Imagine how your organisation would benefit from a permanent injection of creative thinking... This course teaches powerful techniques to help you 'think outside the box', generate innovative ideas, and turn problems into opportunities. Creative solutions may be unusual and surprising but highly effective in practice. Creative thinking can be applied to many aspects of business, such as product innovation, marketing strategy and long term goal setting.

At the end of each course, participants will be able to contest for the ‘Champagne Challenge’, an infamous lateral thinking problem. A bottle of fine champagne MUST be won...


WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Why creativity is important for businesses in today’s marketplace
• What creativity is and how it works
• Barriers to creativity and how to overcome these
• A range of relevant creative thinking techniques. For example, concept reversal, group and individual brainstorming, Matrix Analysis and the ‘Concept Fan’
• Personal creativity
• Creativity and corporate culture

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Anyone who deals with difficult or complex problems, such as middle and senior managers, project managers, and anyone in creative roles.

How could you benefit from knowing about accelerated learning and supermemory? If you could absorb and recall a wealth of information with ease, never forget a face or name or pass professional exams with flying colours... Learning and Supermemory techniques can totally transform your professional effectiveness.


WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Converting information into lists
• List learning techniques
• Remembering Names and Numbers
• Extracting Information from Text
• Concept Maps
• Learning for Exams

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Anyone who is involved in learning about a new area of knowledge.

How could you benefit from effective time management? Time is an essential resource and is often one of the most wasted. Good time management can dramatically enhance the productivity of an organisation and also lead to much increased job satisfaction. Our time management course teaches powerful principles which can help your organisation achieve optimum performance.


WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Costing Your Time
• Activity Logs
• Action Plans
• Prioritized To Do Lists
• Effective Scheduling
• Personal Goal Setting

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Anyone who has a complex set of responsibilities and who is involved in setting their own priorities.

Professional presentation skills are becoming essential for the modern professional. People enjoy presenters who are inviting, engaging and informative. Many people are nervous about delivering business presentations, however this is very much a learned skill. The MINDTRAINING course in presentation skills teaches the principles of giving excellent presentations and gives participants the opportunity to practice them with feedback.

This course covers all the important factors in giving excellent presentations, such as planning, PowerPoint skills, visual design, confidence, body language and the entertainment factor.


WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Structuring a good presentation
• PowerPoint skills
• Visual design
• Confidence
• Body language
• The entertainment factor

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Anyone who is involved in giving presentations.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

• Courses are available as either whole or half day courses
• All participants receive full course manuals
• Courses can be held either in house or on our own premises