Setting the Benchmark for Best Practices in HR

Dr. Katherine Benziger, Ph.D., USA

Carl Jung Human Resource Management

Neuro-science

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Sets the Benchmark for Best Practices in HR Management 2002 Deloitte & Touche, Latin America Grounding Jungs Typology with Breakthroughs in Neuroscience
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Best Practices in HR Management 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.
Carl Jung

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 individuals natural way.
Carl Gustav Jung, physician and psychiatrist Psychological Types (pages 415-416) Harcourt Brace and Company in 1926

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1926 Jungs 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.

Carl Jung

Physiology and the Neuro-sciences in 1926

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Physiology and the Neuro-sciences in 2006

2006 Jungs in-depth knowledge of human beings can be explained today, because the amount of knowledge in physiology and the neurosciences has expanded tremendously.

Carl Jung

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Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961 Switzerland) Jungs Theoretical Model of Type and its Physiological Foundations
Karl Pribram Physiological Foundations for Jungs 4 Specialized Functions Hans Eysenck Physiological Foundations for Jungs Introversion Extraversion

Richard Haier Physiological Foundations for Jungs Posited Existence of a Natural Lead which would be each persons natural compass

Jungs Typology
1. 4 Specialized Functions 2. Introversion and Extraversion 3. The Existence of a Natural Lead
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Breakthrough #1: Recognition that Humans Who are Thriving Experience Flow

Carl Jung

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Karl Pribram

Other neuro-sicentists exploring human potential discovered Optimal 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 Csikszenmihalyis focus was on the mastery & anxiety 2. He proved Flow existed, but did not know how to help anyone else experience it.
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Breakthrough #2: Recognition that humans using their brains natural preference

also report experiencing Flow

Carl Jung

Karl Pribram Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Richard Haier

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 Haiers 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.
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Best Practices in HR Management Breakthrough #3: Recognition that people who are not experiencing Flow, are very often experiencing exhaustion
Carl Jung

Karl Pribram

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Richard Haier
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.
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A continuum of human potential or not?

Less than Optimal Thinking Exhausting Not Dependable Low Self-Efficacy Exhaustion Optimal Thinking Flow Effortless Dependable High Self-Efficacy Thriving
Using any of your brains 3 nonpreferred modes requires it to burn 100 times the energy every minute you use it to think Using your brains 1 preferred mode it burns only 1/100th the energy every minute you use it.

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The Societal Costs of Falsifying Type

Katherine Benziger 1985 Falsification of Type Study of 10,000 Persons

Arlene Taylor

Carl Jung

Gallup International Research & Education Center 2001 study of 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.
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The Benziger Breakthrough Perceiving the Pattern of Societal Costs

Karl Pribram Physiological Foundations for Jungs 4 Specialized Functions Carl Gustav Jung 1875-1961 Switzerland Theoretical Model of Type

Richard Haier Physiological Foundations for Jungs Posited Existence of a Natural Lead which would be each persons natural compass

Why is it so dangerous?

Costs of Falsifying Type

Based on Haiers breakthrough discoveries about learning, we now understand why Falsifying Type is so harmful to a persons physiology.

By leading with a mode other than their brains 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
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Carl Gustav Jung 1875-1961 Switzerland Theoretical Model of Type

Costs of Falsifying Type more about why it is so dangerous

The Oxygen Factor

20 % for the brain 80 % for the rest of the body

Richard Haier Physiological Foundations for Jungs Posited Existence of a Natural Lead which would be each persons natural compass

The normal oxygen distribution in the body is:

This is one of the bodys 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.
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Richard Haier Physiological Foundations for Jungs Posited Existence of a Natural Lead which would be each persons natural compass

Carl Gustav Jung 1875-1961 Switzerland Theoretical Model of Type

Falsifying Type and Its Societal Costs

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

Karl Pribram Physiological Foundations for Jungs 4 Specialized Functions

Why is it happening so frequently? Why have people lost touch with their brains inner compass?

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Benzigers research points to these 3 answers:

1.Maslows 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 didnt know any better.
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Carl Gustav Jung 1875-1961 Switzerland Theoretical Model of Type

Hans Eysenck Physiological Foundations for Jungs Introversion Extraversion

Karl Pribram Physiological Foundations for Jungs 4 Specialized Functions Richard Haier Physiological Foundations for Jungs Posited Existence of a Natural Lead which would be each persons natural compass

The Good News: Now that we know better , we can make a difference: Implications for coaching and for businesses

Given 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 persons natural preference.

Help them let go of long term habits of using highly developed nonpreferred competencies. Help them identify, embrace & develop their natural preference. Teach them how to leverage their preference.
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Carl Gustav Jung 1875-1961 Switzerland Theoretical Model of Type
Hans Eysenck Physiological Foundations for Jungs Introversion Extraversion Karl Pribram Physiological Foundations for Jungs 4 Specialized Functions

Richard Haier Physiological Foundations for Jungs Posited Existence of a Natural Lead which would be each persons natural compass

The Benziger Breakthrough

Grounding Jungs Typology with Breakthroughs in Neuroscience

The Good News: Dr. Benziger and her tools help CEOs 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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