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Courses, Workshops, Lectures

Seminars, Workshops & Lectures

If you would like to organise a course, lecture or workshop within your organisation there are a number of topics which may be suitable:

  • Stress Free Living and Working Seminar (One day seminar)
  • The Art of Relationships (One day seminar)
  • Energy for Living (Two day course)
  • The Secrets of Self Management (One day seminar)
  • Relaxing into Spirit (Lecture / Workshop)
  • Power, Passion and Principles (Lecture / Workshop)
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Enlightened Souls (Lecture / Workshop)
  • The Foundation Course in Self Management
  • Self Esteem for Peak Performance
  All the above have been developed and designed by Mike George and can be delivered as a seminar/workshop/lecture.
Example of course outline follows. Other outlines available at request.

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Stress Free Living and Working Seminar

Turning Stress into Success

 

A two day management development seminar with three primary learning goals: the understanding, the management and the prevention of stress.
During this course you will begin to learn how you can:
  • identify the type and level of stress which you are experiencing today
  • relax and refresh your mind and body anywhere, anytime
  • turn negative, energy draining thoughts into positive, empowering thoughts
  • develop a constantly positive attitude and protect yourself from negative and stressful influences
  • strengthen your ability to respond and therefore build your confidence in dealing with difficult people and situations
  • turn resistance into acceptance and release creative energy
  • recognise stress in others
  • stop consuming others stress and being affected by their emotions

 
Understanding Stress
  • The eight illusions about stress
  • The signs symptoms, causes and triggers of stress
  • The four levels of stress
  • The vicious cycle of stressful thinking
  • Why we go into stress denial
  • Understanding and managing change
  • The link between perception, beliefs and stress
  • Why stress is simply a messenger
  • Listening and responding to the messenger
Managing Stress
  • Techniques to interrupt stress before it occurs
  • The effect of positive thinking and attitude
  • Strategies to conquer the stress triggered by change
  • Learning how to relax and recharge
  • The techniques of creative visualisation and meditation
  • When to fence out pressures by creating strong boundaries between work and personal life, and when to collapse these boundaries.
  • The principles of self empowerment and self management
  • What to do when you are hit by sudden stress or anxiety attacks
  • Turning stress into a learning resource
Preventing Stress
  • Clarifying and focusing your values and goals
  • Taking responsibility and avoiding blame
  • Taking the stress out of relationships
  • Methods to prevent anger and conflict escalating in relationships
  • How to take the stress out of managing others
  • Creating a daily personal plan to prevent stress
  • Using new tools and techniques such as Filtering, Recovery, Acceptance, Detached Involvement and Retreating to prevent stress
  • Effective prioritising and downshifting strategies to simplify your life

 

Training is accompanied by a comprehensive Workbook and delivered through a balanced mix of presentation of information, individual and small group exercises, facilitation, dialogue and discussion.

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The Foundation Course in Self Management

A three day management development course covering the six essential elements of self management and personal development

 

The core competency of every effective manager and leader is the ability to manage ones self. And yet this is the one area in which we receive no formal education or development programme. Self management is a multidimensional set of skills and abilities which are interrelated and interdependent. They have their roots in our core values, sense of purpose and personal identity. And they restore our ability to manage our own thoughts, emotions and behaviours.

This three day management development programme focuses on the key aspects integral to self management as the foundation for management and leadership effectiveness. Participants will explore the principles and practices of each aspect and leave with a clear personal agenda for ongoing self development.

The six key elements and areas of personal development which are integral to management effectiveness are self management, time management, change management, stress management, role management and relationship management.

 

Course Outline

 

Module One - Self Management
The ability to respond positively and effectively to others begins with sound self management, which begins with an enhanced awareness of core values, personal purpose and essential identity.

Content includes:

  • four levels of management and the aims at each level
  • The crucial role and competences of emotional intelligence
  • The Creative Process and the true meaning of responsibility
  • The ABC of Self Transformation
  • How to clarify personal purpose/vision/values as the foundation of self management and the 'rudder' for all other levels of personal development

 

Module Two - Change Management
As the pace of global change continues to increase, every manager/leader must have a clear and effective personal philosophy and sound principles of change management.

Content Includes:

  • Understanding true nature of change - what changes and what doesn't!
  • The relationship between global, organisational and personal
  • Transactional and transformational change
  • Developing a practical personal philosophy of change
  • The value of chaos in an organisational context
  • Why we resist change and how to overcome those resistances
  • How to lead others through a change process
  • Roles of the Change Agent

 

Module Three - Time Management
The practical skills and principles of good time management will define levels of efficiency and effectiveness on a day to day basis.

Content includes:

  • Creating your personal time management system
  • Ten steps to goal achievement
  • Taking control of your time
  • Handling interruptions and disruptions
  • Prioritising - urgent vs important
  • The cycle of time management effectiveness
  • Values driven time management versus habit driven time mis-management
  • Why only clear goals make time management relevant

 

Module Four - Stress Management
Understanding the true nature of stress, learning methods to manage stress and developing the wisdom to prevent stress are at the top of the manager/leaders self-development toolkit.

Content includes

  • Identifying the type and level of stress which you are experiencing today
  • The root cause of all forms of stress
  • How to relax and refresh your mind and body anywhere, anytime
  • How to develop a constantly positive attitude and protect yourself from negative and stressful influences
  • How to build self confidence and strengthen your ability to respond to difficult situations
  • The need to recognise stress in others and assist them to manage it
  • How to stop consuming others stress and being affected by their emotions
  • The stress managers toolbox - positive thinking, emotional control, reative visualisation and meditation

 

Module Five - Role Management
We each play many roles on the stage of our life. We are only effective when we are able to play the right role at the right time in the right place, and when we have the right skills to play that role. No one teaches us how to do this.

Content includes:

  • The difference between identity and role
  • The eight key roles now required of today's manager/leader
  • The personal qualities which lie at the heart of each role
  • The manager as coach/councellor/trainer/teacher/leader/facilitator
  • The art and skills of facilitation
  • How to confront and resolve role conflict
  • Basic counselling techniques

 

Module Six - Relationship Management
In the workplace of the 21st century, where we are all fast becoming 'permanent temps', building and sustaining meaningful relationships and motivating people is becoming harder by the day. We must now redefine the meaning, and redraw the map, of our relationships in the workplace, and know how to keep such a dialogue 'hot' in the greenhouse of the organisation.

Content includes:

  • Why it is the end of the "command and control" era and the beginning of consultation and participation and how to make the transition.
  • The art and science of successful relationships
  • The seven principles of effective communication
  • Basic principles and practices of building relationships in a team
  • Dealing with difficult people

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