Inspiring Minds

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Perspective shift / warm up (great at the start of a conference or retreat)
• Timeline building
• Reward

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication one-on-one and in teams
• Sense of camaraderie and teamwork
• Creative “out-of-the-box” thinking
• Common understanding & sense of purpose

Team-building &  Communication workshops help your team to get creative, switch on their left brain & change the way they communicate through unique artistic experiences.

Start a conference on a high, strengthen the team over a morning, wake up an audience mid-afternoon or get creative after dinner.

It has been well documented that creative programs and training improve self esteem, self-awareness, motivation, release work-related tensions and stress, and enable effective communication between colleagues.

Indeed, researchers such as Professor Michael Posner have found evidence that arts training strengthens the brain’s attention system, which in turn can improve cognition more generally.

The key to successful leadership, teamwork and engagement is effective communication. In today’s fast-paced environment, we need to think outside the box in order to stay connected, hear and be heard.

Jessamy’s methods,used by some of Australia’s largest companies, foster discussion and connectivity, break down silos across the value chain and inspire an attitude of innovation in employees.

Jessamy has developed a range of workshops, and tailors each event to suit the needs and outcome expectations of the individual client.

Please download the Workshop Overview for more information, or get in touch.

“Jessamy facilitated a team building workshop for my team at Origin Energy. Using her creative skills, Jessamy encouraged the team to create a piece of artwork reflecting a shared vision of where we saw the team heading. 

Jessamy’s approach was extremely professional and reflected her extensive creative talents. I would thoroughly recommend Jessamy for any similar project.” - Tony Monley, Origin Energy

About the Artist…

Jessamy Gee is a visual artist who specialises in using art as a tool for team-building and better communication through dynamic classes, workshops and visual interpretations at conferences and events (clients have included NAB, MARS Asia, ANZ, Telstra, Australia Post, Origin Energy, Minter Ellison, General Mills Australia and more).

Jessamy studied Drawing and Portraiture, Contemporary Painting Techniques and Art Therapy at Box Hill Institute of TAFE, Victorian College of the Arts, and La Trobe University respectively.

Jessamy also takes active part in a variety of community-based work – in particular working with young people of diverse abilities - and strives to promote equality, respect and inclusion for these groups through creative programmes.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

•  Communication and team building for new teams
•  Communication and team building within siloed organisations
•  Perspective shift / warm-up/ energiser (great at the start of a conference or retreat)
•  Add variety, engagement and challenge to a conference or other meeting program
•  Help build teams post-merger or restructure and to deal with change
•  Release work related tension and frustrations in a constructive environment
•  Reward and incentive

BENEFITS AND OUTCOMES:

•  Inspire creativity and foster innovation, “out-of-the-box” thinking
•  Step outside your comfort zone and see yourself and others with new eyes
•  Removal of self-limiting beliefs
•  Challenge, engage and motivate your people and teams
•  Improve self esteem and company morale
•  Increase focus, thereby reduce stress
•  Sense of camaraderie and teamwork
•  Improve communication between business units
•  Help build teams post-merger or restructure and to deal with change
•  Common understanding & sense of purpose
•  Energise and add variety to a conference or other meeting program
•  Recognize and reward top performers or a specific department or group
•  Release work related tension and frustrations in a constructive environment

Many organizations today have turned to workplace innovation programs in the conviction that creativity is one key to competitive survival. And organizations know their ability to innovate lies in the creativity and abilities of their people. The individual needs to understand and adopt internal thinking processes that increase the potential for new thinking. Organizations have to do the same. The workshop will offer a powerful and transformational team leadership development experience in which self-limiting beliefs are removed and participants will find a new paradigm for ideas, potential and possibility.

Research clearly shows the need to engage the right side of the brain to unlock our creative thought processes. The key to unlock this right side function, that is easiest to access, is music. This is why music in its various forms is so popular with people of all backgrounds. Whatever the role, function, department or level music is a universal language and leveller. Its power to generate open mindedness and creative thoughts is immense. Everyone can make a vital contribution to the energy within the organization by feeling free to express themselves.

In this workshop we use a variety of non-threatening, yet highly engaging processes to bring people together and build trust through the power of music. This leads to generating of new streams of thoughts and ideas for business development. Importantly the group engagement factor lifts immeasurably through the shared experiences. By engaging the creative right side of the brain with the logical left side, we bring a powerful whole-of-mind engagement process to all participants. This is then leveraged to create a shared vision and ownership of the goals of the organisation.

This is a brilliant team building activity designed to heighten wellbeing, creativity and innovation, emotional expression and self awareness. We have successfully delivered this approach to groups ranging from executive teams of 10 to entire departments and companies and more than 1000 delegates at national and international conferences and special events. Industries have ranged from banking, finance and accounting to resources, retail, IT and telecommunications.  The results are meaningful, magical and measurable.

“The program is most useful in transforming and building a stronger and more cohesive team.” Visionstream/Leightons

“A great activity that really brought together our 250 HR leaders as one team. We started with 70% saying they couldn’t sing and finished with an amazing four-part harmony song that they really were proud of. Highly recommended!” Andrea Grant, Telstra

“The speech was heartfelt and moving and you presented one of the most memorable participative workshops many of us have experienced. The ‘With One Voice’ workshop highlighted our key aims of creativity and innovation as tools for great leadership and teamwork. The workshop brought these to life and proved that working as one team aligned to one outcome can achieve amazing results.”
“I felt uncontrollably joyous!” Australia Cares Conference

“It brought the group so much closer together; the room was tingling with our combined energy.” Participant from Macquarie Bank

“I could not stop my lips from turning upwards and smiling during the session! It made me feel so happy and alive!” Participant from Accenture

“It was truly amazing to hear everyone singing in a manner none of them thought possible! Finding the key event to launch a day of creative and innovative thinking was not easy however we ‘nailed’ it with Finding Your Voice.” Centro Properties Group – Marketing Managers Conference

“I was the facilitator for the annual planning workshop for a consulting firm. Everybody was contributing, and all were involved in the discussions. Then Tania came in for her session with the team. She took them to a higher level; she got people in touch with deeper places inside themselves, and released the energy…something special was radiated within the room – it was joyous to see everyone finding their potential, being creative and expressing themselves in ways that they never would have imagined possible. It took them beyond their previous limitations.” Geoff Hopkins – Principal, Holistique

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Warm up (great at the start of a conference or retreat)
• Reward

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication & self-awareness
• Enhanced wellbeing & confidence
• Sense of reward & appreciation
• Sense of belonging

Drumming and a range of other percussion instruments come together in a rhythmic group activity – proven and effective to bring together teams and find your inner rhythm. Participants enjoy greater freedom of expression, improve confidence and basically have fun!

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Warm up (great at the start of a conference or retreat)

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced focus
• Enhanced balance / perception skills
• Sense of achievement

Juggling is a great way to stimulate both sides of the brain and focus your team, increasing hand-eye coordination and balance/perception skills. Juggling is a great way to wake up and invigorate your team. They will have lots of fun, become more focused and ultimately help your company to achieve as they learn to let go of old patterns!

We all have to juggle so many things in our lives and work. Juggling is a great way to stimulate and focus your team, increasing hand-eye coordination and balance/perception skills. Juggling is a great way to wake up and stimulate your delegates. It will help increase hand eye coordination and balance/perception skills.

Delegates will have lots of fun, become more focused and ultimately help your company to achieve! Juggling balls can even be made with your company’s logo so that delegates can take home with them (this will be an additional cost).

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Conflict resolution
• Communication break downs
• Team-building

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication & self-awareness
• Build common goals & understanding
• Clarify & resolve  issues

Improvise, create, problem solve, communicate….

Got an issue at work? Bring it into a improvisation workshop and find lots of ways to solve your big and small issues. Develop authentic leaders for the future.

These workshops are fast paced, innovative and fun. Based on the improvisation basics we provide single sessions or a series of sessions for groups of 6 to 600.

The success of these programs lies in our ability to unpack the personal skills associated with innovative and adaptive leadership, authenticity, emotional intelligence and communication skills using improvisation exercises and training approaches.

The workshops introduce participants to the fundamental skills of improvisation such as accepting offers, blocking, wimping, hogging, trust, storytelling, body language and dealing with failure.

Fantastic rehearsals for life because of the inherent skill development in co-operative behaviors and self-control. These workshops are challenging and inspiring enough for even the most hardened groups and supportive and clear enough for the most nervous first-timers .

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Reward

What are the key benefits?

• Ability to communicate in a casual environment
• Sense of reward and appreciation

Don an apron and join your colleagues as you go on a journey of creativity and expression through the unique medium of hand-decorated cupcakes. One or many targetted themes can be developed to convey a elements of your company’s message. We can provide homemade cupcakes in a range of flavours, and decorations including icing, sprinkles, fondant, nuts, strawberries, lollies, coconut and more. Watch as everyone’s ideas and interpretations combine to create something spectacular, meaningful and tasty!

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When / why would you book this service?

• Workshops / conferences / breakouts
• Internal & external meetings
• Cafe conversations
• Any analysis, dialogue, decision-making, brainstorming, conflict resolution or strategising.

What are the key benefits?

• Increased engagement
• Common understanding of the subject
• Acknowledgement all ideas are being heard
• Common sense of ownership
• Comprehension and memory tool

Graphic Recording (or Scribing) is the process of visually recording a presentation, conversation or meeting using a combination of images and words to create a ‘map’ of key themes and ideas.

More than just pictures, the process is a powerful tool in assisting analysis, dialogue, decision-making, brainstorming, conflict resolution and visualising strategy.

It also creates a clear common understanding, sense of ownership, comprehension and memory tool for the participants. We are incredible at remembering pictures. Hear a piece of information, and three days later you’ll remember 10% of it. Add a picture and you’ll remember 65%.

Used by leading innovators such as TED Talks and Creative Innovation, Graphic Recording is a powerful  tool to visually enhance presentations as they are happening, as well as record the themes & ideas from the day in a clear, engaging and easily accessible way.

Images are created on a whiteboard as the presentation or conversation is in session, in real time. The final images are then photographed and can be edited and coloured for use in slides, websites and reports.

Images can also be used to develop models and corporate journey images that can be refined and reproduced

For more information on how Graphic Recording can enhance your next event, please get in touch.

“If there was only one word I could use about Jessamy and her work it would be this: WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW.

She absolutely stunned me (and the other 200 people in the room) with her genius (yes, a strong word) at being able to capture a fast-moving seminar I was presenting. The program was called INSPIRE! And that is precisely what Jessamy does. Use her — you’ll be as thrilled and stunned as I have been.”  Paul Dunn – Chairman, Buy1Give1

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Perspective shift (great at the start of a conference or retreat)

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication & self-awareness
• Enhanced wellbeing (click here for more on the benefits of choral singing for employees)
• Enhanced productivity

Break your team into 2 or 3 groups, learn some vocal techniques, start singing in harmony and then sing-off against one another. This is a brilliant team building activity, shifting employees out of their comfort zone into a creative space. Your song could be performed in a public venue like a shopping centre, office foyer, gala event or hospital to raise funds for a charity of your choice.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Warm up / loosen up (great at the start of a conference or retreat)

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced relaxation
• Break down of inhibitions
• Increased blood flow = energy = efficiency & mood-lifter

Movement and creative dance incorporating a variety of styles designed to free your body and mind. From Afrobeat and jungle to salsa and ballroom. A wonderful teambuilding activity.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Warm up (great at the start of a conference or retreat)

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication & self-awareness
• Enhanced wellbeing (click here for more on the benefits of singing for wellbeing)
• Enhanced productivity

Let your group write their own song, create their own lyrics and tunes with composers and then record them. You could even write your own company song for the new marketing campaign.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Reward

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication in a non-threatening environment
• Sense of reward & appreciation

Whip up a wicked meal…a cooking experience to titillate your taste buds and bring your team into delicious alignment or compete to create the dish of the day.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Networking event
• Client dinner
• Reward

What are the key benefits?

