Innovation-Works
Team Work$

You are a great team leader. You follow the current research in team management.  You know that a happy and healthy team produces great results. You have brought in an Occupational Therapist, had off site team building exercises, group meditation and yoga.  So where are these increased results?  The one area mainstream speakers don’t address is how to have your team work together.  Until now the effort has been on individual motivation.  No one has addressed team dynamics. Guess what? Judith and Erika do! As wholistic practitioners we work with the whole team. We teach the whole team to work effectively and efficiently. How?  We have a systematic approach.

1.      Learn each team member’s personality and how to communicate with them.

2.      Teach each member about their personality and how to  use their strengths

3.      Teach each member how to relate and communicate with other personalities on their team

4.      Learn techniques to make this effective and efficient style of team leadership sustainable.

 
 

BRAIN FOG

Brain Fog is not a clinical diagnosis. It is often passed off as being tired and overworked.  The name is derived from the symptoms. Often one feels like they are walking around in a fog.  Mental clarity is at a loss, maintaining mental focus is difficult. Every task feels overwhelming.  Brain fog is not depression or anxiety or dementia; it is a phenomna unto itself.

Most people do not realize they suffer from brain fog until it has lifted. They then wonder how they navigated their day let alone enjoyed their life!

Although there isn’t a specific objective diagnostic tool to assess brain fog. Here is a short list of most common complaints.

Memory is weak, storing new information is difficult

Difficulty picking up new skills

Losing short gaps in time

Clumsy speech not being able to remember the proper words

Loss of creativity and problem solving skills

Forgetfulness

Apathy, loss of motivation

CAUSES OF BRAIN FOG (in no particular order)

§  Heavy Metal Toxcity

§  Nutrient Deficiency

§  Bowel Toxicity / Systemic Dysbiosis

§  Adrenal Fatigue

§  Thyroid Disorders

§  Food Sensitivities

§  Electromagnetic Fields

§  Fitness/Exercise

In my clinical practice the most common causes are:

Adrenal Fatigue

Our Adrenal Glands sit on top of our Kidney’s.  They are our stress organs. Whenever our body or mind or spirit encounters stress they shoot stress hormones into our body. They do not stop shooting these hormones into our body until this stress is gone.  Can you envision all of your stress disappearing? So these poor little organs get very tired. We need to support them so they can keep working. If they simply stop working we burn out, have melt downs, mid-life crisis. And this is just on the small scale.

 

Bowel Toxicity/Systemic Dysbiosis

There are more micro-organisms in our body then we encounter during the day. For the most part these organisms are beneficial to us and  live in harmony with us.  When subjected to sugar, caffeine, processed foods, salt, antibiotics these good microorganisms can die or up regulate and take over.  Commonly this is referred to as Candida overgrowth, however C. albicans is not the only culprit.

 

Food Sensitivities

When someone has a food sensitivity, classified as an Ig G immune response, the food metabolites effect the receptors in the brain.  The most blantant example is a wheat sensitivity. These molecules attach to the opitate receptors in the brain and cause an effect similar to taking oxycodone or heroin.
 
Picture the brain fog now!
Posted: August 27th, 2012.
Dr. Erika Holenski, B.Sc., N.D 
 
 
COMMUNICATION

Speaker says

Listener hears

What it means

I know

Not open to other options/opinion

Speaker  brain shuts down and cannot process new information

Listener’s brain shuts down

The English language is becoming extinct.  People are worried about conveying the underlying message. They are forgetting that their word choice influences how people process/respond to their prose.

WHAT IT IS MADE OUT OF:
 
 
 
As you can see the equation is quite simple. However there is a lot of room for error!
 
 
Below are the remaining components of communication. Frankly they have been over- done.  Believe me, I KNOW you KNOW!

a.       Context Nonverbal

b.      Interference

c.       Active Listening
 
Posted: August 27th, 2012.
Judith L. Harrison
 
 
Innovation works is brought to you by:
Judith L. Harrison
Trumpeter's Choice Consulting
 
Judith, psychotherapist, author, trainer and speaker is first and foremost a human behaviour specialist. She delights in leading people to the edge of the cliff of unchallenged thinking and pushing them over the brink to discover conscious thought.
 
Find out more here.
 
 
 
Dr. Erika Holenski, B.Sc., N.D
KW Health Connection
 
Erika is licensed with the Board of Directors of Drugless Therapy and holds memberships in many Naturopathic organizations. She enjoys having a diverse family practice and looks forward to guiding all of her patients on the path of wellness.  
 
Find out more here.