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Emotional Mastery - Training & Coaching [Life, Business, Executive]
Creative Thinking & Innovation - Read Brochure
Creative Thinking courses provide you with a range of immediate and powerful techniques for creating a large number of ideas and encouraging innovation in your organisation. We offer 1/2 day masterclasses through to comprehensive and practical 2 day programmes.
Overview
Brainy Creative Thinking programmes are designed to introduce people to the astounding creative capacity they have inside them. We believe that everyone is creative but it is how we are creative that differs. In our tailored programmes we...
Outcomes
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★ Show you how to access your innate creativity & unleash a proliferation of ideas through a range of tools
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★ Learn the key barriers that affect creative thinking
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★ Understand how your mindset influences your creative thinking
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★ How to avoid the most common creative thinking mistake
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★ Focus on being practical and pragmatic - we give you tools that you can use immediately!
Who should attend?
Anybody who is interested in unleashing (or simply finding!) their creativity. Anyone who has an immediate or ongoing need to develop and create fresh ideas and foster innovation. These programmes can be tailored for any roles within an organisation.
Training Delivery
The delivery of our training is energetic, hands-on and pragmatic. All of our designs allow delegates to understand any of the concepts and then apply or practice them. Delegates walk away with tools and techniques that they can instantly implement in the workplace.
Duration
Programmes range from 1 hour Lunch & Learn sessions, 1/2 day masterclasses to comprehensive 2 day sessions.
Potential Contents
In designing a programme for your organisation we would select from the following topics, depending upon the desired outcomes and duration of training:
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★ Creative thinking tools & techniques
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★ Opportunities to apply creative tools: Live issues and case studies
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★ Blocks to creativity (& how to overcome these!)
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★ Benefits of creativity
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★ How the brain works (re creativity and innovation)
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★ Styles of creative thinking
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★ Preparing your body & mind for creativity
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★ Brain Foods
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★ How to foster an idea enriching environment
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★ MindMapping
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★ Demonstration & use of MindMapping software
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★ Analysing creative ideas
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★ Other topics you value
Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory
Your organisation may also benefit from profiling using the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory - a thinking styles inventory. These styles indicate a preferred way for creating new ideas and change and form a continuum from adaptive through to more innovative. The more adaptive style shows a preference for solving problems through incremental improvement within a system, whereas those who work in a more innovative way have a preference for restructuring the system in order to solve the problem or capitalise on the opportunity. The KAI often proves insightful when understanding the types of ideas that colleagues present as a way forward.
Risk Free Training
We offer a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee - if you are not absolutely delighted with the results you do not pay - it is as simple as that.
Contact Details
Kerry Maberly Ph.D.
1300 Brainy [1300 272469] - Australia
Strategic Thinking - Read Brochure
Strategic Thinking programmes give you deliberate tools for managing and creating value from information. In particular, the courses focus on developing your ability to create high quality questions which allow you to gather the best information upon which to make decisions. Next, we focus on improving your ability to make sense of the underlying patterns or relationships, as well as being able to consider information in a range of ways. These programmes are very practical with lots of activities to develop the skills - this is NOT theoretical! Particularly valuable for leaders. Research has demonstrated that these behaviours are critical in developing a competitive edge.
Overview
Business Think programmes are designed to skill organisations with staff who can independently think through the issues that can determine the success of the future of an organisation. In our tailored programmes we can show you...
Outcomes
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★ How to strategically, systematically and with purpose gather information.
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★ The importance of creating [& asking yourself] great questions.
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★ What the 3 underpinning strategic choices organisations need to consider.
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★ How to build a deeper understanding of situations.
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★ To recognise the importance of multiples: multiple sources [gathering information], multiple perspectives [forming concepts], multiple solutions [thinking flexibly] and comprehensive analysis [thinking critically] when planning for the future.
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★ How to avoid the most common decision making mistake.
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★ How to become more knowledgeable about and skilled in using techniques to create new ideas and solutions.
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★ A range of simple, easy to implement techniques that assist you in evaluating ideas/solutions/strategies.
Who should attend?
Any team member that has responsibilities for problem solving and planning. Particularly suitable for team leaders through to senior organisational decision makers. These programmes can also be tailored for any role within an organisation.
Training Delivery
The delivery of our training is energetic, hands-on and pragmatic. All of our designs allow delegates to understand any of the concepts and then apply or practice them. Delegates walk away with tools and techniques that they can instantly implement in the workplace.
Duration
Courses range from 1 day sessions to a 5 day programme.
Potential Contents
Brainy offers a framework for three strategic thinking programmes. Ideally, we recommend all are completed and in the listed sequence. Programmes can however be tailored to include any combination of the content and can be of any desired duration.
