General principles: There are no ideal states. Each position brings challenges and opportunities. There’s no link between scores and aptitude. Experience and training can make us skillful outside of our neuropreferences. The Cognitive Preference Survey is predictive of neither intelligence nor aptitude for a certain job or role. You can use the…
Posts By: Frank Sopper
Shared values?
Much of the conflict we see between individuals and within organizations occurs because we respond differently to essential and symbolic communication As humans, we have two languages: our verbal language of speech and texts; alongside all the ways we humans convey meaning symbolically: our body language, cultural symbols, style and fashion, and all the complex…
Bias Results from Linking Creativity Only to Divergent Thinking
What is creative? An excellent piece of recent research got a flawed title. Psychologists have documented how our environments influence our behavior. Room color, lighting and ceiling height can impact our performance in documentable ways. A study conducted at the University of Minnesota and published in Psychological Science http://pss.sagepub.com/content/24/9/1860 has advanced this by examining the…
Dates on Calendar Are Closer Than They Appear
Traditional calendars, divided and named by months, play a cognitive trick on us. Today is early September. The Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. is the end of November: three months away. We often share with clients an alternative calendar view without the separations between months, and which makes more visible how one month flows into…
Three weeks
Once we take a few samples and get a realistic measure of our day, as humans we still have further capacity for fantasy to engage before we can bring our commitments in line with our cognitive resources. Because one day flows into another, we can make ourselves think the 24-hour wall is flexible. We…