• Sense of reward & appreciation
• Highest quality entertainment & dining
• Impressive to any client!

This stunning experience features a Master Chef and one or more divine divas, who have performed with Australia’s major opera and musical companies. Presented by Music Theatre Australia, one of Australia’s leading chefs will cook up a magnificent feast. Between courses a sultry siren will seduce your guests with her golden voice, glamour and pizzazz. Your Diva can customise her songs to suit your menu, venue and business and pay special tribute to key guests and occasions.

The repertoire may include arias and duets from Opera to Broadway, and songs in French, Italian, Chinese or other languages to suit the food and guests. Favourite highlights from Shirley Bassey, Edith Piaf, Bocelli, Phantom of the Opera, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, Lloyd Webber, Bernstein, Gershwin and the beautiful Flower Duet from Lakme are just some of the choices available. The diva/s perform with backing CDs or pianist in a variety of venues from private homes and grand mansions, board rooms and ballrooms to theatres and concert halls, from 10 to 1000 guests …and for all sorts of special events, where a little seduction is in order! Don’t miss this decadent, delicious dining with the diva experience.

“Wow! This was the ultimate treat. Gorgeous food, wine and song all in one, in our own home! Who could ask for more? Our guests have not stopped raving!” - Private client

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• To tell your stories in a compelling way
• To learn how to truly engage, compel and inspire your audience
• To create a deeper level of understanding and connection
• To truly engage with internal and external stakeholders
• To evolve your product or service offering
• To inspire creativity and foster innovation

What are the key benefits?

• Guaranteed way to generate new connections with your staff and clients
• Moe engaging and compelling presentation style
• Greater self confidence and belief
•  Sharing stories with others in a meaningful way

From half day to two day programs with one on one coaching to teach you presentation and story telling skills to move your audience.

Have you ever sat through one of those boring presentations, where the monotonous tone of the speaker is only made worse by slides that make your dog’s breakfast look like a work of fine art?

In this fascinating and evocative session, you will learn how to truly engage, compel and inspire your audience through the mode of storytelling. This workshop is all about finding your motivation through creative techniques while remaining focused on business relevance and outcomes. One on one coaching also available.

With a background in law, politics, business and performing arts, the facilitators bring to the program a unique combination of skills and techniques that meld the corporate and creative worlds.

Topics

Stories, Stories Everywhere

From ‘Igniting Change’ to ‘Talking Values’ there are many types of stories to suit the situation. Learn how to pick the right story for your audience and your objective.

Tapping into Emotions

You can tell me how excited you are, but if you want to captivate me you’ll need to show me as well. We’ll show you how to develop skills that increase your stage presence and make you a compelling speaker.

Mastery of Movement

Lecterns are fine as far as they go, they just don’t go very far. Learn how to master the stage like Baryshnikov.

Life is full of Characters (and so are your stories)

Stories are about people and everyone is different. Tells us about the people in your stories. We want to see them and we want to hear them.

How Do We Do It?

Using dramatic techniques as a base and linking them to practical application for business presentations. This is all about finding your motivation through creative techniques while remaining focused on business relevance and outcomes. The facilitators bring a unique combination of skills and techniques that meld the corporate and creative worlds.

Topics – Half Day Program

• The 4 elements of storytelling performance
• Picking the right story
• Personal Coaching
• Participants: 2 — 4

Topics – Full Day Program

• The 4 elements of storytelling performance
• Picking the right story
• Tapping into Emotion
• Personal Coaching
• Participants: 4 — 6

Topics – 2- Day Program

• The 4 elements of storytelling performance
• Picking the right story
• Tapping into Emotions
• Emotional Structure
• Personal Coaching
• Characterization
• The art of movement
• Participants: 4 — 6

While people might forget dry, boring information they will usually remember stories. Most of us were raised on stories and when we allow ourselves to get past our grown-up-ness, we can all remember how much we (still) love, connect and identify with a good tale. They are both liberating and empowering. They are a most effective way to teach, learn and create a deeper level of understanding and connection.

We remember and connect with stories because they affect us on a level much deeper than the purely cerebral. They bring a level of understanding and revelation that information (of itself) doesn’t. Statistics, facts, data and theories are easily forgettable but stories (which are simply information with pictures and feelings) touch us mentally, emotionally and, even, physiologically. Stories make us laugh and cry. Happy and sad. They affect our nervous system. Excite us. Scare us. They can increase our heart rate. Or lower it. They can trigger chemical changes in our body (cortisol, adrenaline, endorphins). They can make us breathe faster or slower. And they can open the door to a level of understanding that only comes through a ‘three-dimensional’ (physical, emotional and psychological) learning experience.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• When you need new ideas and techniques to implement them
• To bring your team together to brainstorm and forecast the future
• To evolve your product or service offering
• To inspire creativity and foster innovation
• To create that killer promotion or new campaign

What are the key benefits?

• Guaranteed way to generate new ideas
• Helps you work out how to achieve your goals
• Removal of self-limiting beliefs
• Creative “out-of-the-box” thinking
• Instant return on investment and profits from ideas generated and implemented

Let us help you think differently (and more effectively) using some of the most effective and rewarding creative thinking techniques from around the world. A GUARANTEED WAY TO GENERATE NEW IDEAS and work out how to implement them. We help you work out how to achieve your goals. Double the results from last year’s direct mail campaign. Create that killer promotion. Increase web traffic. Evolve your product or service offering. Develop ways for greater staff engagement.

A guaranteed way to generate new ideas

There was a blind man sitting on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet and a sign that read: “I am blind, please help.” A kind soul was walking by and stopped to observe. He saw that the blind man had only a few coins in his hat. He dropped in more coins and, without asking for permission, took the sign and rewrote it. He returned the sign to the blind man and left. That afternoon the would-be sign writer returned to the blind man and noticed that his hat was full of bills and coins. The blind man recognised his footsteps and asked if it was he who had rewritten his sign and what he had written on it. The person responded: “Nothing that was not true. I just wrote the message a little differently.” The new sign read: “Today is Spring and I cannot see it.” Sometimes we need to change our approach.

Never has a truer word has been spoken. The fact is, as marketers there’s safety in doing the same old thing. It may well produce the same old results, but at least we know what we’re in for! Right?

On the flip side, what are you missing out on? What could be if you challenged the status quo?

Wouldn’t you love to double the results from last year’s direct mail campaign? Increase web traffic? Evolve your product or service offering? Create that killer promotion? Or develop ways for greater staff engagement?

If your head is nodding then let us help you think differently (and more effectively) using some of the most effective and rewarding creative thinking techniques from around the world…We will help have your business booming in no time. Read on for a taste of what you can expect…

The Catapult Method

Ideal for when you sense there must be better, more effective ways of doing business. Particularly revealing for businesses competing in a mature industry.
Keeping up with the category and the competition too often results in a whole lot of ‘ME TOO’ companies chasing the same goals and outcomes. This ends in price-cutting, increased marketing spend and reduced margins.

At the same time it creates an opportunity for smart organisations to spend time focusing on telling their own story – CATAPULTING THEMSELVES AHEAD OF THEIR COMPETITION.

The Catapult Method is a revealing process aimed at EXPOSING & CHALLENGING THE RULES OF YOUR INDUSTRY.

Killer Questions

Think of this as brainstorming on steroids! Ideal for when an organisation has a specific area they want to explore deeply and thoroughly. A Killer Innovations Workshop™ is totally focused on finding significant and highly profitable departures from your current offerings or practices that will be difficult to imitate.

No more ‘me too’.

Asking the right questions – KILLER QUESTIONS – is the key here. Such questions get you thinking at a particular issue from various perspectives you’ve previously not considered. And because the questions are rich and interesting then so are the answers. For example…

What is the largest hassle your customers do not know they are putting up with?

How would (insert famous brand or person’s name) approach this problem?

What if you had to launch it in 24-hours?

These are just three of over 100 Killer Questions that have helped businesses and not-for-profits in the most unexpected of ways.

Handing Over The Keys

Ideal if you’re wanting to ‘break the shackles’ by exploring how others would run your business. This workshop explores what market leaders in UNRELATED CATEGORIES would do if they ran your business.

What would Bunnings Hardware do differently? McDonalds? FOXTEL?

What if it were conceptualised by J K Rowling? Richard Branson? Robbie Williams? Nelson Mandela?

This workshop always results in some truly fresh and energised thinking.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Training in written communication

What are the key benefits?

• Engage audiences
• Refine storytelling skills
• Enhanced creativity in writing = better engagement = better outcomes

Creative writing and storytelling that will enable you to be more productive in all your writing and ensure you overcome “writer’s block”.

This is an opportunity to work with Australia’s leading writers and storytellers, and take away some meaningful creation. You will learn how to truly engage, compel and inspire your audience through the mode of storytelling and creative writing. This workshop is all about finding your motivation through creative techniques while remaining focused on business relevance and outcomes.

Learn how to create and select the right story for your audience and your objective. This is a meaningful engagement and leadership tool to support innovation capability within the organisation. You will find out that you are more creative than you thought!

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• When you are struggling with limited thinking within your team or organisation
• When you need new ideas and techniques to implement them
• To bring your team together to brainstorm and forecast the future
• To evolve your product or service offering
• To inspire creativity and foster innovation

What are the key benefits?

• Changing your organisational culture
• Mantra: We are all “innovators”
• Removal of self-limiting beliefs
• Creative “out-of-the-box” thinking
• Guaranteed way to generate new ideas

Most organisations say they are innovative, yet very few have a true culture of innovation. This program explores the definitions of creativity and innovation and reminds us that innovation cannot occur without creative thought. You will learn how to develop a strong innovation culture leading to improved wellbeing, engagement and productivity to outperform your competitors. (We can conduct a health check of innovation capability for your organisation and then recommend action steps).

Objectives:

• Define the terms ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’
• Understand why creativity has become our most endangered species, and why it more important now than ever before
• Explore barriers to creativity and innovation and strategies to overcome these
• Discover the potential of an ‘enquiring mind’
• Learn why diversity and hearing every voice matters
• Experience a range of tools and processes for accessing your own inner creative genius
• Explore ideas for leading the creation of a more creative workplace in your own organisation

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Implementing an Innovation team or program
• Communication and team building between siloed teams, or company-wide

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication & self-awareness
• Enhanced wellbeing (click here for more on the benefits of choral singing for employees)
• Team leadership development
• Enhanced productivity

Would you like your teams to deliver exceptional performance and productivity? This creative leadership program takes participants on a transformational journey out of their comfort zone. Through learning to let go and changing the paradigm of their own abilities, participants gain insight into the potential of their colleagues and teams. An outstanding and joyful program for team building, development of innovation capacity and leadership.

