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Mind Matters

The new, exciting and revolutionary new performance enhancing program no executive or senior manager can afford to miss

Let's face it, the goal of business is profit. But profit simply doesn't come without the input of people. People will always be the soul of business.

Higher profits flow from higher people performance, yet the most efficient ways of improving performance are often overlooked in favour of increasing technical training.

People perform better when they are contributing to something they are passionate about; something in which they see purpose and meaning. They also perform better when they have the ability to access more of the potential and resources of their minds.

The Mind Matters Program is designed to spark latent passion in people, to make them aware of the huge untapped resources of their own brain power, and to give them some simple and proven keys to accessing and applying these resources.

The Mind Matters Program is practical and seeks to assist your people to clear barriers to:

  • Higher levels of creative problem solving
  • More effective commercial and personal negotiations
  • More effective decision making
  • Enhanced performance under pressure
  • Habit management and higher levels of performance in any field of endeavour
  • Increased levels of retention of material learned at conferences and seminars etc
  • Enhanced relationships building and conflict management

In other words, the Mind Matters Program sees to spark or rekindle passion in people and to give them access to the mind resources that can lead to higher levels of performance, and profit.

The program can even include tips on the mind game of golf, or any other sport for that matter!

The Mind Matters Program isn't the first mind power program, and it may not be the last. There is a very real possibility it's the best, especially for business.

The reason is the credibility of its creators.

Dr. Gerry Flynn graduated in Medicine from Edinburgh University in Scotland in 1982. He passed the examinations to become a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1985 and was elected a Fellow in 1999. He also has formal qualifications in mind-body medicine. He works as a physician in general and cardiac practices on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia where until recently he also managed a successful weight loss program targeted at reducing risk of heart disease, diabetes and stroke. He has counseled numerous executives from a wide variety of fields in the application of mind science in enhancing performance.

Dr. Flynn has presented his research at international medical conferences in Japan, Sydney and Brisbane, and has written and produced several audio programs addressing the topic of mind power in success determination as well as in management of medical problems.

Dr. Flynn is married and is father of three. A former member of the Scottish national water polo team (for 6 years) he still plays the sport regularly on the Gold Coast where he also coaches representative school teams.

Alan Patching is one of Australia's most sought after international business presenters and has represented Australia at a major international professional speaking symposium. Probably best known for his former roles as CEO and Project Director of the owning entity of Sydney's Olympic Stadium, he is currently Executive Chairman of the Asia Pacific operations of substantial USA-based corporate training company, Management Concepts. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Project Management Department of University of Technology Sydney.

Patching has negotiated over 2 billion dollars of major property transactions and several billion dollars of major construction and property development contracts. Some of his transactions remain records in the Australian market.

A member of several professional institutions and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveying and The Australian Institute of Management, Professor Patching has also written business related books and audio albums, including The Futureproof Corporation and 21st Century Leadership in co-authorship with internationally respected psychologist, speaker and author, Dr. Denis Waitley of the USA.

Alan Patching, a former kayaking ultra marathoner who still paddles and cycles regularly, is father of 4 children and lives on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia with his wife and two daughters.

Dr. Gerry Flynn has an impeccable pedigree in his field of Medicine and has long been interested in the application of mind power knowledge to (and also the impact of healthy diet and lifestyle on) increasing corporate performance and profitability, but did not have the extensive business experience to attract corporate clients. Alan Patching credits his business success on his long time personal but informal study of human behaviour. Was there ever a better combination of credibility and experience to bring the Mind Matters Program to the corporate world?

The Mind Matters Program can be delivered in various formats, and will always be tailored to meet the needs of each client. In keynote format, it requires a minimum of 60 minutes and can extend to 2 hours, and content delivered is selected from that available based on specific client needs. In interactive workshop format, it can be formatted to suit times of from 3 hours to a full day. Combined with other leadership and health related material, we are pleased to offer a two day life and leadership audit and adjustment seminar. While this seminar is always founded on fundamental modules of The Mind Matters Program and health and personal leadership material, we always mix the content to specifically suit client needs and will present a full seminar content outline after consultation. Mind Matters has even been booked in London as a five day corporate seminar.

