Cognitive Fitness

Cognitive Fitness allow you to be more open to new ideas and alternative perspectives, will give you the capacity to change your behaviors and forest their outcomes in order to realize your goals.

The more cognitive fit you are the better you will be able to make decisions, solve problems and deal with stress and changes .

Tools that helps you exercise your brain and become cognitive fit:

• The walkabout: in business its known as management by walking around , the practice of getting out of your office and talking to employees.
• Work hard at play: engage in the serious business of play.

"to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly"- Henry Bergson

• Search for Patterns: challenge your existing mind-set, enlarge it and make it more complex, listen to different view points, read new kinds of articles and books, and visit places with a focused set of learning objectives.
• Seek Novelty and Innovation: the ability of your brain to reorganize itself adaptively and enhance its performance. People who remain engaged in life consistently display an attitude of openness to new and unexpected experiences. Continuous learning can provide another important benefit as well as people who are receptive to novelty and innovation also tend to be good in a crisis because they are open to seeing opportunity in even the direst situations.

Cognitive fitness can affect every part of your life. On an organizational level, it may be the ultimate level for sustainable competitive advantage. The future belongs to companies with leaders who develop cognitive fitness for themselves and their organizations.

Nisrine Bou Frem - Head of Human Resources - Assoc CIPD