1.Strategic Thinking Behaviours - 1 Day
Learning the behaviours that underpin outstanding strategic thinking by purposefully gathering useful information, making sense out of the information, creating multiple understandings of a situation, creating multiple solutions and critically evaluating the solutions.
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★ Gathering Information
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★ Forming Concepts
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★ Thinking Flexibly
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★ Thinking Critically
2.Productive Thinking Process - 2 Days
Learning a process that steps you from an understanding of the current situation, designing your desired future through to aligning resources with your decisions. The strategic thinking behaviours are useful as you move through this process.
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★ What’s going on?
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★ What does success look like?
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★ What the question?
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★ Generate Answers
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★ Forge the Solution
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★ Align Resources
3. Applied Productive Thinking - 1 ½ or 2 days
Working through the Productive Thinking process using real information from your organisation. If included as part of the larger programme [where the 2 day productive thinking process programme has been completed] this can be run as 1½ days. If running this programme by itself it would need to be a 2 day programme to allow additional time for explaining the steps in the process.
All of the programmes can be completed and can be learnt through an immersed learning environment for 4½-5 days. Alternatively the programme can be split into a 1, 2 and 1½-2 day programme at different times. The courses can also be attended as stand-alone programmes.
Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory
Your organisation may also benefit from profiling using the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory - a thinking styles inventory. These styles indicate a preferred way for creating new ideas and change and form a continuum from adaptive through to more innovative. The more adaptive style shows a preference for solving problems through incremental improvement within a system, whereas those who work in a more innovative way have a preference for restructuring the system in order to solve the problem or capitalise on the opportunity. The KAI often proves insightful when understanding the types of ideas that colleagues present as a way forward.
Risk Free Training
We offer a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee - if you are not absolutely delighted with the results you do not pay - it is as simple as that.
Contact Details
Kerry Maberly Ph.D
1300 Brainy [1300 272469] - Australia
Mindmapping: Capture & organise your thoughts - Read Brochure
Mind Mapping© is a visual thinking technique that allows you to easily capture ideas and then to organise them for maximum memory retention. This course is facilitated by a highly skilled Qualified Buzan Instructor and was developed by Tony Buzan, the originator of Mind Maps©. We offer 1/2 day masterclasses through to comprehensive 2 day experiential programmes where you learn the skills of and understand the power of Mindmapping.
Click here to see examples of hand drawn and software created MindMaps.
Brainy Mind Mapping courses skill you with a graphical tool to capture, organise and remember information more easily.
Overview
The programmes are designed to introduce people to a tool that capitalises on the way the brain naturally works when generating and organising information.
Outcomes
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★Understand the essential functioning of the brain
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★Understand the laws of Mind Mapping
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★Skill in creating Mind Maps
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★Identify personal & business applications for Mind Mapping
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★Increased confidence in using this visual technique for generating ideas, organising & remembering information
Who should attend?
Anybody who would like to be able to capture and organise their thoughts more easily. We believe it can be useful to everybody but particularly roles involving project planning, presenting, note-taking and thinking!
Training Delivery
The delivery of our training is energetic, hands-on and pragmatic. Delegates have any opportunity to understand the concept and then to practise using different activities. The technique can be applied immediately in the workplace.
Duration
We offer 1/2 day & 1 day masterclasses.
Potential Contents
In designing a Mind Mapping programme for your organisation we would select from the following topics, depending upon the desired outcomes and duration of training:
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★How the brain works
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★Reasons for Mind Mapping
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★Laws of Mind Mapping
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★Opportunities to practise Mind Mapping: Personal & business challenges
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★Memory principles
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★Drawing to enhance Mind Maps
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★Brain Foods
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★Demonstration & use of Mind Mapping software
Risk Free Training
We offer a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee - if you are not absolutely delighted with the results you do not pay - it is as simple as that.
Contact Details
Kerry Maberly Ph.D
1300 Brainy [1300 272469] - Australia
Emotional Thinking - Training & Coaching [life coaching, business coaching, executive coaching] - Read Brochure
In this programme you will learn how your thinking is creating the results you currently have in your life. Everything that exists in reality existed as a thought first [including the good & the poorer results!]
Overview
Emotional Mastery 1:1 Coaching and training programmes are designed to help people understand why they do what they do, why they feel what they feel and strategies to change these if they are looking to create different results.
Outcomes
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★Understand why you do what you do
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★Understand why you feel what you feel
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★Strategies to change what you do to create better results
Who should attend?
Anybody who would like to be able to capture and organise their thoughts more easily. We believe it can be useful to everybody but particularly roles involving project planning, presenting, note-taking and thinking!
