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- Help your team notice the positive.
- If this seemingly impossible task actually is possible, what’s my next logical move?
- What’s going right in this situation?
- What resources might I have that I’m not seeing yet?
- I wonder what it would be like to… (fill in an action that seems to exist outside the scope of possibility).
- Encourage your team to adopt a neutral mindset.
- Acknowledge everyone’s point of view as true, and give each opinion equal weight.
- In meetings where you’re making important decisions, write down everyone’s ideas on a whiteboard.
- During times of conflict, ask yourself, “If I were neutral on this subject, would I notice anything different?
- Lead your team through positivity-boosting activities.
- Read or watch something you know will make your team laugh.
- Put on a song you can all jam to.
- Go for a walk. Staying in one place can trap you in the same mindset.
- Take time to be around a different team that makes you feel happy and supported.
- Guide your team through a self-compassionate script.
- Admit that an experience or situation is painful. Don’t try to hide from or dismiss discomfort.
- Labeling emotions can help calm you down.
- Acknowledge that you’re not alone–whatever you are feeling is something that has been experienced before.
- Take a 5-minute break when you’re in a scarcity mindset during the work day.
- Constantly give back to your team. Keep your tribe strong by growing your network of resources, and by encouraging everyone on your team to be generous with their skillset.
- Encourage “giving circles” of friends within the company. This is when 5 to 7 people from different departments meet up to make suggestions on each other’s projects.
- Hold a problem-solution brainstorm. This is when each person presents what they need help with.
- Seek fresh perspectives outside of the groupthink of your workplace by reaching out to people who want to develop a similar skillset but are in a different company or industry.
- Practice gratitude with your team.
- Schedule 5 minutes a day on your calendar to focus on the good things that are happening right now.
- Take time to reflect before charging on to the next activity.
- Encourage your team to call out those coworker's actions they're grateful for in a meeting or send them a thoughtful email.
Takeaway: Schedule short, daily actions with your team to shift their mode of thinking from a scarce, limiting mindset to a more open and positive paradigm.
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1. They think well beyond job descriptions.
When a key customer's project is in jeopardy, exceptional employees know without being told there's a problem, and they jump in without being asked, even if--especially if--it's not their job.
2. They're quirky...
The best employees are often a little different. They seem slightly odd, but in a really good way. Unusual personalities shake things up, make work more fun, and transform a plain-vanilla group into a team with flair and flavor.
3. And they know when to rein in their individuality.
Exceptional employees know when to play and when to be serious; when to be irreverent and when to conform; and when to challenge and when to back off.
4. They praise other people in public...
Praise from a boss feels good. Praise from a peer feels awesome, especially when you look up to that person.
5. And they disagree in private.
Exceptional employees come to you before or after a meeting to discuss a sensitive issue, knowing that bringing it up in a group setting could set off a firestorm.
6. They ask questions when others won't.
Exceptional employees have an innate feel for the issues and concerns of those around them, and step up to ask questions or raise important issues when others hesitate.
7. They like to prove other people wrong.
Education, intelligence, talent, and skill are important, but drive is critical. Exceptional employees are driven by something deeper and more personal than just the desire to do a good job.
8. They're constantly exploring.
Good employees follow processes. Great employees tweak processes. Exceptional employees find ways to reinvent processes, not just because they are expected to...but because they just can't help themselves.
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The top 10 technologies to make this year’s list are:
1. Nanosensors and the Internet of Nanothings
With the Internet of Things expected to comprise 30 billion connected devices by 2020, one of the most exciting areas of focus today is now on nanosensors capable of circulating in the human body or being embedded in construction materials. Once connected, this Internet of Nanothings could have a huge impact on the future of medicine, architecture, agriculture and drug manufacture.
2. Next Generation Batteries
One of the greatest obstacles holding renewable energy back is matching supply with demand, but recent advances in energy storage using sodium, aluminum and zinc based batteries makes mini-grids feasible that can provide clean, reliable, round the clock energy sources to entire villages.
3. The Blockchain
Much already has been made of the distributed electronic ledger behind the online currency Bitcoin. With related venture investment exceeding $1 billion in 2015 alone, the economic and social impact of blockchain’s potential to fundamentally change the way markets and governments work is only now emerging.
4. 2D Materials
Graphene may be the best-known, single-atom layer material, but it is by no means the only one. Plummeting production costs mean that such 2D materials are emerging in a wide range of applications, from air and water filters to new generations of wearables and batteries.
5. Autonomous Vehicles
Self-driving cars may not yet be fully legal in most geographies, but their potential for saving lives, cutting pollution, boosting economies, and improving quality of life for the elderly and other segments of society has led to rapid deployment of key technology forerunners along the way to full autonomy.
6. Organs-on-chips
Miniature models of human organs – the size of a memory stick – could revolutionize medical research and drug discovery by allowing researchers to see biological mechanism behaviours in ways never before possible.
7. Perovskite Solar Cells
This new photovoltaic material offers three improvements over the classic silicon solar cell: it is easier to make, can be used virtually anywhere and, to date, keeps on generating power more efficiently.
8. Open AI Ecosystem
Shared advances in natural language processing and social awareness algorithms, coupled with an unprecedented availability of data, will soon allow smart digital assistants help with a vast range of tasks, from keeping track of one’s finances and health to advising on wardrobe choice.
9. Optogenetics
The use of light and colour to record the activity of neurons in the brain has been around for some time, but recent developments mean light can now be delivered deeper into brain tissue, something that could lead to better treatment for people with brain disorders.
10. Systems Metabolic Engineering
Advances in synthetic biology, systems biology and evolutionary engineering mean that the list of building block chemicals that can be manufactured better and more cheaply by using plants rather than fossil fuels is growing every year.
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