Content overview of the Mind Matters Program modules.

How to solve problems creatively and make decisions effectively

This module presents various management approaches to problem solving and decision making processes together with an interesting and easily understood description of important and complex brain functions and how these come into play during the stages of the management approaches. Finally it teaches delegates how to access mind resources to become more effective in every stage of the management processes of solving problems and making decisions:

  • An overview of how the mind works in problem solving and decision making.
  • Insights on how we can capitalise on this knowledge and access the mental resources for more effective problem solving and decision making .
  • The best way to solve a problem or make a decision is to begin with lots of options. A look at the effective application of non-filtered creative or divergent and analytical or convergent thinking processes.
  • How to solve problems when not even thinking about them – a look at how we can enhance usage of our unconscious mental resources.
  • How to bypass those annoying and unproductive mental blocks.
  • Using imaginative resources – how to access information you know but you might not even know you know.
  • Mind Matters in problem solving and decision making in the context or recognised management models.

How to become more effective in commercial and personal negotiations

Negotiation is often a key medium for problem solving and decision making. This module extends on the problem solving and decision making module to ensure there are no gaps in the total process:

  • If taken separately from a session format which does not include problem solving and decision making, this module will include an overview of problem solving and decision making module. 
  • Negotiation is called upon in conditions of conflict, so let's take a look at management models for conflict resolution.
  • What emotional and physical responses are we likely to meet in the various stages of the negotiation process across a number of situations, and what mental processes are behind them.
  • How to use mental resources to control unproductive emotional response while negotiating.
  • Understanding different personality/behaviour styles and the mental processes behind them, specifically in negotiation.

How to perform better under pressure

Despite massive advances in technology, work pressure on people continues to increase rather than reduce. This module presumes this trend will continue and addresses how we can use our mind resources to deal with pressure regardless of how much it is or from whence it comes:

  • Let's identify pressure in both experiential and psychological terms.
  • An insight into the reasons pressure can be debilitating, destabilising, even destructive for individuals, and so have negative impact on corporate profitability.
  • How can we access the mind resources for successful and impactful change in pressure induced debilitating situations.
  • How to use mind resources to create a new attitude and approach to dealing with pressure.
  • How to create (in the words of Mohammad Ali) 'future history' by effectively dealing with the concept of 'mental reflex establishment' in pressure situations.

How to enhance performance

This module looks at how we can use the same principles used by the world's most successful athletes and business practitioners to do more than we currently do (or perhaps think it is possible for us to do) better than we currently do and with apparently less effort than we currently experience:

  • How to design NOW the results you require in the future how to harness the remarkable power of the unconscious mind.
  • How to develop the mental resources necessary for improved performance (resources like confidence for success, inner strength etc).
  • How to create and maintain the desire to improve and maintain performance.
  • How to create the mental 'loop' for continuing performance enhancement.
  • How to create and exploit opportunities for further performance enhancement .

How to manage negative and destructive habits and establish positive productive habits

In this module we examine the amazing impact of belief systems and habit patterns in every aspect of our everyday business and personal life. We also address an approach to ensuring the habits we have (but may not even know we have) are not limiting our capacity to achieve our personal objectives in business and other areas of life:

  • How habits, both wanted and unwanted, develop and impact on our business and personal life.
  • A look at the unconscious aspects of both wanted and unwanted habits.
  • How to change unwanted (limiting) habits.
  • How to establish wanted (productive) habits.
  • How to use the power of the unconscious to reinforce wanted habit patterns.
  • An examination of specific areas of business where limiting habits might be affecting our performance, and a practical procedure for replacing these negative habits with more productive substitutes.

