Best Practices in HR Management (download PPT)

The Benziger BreakthroughThe Benziger Breakthrough“Sets the Benchmark for Best Practices in HR Management”

2002 Deloitte & Touche, Latin AmericaGrounding Jung’s Typology with Breakthroughs in Neuroscience

Setting the Benchmark for Best Practices in HR

Neuro-science

Carl Jung

Human Resource Management

Dr. KatherineDr. Katherine BenzigerBenziger, Ph.D., USA

Dr Katherine Benziger, Ph. D., USA Benziger Breakthrough

Carl Jung

“In the last analysis it may well be that physiological causes inaccessible to our knowledge today (in 1926) play a part in this (Typology).

… reversal of type often proves exceedingly harmful to the physiological well being of the organism, often provoking an acute state of exhaustion.”

“As a rule, when falsification of type takes place as a result of external influence, the individual becomes neurotic later, and a cure can successfully be sought only in the development of that individual’s natural way.”

Carl Gustav Jung, physician and psychiatristPsychological Types (pages 415-416)

Harcourt Brace and Company in 1926

Best Practices in HR Management


Carl Jung

1926

Jung’s in-depth knowledge of human beings was tremendous, at a time when the amount of knowledge in physiology and the neuro-sciences was very limited.


Physiology and theNeuro-sciences in 1926


Physiology and the Neuro-sciences in 2006

Carl Jung


2006

Jung’s in-depth knowledge of human beings can be explained today, because the amount of knowledge in physiology and the neuro-sciences has expanded tremendously.


Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961 Switzerland) Jung’s Theoretical Model of Type and its Physiological Foundations

Richard HaierPhysiological Foundations for

Jung’s Posited Existence of a Natural Leadwhich would be each person’s natural compass

Karl PribramPhysiological Foundations for

Jung’s 4 Specialized Functions

Hans EysenckPhysiological Foundations for

Jung’s Introversion Extraversion

Jung’s Typology1. 4 Specialized Functions2. Introversion and Extraversion3. The Existence of a Natural Lead

Best Practices in HR ManagementIH


Breakthrough #1: Recognition that Human’s Who are Thriving Experience Flow

Other neuro-sicentists exploring human potential

discoveredOptimal Thinking was

characterized by Enthusiasm &

Effortlessness

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi the 1st scientist to report the ground-breaking discovery Optimal Thinking exists Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience: Steps Towards Enhancing The Quality of Life.

1. Mihaly Csikszenmihalyi’s focus was on the mastery & anxiety 2. He proved Flow existed, but did not know how to help anyone

else experience it.



Carl Jung

Karl PribramMihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Carl Jung

Karl Pribram

Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiRichard Haier

Breakthrough #2: Recognition that human’s using their brain’s natural preferencealso report experiencing FlowFlow



Richard Haier the 2nd scientist discovers the existence of an area of focused natural efficiency in our brains, 1 area which uses only 1/100th the energy.

1. Richard Haier’s focus was on the mastery & electrical efficiency 2. He found that mastery is not nearly as important;3. Using the 1 area which is naturally efficient is important to

achieve Optimal Thinking which is characterized by Effortlessness.

…and that less than Optimal Thinking is characterized by boredom & exhaustion

Richard Haier showed other areas of the cortex even when mastery has been achieved (i.e. the brain is as efficient as it can be simply through practice) use 100 times the energy used by the area of focused natural efficiency to “think”. In other words when you are using a non-preferred mode even if you become competent in something, you will exhaust your brain doing it.


Breakthrough #3: Recognition that people who are not experiencing Flow, are very often experiencing exhaustion


Carl Jung

Karl Pribram Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Richard Haier

A continuum of human potentialhuman potential or not?


Optimal Thinking

Flow

Effortless

Dependable

High Self-Efficacy

Thriving

Less than Optimal Thinking

Exhausting

Not Dependable

Low Self-Efficacy

Exhaustion

Using your brain’s 1 preferred mode it burns only 1/100th the energy every minute you use it.

Using any of your brain’s 3 non-preferred modes requires it to burn 100 times the energy every minute you use it to think


The Societal CostsSocietal Costs of Falsifying TypeKatherine Benziger

1985Falsification of Type Study

of 10,000 Persons

Arlene Taylor Carl Jung

Gallup International Research & Education

Center 2001 studyof 2 million persons

Falsification of Type Dr. Katherine Benziger (1985, USA, sample of 10,000 persons) using the BTSA and interviews to determine whether people were falsifying type and if they were falsifying type what was falsifying type doing to them. The conclusions were that 70 to 80 percent of the population were falsifying type and that the those falsifying type were trapped in a less than optimal life experience, triggering one of both of the crisis responses regularly.