BEYOND THE PARADIGM – Leadership, creativity & change

Many organizations today have turned to workplace innovation programs in the conviction that creativity is one key to competitive survival. And organizations know their ability to innovate lies in the creativity and abilities of their people. The individual needs to understand and adopt internal thinking processes that increase the potential for new thinking. Organizations have to do the same.

TEAMBUILDING – LEADERSHIP – CREATIVITY/INNOVATION – COMMUNICATION

The workshop will offer a powerful and transformational team leadership development experience in which self-limiting beliefs are removed and participants will find a new paradigm for ideas, potential and possibility.
Research clearly shows the need to engage the right side of the brain to unlock our creative thought processes. The key to unlock this right side function, that is easiest to access, is music. This is why music in its various forms is so popular with people of all backgrounds. Whatever the role, function, department or level music is a universal language and leveller. Its power to generate open mindedness and creative thoughts is immense. Everyone can make a vital contribution to the energy within the organization by feeling free to express themselves.
In this workshop we use a variety of non-threatening, yet highly engaging processes to bring people together through the power of music.
This leads to generating of new streams of thoughts and ideas for business development. Importantly the group engagement factor lifts immeasurably through the shared experiences.
By engaging the creative right side of the brain with the logical left side, we bring a powerful whole- of- mind engagement process to all participants. This is then leveraged to create a shared vision and ownership of the goals of the organisation.
This is a brilliant team building activity designed to heighten wellbeing, creativity and innovation, emotional expression and self awareness. We have successfully delivered this approach to groups ranging from executive teams of 10 to entire departments and companies and more than1000 delegates at national and international conferences and special events. Industries have ranged from banking, finance and accounting to resources, retail, IT and telecommunications.

The results are meaningful, magical and measurable.

NB. Tania de Jong AM is one of Australia’s leading sopranos and social entrepreneurs. She often presents inspirational motivational keynote addresses. She can talk about developing a culture of innovation and perform a song or two to entertain and inspire at the start of the session. Click here for more info.

Benefits and Outcomes:

• inspire creativity and foster innovation
• step outside your comfort zone and see yourself and others with new eyes
• challenge, engage and motivate your people and teams
• improve self esteem and company morale
• increase focus, thereby reduce stress
• improve communication between business units
• help build teams post-merger or restructure
• energise and add variety to a conference or other meeting program
• recognize and reward top performers or a specific department or group
• release work related tension and frustrations in a constructive environment

“One of the most memorable participative workshops many of us have ever experienced. The “With One Voice” workshop highlighted our key aims of creativity and innovation as tools for great leadership, and team work. The workshop brought these to life and proved that working as one team aligned to one outcome, can achieve amazing results.” Mark Goddard, Spotlight

“A great activity that really brought together our 250 HR leaders as one team. We started with 70% saying they couldn’t sing and finished with an amazing four-part harmony song that they really were proud of. Highly recommended!” Andrea Grant,Telstra

“I felt uncontrollably joyous!” Foundation for Young Australians

“It brought the group so much closer together – the room was tingling with our combined energy.” Macquarie Bank

“I could not stop my lips from turning upwards and smiling during the session! It made me feel so happy and alive!” Accenture

“It was truly amazing to hear everyone singing in a manner none of them thought possible! Finding the key event to launch a day of creative and innovative thinking was not easy however we ‘nailed’ it with Finding Your Voice.” Centro Properties Group – Marketing Managers Conference

“This workshop managed to challenge and inspire us to think beyond the usual bounds of leadership style by taking us on a journey of breath, chant and song. It affirmed for many that if allowed, creativity can and will ‘create’ great leaders.” Committee for Melbourne Future Focus Group

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Management training
• New management

What are the key benefits?

• Unlock creative capital
• Enhance leadership potential

People, Passion, Purpose, Productivity

Are your managers strategic people leaders? Do they help inspire and unlock the “blue sky” ideas that will turn your business from good to great?

This program will assist you in unlocking your creative capital and leadership potential and create unlimited productivity.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• To increase your networking skills generally
• In preparation for a particularly important event or opportunity

What are the key benefits?

• Tangible, functional skills training
• Networking ‘tools’ that can be used indefinitely
• Increased confidence

Networking Queen Tania de Jong AM will teach you the skills to connect on all levels with your team, community and industry to access more potential clients than you can imagine!

Tania will teach you how to decide people are important, master the art of conversation, overcome shyness, create your own opportunities and systemise your approach to networking.

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Radiant Thinking to organise thinking and develop winning new ideas

Objectives:    Developed by Tony Buzan – the Mind Map® is one of the most empowering and useful tools in the Deliberate Creative Thinking arsenal, now used by an estimated 250 million people around the world.  Tapping into the way brain actually works, Mind Mapping® allows ideas to radiate from a central focus while providing a holistic picture of the situation.  This program looks at the practical application of Mind Maps, and participants will learn to:

• Unlock the power of radiant thinking by taking a look at how the brain really works
• Develop Mind Maps that capture complete concepts and develop new ideas
• Capture and comprehend information easily with greater completeness and clarity
• Use Mind Mapping to plan activities of all types
• create Mind Maps individually and in teams

Benefits:        By understanding the way the brain really works and applying the Laws of Mind Mapping to organise and develop thinking, Mind Maps all people to:

ü  Plan major projects and other activities in a fraction of the time normally needed

ü  Capture and comprehend vast amounts of information relevant to their focus

ü  Work creatively either individually or in a team

ü  Generate innovative new ideas related to the task being worked on

ü  Communicate ideas and concepts easily and quickly

Outline:          The Laws of Mind Mapping explained and applied to enhance learning and creative thinking.

The Incredible Value of Mind Maps®

“Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.”
…Tony Buzan

“Jennifer presented an easy and enjoyable introduction to the way our minds work and how with Mind Mapping we can start to create order out of chaos!”

…Robin Pag

Presenters  Jennifer Goddard or Bill Jarrard, co-founders of the Buzan Centre: Aust/NZ and Mindwerx International Where to?   This Mindwerx Blended Learning Engagement extends the learning process post-workshop as participants receive a series of follow-up online eLessons to build on their knowledge and are invited to join a web 2.0 community website. The aim is to continue the learning journey well after the workshop.

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• Learn to power browse any book in fifteen minutes;
• Learn how eye movements are related to speed reading techniques;
• Learn the seven steps to speed up your reading;
• Learn twenty-two reading formulae for success;
• Apply brain skills and functions to effective reading;
• Improve comprehension and recall with reading;
• Match reading purpose and material with approach;
• Explore the Buzan Organic Study Technique (BOST);
• Learn steps to improve concentration and your reading environment; and
• Discover Mind Maps® for Information Management

Who Should Ideally suited for individuals and for teams from organisations who wish to learn highly effective

Attend?         skills to enhance the most complex thing in the universe – the Brain!

Duration        This program runs best as a full-day interactive workshop, but is available as a half-day introduction and even a 60 minute Lunch & Learn or Conference Presentation.

Facilitator      Jennifer Goddard or Bill Jarrard, founders Mindwerx International and the Buzan Centre Aust/NZ

This could be the greatest foundation that I can get to now improve other areas.
…Adrian Hansberry

Learning to speed read effortlessly and fluently has been claimed by millions of people around the world to be one of the most rewarding and significant achievements of their lives.
 … Tony Buzan

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Creativity and Collaboration with Deliberate Creative Thinking

Objective:        Designed for all levels of managers, team leaders, specialists and anyone wanting to ensure their own success, this program explores how Deliberate Creative Thinking™ is applied to promote better problem solving and speed innovation.  Upon completion participants will:

• Understand a simple process to facilitate breakthrough thinking and innovation
• Be able to use creative thinking tools to improve problem solving activities, improve processes, develop strategies, and pro-actively identify and address potential opportunities
• Have the ability to identify and challenge current thinking to develop bold new ideas that support strategic organisational goals, values and policies
• Work more creatively as individuals and participate more collaboratively in an environment of innovative thinking that supports work groups and project teams
• Understand environment elements that support creativity and innovation

Benefits:          Organisations that consistently apply Deliberate Creative Thinking principles and methods:

ü  creatively deal with complex situations and make better decisions – faster

ü  have shorter more productive meetings in a more collaborative team environment

ü  plan, manage and implement solutions more thoroughly and effectively

ü  generate innovative ideas to creatively prevent problems and realise opportunities

ü  create an environment of innovation where ideas are shared to achieve business goals

Outline:            This is a highly interactive blended learning program. Topics include:

Creativity on Demand – shows individuals and teams how to focus their creative energy when and where it is needed to facilitate idea generation and sharing

Tools for Deliberate Creative Thinking –simple but effective tools for effectively exploring and creatively solving problems and realising opportunities

Myths and Killers of Innovation – what not to do to create an innovative work environment

            Application and Action – applying creativity to daily issues is the key to success, and here we look at where you will be able to apply the methods learnt

Duration           This program runs best as a full-day interactive workshop, but is available as a half-day introduction and even a 60 minute Lunch & Learn or Conference Presentation.

Presenters:      Bill Jarrard or Jennifer Goddard, co-founders of Mindwerx International

                        “I felt it was a key I had been looking for to unlock unlimited potential and I can see many uses to put it to.  Can’t wait!” …Brian Varney

                        “This is a practical and very interesting seminar.  I enjoyed every minute of it.  I loved the examples and the way Bill delivers the seminar” …Angela Bone

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Your introduction to the most powerful creative thinking tools available

Objective:      Edward de Bono is the world’s leading authority on creative thinking as a serious skill, and his techniques are used by organisations around the world.  From shifting 100 year old methods of mining in South Africa, to making the Olympic Games self-sufficient, to changing the way primary school children in Australia learn, de Bono’s methods have been impacting every aspect of education and business for 40 years.

At the heart of these methods is the simple premise that creativity is not an innate attribute held by the few, but is a skill that can be taught, and in which everyone can improve.  De Bono tools are easy to learn and use – yet have a real and powerful effect on thinking. In this program participants will learn:

• The brain is an associative self-patterning success system, not designed to be creative, but when trained, able to think in creative ways
• The vital ingredients for successful thinking without which it is impossible to be creative
• The secret of Lateral Thinking and how to cut across the brain’s neural pathways to generate original new ideas – on demand
• The basics of Six Thinking Hats® de Bono’s best known and useful framework for thinking
• How DATT-Direct Attention Thinking Tools are being used to make thinking more effective
• Where and how they can learn and apply de Bono tools for personal or business purposes

Benefits:        This workshop is an introductory program, designed to expose participants to the range of tools they can go on to use back at work.   Leading organisations around the world are now reaping the benefits generated by tools like the Six Thinking Hats, DATT and Lateral Thinking.  De Bono thinking tools allow people to:

ü  be fully involved in problem solving, improvement activities and innovative thinking

ü  have shorter more creative, collaborative and outcome oriented meetings

ü  creatively and innovatively solve problems and make better decisions – faster

ü  analyse and manage situations more thoroughly and effectively

ü  generate more innovative ideas to enhance organisational performance

Duration        This program runs best as a full-day interactive workshop, but is available as a half-day introduction and even a 60 minute Lunch & Learn or Conference Presentation.

