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Key Benefits of Attending Our Courses [Testimonials]

• You learn in a friendly yet intensely focused timeframe

• You are able to apply what you learn as soon as you return to the workplace

• You learn with and from others, by applying new concepts to your own particular situation

• We facilitate an environment that stimulates reflection, interaction, knowledge-sharing and positive feedback

• Our trainers have extensive experience in their topics and “real life” management experience

• We continuously update our programs based on participants’ feedback and the latest, most advanced research available worldwide

 

The pace of a corporate executive's life can be rushed, pressure-filled and relentless.  Doing business at a global scale presents unique challenges to your physical and intellectual performance. The number of hours you work expands but the quantity and quality of your energy is limited.  The ever-present danger of burnout threatens all aspects of your life.  To overcome these obstacles, you must adopt a training program, just like professional athletes do.  Training systematically helps you protect your "life's portfolio" and the quality of the relationship with your clients ("you are the message.")

 

This course will increase your ability to manage your energy in the face of crushing workloads, crammed travel schedules, critical deadlines and a multitude of stressful situations.  You will learn how to achieve and maintain peak performance and how to expand your physical and mental skills through positive, effective rituals.  The lessons contained in this comprehensive course will increase your sense of control, productivity and effectiveness in tangible, measurable ways.

 

At the end of this insightful, comprehensive course you will:

§          understand how the way you think influences the way you feel and the way you act

§          analyze in-depth your emotional responses to pressure

§          have more physical and emotional energy available throughout the day

§          manage your workload more efficiently and have time for family and leisure

§          become more resilient and resourceful in the face of obstacles and opposition

§          design a personalized road map to achieve and maintain your peak performance goals for the rest of your life

§          interact with others in the organization in a more effective and constructive way

§          develop new ideas born out of solution-design instead of argument and criticism

§          focus your team around a powerful common goal: "peak performance for all"

 

Course Duration

 

Two or Three Days (8 hours per day)

 

Who Should Attend

 

Management executives and anyone in the corporation aiming to achieve peak performance (productivity, effectiveness and balance) in all aspects of their lives.

 

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Based on the thinking tools developed by Dr. Edward de Bono, Dudley Lynch, NLP, Visualization, Relaxation, Humor and Journaling techniques, this course is designed for the corporate executive who wants to create value beyond normal exploratory paths. 

 

This comprehensive course will provide you with a systematic approach to excel at problem solving, innovation and adding value to existing products and services to generate outstanding revenues.  You will understand how you think by using The BrainMap and other extremely useful tools developed by Brain Technologies Corporation.

 

The tools of creative thinking are simply various combinations of practical ways to focus attention, escape the current reality and continue mental movement. After understanding these three basic principles, we can adapt techniques to suit various needs, situations and personalities.

 

Attention

All methods for creative thinking require that we do something to focus attention; typically something that we have not focused much attention on before. By focusing attention on things that are normally taken for granted, creative thinking techniques prepare our minds for breakthroughs.

 

Escape

The second principle calls us to mentally escape our current patterns of thinking. Edward de Bono suggests that we use the "PO" tool to signal our intention to make a statement of mental escape (PO = Provocative Operation). The introduction of a disruption in the thinking process allows you to consider alternatives for the appropriate use or configuration of an existing idea.

 

Movement

Simply paying attention to something and escaping current thinking on it is not always sufficient to generate creative ideas. The natural mental processes of judgment tend to reject new thoughts as not productive or too ridiculous to dwell on. Movement -- the third underlying principle behind the diverse tools of creative thinking -- calls us to keep exploring and connecting our thoughts.

 

Some of the thinking tools studied during the course are: BrainMap - PMI - Six Thinking Hats - Trigger Questions - Problem Analysis - Random Word - Forced Analogy - Mind Map - NLP Tools - Wave Change - Storyboarding and many others.

 

Course Duration

 

Two or Three Days (8 hours per day)

 

Who Should Attend

 

Management executives and anyone in the corporation aiming to master creativity and innovation using the most effective, systematic approach available today

 

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One of the essential aspects of building a Peak Performing Team is the shared understanding of how to attain and maintain high performance, both individually and as a team.  Just like in professional sports, the team must embrace a year-long training program that covers four key Training Areas:

 

Training Area 1: Client Focus

Client focus is the core of the Team Training Program.  It involves the clarification of the expectations, values and priorities of those who receive the team work, both internally and externally.  It also involves ensuring that those expectations shape the requirements for the products and product solutions provided.

