With the recession continuing to impact on local businesses morale can be seriously affected which further impacts on a companies' ability to succeed in these difficult times. We propose that we work with the Chamber to deliver a series of short, high impact courses, MindSkills, that will provide the opportunity to motivate and equip employees at any level. The courses will provide participants with practical tools to assist in their personal effectiveness and the effectiveness of the business as a whole.

The carefully designed and tested courses only take 90 minutes using specialised training and communication techniques so can be undertaken without taking key staff away from the workplace for any significant time.

 

 The titles covered include:

Communications
- INSTANT RAPPORT
- INFLUENCING AND PERSUADING
- READING BODY-LANGUAGE
- UNCRITICAL SELF-TALK

Business Relationships
- EFFECTIVE DELEGATION
- CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Career Growth and Success
- BOOSTING SELF-CONFIDENCE
- BOOSTING SELF-ESTEEM
- VALUES ALIGNMENT
- ACCELERATED LEARNING

Performance and Results
- GOAL ACHIEVEMENT
- GETTING MOTIVATED
- DECISION MAKING
- EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT

Leadership
- STATURE AND PRESENCE
- POWER AND POLITICS
- HELICOPTER VISIONING
- COACHING FOR MANAGERS

Creativity and Innovation
- CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

Pressure, Stress and Wellness
- STRESS INTO CALM

VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE

Impact analysis of 'accelerated competencies' results noted for a variety of different modules and dozens of events show radical and measurable shifts in personal performance, deep learning and immediate behaviour change. Six different modules are analysed showing endorsement summaries, detailed results and a trade-off between learning new skills and behaviour change accomplished in as little as only 90 minutes.

 

WHY 90 MINUTES - FASTER, CHEAPER AND BETTER

Firstly it would appear that most people's attention span in Western cultures is around 90 mins between breaks - it's the average length of a business meeting, soccer match, Hollywood movie, etc. Further, you might sensibly ask how can anyone rapidly improve their performance, learn a new skill or even change their behaviour quite possibly at a deep level in only 90 minutes. You certainly can and even more astonishingly for many 'core' personal effectiveness competencies, traits and habits it can take less than that especially in one-on-one coaching or training sessions. And for others where the cognitive/linguistic/emotional structure is more complex it obviously takes longer.

It can be shown that contrary to mainstream opinion that learning and change can to be very fast. So why would you need to attend a one, two or three day, or more training event to 'learn' a new skill when you can actually make immediate and measurable step-changes in behaviour in a fraction of that time, whilst saving a lot of money and time. Welcome to the new paradigm.

Evidence of 'excellence' in delivery and customer service

MindSkills has been developed by David Norman who has the following credentials:
Corporate Coaching Experience: 15 years (20,000 hrs) researching, innovating, designing and practically applying MindSkills WORKOUTS and TECHNIQUES in a broad range of people, EQ, soft-skills, communication, behavioural competencies 121 and group coaching hundreds of executives at all organisational levels holding widely differing responsibilities and ages across many different economic sectors. Published book on high-performance coaching.

The programme is monitored for effectiveness after each course and we have seen the following outcomes:

- PERFORMANCE - Average improvement 37%
70% of attendees PERFORMANCE improved by more than 30%
(Min. 17%. Max. 100%)

- LEARNING - Average improvement 88%
50% of attendees new skills LEARNING increased by more than 75%
(Min. 17%. Max. 400%)

- BEHAVIOUR - Average improvement 59%
70% of attendees changed BEHAVIOUR by more than 30%
(Min. 17%. Max. 150%)