Where to?      This Mindwerx Blended Learning Engagement extends the learning process post-workshop as participants receive a series of follow-up online eLessons to build on their knowledge and are invited to join a web 2.0 community website. The aim is to continue the learning journey well after the workshop.

Presenter:      Bill Jarrard, co-founder of Mindwerx International.  Bill has been using and sharing de Bono techniques with others for more than 25 years.

“The whole course was of immense value.  I have read Serious Creativity, however I realise
the only way to learn these tools is to do perfect practice.  After this course
I have the knowledge and model to do that.”
… Steve Farrugia

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Maximise your capacity to absorb new information and sustain high performance!

You Can’t Avoid Information Overload.  You Can’t Beat Information Overload.  You Can’t Master Information Overload.  You Can’t Eliminate Information Overload.  What you CAN do is learn simple and easy techniques that productive people know, say, and do to MANAGE Information on an ongoing basis to reduce stress, increase effectiveness and live a happier, healthier and more successful life!

Every day, people are confronted by vast amounts of new information flowing in from a multitude of sources.  Almost everyone feels overwhelmed at some point when trying to absorb, understand and apply this new information.   The impact on individuals varies from simple time wasting to serious health problems, while for organisations the effect is compounded into a massive loss of productivity.

Objective:  The objective of this Mindwerx blended program is to explore the challenge of Information Overload and give participants insights, tools and training to effectively tackle the problem so they are better positioned to sustain high performance levels. Participants will learn to not only absorb information better, faster and in greater volume, but also enjoy doing so.

The ultimate aim is for participants to regain control of their lives and achieve their goals, and in so doing ensure the lasting success of their organisations.

Benefits:    The ability to more effectively Manage Information Overload benefits individuals, teams and the organisation as a whole.  Just some of these benefits are:

ü  More clarity of focus, resulting in faster, easier achievement of goals and a solid increase in personal performance and productivity, and greater satisfaction at work and home

ü  Less time wasted on unfocussed activities, badly run meetings and wasted effort relearning or relocating information that is already available

ü  Employees that manage information perform better, are less stressed and more productive, and therefore more committed to building the organisation

ü  Lower staff absenteeism and attrition, leading to reduced recruitment, induction and retraining costs and increased employee and customer client loyalty

Outline:     (available in 1 or 2-day formats, and a 60 minute keynote)

• The challenge of Information Overload and the impact on performance
• The Mindwerx Managing Information Overload Model
• The Power of Purpose & Focus to Manage Information
• Handling Incoming Information to get and keep what you need
• Organising Information to better retain, adapt, and manage it
• Retaining & Recalling the information you need, when you need it
• Critical and Creative Thinking to achieve outcomes you want
• Enhancing iBrain digital technologies to manage Information
• Managing your time to achieve your Life Goals
• The Mind & Body Connection and its relationship to Info Overload
• Putting it all together to sustain high performance

Duration:     This program runs best as a full-day interactive workshop, but is available as a half-day introduction and even a 60 minute Lunch & Learn or Conference Presentation.

Presenter:  Bill Jarrard and/or Jennifer Goddard, co-founders Mindwerx International

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Sharing experience & valuable skills throughout organisations
• Bridge generation gaps in teams / organisations
• Leadership training

What are the key benefits?

• Improved leadership skills
• Improved communication skills
• Rewarding experience

This is a mentoring workshop teaching you effective skills to be a mentor and/or mentee.

Mentoring is an essential leadership skill. In addition to managing and motivating people, it’s also important that you can help others learn and grow. An effective mentor relationship is rewarding to the mentor as well as to the mentee.

You will improve your own leadership and communication skills, learn new perspectives and new ways of thinking.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Running / starting your own business
• Small businesses
• New businesses
• In need of inspiration & motivation

What are the key benefits?

• Business growth
• Clarity of ideas & direction
• Third-party accountability
• Enhanced productivity
• Ongoing support

A range of coaches and mentors for leaders and emerging leaders for one-on-one or group mentoring.

We have all needed some kind of mentoring at some point in our lives. A mentor is defined to be “a wise and trusted counselor or teacher”.

Why do you need a mentor? Here’s 5 reasons[1]:

Someone to be accountable to. It is often too easy for business owners to neglect the management and marketing of their business through recurring postponement of tasks. Sharing of your goals with your Mentor means that if you don’t complete them and your business marketing lapses, your mentor wants to know why.

Someone to help you refine your ideas into practice. You have great ideas… some you will be able to put into practice easily, but others will be raw and need refinement to implement. Your coach has a vast knowledge of almost every marketing strategy, what makes them work and what confounds their effectiveness.

Someone that has a wealth of ideas to grow your business. For when you’ve just ‘run out of ideas’ on how to sell your products and services. But at all times, your coach will endeavor to make your contact educational, so that you understand the principals and can apply them for the rest of your business life.

Someone that has the contacts you need. When you need contacts for your business, equipment, investment advice, or just growing your library, your mentor has the contacts and knows where to find the information.

Someone outside, looking in. After a while, you find that you don’t see the business with the same clarity that you used to. Like living next to a busy road; after a while you don’t hear the traffic. Your mentor is there to take a fresh look at you and your business. He knows what to look for and most importantly, sees what your customers see. And he will always give you feedback.

“Words cannot fully express how thankful I am for your guidance and support. I didn’t want the session to come to an end! I wanted to get as much of your insights as I could. It is powerful and incredibly enabling to be amongst people who share a passion for helping others be the best they can be.” Mentoring client

[1]: Steve Leach, Australian Financial Services Directory

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• When you need new ideas and techniques to implement them
• To bring your team together to brainstorm and forecast the future
• To evolve your product or service offering
• To inspire creativity and foster innovation
• To create that killer promotion or new campaign

What are the key benefits?

• Guaranteed way to generate new ideas
• Helps you work out how to achieve your goals
• Removal of self-limiting beliefs
• Creative “out-of-the-box” thinking
• Instant return on investment and profits from ideas generated and implemented

Let us help you think differently (and more effectively) using some of the most effective and rewarding creative thinking techniques from around the world. A GUARANTEED WAY TO GENERATE NEW IDEAS and work out how to implement them. We help you work out how to achieve your goals. Double the results from last year’s direct mail campaign. Create that killer promotion. Increase web traffic. Evolve your product or service offering. Develop ways for greater staff engagement.

A guaranteed way to generate new ideas

There was a blind man sitting on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet and a sign that read: “I am blind, please help.” A kind soul was walking by and stopped to observe. He saw that the blind man had only a few coins in his hat. He dropped in more coins and, without asking for permission, took the sign and rewrote it. He returned the sign to the blind man and left. That afternoon the would-be sign writer returned to the blind man and noticed that his hat was full of bills and coins. The blind man recognised his footsteps and asked if it was he who had rewritten his sign and what he had written on it. The person responded: “Nothing that was not true. I just wrote the message a little differently.” The new sign read: “Today is Spring and I cannot see it.” Sometimes we need to change our approach.

Never has a truer word has been spoken. The fact is, as marketers there’s safety in doing the same old thing. It may well produce the same old results, but at least we know what we’re in for! Right?

On the flip side, what are you missing out on? What could be if you challenged the status quo?

Wouldn’t you love to double the results from last year’s direct mail campaign? Increase web traffic? Evolve your product or service offering? Create that killer promotion? Or develop ways for greater staff engagement?

If your head is nodding then let us help you think differently (and more effectively) using some of the most effective and rewarding creative thinking techniques from around the world…We will help have your business booming in no time. Read on for a taste of what you can expect…

The Catapult Method

Ideal for when you sense there must be better, more effective ways of doing business. Particularly revealing for businesses competing in a mature industry.
Keeping up with the category and the competition too often results in a whole lot of ‘ME TOO’ companies chasing the same goals and outcomes. This ends in price-cutting, increased marketing spend and reduced margins.

At the same time it creates an opportunity for smart organisations to spend time focusing on telling their own story – CATAPULTING THEMSELVES AHEAD OF THEIR COMPETITION.

The Catapult Method is a revealing process aimed at EXPOSING & CHALLENGING THE RULES OF YOUR INDUSTRY.

Killer Questions

Think of this as brainstorming on steroids! Ideal for when an organisation has a specific area they want to explore deeply and thoroughly. A Killer Innovations Workshop™ is totally focused on finding significant and highly profitable departures from your current offerings or practices that will be difficult to imitate.

No more ‘me too’.

Asking the right questions – KILLER QUESTIONS – is the key here. Such questions get you thinking at a particular issue from various perspectives you’ve previously not considered. And because the questions are rich and interesting then so are the answers. For example…

What is the largest hassle your customers do not know they are putting up with?

How would (insert famous brand or person’s name) approach this problem?

What if you had to launch it in 24-hours?

These are just three of over 100 Killer Questions that have helped businesses and not-for-profits in the most unexpected of ways.

Handing Over The Keys

Ideal if you’re wanting to ‘break the shackles’ by exploring how others would run your business. This workshop explores what market leaders in UNRELATED CATEGORIES would do if they ran your business.

What would Bunnings Hardware do differently? McDonalds? FOXTEL?

What if it were conceptualised by J K Rowling? Richard Branson? Robbie Williams? Nelson Mandela?

This workshop always results in some truly fresh and energised thinking.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Training in written communication

What are the key benefits?

• Engage audiences
• Refine storytelling skills
• Enhanced creativity in writing = better engagement = better outcomes

Creative writing and storytelling that will enable you to be more productive in all your writing and ensure you overcome “writer’s block”.

This is an opportunity to work with Australia’s leading writers and storytellers, and take away some meaningful creation. You will learn how to truly engage, compel and inspire your audience through the mode of storytelling and creative writing. This workshop is all about finding your motivation through creative techniques while remaining focused on business relevance and outcomes.

Learn how to create and select the right story for your audience and your objective. This is a meaningful engagement and leadership tool to support innovation capability within the organisation. You will find out that you are more creative than you thought!

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• When you are struggling with limited thinking within your team or organisation
• When you need new ideas and techniques to implement them
• To bring your team together to brainstorm and forecast the future
• To evolve your product or service offering
• To inspire creativity and foster innovation

What are the key benefits?

• Changing your organisational culture
• Mantra: We are all “innovators”
• Removal of self-limiting beliefs
• Creative “out-of-the-box” thinking
• Guaranteed way to generate new ideas

Most organisations say they are innovative, yet very few have a true culture of innovation. This program explores the definitions of creativity and innovation and reminds us that innovation cannot occur without creative thought. You will learn how to develop a strong innovation culture leading to improved wellbeing, engagement and productivity to outperform your competitors. (We can conduct a health check of innovation capability for your organisation and then recommend action steps).

Objectives:

• Define the terms ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’
• Understand why creativity has become our most endangered species, and why it more important now than ever before
• Explore barriers to creativity and innovation and strategies to overcome these
• Discover the potential of an ‘enquiring mind’
• Learn why diversity and hearing every voice matters
• Experience a range of tools and processes for accessing your own inner creative genius
• Explore ideas for leading the creation of a more creative workplace in your own organisation

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Implementing an Innovation team or program
• Communication and team building between siloed teams, or company-wide

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication & self-awareness
• Enhanced wellbeing (click here for more on the benefits of choral singing for employees)
• Team leadership development
• Enhanced productivity

Would you like your teams to deliver exceptional performance and productivity? This creative leadership program takes participants on a transformational journey out of their comfort zone. Through learning to let go and changing the paradigm of their own abilities, participants gain insight into the potential of their colleagues and teams. An outstanding and joyful program for team building, development of innovation capacity and leadership.