 

Training Area 2: Team Direction

Team Direction defines the unique contribution of the team, from its broadest purposes to its specific actions and activities.  It shows the fit of the team's and organization's purposes.

Team Direction is composed of the following four factors:

1. Purpose

2. Vision

3. Mission

4. Goals and Objectives

Team Direction helps the team stay on target: what are we going to achieve and how we are going to get there.  It's the mechanism that focuses actions purposefully toward team goals.  It helps set priorities that are essential to assigning resources and creates commitment and alignment to the team's purpose.

 

Training Area 3: Understanding

Understanding means learning and interpreting our individual nature, our team members and the organization.

The areas where the team can improve effectiveness by increasing understanding area:

• Self and others - increasing awareness of and using the strengths and differences in each team member

• Teams - understanding the dynamics that occur in teamwork approaches to problem-solving and decision-making

• Organization - understanding the norms and culture to get things done.

Through this training area, team members come to see each other as unique individuals and gauge the strength that comes from the diversity of team members.  They create a dynamic environment in which the resulting power and synergy helps them see a situation, opportunity or problem from many different sides.  They use their talents well and they coach others to be successful.  They understand the culture of the corporation and how to use the systems and informal political networks to achieve team goals.

 

Training Area 4: Accountability

• Values and Beliefs

• Operating Agreements

• Project Planning

• Implementation Planning

The team establishes parameters to measure their performance on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis.  They also establish the guidelines to plan projects and their implementation, including the communication process and technology necessary to motivate virtual teams.

Key Benefits of this Course

Shared Vision

Trust among Team Members

Increased Knowledge Sharing

Customer and Quality Based Performance

Managers Act as Coaches

Appropriate Use of Communications’ Technology

High Level of Motivation and Cooperation

 

Course Duration

 

Two or Three Days (8 hours per day)

 

Who Should Attend

 

Management executives and corporate staff aiming to form, integrate, develop or lead a team on its path towards high performance.

 

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This course is for business people and other leaders attracted to self-developmental ideas and materials, individuals attracted to cutting-edge scientific and philosophical ideas. The cutting-edge thinking exposed in this course makes it attractive to the "forever exploratory" mind, readers of studies of the mind and other evolving subjects, and for those who believe the world can be a better place and want to be part of the solution.

Beyond Your Personal Best teaches leading-edge ideas and findings in such frontier sciences as evolutionary psychology and biology, brain research, game theory and theory of moves, complex adaptive systems, non-linear dynamics and numerous other post-postmodern fields of inquiry.

Dudley Lynch, president of Brain Technologies Corporation, is often viewed as the leading popular interpreter of Dr. Clare Graves and his Gravesian conceptual model of how the people work within the worlds of society, culture and technology. Mr. Lynch has written more books on Graves' ideas and models than anyone else, and no one's Gravesian books have enjoyed more marketplace success.  According to Lynch, Dr. Graves said there was a vast, open-ended developmental space for us humans out beyond the pinnacle of Maslow's famed "peak performance," the end point on his pyramid of human needs, that was as immense as the cosmos in our brains. Graves went further: he said his research data had captured almost the precise moment that some of the first "homo sapiens" managed to "rewire" their brain, to reprogram themselves, and move on into this New Universe of Effective Possibility, this new kind of self.  

During the course, you will work with extraordinarily useful "brainware" tools such as The BrainMap, mCircle, MindMaker Plus and PathPrimer. You will also receive a copy of the Asset Report, a 100-page-plus personalized “book of you” custom-crafted for you from more than 12,000 descriptive and self-guiding items based on your responses to a simple one-page self-appraisal that typically requires less than ten minutes to complete (an online version is available as well).  All the tools have been developed by Brain Technologies Corporation.

 

Course Duration

 

Two or Three Days (8 hours per day)

 

Who Should Attend

 

Any person of any background, culture, educational history or slate of personal experiences who wants to the opportunity to take the fullest advantage of a unique, astonishing development in the human experiment.

 

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Carlos Salum has contributed to the careers of outstanding tennis players such as Gabriela Sabatini (U.S. Open champion, 1990) and Sergi Bruguera (French Open champion, 1993-94) and the Italian Davis Cup Team, among many others.   He has also participated in ground-breaking research in peak performance training with Dr. Jim Loehr, Dr. Nick Hall, Dr. Jack Groppel and Pat Etcheberry, who are regarded as some of the world's leading sport scientists. As a tennis teaching professional, he has taught thousands of players from all skill levels in Latin America, the United States and Europe. He also collaborated with Dennis van der Meer, the legendary "teacher of teachers," and with Gerry Wortelboer, former Argentine Davis Cup Captain.  Carlos has lectured at the ITF Worldwide Coaches Conference, the PTR Symposium and conducted his highly successful "Successful Tennis Marketing" course for worldwide audiences. 

