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Newsletter Menu Message from the Executive Director • Message from the Regent • Upcoming Event Career Advise Corner • IN Healthcare News • Advisory Board Calendar • Executive Insights • Welcome and Congratulations Elizabeth Walker, JD, FACHE, Consultant, Health Evolutions Mark Dame, MHA, FACHE, VP, Unity Physician Group Fred England, MHA, FACHE, VP, Good Samaritan Hospital Sue Sandberg, VP, Community Health Network Bobbi Dunne, VP Ancillary Services, Hancock Regional Chris Digiusto, FACHE, St Francis Health Rex McKinney, FACHE, Executive Director, St Vincent Hospital Network Only Meetings: Category One CEU Meetings: Prepayment and registration is required by contacting barbarabroadbridge@hotmail.com Most people have been taught at a very early age conservative, limiting mindsets like there is only one right answer, be polite, do as you’re told, be sensible, stick to what works. Cautious, prudent, conservative thought patterns that pounce on innovative creative ideas. This is a limiting mindset and it decreases innovation, productivity and morale. I will prove to you how pervasive a limiting mindset is…. The Limiting Mindset Only a couple answers will come forward because as you asked people to focus on the blue, they likely disqualified any other color. This is a limiting mindset. It only looks for data that falls within these limits. Consider how many times you logically analyze what you know at the expense of other creative possibilities that you disqualify along the way. Wouldn’t your workplace be completely different if you recognized this? Everyday you could be brewing with new ideas and creative energy if you stopped limiting mindsets from festering. How many times have your heard limiting mindsets like this before? This is why kings used a court jester. The role these people played was to adopt contrary or silly ideas to prevent the king from getting into a fixed or limiting mindset. It looks like our current financial crisis could use a court jester because traditional solutions haven’t been working. Scientists suggest we use a very small part of the brain because we spend most of our time focused on left brain, analysis and could tap more of our brains power if we consciously stimulated the right brain. The majority of people are logical and we live in the left brain. Listening for Logic New ideas add energy and enthusiasm to a project, team and your work overall. Are you in your Right Brain? Nobel Prize winner, psycho biologist Roger Sperry discovered the concept of left and right brain thinking. Each hemisphere of the brain processes different information. The Left brain is the objective, analytical logical half of the brain. The right brain is subjective, playful, creative and intuitive. The right brain thinker will come up with new perspectives on a problem and the left brain thinker will analyze whether it will work. Enemies of Ideas Children are so much more creative and jump on new ideas so quickly likely because they have less to unlearn. As adults any new idea comes across resistance because we are accustomed to “figuring things out” based on what we already know. Creative thinking involves playing with what we don’t know. The unknown almost always brings resistance. Change common limiting mindsets into powerful ones… Activities: Rename things in your office to create a more powerful mindset. For example a meeting could be called a think tank, Or a budget could be called a forecast for sustained impact ( ok I like it). Socrates- The power of questions Socrates was famous for asking questions. Questions establish a climate of learning, possibility, curiosity and engagement. Ask questions about: Speak Don’t Write Most business writing or memo taking uses the left brain, if you were to communicate the same message verbally you would be activating your left and right brain. Your communication and solutions would improve. Laugh at the Future Smile More Random Thinking Random thought exercise… go around the room and each person says a group of words that they randomly come up with. The only rule is the words must be completely unrelated. For example the words, house, cat and money are related because a cat and money are usually inside a house whereas the words house, church and candy have no relation to each other. Mind Map Oh Lighten Up! Your quick, easy lighten up Idea for the month Inspiring Quotes: “Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.” Randall G Leighton “When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.” Duke Ellington “Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” “Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.” Jody Urquhart |