BEYOND THE PARADIGM – Leadership, creativity & change

Many organizations today have turned to workplace innovation programs in the conviction that creativity is one key to competitive survival. And organizations know their ability to innovate lies in the creativity and abilities of their people. The individual needs to understand and adopt internal thinking processes that increase the potential for new thinking. Organizations have to do the same.

TEAMBUILDING – LEADERSHIP – CREATIVITY/INNOVATION – COMMUNICATION

The workshop will offer a powerful and transformational team leadership development experience in which self-limiting beliefs are removed and participants will find a new paradigm for ideas, potential and possibility.
Research clearly shows the need to engage the right side of the brain to unlock our creative thought processes. The key to unlock this right side function, that is easiest to access, is music. This is why music in its various forms is so popular with people of all backgrounds. Whatever the role, function, department or level music is a universal language and leveller. Its power to generate open mindedness and creative thoughts is immense. Everyone can make a vital contribution to the energy within the organization by feeling free to express themselves.
In this workshop we use a variety of non-threatening, yet highly engaging processes to bring people together through the power of music.
This leads to generating of new streams of thoughts and ideas for business development. Importantly the group engagement factor lifts immeasurably through the shared experiences.
By engaging the creative right side of the brain with the logical left side, we bring a powerful whole- of- mind engagement process to all participants. This is then leveraged to create a shared vision and ownership of the goals of the organisation.
This is a brilliant team building activity designed to heighten wellbeing, creativity and innovation, emotional expression and self awareness. We have successfully delivered this approach to groups ranging from executive teams of 10 to entire departments and companies and more than1000 delegates at national and international conferences and special events. Industries have ranged from banking, finance and accounting to resources, retail, IT and telecommunications.

The results are meaningful, magical and measurable.

NB. Tania de Jong AM is one of Australia’s leading sopranos and social entrepreneurs. She often presents inspirational motivational keynote addresses. She can talk about developing a culture of innovation and perform a song or two to entertain and inspire at the start of the session. Click here for more info.

Benefits and Outcomes:

• inspire creativity and foster innovation
• step outside your comfort zone and see yourself and others with new eyes
• challenge, engage and motivate your people and teams
• improve self esteem and company morale
• increase focus, thereby reduce stress
• improve communication between business units
• help build teams post-merger or restructure
• energise and add variety to a conference or other meeting program
• recognize and reward top performers or a specific department or group
• release work related tension and frustrations in a constructive environment

“One of the most memorable participative workshops many of us have ever experienced. The “With One Voice” workshop highlighted our key aims of creativity and innovation as tools for great leadership, and team work. The workshop brought these to life and proved that working as one team aligned to one outcome, can achieve amazing results.” Mark Goddard, Spotlight

“A great activity that really brought together our 250 HR leaders as one team. We started with 70% saying they couldn’t sing and finished with an amazing four-part harmony song that they really were proud of. Highly recommended!” Andrea Grant,Telstra

“I felt uncontrollably joyous!” Foundation for Young Australians

“It brought the group so much closer together – the room was tingling with our combined energy.” Macquarie Bank

“I could not stop my lips from turning upwards and smiling during the session! It made me feel so happy and alive!” Accenture

“It was truly amazing to hear everyone singing in a manner none of them thought possible! Finding the key event to launch a day of creative and innovative thinking was not easy however we ‘nailed’ it with Finding Your Voice.” Centro Properties Group – Marketing Managers Conference

“This workshop managed to challenge and inspire us to think beyond the usual bounds of leadership style by taking us on a journey of breath, chant and song. It affirmed for many that if allowed, creativity can and will ‘create’ great leaders.” Committee for Melbourne Future Focus Group

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Management training
• New management

What are the key benefits?

• Unlock creative capital
• Enhance leadership potential

People, Passion, Purpose, Productivity

Are your managers strategic people leaders? Do they help inspire and unlock the “blue sky” ideas that will turn your business from good to great?

This program will assist you in unlocking your creative capital and leadership potential and create unlimited productivity.

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Radiant Thinking to organise thinking and develop winning new ideas

Objectives:    Developed by Tony Buzan – the Mind Map® is one of the most empowering and useful tools in the Deliberate Creative Thinking arsenal, now used by an estimated 250 million people around the world.  Tapping into the way brain actually works, Mind Mapping® allows ideas to radiate from a central focus while providing a holistic picture of the situation.  This program looks at the practical application of Mind Maps, and participants will learn to:

• Unlock the power of radiant thinking by taking a look at how the brain really works
• Develop Mind Maps that capture complete concepts and develop new ideas
• Capture and comprehend information easily with greater completeness and clarity
• Use Mind Mapping to plan activities of all types
• create Mind Maps individually and in teams

Benefits:        By understanding the way the brain really works and applying the Laws of Mind Mapping to organise and develop thinking, Mind Maps all people to:

ü  Plan major projects and other activities in a fraction of the time normally needed

ü  Capture and comprehend vast amounts of information relevant to their focus

ü  Work creatively either individually or in a team

ü  Generate innovative new ideas related to the task being worked on

ü  Communicate ideas and concepts easily and quickly

Outline:          The Laws of Mind Mapping explained and applied to enhance learning and creative thinking.

The Incredible Value of Mind Maps®

“Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.”
…Tony Buzan

“Jennifer presented an easy and enjoyable introduction to the way our minds work and how with Mind Mapping we can start to create order out of chaos!”

…Robin Pag

Presenters  Jennifer Goddard or Bill Jarrard, co-founders of the Buzan Centre: Aust/NZ and Mindwerx International Where to?   This Mindwerx Blended Learning Engagement extends the learning process post-workshop as participants receive a series of follow-up online eLessons to build on their knowledge and are invited to join a web 2.0 community website. The aim is to continue the learning journey well after the workshop.

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Maximise your capacity to absorb new information and sustain high performance!

You Can’t Avoid Information Overload.  You Can’t Beat Information Overload.  You Can’t Master Information Overload.  You Can’t Eliminate Information Overload.  What you CAN do is learn simple and easy techniques that productive people know, say, and do to MANAGE Information on an ongoing basis to reduce stress, increase effectiveness and live a happier, healthier and more successful life!

Every day, people are confronted by vast amounts of new information flowing in from a multitude of sources.  Almost everyone feels overwhelmed at some point when trying to absorb, understand and apply this new information.   The impact on individuals varies from simple time wasting to serious health problems, while for organisations the effect is compounded into a massive loss of productivity.

Objective:  The objective of this Mindwerx blended program is to explore the challenge of Information Overload and give participants insights, tools and training to effectively tackle the problem so they are better positioned to sustain high performance levels. Participants will learn to not only absorb information better, faster and in greater volume, but also enjoy doing so.

The ultimate aim is for participants to regain control of their lives and achieve their goals, and in so doing ensure the lasting success of their organisations.

Benefits:    The ability to more effectively Manage Information Overload benefits individuals, teams and the organisation as a whole.  Just some of these benefits are:

ü  More clarity of focus, resulting in faster, easier achievement of goals and a solid increase in personal performance and productivity, and greater satisfaction at work and home

ü  Less time wasted on unfocussed activities, badly run meetings and wasted effort relearning or relocating information that is already available

ü  Employees that manage information perform better, are less stressed and more productive, and therefore more committed to building the organisation

ü  Lower staff absenteeism and attrition, leading to reduced recruitment, induction and retraining costs and increased employee and customer client loyalty

Outline:     (available in 1 or 2-day formats, and a 60 minute keynote)

• The challenge of Information Overload and the impact on performance
• The Mindwerx Managing Information Overload Model
• The Power of Purpose & Focus to Manage Information
• Handling Incoming Information to get and keep what you need
• Organising Information to better retain, adapt, and manage it
• Retaining & Recalling the information you need, when you need it
• Critical and Creative Thinking to achieve outcomes you want
• Enhancing iBrain digital technologies to manage Information
• Managing your time to achieve your Life Goals
• The Mind & Body Connection and its relationship to Info Overload
• Putting it all together to sustain high performance

Duration:     This program runs best as a full-day interactive workshop, but is available as a half-day introduction and even a 60 minute Lunch & Learn or Conference Presentation.

Presenter:  Bill Jarrard and/or Jennifer Goddard, co-founders Mindwerx International

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Your introduction to the most powerful creative thinking tools available

Objective:      Edward de Bono is the world’s leading authority on creative thinking as a serious skill, and his techniques are used by organisations around the world.  From shifting 100 year old methods of mining in South Africa, to making the Olympic Games self-sufficient, to changing the way primary school children in Australia learn, de Bono’s methods have been impacting every aspect of education and business for 40 years.

At the heart of these methods is the simple premise that creativity is not an innate attribute held by the few, but is a skill that can be taught, and in which everyone can improve.  De Bono tools are easy to learn and use – yet have a real and powerful effect on thinking. In this program participants will learn:

• The brain is an associative self-patterning success system, not designed to be creative, but when trained, able to think in creative ways
• The vital ingredients for successful thinking without which it is impossible to be creative
• The secret of Lateral Thinking and how to cut across the brain’s neural pathways to generate original new ideas – on demand
• The basics of Six Thinking Hats® de Bono’s best known and useful framework for thinking
• How DATT-Direct Attention Thinking Tools are being used to make thinking more effective
• Where and how they can learn and apply de Bono tools for personal or business purposes

Benefits:        This workshop is an introductory program, designed to expose participants to the range of tools they can go on to use back at work.   Leading organisations around the world are now reaping the benefits generated by tools like the Six Thinking Hats, DATT and Lateral Thinking.  De Bono thinking tools allow people to:

ü  be fully involved in problem solving, improvement activities and innovative thinking

ü  have shorter more creative, collaborative and outcome oriented meetings

ü  creatively and innovatively solve problems and make better decisions – faster

ü  analyse and manage situations more thoroughly and effectively

ü  generate more innovative ideas to enhance organisational performance

Duration        This program runs best as a full-day interactive workshop, but is available as a half-day introduction and even a 60 minute Lunch & Learn or Conference Presentation.

Where to?      This Mindwerx Blended Learning Engagement extends the learning process post-workshop as participants receive a series of follow-up online eLessons to build on their knowledge and are invited to join a web 2.0 community website. The aim is to continue the learning journey well after the workshop.

Presenter:      Bill Jarrard, co-founder of Mindwerx International.  Bill has been using and sharing de Bono techniques with others for more than 25 years.