Training Delivery
The delivery of our training is energetic, hands-on and pragmatic. Delegates have any opportunity to understand the concepts around mastering their emotions and then to practise using different skills. Self-awareness is a core part of The technique can be applied immediately in the workplace.
Coaching Delivery
Whether you call it life coaching, business coaching or executive coaching your ability to manage and master your emotions is the foundation of the results you are creating in each of the areas of your life. If you are interested in 1:1 coaching so that you can create a different result at work or in your personal life then I can work on any issue that you would like. A selection of the challenges that I have assisted people with include..
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★ difficulties being assertive with others
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★ deciding what their purpose in life was
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★ addressing beliefs that were holding them back in growing their business
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★ organising themselves to move towards their goals
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★ finalising relationships that weren’t working
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★ drinking problems,
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★ getting out of abusive relationships
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★ changing careers
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★ performance managing staff
The coaching that I provide is currently only delivered face to face because of the type of interventions and change strategies that I use. I am based in Brisbane and an provide immersion coaching [more than 3 hours at a time in Sydney & Melbourne].
Duration
I offer 1:1 Coaching sessions through to 2 day masterclasses.
Potential Contents
In designing an emotional mastery programme for your organisation we could select from the following topics, depending upon the desired outcomes and duration of training:
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★How every emotional reaction starts in the brain
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★Why you do what you do.
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★How emotions are created from thoughts
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★The triad model of all human experience
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★How emotion shows up at work
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★Why emotion needs to be a part of an organisation
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★The role of language in creating your emotions
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★The role of beliefs, values & needs in determining your results
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★Strategies for changing your emotional state
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★Strategies for changing your thoughts
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★Subconscious vs Conscious thinking
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★Interrupting subconscious patterns of behaviour
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★The role of habits & routines in creating your results
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★Are you on purpose & doing what you want to be doing?
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★The state of flow
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★Clarity of specific, measurable goals
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★Motivated people vs motivating goals
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It’s not you, its your goals!
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★Goal achievement for the less structured person
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★The role of nutrition in your emotions
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★The role of exercise in your emotional states
Risk Free Training & Coaching
I offer a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee with all of my coaching and training programmes - if you are not absolutely delighted with the results you do not pay - it is as simple as that.
Contact Details
Kerry Maberly Ph.D
1300 Brainy [1300 272469] - Australia
Brain Training - Visit Brain Training Page
Brain Training is the conscious act of exercising the brain. In the same way that we understand the benefits of exercising the body, neuroscience is now discovering how important it is to actively challenge the brain. Brain Training can take many forms and consists essentially of undertaking novel activities that challenge the brain to think. When completing novel activities, the brain forms new connections between the brain cells [neural connections] and can grow new brain cells. This process of growing new cells and connections is known as neuroplasticity. Up until recently, it was believed that the number of brain cells that each person had was a fixed number, however research is demonstrating that at all ages we are able to develop the brain. There is strong scientific evidence to support the statement ‘use it or lose it’ as the brain is a great housekeeper and prunes away connections that are not actively used.
Research that came out of Japan found that completing simple activities such as basic mathematical questions, reading aloud and working quickly activates a large number of areas of the brain - moreso than simply completing them in your head. The purpose of these more simple activities is to encourage blood and oxygen flow through different regions of the brain with the premise of reducing the likelihood of these brain cells being pruned from underuse. More challenging activities such as mental rotation, the Tower of Hanoi and the Stroop Effect exercise different regions of your brain and your working memory. These activities are based on the principles of neurogenesis and neural reserve.
Working memory refers to your ability to hold multiple pieces of information in your mind
at once and to work with these - like repeating information in your mind to remember a phone number or a person’s name. The term neurogenesis essentially means that we are able to grow new connections between brain cells when completing challenging and or novel activities. Furthermore, although there is some debate around the concept of neural reserve, there exists a body of research which suggests that the greater the number of neural connections, the less likely we are to develop diseases such as Alzheimer's. The neural reserve therefore is the amount of connections we have and again works with the common philosophy ‘use it or lose it’. A better way of thinking about this now may be to ‘use it and keep it’.
The purpose of the brain training provided by Brainy [coming soon via email] - 2 to 5 minute activities each day - is to give people the opportunity to complete a range of activities including creative thinking, emotional mastery, language & math based challenges, mental rotation tasks as well as challenges such as the Stroop effect and the Tower of Hanoi. These activities are designed to encourage positive changes in the brain [new brain connections, exercising current connections, an increase in cerebral oxygen flow & blood flow].
Keywords: Brain Training, neuroplasticity, neurogenesis, neural reserve, working memory.
