Whereas the beta range (13 50 Hz) is associated with narrow attention and is the zone in which we carry out task-focused activities, the alpha range (8 12 Hz) is produced during alert relaxed states, including states of mindfulness and other states characterized by open-focus attention, and the theta range (4 8 Hz) is produced when deeply relaxed, day dreaming, or falling asleep.
Task-focused classes increased the likelihood of students' seeking help, whereas achievement focused classes decreased the likelihood of students' seeking help.
We are far more task-focused and work together towards higher goals.
It assesses candidates for four "leadership styles": task-focused, social, intellectual and participative.
"Stuff like 'I'm a high-achieving, task-focused, self-starter' is a lot of meaningless rubbish," says Wright.
This transition is characterized by a decline of participation and task-focused interactions.
Break big projects into smaller chunks, bookended by short BAR and AAR meetings conducted in task-focused groups.
Again, this pattern is particularly ironic because power tends to make people more task-focused and efficient when working on tasks alone.
When you feel like you go from meeting to meeting or task to task with no time to eat properly or even clear your head, you can get so task-focused that you lose sight of the people around you.
"There is a risk of becoming too task-focused," he tells me later, "of getting caught up in a single procedure, while losing sight of the bigger picture".
Through clustering of students (N = 81) in a graduate distance education engineering course, we identified six different profiles: 1) task-focused users, 2) content-focused no-users, 3) no-users, 4) highly intensive users, 5) content-focused intensive users, and 6) socially-focused intensive users.