“The whole course was of immense value.  I have read Serious Creativity, however I realise
the only way to learn these tools is to do perfect practice.  After this course
I have the knowledge and model to do that.”
… Steve Farrugia

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Creativity and Collaboration with Deliberate Creative Thinking

Objective:        Designed for all levels of managers, team leaders, specialists and anyone wanting to ensure their own success, this program explores how Deliberate Creative Thinking™ is applied to promote better problem solving and speed innovation.  Upon completion participants will:

• Understand a simple process to facilitate breakthrough thinking and innovation
• Be able to use creative thinking tools to improve problem solving activities, improve processes, develop strategies, and pro-actively identify and address potential opportunities
• Have the ability to identify and challenge current thinking to develop bold new ideas that support strategic organisational goals, values and policies
• Work more creatively as individuals and participate more collaboratively in an environment of innovative thinking that supports work groups and project teams
• Understand environment elements that support creativity and innovation

Benefits:          Organisations that consistently apply Deliberate Creative Thinking principles and methods:

ü  creatively deal with complex situations and make better decisions – faster

ü  have shorter more productive meetings in a more collaborative team environment

ü  plan, manage and implement solutions more thoroughly and effectively

ü  generate innovative ideas to creatively prevent problems and realise opportunities

ü  create an environment of innovation where ideas are shared to achieve business goals

Outline:            This is a highly interactive blended learning program. Topics include:

Creativity on Demand – shows individuals and teams how to focus their creative energy when and where it is needed to facilitate idea generation and sharing

Tools for Deliberate Creative Thinking –simple but effective tools for effectively exploring and creatively solving problems and realising opportunities

Myths and Killers of Innovation – what not to do to create an innovative work environment

            Application and Action – applying creativity to daily issues is the key to success, and here we look at where you will be able to apply the methods learnt

Duration           This program runs best as a full-day interactive workshop, but is available as a half-day introduction and even a 60 minute Lunch & Learn or Conference Presentation.

Presenters:      Bill Jarrard or Jennifer Goddard, co-founders of Mindwerx International

                        “I felt it was a key I had been looking for to unlock unlimited potential and I can see many uses to put it to.  Can’t wait!” …Brian Varney

                        “This is a practical and very interesting seminar.  I enjoyed every minute of it.  I loved the examples and the way Bill delivers the seminar” …Angela Bone

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• Learn to power browse any book in fifteen minutes;
• Learn how eye movements are related to speed reading techniques;
• Learn the seven steps to speed up your reading;
• Learn twenty-two reading formulae for success;
• Apply brain skills and functions to effective reading;
• Improve comprehension and recall with reading;
• Match reading purpose and material with approach;
• Explore the Buzan Organic Study Technique (BOST);
• Learn steps to improve concentration and your reading environment; and
• Discover Mind Maps® for Information Management

Who Should Ideally suited for individuals and for teams from organisations who wish to learn highly effective

Attend?         skills to enhance the most complex thing in the universe – the Brain!

Duration        This program runs best as a full-day interactive workshop, but is available as a half-day introduction and even a 60 minute Lunch & Learn or Conference Presentation.

Facilitator      Jennifer Goddard or Bill Jarrard, founders Mindwerx International and the Buzan Centre Aust/NZ

This could be the greatest foundation that I can get to now improve other areas.
…Adrian Hansberry

Learning to speed read effortlessly and fluently has been claimed by millions of people around the world to be one of the most rewarding and significant achievements of their lives.
 … Tony Buzan

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Perspective shift / warm up (great at the start of a conference or retreat)
• Timeline building
• Reward

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication one-on-one and in teams
• Sense of camaraderie and teamwork
• Creative “out-of-the-box” thinking
• Common understanding & sense of purpose

Team-building &  Communication workshops help your team to get creative, switch on their left brain & change the way they communicate through unique artistic experiences.

Start a conference on a high, strengthen the team over a morning, wake up an audience mid-afternoon or get creative after dinner.

It has been well documented that creative programs and training improve self esteem, self-awareness, motivation, release work-related tensions and stress, and enable effective communication between colleagues.

Indeed, researchers such as Professor Michael Posner have found evidence that arts training strengthens the brain’s attention system, which in turn can improve cognition more generally.

The key to successful leadership, teamwork and engagement is effective communication. In today’s fast-paced environment, we need to think outside the box in order to stay connected, hear and be heard.

Jessamy’s methods,used by some of Australia’s largest companies, foster discussion and connectivity, break down silos across the value chain and inspire an attitude of innovation in employees.

Jessamy has developed a range of workshops, and tailors each event to suit the needs and outcome expectations of the individual client.

Please download the Workshop Overview for more information, or get in touch.

“Jessamy facilitated a team building workshop for my team at Origin Energy. Using her creative skills, Jessamy encouraged the team to create a piece of artwork reflecting a shared vision of where we saw the team heading. 

Jessamy’s approach was extremely professional and reflected her extensive creative talents. I would thoroughly recommend Jessamy for any similar project.” - Tony Monley, Origin Energy

About the Artist…

Jessamy Gee is a visual artist who specialises in using art as a tool for team-building and better communication through dynamic classes, workshops and visual interpretations at conferences and events (clients have included NAB, MARS Asia, ANZ, Telstra, Australia Post, Origin Energy, Minter Ellison, General Mills Australia and more).

Jessamy studied Drawing and Portraiture, Contemporary Painting Techniques and Art Therapy at Box Hill Institute of TAFE, Victorian College of the Arts, and La Trobe University respectively.

Jessamy also takes active part in a variety of community-based work – in particular working with young people of diverse abilities - and strives to promote equality, respect and inclusion for these groups through creative programmes.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

•  Communication and team building for new teams
•  Communication and team building within siloed organisations
•  Perspective shift / warm-up/ energiser (great at the start of a conference or retreat)
•  Add variety, engagement and challenge to a conference or other meeting program
•  Help build teams post-merger or restructure and to deal with change
•  Release work related tension and frustrations in a constructive environment
•  Reward and incentive

BENEFITS AND OUTCOMES:

•  Inspire creativity and foster innovation, “out-of-the-box” thinking
•  Step outside your comfort zone and see yourself and others with new eyes
•  Removal of self-limiting beliefs
•  Challenge, engage and motivate your people and teams
•  Improve self esteem and company morale
•  Increase focus, thereby reduce stress
•  Sense of camaraderie and teamwork
•  Improve communication between business units
•  Help build teams post-merger or restructure and to deal with change
•  Common understanding & sense of purpose
•  Energise and add variety to a conference or other meeting program
•  Recognize and reward top performers or a specific department or group
•  Release work related tension and frustrations in a constructive environment

Many organizations today have turned to workplace innovation programs in the conviction that creativity is one key to competitive survival. And organizations know their ability to innovate lies in the creativity and abilities of their people. The individual needs to understand and adopt internal thinking processes that increase the potential for new thinking. Organizations have to do the same. The workshop will offer a powerful and transformational team leadership development experience in which self-limiting beliefs are removed and participants will find a new paradigm for ideas, potential and possibility.

Research clearly shows the need to engage the right side of the brain to unlock our creative thought processes. The key to unlock this right side function, that is easiest to access, is music. This is why music in its various forms is so popular with people of all backgrounds. Whatever the role, function, department or level music is a universal language and leveller. Its power to generate open mindedness and creative thoughts is immense. Everyone can make a vital contribution to the energy within the organization by feeling free to express themselves.

In this workshop we use a variety of non-threatening, yet highly engaging processes to bring people together and build trust through the power of music. This leads to generating of new streams of thoughts and ideas for business development. Importantly the group engagement factor lifts immeasurably through the shared experiences. By engaging the creative right side of the brain with the logical left side, we bring a powerful whole-of-mind engagement process to all participants. This is then leveraged to create a shared vision and ownership of the goals of the organisation.

This is a brilliant team building activity designed to heighten wellbeing, creativity and innovation, emotional expression and self awareness. We have successfully delivered this approach to groups ranging from executive teams of 10 to entire departments and companies and more than 1000 delegates at national and international conferences and special events. Industries have ranged from banking, finance and accounting to resources, retail, IT and telecommunications.  The results are meaningful, magical and measurable.

“The program is most useful in transforming and building a stronger and more cohesive team.” Visionstream/Leightons

“A great activity that really brought together our 250 HR leaders as one team. We started with 70% saying they couldn’t sing and finished with an amazing four-part harmony song that they really were proud of. Highly recommended!” Andrea Grant, Telstra

“The speech was heartfelt and moving and you presented one of the most memorable participative workshops many of us have experienced. The ‘With One Voice’ workshop highlighted our key aims of creativity and innovation as tools for great leadership and teamwork. The workshop brought these to life and proved that working as one team aligned to one outcome can achieve amazing results.”
“I felt uncontrollably joyous!” Australia Cares Conference

“It brought the group so much closer together; the room was tingling with our combined energy.” Participant from Macquarie Bank

“I could not stop my lips from turning upwards and smiling during the session! It made me feel so happy and alive!” Participant from Accenture

“It was truly amazing to hear everyone singing in a manner none of them thought possible! Finding the key event to launch a day of creative and innovative thinking was not easy however we ‘nailed’ it with Finding Your Voice.” Centro Properties Group – Marketing Managers Conference

“I was the facilitator for the annual planning workshop for a consulting firm. Everybody was contributing, and all were involved in the discussions. Then Tania came in for her session with the team. She took them to a higher level; she got people in touch with deeper places inside themselves, and released the energy…something special was radiated within the room – it was joyous to see everyone finding their potential, being creative and expressing themselves in ways that they never would have imagined possible. It took them beyond their previous limitations.” Geoff Hopkins – Principal, Holistique

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Warm up (great at the start of a conference or retreat)
• Reward

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication & self-awareness
• Enhanced wellbeing & confidence
• Sense of reward & appreciation
• Sense of belonging

Drumming and a range of other percussion instruments come together in a rhythmic group activity – proven and effective to bring together teams and find your inner rhythm. Participants enjoy greater freedom of expression, improve confidence and basically have fun!

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Warm up (great at the start of a conference or retreat)

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced focus
• Enhanced balance / perception skills
• Sense of achievement

Juggling is a great way to stimulate both sides of the brain and focus your team, increasing hand-eye coordination and balance/perception skills. Juggling is a great way to wake up and invigorate your team. They will have lots of fun, become more focused and ultimately help your company to achieve as they learn to let go of old patterns!

We all have to juggle so many things in our lives and work. Juggling is a great way to stimulate and focus your team, increasing hand-eye coordination and balance/perception skills. Juggling is a great way to wake up and stimulate your delegates. It will help increase hand eye coordination and balance/perception skills.

Delegates will have lots of fun, become more focused and ultimately help your company to achieve! Juggling balls can even be made with your company’s logo so that delegates can take home with them (this will be an additional cost).

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Conflict resolution
• Communication break downs
• Team-building

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication & self-awareness
• Build common goals & understanding
• Clarify & resolve  issues

Improvise, create, problem solve, communicate….

Got an issue at work? Bring it into a improvisation workshop and find lots of ways to solve your big and small issues. Develop authentic leaders for the future.

These workshops are fast paced, innovative and fun. Based on the improvisation basics we provide single sessions or a series of sessions for groups of 6 to 600.

The success of these programs lies in our ability to unpack the personal skills associated with innovative and adaptive leadership, authenticity, emotional intelligence and communication skills using improvisation exercises and training approaches.

The workshops introduce participants to the fundamental skills of improvisation such as accepting offers, blocking, wimping, hogging, trust, storytelling, body language and dealing with failure.

Fantastic rehearsals for life because of the inherent skill development in co-operative behaviors and self-control. These workshops are challenging and inspiring enough for even the most hardened groups and supportive and clear enough for the most nervous first-timers .

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Reward

What are the key benefits?

• Ability to communicate in a casual environment
• Sense of reward and appreciation

Don an apron and join your colleagues as you go on a journey of creativity and expression through the unique medium of hand-decorated cupcakes. One or many targetted themes can be developed to convey a elements of your company’s message. We can provide homemade cupcakes in a range of flavours, and decorations including icing, sprinkles, fondant, nuts, strawberries, lollies, coconut and more. Watch as everyone’s ideas and interpretations combine to create something spectacular, meaningful and tasty!

