Learning to create a mindset that overrides the stress response is an invaluable skill in today’s workplace wrought with lightening-fast change, complexity and unrelenting demands. It is the neuroplasticity of your brain that enables you to change brain structure to extinguish stress reactions and amplify higher brain function. When we are able to move our mind into this higher brain function, it is then that we work smarter, we are more innovative, and we improve our emotional intelligence. Furthermore, when we are using our higher brain function, the following benefits arise:

• The usual networks that generate the brain’s executive functions grow larger and become more fully integrated with other neural networks. This means you increase your skillfulness at planning, decision-making, error correction, and troubleshooting. You build strong cognitive abilities and can think abstractly.
• Gamma wave activity is far better organized and coordinated, signaling the higher mental activity and heightened awareness found in peak performers.
• The right brain and the prefrontal cortex work together to elevate intuition and creative insight into practical innovation.
• Activity in the left prefrontal cortex, the seat of positive emotion, swamps activity in the right prefrontal cortex, the seat of negative emotion. This condition enables you to achieve a high level of emotional intelligence.
• There is greater activity in the center of the brain, especially the caudate and right insula, generating the social intelligence that sustains interpersonal resonance.
• Your physiology functions at optimum, securing a high level of health and energy.

Ensuring that your work force is operating at that higher level of brain function, is a must in today’s work environment. If an individual or company is not actualizing the mindset that transcends stress to empower higher brain function, they are not maximizing the full extent of the fluid, creative, emotional, and social intelligence of either themselves or their workforce. Learning the skill of Positive Presence develops your ability to create and adjust to a positive and energized mindset (higher brain function) through conscious thought processes that results in higher-level brain function and engaging and effective workplace behaviours.