 

The Tennis Master Class is a unique opportunity to learn from Carlos Salum the lessons inherent in the tennis game, which can be applied to improve your tennis performance but also to improve your career and the quality of your life.  The curriculum offers on-court and off-court activities, with the help of world-class tennis professionals and fitness trainers.   You will benefit from understanding how your brain works, how tennis allows you to expand your physical and emotional power, and how to monitor your progress overtime in a systematic way. Effective Technique, Mental Toughness, Geometry of the court, Percentage Tennis, Tactical Judgment and Competitive Training are some of the tennis-specific topics discussed.

 

This special course focuses on the following aspects, using tennis as a tool and a metaphor:

 

1.      Refining Your Sense of Purpose

 

2.      Discovering the Power of Your Values

 

3.      Expanding our Sources of Inspiration

 

4.      Anticipating and Mastering Change

 

5.      Managing your Physical, Mental and Emotional Energy

 

6.      Performance, Identity, Fulfillment and Congruency

 

7.      Balancing Achievement, Transcendence and Legacy

Sports like tennis retain their power to intensify experience and awaken within us a larger sense of being. For those playing at the highest levels, the ability to put oneself in a state of heightened concentration—to get "psyched up," to "stay focused"—is as essential as physical ability, technical mastery, and knowledge of the game. Every so often, out of that concentrated state a player's consciousness seems to make, of its own, a qualitative jump to a higher level: a feeling of effortlessness in the midst of intense exertion, a sense of the action taking place in slow motion, feelings of awe and perfection, increased mastery, and self-transcendence.  This is what we call "The Ideal Performance State."  [Read more]

Working on your tennis , working on one’s profession and working on oneself are one and the same. Through disciplined and intensive training, we literally shape the brain and create the motivational states necessary to sustain exemplary performance.  This course shows you how you can greatly accelerate this process. What you do every day is a mental exercise that increases your mental dexterity. The real game you are playing is a game called the self.

 

Course Duration

 

Three to Five Days (8 hours per day)

 

Who Should Attend

 

Anyone who loves tennis and is willing to find out how to use this wonderful sport as a tool to improve every aspect of your life

 

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Tennis is a game of emergencies that requires a balance between technical, tactical, physical, emotional and mental skills. Great tennis competitors learn how to balance their understanding of the geometry of the court with their judgment to execute the appropriate strokes under pressure. 

 

To be highly efficient, they need to maintain their focus while managing their physical and emotional energy.  However, if their emotions are not tuned-up to endure competitive stress, their mental focus will disappear.  When this happens, tennis players will show inefficient behaviors such as tanking, anger or choking. 

 

The most unusual emotional behavior under competitive pressure is the challenge response.  The challenge is a display of positive emotion under the most intense pressure, which the player perceives as being enjoyable (“loving the battle”).  When players learn to access the challenge response under pressure, they have the platform to perform at their best. 

 

Why do we need Mental Training?

A habit starts out as a thread. As new threads are added, it becomes a rope we cannot break. We want to be careful about the habits we make, for they eventually make us. But by making strong and productive habits as competitors we become mentally tough.  Course participants have a chance to learn mental skills to improve their tennis and also to improve their lives.  The same skills that they learn to play high performance tennis will be applicable to their lives as peak performers.

Benefits:

• Understanding of the essential components of Peak Performance in tennis

• Management of their emotional states under pressure

• Consistent, positive behavior which favors a more precise strategic focus

• Understanding of how to train the stress response and the recovery response in-between points and throughout their training schedule

• A heightened sense of self-esteem, of being a strong competitor and fighter

• Increased awareness of tactical choices and what is called “percentage tennis” for singles and doubles

• Ownership and control of the training process through detailed monitoring of all skills’ parameters and training phases

• Enhanced capacity for visualization and relaxation

• Strong goal-setting skills that can help in the crafting of life strategies

• Integration of the parent-player-coach team dynamics

Course Duration

 

One or Two Days (8 hours per day)

 

Who Should Attend

 

Anyone with competitive tennis experience [NTRP 3.0 and up] with a focus on improving their mental and emotional performance

 

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