How to Focus on Your Goals

How to Focus on Your Goals

Organizations are discovering that teaching employees about their brain is helping them improve self and social awareness. This science based education provides compelling motivation for changing behaviour to increase productivity and engagement. Rethinking...
How to grow your Hippocampus

How to grow your Hippocampus

Research now shows we each have the capac­ity to grow new neu­rons, and particularly in our hip­pocam­pus – in as little as weeks.  Why would you want to grow your hippocampus? Because that is your brain’s memory centre; the place where short term...
Learning & Development budgets:  MIA!

Learning & Development budgets: MIA!

The economic downturn in Calgary means many organizations’ learning budgets have gone missing in action.  And just when leaders need more, not less, support and learning.  We recently took part in the making of a video about how productivity is impacted by the...
Too tired to exercise?  The brain and body connection

Too tired to exercise? The brain and body connection

Latest research published last week in  Science Daily suggests that you can get around physical tiredness experienced at the end of the day by exercising in the morning or at lunch time – rather than after work, when our minds are full of the day’s issues....
Gratitude. Why the best gifts aren’t under your tree.

Gratitude. Why the best gifts aren’t under your tree.

On a personal level, this has been an incredibly challenging year for Wendi and I. Wendi’s mother was diagnosed with cancer and passed away 6 months later while her daughter struggled with mental illness. My father had high-risk surgery, my sister got cancer, and my...