This session will provide an "operator's manual" for the mind. Through innovative concepts and techniques, you will learn to achieve higher levels of creativity, clearer thoughts, increased concentration, and more concise communications. We will examine how Mind Mapping can lead to improvements in your mental abilities. We will discuss simple techniques for remembering names, facts, and figures, and we will explore how to apply the methods used by the great minds in the business, sport and creative worlds.

Collaboration has never been more important than it is in today's challenging business environment. Collaboration increases engagement, innovation, productivity, and organizational competitiveness. But collaboration doesn't happen without great leadership. Collaborative leaders must understand how to create an environment in which people choose to participate and contribute. Inspiring, interactive and energizing, this session will give you the insight and skills to build collaborative relationships within your team and throughout the organization.

Through fascinating examples from history, including the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, and the tragedy on Mount Everest, this workshop will explore the following: the five myths of executive decision making; how to foster open debate; how to achieve "diversity in counsel, unity in command"; how to move to closure: overcoming the inability to decide; avoiding "analysis paralysis" and other pitfalls; how to gain the whole-hearted commitment to act; and how to address hidden doubts that could undermine your final decision.

This session is a unique, comprehensive habit-improvement program that mentally, physically, and emotionally improves your sphere of living. The program teaches specific techniques for making this an automatic part of your subconscious mind. It will help you eliminate self-defeating behavior and improve your self-confidence through positive, success-generating habits, putting you on the road to greater achievement and a more rewarding life. This one-day format highlights the popular three-day Successful Life Course featured positively on CBS News' 60 Minutes.

The bulk of our frustrations comes from our dealings with people. If we are to succeed in the organization, we must work effectively with subordinates, peers, superiors, and often with boards, owners, investors, bankers, clients, and many others. During this session we will examine the principles of human influence (principles we have all been using throughout our lives) and learn how to apply them to the task of managing people. Specific techniques and tools for applying these principles will be presented, along with a variety of examples.

This session will help participants define and distinguish leadership and management responsibilities in a technical or professional group or team. The session will also address how to first understand and then adapt to some of the unique motivational interests and viewpoints among technical and professional experts a leader is likely to encounter. Those in lead positions, technical project managers or those who have recently moved into managing a technical or professional function will find this session most helpful.

Effective coaching requires leaders to establish meaningful relationships in which they can engage in uniquely positive, candid and demanding conversations aimed at producing significant performance improvements. This seminar incorporates the very best practices employed by professional coaches and draws upon our extensive knowledge of experiential leadership development. Taught through a series of lectures, interactive exercises and practices, workshop participants will also be guided through The Leader As Coach model.

Participants will examine the root causes of the overload (you own a lot more of that than you think you do!), and how to take back control, one day at a time. The tips, tools and next steps all come from years of researching how people just like you successfully managed their own workflow. But come prepared to be challenged. We will uncover and address your biggest limiting beliefs about control, time, workflow, getting everything done, and what truly matters.

In this highly interactive and practical workshop, Paul McGee will explore his main SUMO (Shut Up, Move On) principles and how they impact our ability to inspire others. His principles relate to any leader whose organisation would benefit from taking a fresh look at the following five key areas; Change, Relationships, Attitude, Motivation and Stress. Building on his background in behavioural and social psychology, Paul will give us time to reflect upon our behaviour and that of others and identify what hinders our effectiveness.