Eve Abbott
Since 1988, Eve Abbott has pioneered brain-based performance systems for executives and business owners. A Brain New Way to Work gets teams working 25% more productively through lively programs and practical consultations.
Ms. Abbott is the author of "A Brain New Way to Work:Using your brain at work for better results and less stress" ™. She earned her degree in Sociology and Psychology from the University of California and holds a Lifetime Adult Teaching Credential.
Eve combines humor with the latest brain research for guaranteed fun and practical programs as a speaker for conferences from Builder/Architect to University Women Leaders 2008.
Discover how to save an hour a day with her free productivity tips ezine and discover your unique brain style with free brain quizzes! A Brain New Way to Work.
Eve is a personal productivity expert who learned her early lessons as a Navy brat, attending ten different elementary schools. "If your Mom handed you a milk crate and said ´Put everything you love in here, because we´re moving tomorrow,´ you´d get skilled at prioritizing anything quickly, too!"
S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Lotus Construction, Nixon Peabody LLP, John Muir Health and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency choose A Brain New Way to Work's seminars for solutions to their employee's challenges.
Ms. Abbott is the author of "A Brain New Way to Work:Using your brain at work for better results and less stress" ™. She earned her degree in Sociology and Psychology from the University of California and holds a Lifetime Adult Teaching Credential.
Eve combines humor with the latest brain research for guaranteed fun and practical programs as a speaker for conferences from Builder/Architect to University Women Leaders 2008.
Discover how to save an hour a day with her free productivity tips ezine and discover your unique brain style with free brain quizzes! A Brain New Way to Work.
Eve is a personal productivity expert who learned her early lessons as a Navy brat, attending ten different elementary schools. "If your Mom handed you a milk crate and said ´Put everything you love in here, because we´re moving tomorrow,´ you´d get skilled at prioritizing anything quickly, too!"
S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Lotus Construction, Nixon Peabody LLP, John Muir Health and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency choose A Brain New Way to Work's seminars for solutions to their employee's challenges.
Articles by Eve Abbott
March 23, 2010
Our brain´s top priorities include survival of our self, our family and our job. That is why the basis of every human transaction is "What´s in it for me?" To enhance your performance for better results, here are six words to avoid using with your colleagues, clients and everyone else too.
March 08, 2010
Professionals are often surprised at the difference these proven brain-based techniques make on boosting their productivity while reducing their stress. Try these tips out so you can get better results at work and feel better at the same time, too. For example:
Smile: Smiling makes you feel better as your brain releases endorphines and prompts happy thoughts. It also makes people more likely to smile back. Share the free endorphins, this works! Excerpts from: "A Brain New Way to Work: Using your brain at work for better results and less stress"tm Copyright 2010 Eve Abbott All rights reserved.
March 02, 2010
File names are the only part of an e-file an executive or any employee can see to instantly identify a file. When an e-file name labels the contents clearly, it´s easier to access, organize, and archive files quickly—especially when everyone has less brain power left at the end of the day. Using these brain-based e-file best practices improves everyone's ability to work better together with less stress.
March 01, 2010
Were you one of the 10 million Americans who were a victim of identity theft last year?
If not, you are really lucky, because it turns out that personal identity theft costs more than previously reported. U. S. Secret Service case reviews find that the median actual loss for individual victims is $31,356.00. Not to mention the average of 600 hours wasted to clear your name.
U.S. businesses and financial institutions lost at least 50 billion dollars last year to fraud and identity theft last year alone. ID Theft is the fastest growing crime worldwide.
Take these easy steps now to avoid becoming a victim of ID theft or credit fraud.
February 18, 2010
In order to master interruptions you have to know just how much time are you sacrificing to what non-productive activity. This Activity & Interruption Tracking Tool will help you find out by tracking how many times your work gets interrupted by 'whom' or 'what'.
Bottom line is: You can actually help your brain at work make better decisions about investing your priority time. Enhance performance and increase productivity while reducing stress at work.
January 25, 2010
Delegating to Develop Team Members and Support Staff. This is a sure fire way to develop team member skills while streamlining your group workflow. Use the checklist to get started and increase both personal productivity and team performance.
May 16, 2008
The human brain was hardwired to decide whether or not we like another person within seven seconds as a prehistoric survival mechanism. That ´snap decision´ ability hasn´t changed in the last 50,000 years.
Self-preservation hardwiring is the reason for the great emphasis on first impressions in business and life. With face-to-face-time being the most valuable business situation, using these tips to manage the seven-second response well is essential to your success.
April 17, 2008
Ever wonder if one person can make a difference? U.S. companies large and small are innovating ways to turn ecological-business into both savings and profits. Discover new ways you or a whole company can make the your bottom line and the world greener.
March 26, 2008
Tips excerpted from the revised 2008 book "How to Do Space Age Work with a Stone Age Brain"
Save yourself money and stress by using these quick tips to get a jumpstart on your taxes. Tune up your own paper file system, or use the file system kits to make sure this year goes better than last April...
February 14, 2008
This is your brain on time. Your sensory brain dominance (auditory, visual or kinesthetic) determines not only how you process information and communicate but also how you perceive and relate to time. Since no one really manages time, the secret is to manage your information, resources environment and activities. Success lies in your habits about how you choose to invest your time.
December 04, 2007
Every person’s brain runs on the Human Circadian Timeline which controls both our internal clock and our stress reaction. This means our stress levels are in direct proportion to how far off we are from our natural time cycle. At holiday time with evening events and travel disruptions it is easy to ...
October 18, 2007
Starting in 2008, hundreds of thousands of Baby Boomers (76 million born 1946-1964) will begin to retire, creating the largest exodus out of the workforce by a single generation. The U.S. Bureau of Labor reports that more than 17 percent of Boomer executives are predicted to depart their careers by ...
October 04, 2007
Research for Hewlett Packard by the University of London’s Institute of Psychiatry warns that “info-mania” is costing professionals an average of minus 10 IQ points! This “abuse of always-on technology” by people who are addicted to checking email and text messages (24/7/365) consumes more than twic...
September 12, 2007
The New York Times reported that the average U.S. executive still wastes six working weeks a year searching through paper piles and computer files. That is twelve percent of that executive’s paycheck! Even worse, that is twelve percent of their time traded for zero results.
For business owners in...
August 27, 2007
How profitably could your business operate if one-third of your clients wore blindfolds? What if you or one-half of your coworkers stuffed earplugs in before every communication?
In fact, over 50 percent of people’s brains are hardwired with a dominant visual information style and they are not re...