Design Thinking Training Course

This 1-1 live training (online) in South Africa is aimed at everyone who wish to get more structure and productivity in their job.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Get more in life.
• Control their time.
• Get their focus back.
• Plan their week effectively.
• Know how to deal with stress.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at organizational teams who wish to apply mindfulness meditation to achieve personal and professional development and improvement.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basics of meditation and mindfulness practice.
• Reduce stress and increase clarity, calm, contentment, and compassion.
• Focus mind and better connect with others.
• Cultivate mindful awareness in the present moment.
• Manage mental and physical pain.
• Lead a healthier and happier life.

This instructor-led, live workshop in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at people who wish to study mindfulness to achieve intense personal and professional development and improvement.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of mindfulness.
• Cultivate positive mental health.
• Grow in self-awareness, self-discipline, social-awareness and social effectiveness.
• Make wise decisions in times of stress or crisis.
• Lead a happier and healthier life.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level professionals who wish to have a toolkit of mindfulness and communication strategies to navigate diverse communication challenges and build stronger, more positive relationships.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn and practice mindfulness techniques to enhance self-awareness, emotional regulation, and stress management.
• Understand the principles of assertive communication and develop the ability to express oneself confidently and respectfully.
• Apply mindfulness and communication skills in various real-life contexts, both personal and professional.

A one day course on Stress Managment and Prevention

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at trainers, consultants, leaders, and communicators in any field who wish to efficiently and effectively facilitate web conferences using different virtual platforms.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn how to facilitate online meetings for remote participants effectively.
• Create a safe and engaging virtual environment for web conferences by setting the right tone and mindset.
• Manage online meetings more efficiently by choosing a suitable platform and getting comfortable with the technology.
• Keep participants engaged by stimulating online conversations.
• Build deeper connections with participants and other practitioners to learn collectively and gain valuable insights.

This workshop is a practical program implementing the principles of coordinating business meetings. Adult learning methodology of learning is used in this program. It is facilitated with interactive exercises and powerful presentations.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at managers and executives who wish to implement the right tools, skills, and methodologies to manage remote teams.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Explore remote leadership, structures, and components to successfully adapt a remote work setup.
• Develop trust, goals, culture, and teamwork to create an effective and productive remote team.
• Use existing tools and technologies to improve virtual communication and collaboration.
• Implement goal setting and project management methods to measure the performance of a remote team.

Audience

Managers, Team Leaders and staff members who feel that:

• They are attending too many meetings
• Their time is being “stolen” by other people
• They cannot get to the bottom of their day’s work because of a lack of planning, foresight or prioritisation

Format of the course

The course will be a highly-interactive combination of:

• Facilitated Discussions
• Slide Presentations
• Exercises and Case Studies

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Appreciate the need to manage meetings effectively – respecting the time pressures of those whom they invite to meetings
• Follow the standard processes for calling, managing and preparing the output of meetings
• Appreciate more widely some of the ways of managing themselves and their time more efficiently: to work smarter not harder…

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at HR managers, business teams, and individuals of an organization who wish to work through their diversity and attain efficacy on a personal and professional level.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basic psychological concepts behind the MBTI Instrument.
• Perceive their own personality type and its impact on the workplace.
• Manage personality weaknesses and foreground strengths.
• Identify other MBTI personality types in the workplace and collaborate accordingly.
• Manage differences between teammates and build better connections.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at individuals of all levels who wish to learn and apply the principles and techniques of self time management.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify and overcome the main barriers and challenges to effective self time management.
• Set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound) goals and align them with their values and vision.
• Prioritize and schedule their tasks and activities using various tools and methods such as the Pareto principle, the ABC analysis, the Eisenhower matrix, and the Parkinson's law.
• Monitor and track their time usage and identify and eliminate their time wasters and distractions.
• Delegate and assign tasks appropriately and communicate clearly and assertively with others.
• Manage their emotions and stress levels in times of uncertainty and pressure.

The 2-days workshop attempts to equip technical and administrative professionals with the analytical and creative thinking competencies. In general, participants will sharpen their left-brain and right-brain thinking skills, and learn to apply them in various work related situations. Participants will many be familiarized with many proven techniques and tools that could be used to analyze, correlate, justify, and conclude information.

Course has been prepared as an interactive one. The participants activity takes over 80% of course time. Each session goes according to a similar dynamic, based on a method taking upon consideration Kolb’s cycle of learning: exercise opening for a new habit (consciousness building); short lectures about the techniques (knowledge) and new techniques to practice (skills and experience). After each session is completed, the participants will receive all the info related to the session.

There are short lectures concluding practical issues and explaining the basic psychological mechanisms realted with participants' work experience.