Now, Discover Your Strengths Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton. Gallup International Research & Education Center (2001, 200 countries, 2 million people) “created a revolutionary program to help people identify their talents, build them into strengths and enjoy consistent, near perfect performance.” It was the result of a 25 year multi-million dollar retrospective study which found 80 percent of people around the world were not using their natural strengths or gifts.



Why is it so dangerous? Costs of Falsifying TypeBased on Haier’s breakthrough discoveries about learning,

we now understand why Falsifying Type is so harmful to a person’s physiology.

By leading with a mode other than their brain’s preference, they are forcing their brain to overwork– to burn 100 times the energy it is set up to burn for hours and hours, day after day.

• Essentially, they are over heating or frying their brain; and • Causing the Brain to burn more than its allotted 20% of the Oxygen

Best Practices in HR ManagementThe Benziger BreakthroughThe Benziger Breakthrough

Perceiving the Pattern of Societal CostsPerceiving the Pattern of Societal CostsCarl Gustav Jung1875-1961 Switzerland Theoretical Model of Type

Richard Haier Physiological Foundations for Jung’s Posited Existence of a Natural Lead which would be each person’s natural compass

Karl PribramPhysiological Foundations for Jung’s 4 Specialized Functions


Carl Gustav Jung1875-1961 Switzerland Theoretical Model of Type Richard Haier

Physiological Foundations for Jung’s Posited Existence of a Natural Lead which would be

each person’s natural compass

Costs of Falsifying Typemore about why it is so dangerous

The Oxygen FactorThe Oxygen FactorThe normal oxygen distribution in the body is:

20 % for the brain80 % for the rest of the body

This is one of the body’s key operational rules.

When the rule is followed all parts of the brain-body receive the oxygen they need to do their jobs.

When the rule is violated, when the brain takes too much oxygen, it can throw the body out of homeostatic balance and causing the metabolism to shift from anabolic to catabolic.



Carl Gustav Jung1875-1961 Switzerland Theoretical Model of Type

Karl PribramPhysiological Foundations for

Jung’s 4 Specialized Functions


Jung’s Posited Existence of a Natural Lead

which would be each person’s natural compass

Falsifying Type and Its Falsifying Type and Its Societal CostsSocietal Costs

Why is it happening so frequently?Why have people lost touch with their brain’s inner compass?

Both Benziger and Gallup found 70-80% of global workforce doing it.



Benziger’s research points to these 3 answers:

1.Maslow’s Hierarch of Needs – to meet “lower level needs”

2.The 400 Year Pattern of The Industrial Revolution set up an educational system teaching the general population who were expected to be the workers everywhere, Basal Left skills; and the elite who were expected to be leaders, Frontal Left skills.

3.We didn’t know any better.



Richard HaierPhysiological Foundations for Jung’s Posited Existence of a Natural Lead which would be

each person’s natural compass

Karl PribramPhysiological Foundations

for Jung’s 4 Specialized Functions

The Good NewsThe Good News:: Now that we know better , we can make a difference Now that we know better , we can make a difference::

Implications for coaching and for businessesImplications for coaching and for businessesGiven 70-80% of the population are Falsifying Type, it can be helpful to start by assuming the people with whom you are working may be Falsifying Type. You will find it will be true for most people. Then:• Use Benziger & BTSA to identify each person’s natural preference.• Help them let go of long term habits of using highly developed non-preferred competencies. • Help them identify, embrace & develop their natural preference.• Teach them how to “leverage” their preference.

Best Practices in HR Management Hans EysenckPhysiological Foundations for





Jung’s Posited Existence of a Natural Leadwhich would be each person’s natural compass

Karl PribramPhysiological Foundations

for Jung’s 4 Specialized Functions

Hans EysenckPhysiological Foundations for


The Benziger BreakthroughThe Benziger BreakthroughGrounding Jung’s Typology with Breakthroughs in Neuroscience

The Good News:The Good News:“Dr. Benziger and her tools help CEO’s and managers effectively manage the balance between creativity and operations in business.”

Charlie M. Leighton, Chairman of Board, The CML Group



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