few
months:
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Productivity has always fascinated us. Why is it
that sometimes we do a lot of things and yet
don’t seem to achieve anything and sometimes do
a few things and accomplish a lot? We attended a
talk by Dr John Demartini on Productivity in
December. He is one person that is extremely
productive so we were very keen to hear his
thoughts and theory on what this thing called
productivity is all about. Also how do you know
when you are hiring someone that they are going
to be productive?
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