Content Overview of Health and Wellbeing Related Topic

Stress and how to manage it

In this module we examine the sources of stress in life and why they affect different people in different ways. We also analyse how to manage stress and actually use it to our advantage in certain circumstances:

  • Stress - does it really exist? What is its impact and how does this impact develop? Why does one stressor impact different people in different ways?
  • Relaxation etc - a look at the various tools for effective management of the stress in your life.
  • Different strokes for different folks - choosing the best tools for optimum stress management in your specific life and business circumstances.
  • How to adjust habitual negative or inappropriate stress response at the subconscious level.
  • How to effectively reinforce newly learned positive behaviour patterns.
  • The practical context - a look at stress inducing business situations and how to apply effective stress management in these situations.

How to achieve healthy sleep patterns

Life's stresses often lead to sleep deprivation which in turn induces further stress. This module examines how we can best break this cycle and explains several effective avenues to establishing and maintaining healthy sleep patterns:

  • Understanding sleep is more than the absence of being awake - it is not a passive process.
  • Examining the cycle of sleep.
  • Creating an awareness that patterns are important - insomnia is a disruption of our entire body clock
  • Learning how to reset your body clock for improved sleep patterns.
  • Discovering how to use lucid dreaming to access healthy deep sleep.

A better heart for life and business

In this module we look at stress and diet and their impact on our hearts. We also clarify a lot of myths and take a look at a practical approach to heart health which is also business and normal life friendly:

  • Heart disease statistics and how to avoid becoming one of them.
  • Coming to terms with the reality that heart disease is a lifestyle issue.
  • Clarifying the great diet confusion.
  • Components of a healthy (not necessarily trendy) diet - the great prescription medicine.
  • Exercise and laughter or anger and hypertension - your choice.
  • Red wine, nuts and fish oils - simple steps in the right direction.

A mind for leadership

This module focuses on the psychological response different personality types are likely to have to different approaches or aspects of leadership. It suggest ways in which slight changes of leadership approach can gain substantially improved results simply because of the way the adjusted approach appeals to people at a subliminal level:

  • A look at how personality styles and behaviour types have been categorised through history, and an analysis of the leading profiling systems available today. The module includes a discussion on putting the various systems in perspective in terms of the applications for which they are most beneficial, and also looks at the downside of using profiling in the leadership context and how to avoid the pitfalls.
  • During the longer version of the Mind Matters Program delegates will learn a number of behaviour types profiling approaches and the applications to which they are best suited in the context of leadership. Delegates will also complete a number of the profiles discussed and conduct interesting exercises to emphasise understanding of lessons learned and awareness gained in a real life practical context.
  • Throughout the course there will be a number of case studies of real life management and leadership situations which will be examined from the perspective of the mind matters which are involved. We will hold discussion on alternative approaches which might have been employed in the circumstances with potentially better results.
  • Throughout the course, we will hold a number of topical discussion groups to examine traditional management approaches to real life practical problems and alternative approaches based on lessons learned from the Mind Matters Program.. We will focus on problems tabled by delegates on the course.
  • The mind, spirit, and corporate motivation and performance – an insight into why many corporate strategies and visions fail, and what you can do to ensure yours compels outstanding performance.
  • We will examine how leaders can recognise limiting behaviour patters in others including those they manage or lead, what they can do about it, and how this skill can benefit their business.

The mind game of golf

How to use your unconscious mind resources to improve your score in golf, or any other sport, or selling, or presenting, or negotiating, or parenting, or... you name it:

  • Understanding the physical effects of mental pressure.
  • Examining the reflexes caused by pressure situations.
  • How to develop tools for changing 'the yips'.
  • Using mind resources to boost positive reinforcement of improved patterns.
  • Applying the principles to improving performance under pressure in specific sporting or life situations (how to turn pressure from a negative to a positive).
  • Putting it all together - how to play well 'under the gun'.