Transcript Emotionally Healthy Leaders

Designing Meetings
that
Excite, Enlighten, and
Empower your Audience
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Presented by Dr. Lawana Gladney
Eɜ = Excite – Enlighten - Empower
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how the brain works and
what works for the brain
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content
how to design meaningful
 Learn
how to make your meeting
more memorable
 Understand
how to impress the brain
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Sensory Register
(sight and/or audio)
Short -term Memory
(brief time – 30
seconds)
Working Memory
(processing)
Short
term
Long
term
memory
Working
memory
sensory register
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short term memory
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working
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Chunking
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long
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emotions
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Brain Puzzle
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Matthew Shelborn frequently has to travel for his
company, which gives him a chance to meet
many people from all parts of the USA. In April,
Matthew flew to five different US cities on
business and he flew a different airline each time.
During each trip he chatted with the person next
to him, and no two people he talked to were in
the same profession.
From the information, can you determine the
date Matthew made each flight (each was on a
Monday exactly one week apart starting on April
2nd), the airline he flew, his destination, and the
profession of the person who sat next to him on
each flight?
Enlightening
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Use acronyms and chunking techniques
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Less is more
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Use pictures and graphics anywhere
possible
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Write content with learning styles in mind –
visual, auditory, and kinetic
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Include activities
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Content has to be relevant to audience
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Use humor
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Avoid cramming information into
meetings
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Avoid scheduling too many learning
sessions at conferences
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Keep information light – not heavy
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Make it fun
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Encourage session overview
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Create action plans
Excite
emotions
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acceptance, admiration, amazed, amused, awed,
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calm, certain, cheerful, compassionate, comfortable,
convinced, content, determined
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ecstatic, elated, enlightened, enthusiastic, excited,
empowered
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festive, happy, hopeful, inspired, joyous, jubilant, lighthearted
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peaceful, playful, pleased, secure, smart, optimistic,
positive, proud, relaxed, relieved, respectful, trusting,
satisfied, , sharing, tender, thrilled, understanding, warm
Igniting
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Sight
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Touch
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Smell
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Hearing
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Taste
Color
Red
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Physiological Effect: Red has been shown to
increase blood pressure and stimulate the adrenal
glands. The stimulation of the adrenals glands helps
us become strong and increases our stamina. Pink, a
lighter shade of red, helps muscles relax.
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Psychological Effect: While red has proven to be a
color of vitality and ambition it has been shown to be
associated with anger. Sometimes red can be useful
in dispelling negative thoughts, but it can also make
one irritable. Pink has the opposite effect of red. Pink
induces feelings of calm, protection, warmth and
nurture. This color can be used to lessen irritation and
aggression as it is connected with feelings of love.
Orange
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Physiological Effect: Orange has
proven to be a stimulus of the sexual
organs. Also, it can be beneficial to
the digestive system and can
strengthen the immune system.
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Psychological Effect: Orange has
shown to have only positive affects on
your emotional state. This colour
relieves feelings of self-pity, lack of
self-worth and unwillingness to
forgive. Orange opens your emotions
and is a terrific antidepressant.
Yellow
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Physiological Effect: Yellow has proven to
stimulate the brain. This stimulation can
make you more alert and decisive. This color
makes muscles more energetic and activates
the lymph system.
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Psychological Effect: Yellow is a happy and
uplifting color. It can also be associated with
intellectual thinking: discernment, memory,
clear thinking, decision-making and good
judgment. Also aiding organization,
understanding of different points of view.
Yellow builds self-confidence and
encourages optimism. However, a dull yellow
can bring on feelings of fear.
Green
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Physiological Effect: Green is said to be
good for you heart. On a physical and
emotional, green helps your heart bring
you physical equilibrium and relaxation.
Green relaxes our muscles and helps us
breathe deeper and slower.
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Psychological Effect: Green creates
feelings of comfort, laziness, relaxation,
calmness. It helps us balance and soothe
our emotions. Connection with nature Yet,
darker and grayer greens can have the
opposite effect and remind us of decay and
death and can actually have a detrimental
effect on physical and emotional health.
Blue
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Physiological Effect: Blue proves to lower
blood pressure. Blue can be linked to the
throat and thyroid gland. Blue also has a very
cooling and soothing affect, often making us
calmer. Deep blue stimulates the pituitary
gland, which then regulates our sleep
patterns.
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Psychological Effect: We usually associate
the color blue with the night and thus we feel
relaxed and calmed. Lighter blues make us
feel quite and away from the rush of the day.
Like yellow, blue inspires mental control,
clarity and creativity. However, too much dark
blue can be depressing.
Purple
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Physiological Effect: Violet has shown to alleviate
conditions such as sunburn due to its purifying and
antiseptic effect. This color also suppresses hunger
and balances the body's metabolism.
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Psychological Effect: Purples have been used in
the care of mental of nervous disorders because they
have shown to help balance the mind and transform
obsessions and fears. Indigo is often associated with
the right side of the brain; stimulating intuition and
imagination. Violet is associated with bringing peace
and combating shock and fear. Violet has a cleansing
effect with emotional disturbances.
Brown
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Psychological Effect: Brown is the
color of the earth and ultimately home.
This color brings feelings of stability
and security. Sometimes brown can
also be associated with withholding
emotion and retreating from the world.
Black
Psychological Effect: While comforting
and protective, black is mysterious and
associated with silence and sometimes
death. Black is passive and can prevent
us from growing and changing. Can be
associated with authority.
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In the western hemisphere black is
associated with grieving. Black is a
serious color that evokes strong
emotions; it is easy to overwhelm people
with too much black.
White
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Psychological Effect: White is the color
of ultimate purity. This color brings
feelings of peace and comfort while it
dispels shock and despair. White can be
used to give yourself a feeling of
freedom and uncluttered openness. Too
much white can give feelings of
separation and can be cold and isolation
Gray
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Psychological Effect: Gray is the color of
independence and self-reliance, although
usually thought of as a negative color. It can
be the color of evasion and noncommitment (since it is neither black nor
white.) Gray indicates separation, lack of
involvement and ultimately loneliness
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simple
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interesting
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relevant
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KIC – Keep it colorful
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KIM – Keep it moving