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"By far the most valuable training we have ever received."
- Brazilian Business Institute - Campinas Sao Paulo.
"Kobus Neethling has demonstrated the most thorough scholarship
in creativity that I have been able to witness in my years of teaching."
- Dr Mary Frasier: Past President of the American Society of Creative Teaching.
Making you, your team and your organisations heroes
Session One: Leadership: The real challenge
· Discussing the Four Circle Model (The four critical factors which will determine success in the 21st century)
· Focus on below/above the line thinking
· Causes of low self-esteem
· The Positive Mental Process (and the elimination of negative thinking)
· Moving above the line
· Identifying the qualities which keep the individual and organisation above the line
· The looking ahead checklist
Session Two:
· Introducing creativity
· Blocks to creativity
· Enhancing creativity
· The creativity environment - Applying the dynamic 21st century environment instrument as a barometer for your organisation
· The creative change cycles
· Understanding whole-brain creativity
Session Three:
· Putting whole-brain creativity into action
- The person- The organisation
Session Four:
· Introducing creativity techniques
- fluency- originality
- getting to the essence
- elaboration
- resisting thinking closure
- the hero's journey
· Creativity checklist
Session Five:
· Seven steps to success
- Formulate your personal dream/point B.- Determine the elements of your dream/point B.
- Formulate the type of behaviour that you will have to reveal to reach your dream/point B.
- Analyse your personal strengths and weaknesses and determine the opportunities and threats.
- Quantifying the impact of each of your personal strengths and weaknesses in achieving your dream/point B as well as the opportunities and threats to be taken into consideration in your endeavour to achieve your dream/point B.
- Identification of the Key Success Factors to be focused upon on the short as well as long term in order to achieve your dream/point B.
- Bringing about of a detailed goal and action plan strategy to fulfil your dream/point B.
Outcomes
· A unique understanding of every employee's role and function within the organisation.
· The elimination of negativity and focusing on a positive mental process.
· Identification and elimination of roadblocks to achieving quality and breakthrough.
· Creating a new energy and passion for their jobs and for living.
· Putting all the aspects of whole-brain thinking into meaningful action.
Whole Brain Specialist Programme
· Using the Neethling Instrument to determine your thinking profile.
· Gaining insights into whole brain thinking as it pertains to:
- your own unique preferences- relationships
- career choices
- jobs
- management
- leadership
- parenting
- selling
- marketing
· developing skills
- to administer the Instrument- to guide individuals and groups to think beyond confined limits
- to apply whole brain techniques to take yourself and the people you train and coach beyond the breakthrough line
The Successful Participant receives a Whole Brain package which includes:
· a Whole Brain computer programme (for adults and children)· a 55 minute video explanation: whole-brain thinking in action
· a 200 page book on creative thinking
· a video guide plus
· A certificate which licenses the specialist to use the Whole Brain Instrument internationally.
The Creativity Coaching Programme
This programme consists of a number of creativity modules with focus on making the leader, manager, teacher, etc. a creativity coach. An internationally recognised Creativity Coach Certificate is awarded to successful candidates.
First Module
Getting to grips with action-focused Creativity (making the woolly workable).
· Looking at your spontaneous self with fresh eyes
- courage to act
to careto love
to take risks
to leap
to change
etc.
- passion to enjoy
to liveto heal
to succeed to persevere
etc.
- energy to carry on
to live foreverto enjoy
to fly
to do
to go beyond
etc.
- creativity to generate ideas
to be uniqueto get to the essence
to elaborate
to resist thinking closure
to be unusual
to laugh
to find opportunities
etc.
Other modules on request
Whole
Brain Creativity Modules
Session One: Whole Brain Strategic Thinking/Vision
· Developing insights into strategies based on whole brain thinking· Utilising the whole brain in planning for the future
· Making sure that your thinking is really strategic
· Action plan
Session Two: Whole Brain Leadership
· Identifying and analysing leadership profiles (pros and cons)· Understanding your own leadership profile
· Developing a whole brain leadership strategy for the company
· Developing a whole brain leadership profile for 21st century breakthrough thinking and doing
· Action plan
Session Three: Whole Brain Decision-making
· Gaining insights into whole-brain decision-making· Combining rational and intuitive decision-making
· Coping productively with different decision styles
· Whole-brain analysis of decisions
Session Four: Whole brain job design
· Gaining in-depth understanding of the thinking profiles of every job in the organisation· Analysing and profiling present and future job descriptions
· Developing a job design culture with ongoing flexibility and dynamism
· Selecting the right people for the right jobs
Session Five: Whole brain empowerment
· The essence of empowerment· Different empowerment for different people
· Creating an empowering environment
· Utilising the power of self-esteem
Session Six: Thinking for the future
Getting you and your organisation into the 21st century
Additional
Creativity Support Programmes
Session One: Whole brain creativity techniques
· Redefining brainstorming· Identifying creativity techniques for every quadrant
· Applying creativity techniques to real business problems
Session Two: The creative problem solving model
· Understanding and applying the most successful creative problem solving model in the world· Getting insights into the various stages of the model
· Putting the model into action
Session Three: Developing a whole brain training & development programme
Identifying and developing strategies for ongoing empowermentDeveloping programmes to support creativity, passion and courage in the workplace
Focusing on:
· Getting the passion going for your job, for your life· Understanding the breakthrough line
· Discovering the barriers to creativity
· Overcoming the barriers
Getting
you and your organisation above the breakthrough line
This programme has had remarkable national and international success. The focus is on getting rid of personal and organisational negativity and freeing the spirit of unhappiness, distrust, etc. A number of unique instruments are used to profile the negativity and to identify the process to get above the breakthrough line.
