Half Day or One Day Programme
Overview
At work, we can all start out with good intentions and great attitude, but focus can be lost because of a whole series of issues that decrease motivation and our confidence to succeed. Your Focus, Your Future is a program that helps all Teams to reach their targets and goals. Whether it be in Sales, Marketing, Operations, HR or Finance, a sharp injection of smart thinking techniques reignites that motivation and confidence to reach your peak performance. The Program will help you to steer your focus in such a way that you can achieve what you are aiming for.
How It Will Help You
At the end of the programme, you will:
Find your Focus to see clearly what you want
Achieve the will-power and self-discipline to follow your task to completion
Think clearly in the moment to achieve your goal
Use your Passion to control your Emotions
Analyse Situations from all points of view
Generate Alternative actions
Remove Obstacles & Blockages
Lead yourself and others to real and sustainable action
Course Content
Part 1 - Your Focus, Your Future
Learn to gain and retain clear focus to achieve your goals.
Use your Passion to control your Emotions
Think ‘outside the box’: Using Open Questions to Open the Mind.
Part 2 - Exploring Creativity as a tool for successful Innovation & Implementation of Ideas
The session develops the ability to make use of a variety of perspectives to stimulate new ideas in problem solving and decision making. The topics we choose to work on are relevant to the group, so there is a practical ‘take away’ from the day.
Part 3 - Using Negative Thinking to Gain Positive Action
This session continues with a focus on removing obstacles and blockages to achieving effective goals and decisions. Participants learn to use the D.N.A. print thinking technique to change negative thinking into positive action.
Part 4 - Being Creative in leading others to Action
We can lose Focus because great ideas are lost in Translation. This session focuses on how to motivate yourself and others to reach your goal. Participants learn to transfer their thoughts in a way that makes sense to others. ‘Getting others to want to do what you want them to do’.
Valerie Pierce
Valerie Pierce, MA (Phil), MSc (Executive Coaching) is Creator of the training concept ‘Clear & Critical Thinking’.Her international client list includes public and private sector clients in Ireland, UK and Europe over a 20 year period.
Valerie also lectures on MBA programs at Ashridge Business School, Brooks University Oxford, the Smurfit School of Business and Trinity College Dublin.
She is a Tutor on the worldwide Ashridge Leadership Programme and is the author of the ‘Creative Problem Solving’ Learning Guide (2011) for the Ashridge Business School (Top 1% of Global Business Schools – Ref: Financial Times).
Her books include:
‘Quick Thinking on Your Feet’
(Published in Ireland 2003: Japan 2004: USA 2005: China 2005)
'Focus: The Art of Clear Thinking'
published in Ireland (2014)and Middle East (2015)