Power up Your Mind

Power up Your Mind

Bill LucasNicholas Brealey Publishing£14.99ISBN 1-85788 247-X

Bill Lucas is CEO of the Campaign for Learning and author of more than 20 books, including The Future of Corporate Learning. This, his latest,claims to enable you to learn faster, work smarter. It does this by explaining how our brains learn and how we can prepare ourselves – emotionally and physically – to participate fully in the process. Diagnostic tools,activities, and stories demonstrate the powerful effect of esteem, confidence,and motivation on learning.

It includes sections on:

• the seven skills that make for "successful" life;

• guidance on how to get the best out of your many intelligences at work;

• why learning to learn is the key skill in today's rapidly changing world;

• a unique five step approach to learning how to learn;

• practical examples of different learning techniques;

• a guide to harnessing your natural creativity;

• how to write your PLAN – personal learning action plan; and

• how to manage the balance between home and work.

Drawing on research from a variety of subject areas, from neuroscience and psychology, motivation theory to accelerated learning, memory to diet, Lucas provides a practical toolkit of activities, self-assessment ideas and hands on exercises based on the latest research into neuroscience and psychology, for those who want to learn more about how they learn.

Bill Lucas also includes an A-Z of brain-friendly business practices and a trouble-shooting section on what to do when your brain does not seem to be working. Unlike much recent thinking on the mind, Lucas connects an understanding of the brain with the reality of the workplace – in a readable and entertaining way.