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When / why would you book this service?

• Workshops / conferences / breakouts
• Internal & external meetings
• Cafe conversations
• Any analysis, dialogue, decision-making, brainstorming, conflict resolution or strategising.

What are the key benefits?

• Increased engagement
• Common understanding of the subject
• Acknowledgement all ideas are being heard
• Common sense of ownership
• Comprehension and memory tool

Graphic Recording (or Scribing) is the process of visually recording a presentation, conversation or meeting using a combination of images and words to create a ‘map’ of key themes and ideas.

More than just pictures, the process is a powerful tool in assisting analysis, dialogue, decision-making, brainstorming, conflict resolution and visualising strategy.

It also creates a clear common understanding, sense of ownership, comprehension and memory tool for the participants. We are incredible at remembering pictures. Hear a piece of information, and three days later you’ll remember 10% of it. Add a picture and you’ll remember 65%.

Used by leading innovators such as TED Talks and Creative Innovation, Graphic Recording is a powerful  tool to visually enhance presentations as they are happening, as well as record the themes & ideas from the day in a clear, engaging and easily accessible way.

Images are created on a whiteboard as the presentation or conversation is in session, in real time. The final images are then photographed and can be edited and coloured for use in slides, websites and reports.

Images can also be used to develop models and corporate journey images that can be refined and reproduced

For more information on how Graphic Recording can enhance your next event, please get in touch.

“If there was only one word I could use about Jessamy and her work it would be this: WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW.

She absolutely stunned me (and the other 200 people in the room) with her genius (yes, a strong word) at being able to capture a fast-moving seminar I was presenting. The program was called INSPIRE! And that is precisely what Jessamy does. Use her — you’ll be as thrilled and stunned as I have been.”  Paul Dunn – Chairman, Buy1Give1

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Warm up / loosen up (great at the start of a conference or retreat)

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced relaxation
• Break down of inhibitions
• Increased blood flow = energy = efficiency & mood-lifter

Movement and creative dance incorporating a variety of styles designed to free your body and mind. From Afrobeat and jungle to salsa and ballroom. A wonderful teambuilding activity.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Warm up (great at the start of a conference or retreat)

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication & self-awareness
• Enhanced wellbeing (click here for more on the benefits of singing for wellbeing)
• Enhanced productivity

Let your group write their own song, create their own lyrics and tunes with composers and then record them. You could even write your own company song for the new marketing campaign.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Reward

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication in a non-threatening environment
• Sense of reward & appreciation

Whip up a wicked meal…a cooking experience to titillate your taste buds and bring your team into delicious alignment or compete to create the dish of the day.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Networking event
• Client dinner
• Reward

What are the key benefits?

• Sense of reward & appreciation
• Highest quality entertainment & dining
• Impressive to any client!

This stunning experience features a Master Chef and one or more divine divas, who have performed with Australia’s major opera and musical companies. Presented by Music Theatre Australia, one of Australia’s leading chefs will cook up a magnificent feast. Between courses a sultry siren will seduce your guests with her golden voice, glamour and pizzazz. Your Diva can customise her songs to suit your menu, venue and business and pay special tribute to key guests and occasions.

The repertoire may include arias and duets from Opera to Broadway, and songs in French, Italian, Chinese or other languages to suit the food and guests. Favourite highlights from Shirley Bassey, Edith Piaf, Bocelli, Phantom of the Opera, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, Lloyd Webber, Bernstein, Gershwin and the beautiful Flower Duet from Lakme are just some of the choices available. The diva/s perform with backing CDs or pianist in a variety of venues from private homes and grand mansions, board rooms and ballrooms to theatres and concert halls, from 10 to 1000 guests …and for all sorts of special events, where a little seduction is in order! Don’t miss this decadent, delicious dining with the diva experience.

“Wow! This was the ultimate treat. Gorgeous food, wine and song all in one, in our own home! Who could ask for more? Our guests have not stopped raving!” - Private client

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Running / starting your own business
• Small businesses
• New businesses
• In need of inspiration & motivation

What are the key benefits?

• Business growth
• Clarity of ideas & direction
• Third-party accountability
• Enhanced productivity
• Ongoing support

A range of coaches and mentors for leaders and emerging leaders for one-on-one or group mentoring.

We have all needed some kind of mentoring at some point in our lives. A mentor is defined to be “a wise and trusted counselor or teacher”.

Why do you need a mentor? Here’s 5 reasons[1]:

Someone to be accountable to. It is often too easy for business owners to neglect the management and marketing of their business through recurring postponement of tasks. Sharing of your goals with your Mentor means that if you don’t complete them and your business marketing lapses, your mentor wants to know why.

Someone to help you refine your ideas into practice. You have great ideas… some you will be able to put into practice easily, but others will be raw and need refinement to implement. Your coach has a vast knowledge of almost every marketing strategy, what makes them work and what confounds their effectiveness.

Someone that has a wealth of ideas to grow your business. For when you’ve just ‘run out of ideas’ on how to sell your products and services. But at all times, your coach will endeavor to make your contact educational, so that you understand the principals and can apply them for the rest of your business life.

Someone that has the contacts you need. When you need contacts for your business, equipment, investment advice, or just growing your library, your mentor has the contacts and knows where to find the information.

Someone outside, looking in. After a while, you find that you don’t see the business with the same clarity that you used to. Like living next to a busy road; after a while you don’t hear the traffic. Your mentor is there to take a fresh look at you and your business. He knows what to look for and most importantly, sees what your customers see. And he will always give you feedback.

“Words cannot fully express how thankful I am for your guidance and support. I didn’t want the session to come to an end! I wanted to get as much of your insights as I could. It is powerful and incredibly enabling to be amongst people who share a passion for helping others be the best they can be.” Mentoring client

[1]: Steve Leach, Australian Financial Services Directory

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• To tell your stories in a compelling way
• To learn how to truly engage, compel and inspire your audience
• To create a deeper level of understanding and connection
• To truly engage with internal and external stakeholders
• To evolve your product or service offering
• To inspire creativity and foster innovation

What are the key benefits?

• Guaranteed way to generate new connections with your staff and clients
• Moe engaging and compelling presentation style
• Greater self confidence and belief
•  Sharing stories with others in a meaningful way

From half day to two day programs with one on one coaching to teach you presentation and story telling skills to move your audience.

Have you ever sat through one of those boring presentations, where the monotonous tone of the speaker is only made worse by slides that make your dog’s breakfast look like a work of fine art?

In this fascinating and evocative session, you will learn how to truly engage, compel and inspire your audience through the mode of storytelling. This workshop is all about finding your motivation through creative techniques while remaining focused on business relevance and outcomes. One on one coaching also available.

With a background in law, politics, business and performing arts, the facilitators bring to the program a unique combination of skills and techniques that meld the corporate and creative worlds.

Topics

Stories, Stories Everywhere

From ‘Igniting Change’ to ‘Talking Values’ there are many types of stories to suit the situation. Learn how to pick the right story for your audience and your objective.

Tapping into Emotions

You can tell me how excited you are, but if you want to captivate me you’ll need to show me as well. We’ll show you how to develop skills that increase your stage presence and make you a compelling speaker.

Mastery of Movement

Lecterns are fine as far as they go, they just don’t go very far. Learn how to master the stage like Baryshnikov.

Life is full of Characters (and so are your stories)

Stories are about people and everyone is different. Tells us about the people in your stories. We want to see them and we want to hear them.

How Do We Do It?

Using dramatic techniques as a base and linking them to practical application for business presentations. This is all about finding your motivation through creative techniques while remaining focused on business relevance and outcomes. The facilitators bring a unique combination of skills and techniques that meld the corporate and creative worlds.

Topics – Half Day Program

• The 4 elements of storytelling performance
• Picking the right story
• Personal Coaching
• Participants: 2 — 4

Topics – Full Day Program

• The 4 elements of storytelling performance
• Picking the right story
• Tapping into Emotion
• Personal Coaching
• Participants: 4 — 6

Topics – 2- Day Program

• The 4 elements of storytelling performance
• Picking the right story
• Tapping into Emotions
• Emotional Structure
• Personal Coaching
• Characterization
• The art of movement
• Participants: 4 — 6

While people might forget dry, boring information they will usually remember stories. Most of us were raised on stories and when we allow ourselves to get past our grown-up-ness, we can all remember how much we (still) love, connect and identify with a good tale. They are both liberating and empowering. They are a most effective way to teach, learn and create a deeper level of understanding and connection.

We remember and connect with stories because they affect us on a level much deeper than the purely cerebral. They bring a level of understanding and revelation that information (of itself) doesn’t. Statistics, facts, data and theories are easily forgettable but stories (which are simply information with pictures and feelings) touch us mentally, emotionally and, even, physiologically. Stories make us laugh and cry. Happy and sad. They affect our nervous system. Excite us. Scare us. They can increase our heart rate. Or lower it. They can trigger chemical changes in our body (cortisol, adrenaline, endorphins). They can make us breathe faster or slower. And they can open the door to a level of understanding that only comes through a ‘three-dimensional’ (physical, emotional and psychological) learning experience.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• When you need new ideas and techniques to implement them
• To bring your team together to brainstorm and forecast the future
• To evolve your product or service offering
• To inspire creativity and foster innovation
• To create that killer promotion or new campaign

What are the key benefits?

• Guaranteed way to generate new ideas
• Helps you work out how to achieve your goals
• Removal of self-limiting beliefs
• Creative “out-of-the-box” thinking
• Instant return on investment and profits from ideas generated and implemented

Let us help you think differently (and more effectively) using some of the most effective and rewarding creative thinking techniques from around the world. A GUARANTEED WAY TO GENERATE NEW IDEAS and work out how to implement them. We help you work out how to achieve your goals. Double the results from last year’s direct mail campaign. Create that killer promotion. Increase web traffic. Evolve your product or service offering. Develop ways for greater staff engagement.

A guaranteed way to generate new ideas

There was a blind man sitting on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet and a sign that read: “I am blind, please help.” A kind soul was walking by and stopped to observe. He saw that the blind man had only a few coins in his hat. He dropped in more coins and, without asking for permission, took the sign and rewrote it. He returned the sign to the blind man and left. That afternoon the would-be sign writer returned to the blind man and noticed that his hat was full of bills and coins. The blind man recognised his footsteps and asked if it was he who had rewritten his sign and what he had written on it. The person responded: “Nothing that was not true. I just wrote the message a little differently.” The new sign read: “Today is Spring and I cannot see it.” Sometimes we need to change our approach.

Never has a truer word has been spoken. The fact is, as marketers there’s safety in doing the same old thing. It may well produce the same old results, but at least we know what we’re in for! Right?

On the flip side, what are you missing out on? What could be if you challenged the status quo?

Wouldn’t you love to double the results from last year’s direct mail campaign? Increase web traffic? Evolve your product or service offering? Create that killer promotion? Or develop ways for greater staff engagement?

