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Centering: The Body Drop Technique by Synthia Smith

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Online Resource of the Month, Dec. 2006 Accompli

ONLINE RESOURCES: PowerPoint Presentations, Articles and more on Change, Leadership Development and Teams, at no cost at Accompligroup.com.
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Managing with the Brain in Mind  
by David Rock


Naomi Eisenberger, a leading social neuroscience researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), wanted to understand what goes on in the brain when people feel rejected by others. She designed an experiment in which volunteers played a computer game called Cyberball while having their brains scanned by a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine. Cyberball hearkens back to the nastiness of the school playground.

“People thought they were playing a ball-tossing game over the Internet with two other people,” Eisenberger explains. “They could see an avatar that represented themselves, and avatars [ostensibly] for two other people. Then, about halfway through this game of catch among the three of them, the subjects stopped receiving the ball and the two other supposed players threw the ball only to each other.” Even after they learned that no other human players were involved, the game players spoke of feeling angry, snubbed, or judged, as if the other avatars excluded them because they didn’t like something about them.

This reaction could be traced directly to the brain’s responses. “When people felt excluded,” says Eisenberger, “we saw activity in the dorsal portion of the anterior cingulate cortex — the neural region involved in the distressing component of pain, or what is sometimes referred to as the ‘suffering’ component of pain. Those people who felt the most rejected had the highest levels of activity in this region.” In other words, the feeling of being excluded provoked the same sort of reaction in the brain that physical pain might cause. (See Exhibit 1.)

Eisenberger’s fellow researcher Matthew Lieberman, also of UCLA, hypothesizes that human beings evolved this link between social connection and physical discomfort within the brain “because, to a mammal, being socially connected to caregivers is necessary for survival.” This study and many others now emerging have made one thing clear: The human brain is a social organ. Its physiological and neurological reactions are directly and profoundly shaped by social interaction. Indeed, as Lieberman puts it, “Most processes operating in the background when your brain is at rest are involved in thinking about other people and yourself.”

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Opening the Doors of Communication by Jane Weddle
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Who is not interested in knowing more about themselves and about others on their team in order to work more effectively together? Let’s take a snap shot of Joe’s team, whom he desperately wants to improve his interactions with!
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“Clarity” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Gullickson
Resist the urge to kick into effort or control to maintain mental equilibrium. free
“Listening as a Feeling” by Robert Gunn
Good listening is an essential skill of groups that achieve outstanding performance. free
“The "I" in Teams” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Bullickson
How a leader behaves and, more important, how he/she thinks is an inescapable part of team DNA. free
“Delegating Decisions” By Robert Gunn

Three keys to delegating decisions in a way that accelerates group progress toward goals: tolerant restraint; focus on goals over tactics; positive tone. free
“Performativity: Mirrors May be Hazardous” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Gullickson
It's a cruel paradox: the harder we try to perform well, the less access we have to the inner resources that can help us the most. free

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