Recording things for which you are grateful regularly has been shown to increase well-being. It forces you to think positively. So this week, I am asking you to record everyday 3 things you are grateful for each day. What made you smile? What filled you with joy, love, well, gratitude should I say.
The lowest level of the neurological levels is your environment. It is normally taken as your physical environment, how things are, look, smell and so on. It is also valid in the context of cultural environment. It is how things are expected to be, to look like here. And it is more of a feature…
La Programmation Neuro-Linguistique (PNL) présuppose que derrière chaque comportement, il y a une intention positive. Notre cerveau est « programmé » pour nous protéger, pour augmenter notre survie. Toute décision que nous prenons est, généralement inconsciemment, prise sur la base que nous pensons qu’elle aura les meilleurs résultats en termes de notre survie. Tout ce que nous…
Are you aware that your culture defines how you think? No, probably not, it’s not something that we think about very often. But actually within your own culture you’ve been trained to think in a certain way. So what are the various ways of thinking depending on your culture? Basically they are two main types….
Cultures vary between being very tasks oriented or relationships oriented. This is the doing – being continuum. Doing cultures focus on achievements, tasks to accomplish, plans, deadlines. Things should be measurable by external standards. The language used by people in these cultures reflect this task orientation, emphasising what you do, actions and so on. Job…
We have now reached the last step of the neurological levels pyramid. We began with external factors like environment and behaviours and followed up going higher with deeper and deeper, internal levels such as identity. We are now opening up again towards the external world with our purpose. You know, this is the why I…
Last week in my post I talked about how values were not enough to define the culture of your organisation. Your culture is shown in the behaviours everybody in the organisation exhibit. It is behaviours and actions that transcend your culture. So, you need to define these behaviours then? Right, easier said than done you…
