Neuro Agility is the way forward in performance optimization. It is about optimizing the elements that improve people’s overall brain fitness and mental flexibility. Just like ballet dancers need to be fit, supple, and agile to execute their skills with precision and beauty, a company’s workforce needs to be brain-fit and mentally flexible to execute their skills efficiently and accurately. Neuro Agility significantly impacts individual and team performances. To out-think, out-learn, and out-perform their competition, workers as much as athletes need to optimize their levels of brain fitness and mental flexibility.
The brain has unlimited potential to learn, think, and create. Sometimes the performance of world-class athletes and corporate teams may not reflect unlimited potential, because drivers like brain agility, stress coping skills, good sleeping patterns, sufficient movement, growth mindsets, or healthy eating habits that impact their performance are lacking. To optimize their brain fitness, athletes, coaches, managers, leaders, and teams must know how these drivers influence their brain performance and neurological design and learn the appropriate skills to optimize it.
When an athlete experiences fatigue, it may lead to a hand-eye coordination problem or limit their natural muscle speed for a fraction of a second. Brain agility is as important as physical fitness. Neuro Agility Profile® analytics shows that brain agility is the lowest-scoring element for athletes and workers. Even when an athlete is brain fit, but experiencing fatigue (because of a lack of coping with stress, bad sleeping patterns, limited mindsets, or incorrect brain foods), it will neutralize their brain agility and cause some brain areas to “switch off” (become less receptive). This also applies to the corporate space. When team members experience fatigue, it will lead to a higher risk of human errors and mistakes during stress.
Fit matters. When there is alignment between an athlete’s natural neurological design and how they play their sport, they become passionately dedicated and intrinsically motivated to compete. From a neuroscience perspective, passion is good fuel for the brain and body, as an athlete produces vital neurotransmitters for energy health and improved performance. People’s neurological designs indicate how they are naturally talented. Aligning sports with their neurological design will optimize their brain health and performance and assist them in being more effective and competitive. Alignment between employees’ neurological design and their job functions is essential for enhanced workplace engagement, increased performance, motivation, and successful execution of tasks.
Misalignment between athletes’ neurological design and how they play their sport, as much as misalignment between employees’ neurological design and how they perform their tasks will limit their performance. It may cause them to produce inhibiting neurochemicals that will act as bad fuel for their brain, negatively impacting their immune system and depleting their energy.
When a soccer player, for example, is left hemisphere dominant, left-eye dominant, but right-footed, a lack of brain agility, stress, or fatigue may cause a visual neurological hindrance that will limit visual processing and influence the athlete’s performance during the game and may even cause the team to lose. An employee with the same hemisphere and sensory preferences as the soccer player, who operates dangerous machinery in the workplace may cause accidents, make costly mistakes, or even lose their life when experiencing a visual hindrance during stress or fatigue.