Companies Turn To Brain Games To Tackle Work Stress!!!!

Employee engagement

As more and more jobs rely on knowledge work, creativity, and communication skills, it's not enough to have workers sitting at their desks -- they must also be mentally sharp, emotionally present, and free from distraction. The answer for some: brain training.

"The brain, is much like muscles in the body. If you exercise it, it gets better. You actually grow neurons. "If you can teach people how to manage those multitasking and stressful environments optimally, you're going to preserve their health."

"Usually, people don't engage in this type of activity until they're not functioning well.  Shirsa brings on an ability for employee to engage any time, any place, on their own terms without having to talk to anybody."

- Team Shirsa

How Does Employee Engagement Improves The Bottom Line?

In order to succeed in a hyper-competitive global economy, organizations must drive and maintain the highest performance levels and employee engagement.  

Employee Engagment

Companies have to leverage every possible resource available to create competitive advantages.  And without question, harnessing the power of people is by far the most challenging.

In simplest terms, great people form great teams that deliver amazing products and services.  But in order to deliver amazing results, people must possess the skills and be fully motivated to contribute to the organizations they serve.  

Giving employee the right tools and growing a high performance culture is more than just the right thing to do – these actions have significant financial consequences.

When companies harness the power of people, they realize the largest gains in productivity, and innovation.  

According other industry experts, engaged employees are not only more productive, but are more customer-focused, safer and more likely to remain a part of their current company.

Engaged organizations have 3.9 times the earnings per share when compared to companies with lower engagement levels in their same industry.   And disengaged employees are not just a non-factor. 

 Disengaged people erode a company’s bottom line while killing the spirits of colleagues along the way.  Disengagement costs more than $300 billion in lost productivity alone.

- Team Shirsa

Neurobis - Exercises For Your Brain!!!!!!!!!!!

Probably it happened to you to meet certain person and to not know his/her name, or to tell somebody about a nice movie and to forget the name of your favorite actor that is playing the main role. Many people stuck into such situation. Especially if you are a manager and you work with lost of people. The huge amount of information that we accept every day sometimes create problems with the memory. If you want better memory, and perform better at work you have to keep your brain active and in a good condition.

Neurobics

According to James Robert Watson, PhD neurobics (neuron + aerobics) are stretching exercises to increase oxygen and give your brain’s neurons more life by experiencing or participating in some new activity, place, or event. When you stretch your mind, it never returns to its previous shape. Research indicates that taxing the brain (making it ‘sweat’) with unfamiliar exercises can improve learning ability, memory, and problem solving.

Neurobic exercises differ from other brain exercises like logical puzzles, crosswords, sudoku, scrabble, etc.Why? Because they use human senses in a new way in order to stimulate the brain to create new associations between different types of information.

Neurobic can be applied by adults as well as children. It is used on children to increase their concentration in order they easily to gain new knowledge. Adults use it to keep their brain fit, because it you they don’t the brain functions to memorize and to solve problems will deteriorate.

- Team Shirsa

Ready To Test Your Exec­u­tive Atten­tion Capacity?

stroop test

Quick! say aloud what color you see in every word, NOT the word you read.

Expla­na­tion: 

The Stroop test is used in neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tions to mea­sure men­tal vital­ity and flex­i­bil­ity, since per­form­ing well requires strong atten­tion and self-regulation capability.

Enjoy the day. You can enjoy many more mind and brain teasers with Shirsa.me. 

- Team Shirsa

Have You Tried Neurobics Yet?

Top tips for exercising your brain! Activities that you choose for yourself and gain pleasure from completing will logically produce a more positive effect on the brain than those which are forced upon you!

Neurobics

1. Do more than one thing at once. As we get older the brain becomes less efficient at multi-tasking. Combining activities such as jogging and listening to an audio book will force your brain to do two things at once, improving your ability to multi-task.
2. Listen to different music. Memorising the lyrics to songs that you don’t know will boost levels of acetylcholine in your brain. Aetylcholine is a neurotransmitter which plays a key role in projecting axons into many areas of the brain.
3. When looking up new words, investigate their etymology too. That is, look up their linguistic origins. Retrieval of tricky words will become easier if you understand their meaning and the context in which they are used.
4. Don’t just look, see. Being able to analyse visual information is really important in the 3-D world in which we live. When you leave a room, try to remember the exact location of certain items in it. This will train your brain to focus on your surroundings and actually see what is in front of you.
5. Get rid of your sat-nav! Relying on others to show you the way causes the brain to become lazy and won’t help you to remember new journeys. Going back to basics and using a map will exercise the part of the brain which is responsible for understanding spatial relationships.
6. Oxygenate your brain! Light exercise stimulates blood circulation which in turn increases glucose and oxygen in your brain. Sitting on the sofa means that the muscles won’t require additional oxygen from the brain.
7. Do every-day tasks with your non-dominant hand. This will stimulate interaction between the two hemispheres of the brain and cause new neural pathways to develop. Although some tasks such as writing will be tricky at first some people can train themselves to become ambidextrous!
8. Try neurobics. These are types of exercises which involve exposing your senses to new situations, combining two or more senses in a novel way. These include getting dressed with your eyes shut, using only visual cues whilst interacting with friends and relatives or listening to music whilst smelling flowers.
9. Mentally rotate. Mental rotation refers to moving things around in your head and is a visuospatial skill. Humans use this naturally when reading maps, using tools, playing chess etc. To practice, picture an arrow or other specific shape pointing right, then turn it around so it points left.
10. Perhaps the most important tip of all is to enjoy the exercises you are doing. Activities that you choose for yourself and gain pleasure from completing will logically produce a more positive effect on the brain than those which are forced upon you!

- Team Shirsa

Shirsa : A Complete Health package.

Shirsa has your brain covered......

Our comprehensive training program enhances brain health and performance using clinically validated tools designed by neuroscientists.  Through Shirsa users can experience benefits that include:

Shirsa Package

• Clearer and quicker thinking
• Faster problem-solving skills
• Increased alertness and awareness
• Better concentration at work or while driving
• Sharper memory for names, numbers, and directions

No matter who you are, your brain needs care. 

Invest a few minutes today, and you could reap the rewards for years to come.

Your brain will thank you.

- Sukhada Desai

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How Do I know Which Exercises To Use In Shirsa?

Think about what you most want to improve: your Memory, Attention, Brain Speed, Critical thinking, and Problem solving. 

Shirsa Exercises

Start with the exercises in that category. Please note, however, that the exercises are complementary, and working in one category will likely enhance benefits in another domain. 

We often recommend that people begin with Brain Speed, since increasing the speed with which the brain can work with information is the foundation for all other cognitive skills.


- Sukhada Desai