How to enable their productivity to its full capacity: prefrontal Mondays
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
Productivity - it's not so much the ability to properly dispose of their time as the ability to properly dispose of the working tools. And our main working tool - is the brain.
Knowing what part of the brain is responsible for what, will work with the highest efficiency.
And the main engine is the prefrontal cortex.
To begin with a brief biology lesson.
Prefrontal cortex - a combination of several areas of the frontal lobes, directly related to the limbic system.
It is responsible for complex cognitive and behavioral functions, emotions, executive functions (especially suffer schizophrenia), situation assessment and decision-making, sense of tact, impulse control and abstract thinking.
That is, we use this part of the brain to think logically, to prioritize and plan. And that it separates us from the animals. Work prefrontal cortex happy energy consumption and when she gets tired, our productivity suffers and then included other parts of the brain.
The antithesis of the prefrontal cortex is amygdala
Which is also part of the limbic system and is responsible for our emotions, both negative (fear), and positive. That is when we see a bear, mind, we still did not realize what was happening, the amygdala and the team has already given our heart to start work rapidly and our legs carried away - "fight or flight"!You love your prefrontalnuyu bark and fight with your amygdala
When it comes to success in business, your prefrontal cortex - your best friend and assistant, and the amygdala only spoils everything.
- While the amygdala is running in a panic trying to "put out fires", the prefrontal cortex is thinking about how to avoid similar situations in the future.
- Amygdala will yell at your colleague because of an error. Prefrontal cortex will try to improve the process that caused the error.
- Your amygdala will focus on 0.1% change in conversion rate, which is associated with a change in the button color. Your prefrontal cortex will be coming up with a new proposal that will increase the number of transitions in 10 times.
Use it when it is in better shape
The best option of using their prefrontal cortex at full capacity without a large loss of energy - it is the use of a time when she is at the peak of his productivity. Ie on Mondays!
If we did everything correctly and well rested at the weekend, Monday is just the right moment comes.
If you want to plan its work for the week ahead, see the big picture of the business and take a bunch of important and correct decisions - set this Monday. Monday - the day for the executive mindset.
Executive mindset and Steve Jobs
The business leaders will take responsibility for the development of the company, so the "executive thinking" for them is very, very important. If you are a manager, it does not mean that you have to arrange "prefrontal Mondays" just for yourself. You can combine the efforts of their prefrontal cortex and prefrontal areas of their peers. This is what makes Steve Jobs every Monday - on Monday mornings, he arranged a meeting and brainstorming with my team.
The key point for free discourses executive team was Monday morning. It started at 9 am and lasted 3-4 hours. Attention is always focused on the future - on the development of each product, on the fact that it will happen next, what new products will be developed.
Jobs used these meetings to gain a sense of shared mission in the company Apple. This has led to centralized management, which made the company look like it is a good product - close integrated, and it helped to avoid internal struggles between departments, which could lead to collapse.
Just as your prefrontal cortex serves as something of a "mission control center" for your brain as well as meeting on Monday, which hosted Jobs, help the company to maintain its integrity and control all processes.
Why Monday?
As mentioned earlier in this article, if you live right, it is Monday your prefrontal cortex is at the peak of his productivity. After all, we came to work well rested after output, true?
Despite the fact that we have decided not to love Monday morning of this day is the perfect time to not distracted on the details, take up something really important and large-scale, to outline the main objectives in the work week and think about their future.
Perhaps if you do not work on a standard schedule adopted in offices (from Mon-Fri or Mon-Fri), then you can choose another date. The main thing - to feel well-rested and ready to move mountains.