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"Ignoring Your Brain Can Endanger Your Safety" in IOSH-magazine

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How to stay sane in an insane covid world

How to deal better with the stress of a COVID pandemic, a (partial) lockdown, working from home and videoconferencing. The most recent version is available on www.amazon.com

Videos

7 minute interview about "Can We Multitask or Not?"

7 minute interview about "Open Office Spaces are Prisons for the Brain"

7 minute interview about "How to Teach Kids to Deal With Technology"

Podcast

Interview by David Allen. Podcast.

Excerpts and articles

About The Human Brain and BrainChains

15 whistle-blowers, managers and executives of the top-antisocial media companies, confirm conclusions from "BrainChains", that they destroy your attention, intellectual productivity, creativity, health and happiness !!

Three of the five "BrainChains" in a nutshell.

Beware of your intuitions or gut feelings. Excerpt from "BrainChains"

Don't use your phone while driving. Excerpt from "BrainChains"

The myth about hyperconnected multitasking children. Excerpt from "BrainChains"

About disastrous open offices.

An executive summary of "How to Design Brain-Friendly Flexible Offices"

The fourth edition: "How to Design Brain-friendly Flexible Offices" is available as a mini-paperback at www.amazon.com , www.amazon.fr and www.amazon.de etc.

A selection of 13 different scientific studies that conclude that most open plan offices are a f****** disaster for the intellectual productivity of brainworkers. (they write it in more polite terms)

Based on this, for a key-note I presented for 70 CEO's, I wrote an open letter to CEO's with the conclusions from recent research in the words of the researchers. Feel free to circulate that one too.

About stress

Syllabus about stress: friend and foe

Stress and creativity

Strategy Oriented Stress Management: An untapped gold mine for your company

Eric Pepers app I use to remind me to take breaks: click here

De app advises stretching, I often do power exercises. click here

About Management

CORPORATE BRAIN DISORDER: why the brainworkers in our companies function at less than 60% of their potential

On my approach to coaching

A Systems View on Executive Team Coaching

Trust and Confidence : the keystone of the relationship between a manager and his team

PAIN IN THE ASS MANAGERS: from the accidental ones (all of us) to the psychopaths. How to detect them and what to do about them at all levels.

About learning to have real conversations

1. A little guide to the big subject of small talk: surprisingly enough a first step to develop your EQ, to become better at important conversations and to make a better first impression.

2. E-Power Pointing A method to develop your skills to have emotionally and socially intelligent conversations (after you trained small talk)

3. Giving and receiving feedback Once you handle conversations well, learn to give (difficult) feedback

Bibliography/references of two of my books

These were moved to the page "References" on menu/sidebar.

In het Nederlands

Actueel

Hoe blijf je gezond in een ongezonde COVID wereld

Zo ga je beter om met de stress van een COVID-pandemie, een (gedeeltelijke) lockdown, thuiswerken en videoconferenties. De Engelse versie (zie hierboven) is recenter. De meest recente recente en volledige versie daarvan is te vinden op www.amazon.nl

Videos

"De Tijd" zo doe je het experiment met multitasken

TV VRT Reijers laat over multitasking en open kantoren

TV VRT Terzake over kleuters en tablets

TV Brandpunt NL over multitasken ****

7 minuten interview: Kunnen we nu wel of niet multitasken?

7 minuten interview over Open Kantoren.

Interview over kinderen leren omgaan met technologie.

Teksten

Over "Ontketen je brein".

Over de aanpak van het schermgebruik van je kinderen (BalansMagazine)

Over de doortrapte onethische verslavende methodes van de antisociale media (hoofdstuk uit "Ontketen het brein van je kind")

Korte syllabus over Ontketen Je Brein

Over slaap. Excerpts uit "Ontketen je brein"

Over blokken cq batch-tasking

Over het managen van email op drie niveaus (excerpt uit "Ontketen je brein")

Over de slaapbehoefte van adolescenten

Het leerplein is zo naakt als de keizer.

Een korte tekst uit "Ontketen je brein" over open kantoren vind je hier. Zie hierboven bij engelse teksten voor een uitgebreide tekst/boekje.

Column in de tijd over open kantoren

Levensgevaarlijk: bellen aan het stuur van auto of fiets

Hoe we door onwetendheid ons brein ketenen. Theo Compernolle. Opleiding & Ontwikkeling. Het magazine voor Human Resource Development. O&O nr 5/2014/ p 14

Theo Compernolle ontmaskert de multitask mythe. Annegreetvan Bergen in Managementboek.nl

Over brein-onvriendelijke open kantoren. Excerpts uit "Ontketen je brein"

Je buikgevoel of intuïties volgen is meestal louter gokken. Excerpt uit "Ontketen je brein"

De treurige mythe van hyperonline, multitaskende kinderen. Excerpt uit "Ontketen je brein"

Voor leraren over ICT in de klas

Over breinblinddoeken en ezelsbreinbrugjes die ons brengen waar we niet willen zijn

Over cognitive bias en heuristics, waardoor we foute beslissingen nemen en eraan blijven vasthouden