· Getting to grips with your own thinking
- it is your choice- no one can think for you
- you cannot blame anyone for your thinking
· Understanding the effect of thinking on your feelings, behaviour and consequences
- the destructive negative thinking process versus
- the healing power of positive thinking
· Liberating your thinking and putting positive thinking into action in
- your personal life- relationships
- business
- leadership
- etc.
Whole
Brain Coaching of Sportsmen and Sportswomen
· Kobus Neethling has been the mental coach of Olympic athletes, African champions, provincial/state teams.
· These unique programmes which have recorded remarkable success, focuses on:
- determining the profiles of the individuals and groups- applying techniques to stimulate and energise the mind of the sportsmen/women
- creating the ultimate synergy between the physical body and the thinking brain
Whole
Brain Education Programmes (Pre-School to Grade 12)
· The focus of these programmes (for parents, teachers and students) is on understanding, appreciating and applying whole brain thinking in:
- parenting- learning
- teaching
· The modules (4 eight to ten week modules per school year) come with clearly spelt out objectives, theory and practice.
· This whole brain journey from birth to death is one of the most unique and meaningful educational experiences for student and educator alike.
Whole
Brain Parenting Programmes
The focus is on:
· understanding your own thinking preferences as a parent
· determining the thinking profiles of parents and children
· establishing positive whole brain relationships to eliminate negativity and conflict and
· becoming a Whole Brain parent
Week-end
programmes for couples
Getting synergy, creativity, courage and passion back into relationships.
It is a well-known fact that creativity, knowledge, innovation and co-operation are crucial to any individual and organisational success. From experience we also know those external motivational factors only result in short term gains. You have to focus on the internal locus of control that each individual possesses to really get the necessary commitment and passion for excellence needed from your employees and managers. Dr Neethling's Voyage to Wisdom can be divided into three emotional development spheres, namely individual and organisational anger and the level of creativity fostered in a company. Identifying these spheres and changing towards above-the-line, positive thinking will ultimately lead to individual and organisational performance through high levels of organisational commitment.
Voyage to Wisdom will truly bring back the human side of the workplace in such a way that it contributes directly to the commitment of management and staff alike. The content of this program is hailed as the missing link in ensuring that creativity gets fostered in any company.
Measure your company's above-the-line (positive) and below-the-line (negative) thinking patterns and learn how to change towards above-the-line thinking on the road to wisdom.
Local and international experts have hailed this program as a 21st century breakthrough. In today's rapidly changing environment every employee needs support of this nature to prepare him or her for the future. Dr Neethling's 3 NEW instruments measure:
· Anger· Negativity
· Organisational environment
Program Content:
Anger
Neethling's Anger Inventory: The breakthrough line
· Measure your reaction to a series of everyday occurrences· Answer 20 questions about anger levels to help you gain insight into your own anger breakthrough line
This part of the program will help the participant to identify the levels of individual and organisational anger that are detrimental to achieving company objectives and individual commitment.
The following negativity questions will be addressed:
· How does negativity affect you personally?· How does negativity spread throughout an organisation?
· How can you stop or enhance negativity?
· How can you spot and fix the problems that might be causing below-the-line (negative) thinking
Negativity
The Neethling Whole Brain Negativity Instrument
This emotional sphere will be divided into an organisational indicator and a personal indicator.
The Organisational Negativity Instrument answers questions about the following key areas:
· Frustration with management
· Personal regard amongst management and staff
· Feelings about future prospects
· Organisational vision
· Negativity of co-workers
· Consistency of management
· Flexibility within the workplace
· Interpersonal relationships and encouragement
· Appreciation and reward systems
· Inspiration and rejection
· Personal security versus lip service
· Passion for excellence
· Team spirit
Dynamic environment
Sustained growth in the future can only be achieved by the continuous generation of new, creative ideas and strategies. This is primarily achieved through individuals at all levels of an organisation.
Creativity will be the strategic issue for the 21st century.
The major shortcoming of fostering creativity in the past was the lack of successful measuring and identifying the levels of the creative environment in a company. This led to the failure of a lot of creative initiatives and strategies. In this part of the program, participants will learn to measure the creative environment and extrapolate from this the essence of designing a creative strategy within a company.