If your head is nodding then let us help you think differently (and more effectively) using some of the most effective and rewarding creative thinking techniques from around the world…We will help have your business booming in no time. Read on for a taste of what you can expect…

The Catapult Method

Ideal for when you sense there must be better, more effective ways of doing business. Particularly revealing for businesses competing in a mature industry.
Keeping up with the category and the competition too often results in a whole lot of ‘ME TOO’ companies chasing the same goals and outcomes. This ends in price-cutting, increased marketing spend and reduced margins.

At the same time it creates an opportunity for smart organisations to spend time focusing on telling their own story – CATAPULTING THEMSELVES AHEAD OF THEIR COMPETITION.

The Catapult Method is a revealing process aimed at EXPOSING & CHALLENGING THE RULES OF YOUR INDUSTRY.

Killer Questions

Think of this as brainstorming on steroids! Ideal for when an organisation has a specific area they want to explore deeply and thoroughly. A Killer Innovations Workshop™ is totally focused on finding significant and highly profitable departures from your current offerings or practices that will be difficult to imitate.

No more ‘me too’.

Asking the right questions – KILLER QUESTIONS – is the key here. Such questions get you thinking at a particular issue from various perspectives you’ve previously not considered. And because the questions are rich and interesting then so are the answers. For example…

What is the largest hassle your customers do not know they are putting up with?

How would (insert famous brand or person’s name) approach this problem?

What if you had to launch it in 24-hours?

These are just three of over 100 Killer Questions that have helped businesses and not-for-profits in the most unexpected of ways.

Handing Over The Keys

Ideal if you’re wanting to ‘break the shackles’ by exploring how others would run your business. This workshop explores what market leaders in UNRELATED CATEGORIES would do if they ran your business.

What would Bunnings Hardware do differently? McDonalds? FOXTEL?

What if it were conceptualised by J K Rowling? Richard Branson? Robbie Williams? Nelson Mandela?

This workshop always results in some truly fresh and energised thinking.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• When you are struggling with limited thinking within your team or organisation
• When you need new ideas and techniques to implement them
• To bring your team together to brainstorm and forecast the future
• To evolve your product or service offering
• To inspire creativity and foster innovation

What are the key benefits?

• Changing your organisational culture
• Mantra: We are all “innovators”
• Removal of self-limiting beliefs
• Creative “out-of-the-box” thinking
• Guaranteed way to generate new ideas

Most organisations say they are innovative, yet very few have a true culture of innovation. This program explores the definitions of creativity and innovation and reminds us that innovation cannot occur without creative thought. You will learn how to develop a strong innovation culture leading to improved wellbeing, engagement and productivity to outperform your competitors. (We can conduct a health check of innovation capability for your organisation and then recommend action steps).

Objectives:

• Define the terms ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’
• Understand why creativity has become our most endangered species, and why it more important now than ever before
• Explore barriers to creativity and innovation and strategies to overcome these
• Discover the potential of an ‘enquiring mind’
• Learn why diversity and hearing every voice matters
• Experience a range of tools and processes for accessing your own inner creative genius
• Explore ideas for leading the creation of a more creative workplace in your own organisation

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Management training
• New management

What are the key benefits?

• Unlock creative capital
• Enhance leadership potential

People, Passion, Purpose, Productivity

Are your managers strategic people leaders? Do they help inspire and unlock the “blue sky” ideas that will turn your business from good to great?

This program will assist you in unlocking your creative capital and leadership potential and create unlimited productivity.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Sharing experience & valuable skills throughout organisations
• Bridge generation gaps in teams / organisations
• Leadership training

What are the key benefits?

• Improved leadership skills
• Improved communication skills
• Rewarding experience

This is a mentoring workshop teaching you effective skills to be a mentor and/or mentee.

Mentoring is an essential leadership skill. In addition to managing and motivating people, it’s also important that you can help others learn and grow. An effective mentor relationship is rewarding to the mentor as well as to the mentee.

You will improve your own leadership and communication skills, learn new perspectives and new ways of thinking.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• To increase your networking skills generally
• In preparation for a particularly important event or opportunity

What are the key benefits?

• Tangible, functional skills training
• Networking ‘tools’ that can be used indefinitely
• Increased confidence

Networking Queen Tania de Jong AM will teach you the skills to connect on all levels with your team, community and industry to access more potential clients than you can imagine!

Tania will teach you how to decide people are important, master the art of conversation, overcome shyness, create your own opportunities and systemise your approach to networking.

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Radiant Thinking to organise thinking and develop winning new ideas

Objectives:    Developed by Tony Buzan – the Mind Map® is one of the most empowering and useful tools in the Deliberate Creative Thinking arsenal, now used by an estimated 250 million people around the world.  Tapping into the way brain actually works, Mind Mapping® allows ideas to radiate from a central focus while providing a holistic picture of the situation.  This program looks at the practical application of Mind Maps, and participants will learn to:

• Unlock the power of radiant thinking by taking a look at how the brain really works
• Develop Mind Maps that capture complete concepts and develop new ideas
• Capture and comprehend information easily with greater completeness and clarity
• Use Mind Mapping to plan activities of all types
• create Mind Maps individually and in teams

Benefits:        By understanding the way the brain really works and applying the Laws of Mind Mapping to organise and develop thinking, Mind Maps all people to:

ü  Plan major projects and other activities in a fraction of the time normally needed

ü  Capture and comprehend vast amounts of information relevant to their focus

ü  Work creatively either individually or in a team

ü  Generate innovative new ideas related to the task being worked on

ü  Communicate ideas and concepts easily and quickly

Outline:          The Laws of Mind Mapping explained and applied to enhance learning and creative thinking.

The Incredible Value of Mind Maps®

“Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.”
…Tony Buzan

“Jennifer presented an easy and enjoyable introduction to the way our minds work and how with Mind Mapping we can start to create order out of chaos!”

…Robin Pag

Presenters  Jennifer Goddard or Bill Jarrard, co-founders of the Buzan Centre: Aust/NZ and Mindwerx International Where to?   This Mindwerx Blended Learning Engagement extends the learning process post-workshop as participants receive a series of follow-up online eLessons to build on their knowledge and are invited to join a web 2.0 community website. The aim is to continue the learning journey well after the workshop.

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Maximise your capacity to absorb new information and sustain high performance!

You Can’t Avoid Information Overload.  You Can’t Beat Information Overload.  You Can’t Master Information Overload.  You Can’t Eliminate Information Overload.  What you CAN do is learn simple and easy techniques that productive people know, say, and do to MANAGE Information on an ongoing basis to reduce stress, increase effectiveness and live a happier, healthier and more successful life!

Every day, people are confronted by vast amounts of new information flowing in from a multitude of sources.  Almost everyone feels overwhelmed at some point when trying to absorb, understand and apply this new information.   The impact on individuals varies from simple time wasting to serious health problems, while for organisations the effect is compounded into a massive loss of productivity.

Objective:  The objective of this Mindwerx blended program is to explore the challenge of Information Overload and give participants insights, tools and training to effectively tackle the problem so they are better positioned to sustain high performance levels. Participants will learn to not only absorb information better, faster and in greater volume, but also enjoy doing so.

The ultimate aim is for participants to regain control of their lives and achieve their goals, and in so doing ensure the lasting success of their organisations.

Benefits:    The ability to more effectively Manage Information Overload benefits individuals, teams and the organisation as a whole.  Just some of these benefits are:

ü  More clarity of focus, resulting in faster, easier achievement of goals and a solid increase in personal performance and productivity, and greater satisfaction at work and home

ü  Less time wasted on unfocussed activities, badly run meetings and wasted effort relearning or relocating information that is already available

ü  Employees that manage information perform better, are less stressed and more productive, and therefore more committed to building the organisation

ü  Lower staff absenteeism and attrition, leading to reduced recruitment, induction and retraining costs and increased employee and customer client loyalty

Outline:     (available in 1 or 2-day formats, and a 60 minute keynote)

• The challenge of Information Overload and the impact on performance
• The Mindwerx Managing Information Overload Model
• The Power of Purpose & Focus to Manage Information
• Handling Incoming Information to get and keep what you need
• Organising Information to better retain, adapt, and manage it
• Retaining & Recalling the information you need, when you need it
• Critical and Creative Thinking to achieve outcomes you want
• Enhancing iBrain digital technologies to manage Information
• Managing your time to achieve your Life Goals
• The Mind & Body Connection and its relationship to Info Overload
• Putting it all together to sustain high performance

Duration:     This program runs best as a full-day interactive workshop, but is available as a half-day introduction and even a 60 minute Lunch & Learn or Conference Presentation.

Presenter:  Bill Jarrard and/or Jennifer Goddard, co-founders Mindwerx International

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Your introduction to the most powerful creative thinking tools available

Objective:      Edward de Bono is the world’s leading authority on creative thinking as a serious skill, and his techniques are used by organisations around the world.  From shifting 100 year old methods of mining in South Africa, to making the Olympic Games self-sufficient, to changing the way primary school children in Australia learn, de Bono’s methods have been impacting every aspect of education and business for 40 years.

At the heart of these methods is the simple premise that creativity is not an innate attribute held by the few, but is a skill that can be taught, and in which everyone can improve.  De Bono tools are easy to learn and use – yet have a real and powerful effect on thinking. In this program participants will learn:

• The brain is an associative self-patterning success system, not designed to be creative, but when trained, able to think in creative ways
• The vital ingredients for successful thinking without which it is impossible to be creative
• The secret of Lateral Thinking and how to cut across the brain’s neural pathways to generate original new ideas – on demand
• The basics of Six Thinking Hats® de Bono’s best known and useful framework for thinking
• How DATT-Direct Attention Thinking Tools are being used to make thinking more effective
• Where and how they can learn and apply de Bono tools for personal or business purposes

Benefits:        This workshop is an introductory program, designed to expose participants to the range of tools they can go on to use back at work.   Leading organisations around the world are now reaping the benefits generated by tools like the Six Thinking Hats, DATT and Lateral Thinking.  De Bono thinking tools allow people to:

ü  be fully involved in problem solving, improvement activities and innovative thinking

ü  have shorter more creative, collaborative and outcome oriented meetings

ü  creatively and innovatively solve problems and make better decisions – faster

ü  analyse and manage situations more thoroughly and effectively

ü  generate more innovative ideas to enhance organisational performance

Duration        This program runs best as a full-day interactive workshop, but is available as a half-day introduction and even a 60 minute Lunch & Learn or Conference Presentation.

Where to?      This Mindwerx Blended Learning Engagement extends the learning process post-workshop as participants receive a series of follow-up online eLessons to build on their knowledge and are invited to join a web 2.0 community website. The aim is to continue the learning journey well after the workshop.

Presenter:      Bill Jarrard, co-founder of Mindwerx International.  Bill has been using and sharing de Bono techniques with others for more than 25 years.

“The whole course was of immense value.  I have read Serious Creativity, however I realise
the only way to learn these tools is to do perfect practice.  After this course
I have the knowledge and model to do that.”
… Steve Farrugia

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Creativity and Collaboration with Deliberate Creative Thinking

Objective:        Designed for all levels of managers, team leaders, specialists and anyone wanting to ensure their own success, this program explores how Deliberate Creative Thinking™ is applied to promote better problem solving and speed innovation.  Upon completion participants will:

• Understand a simple process to facilitate breakthrough thinking and innovation
• Be able to use creative thinking tools to improve problem solving activities, improve processes, develop strategies, and pro-actively identify and address potential opportunities
• Have the ability to identify and challenge current thinking to develop bold new ideas that support strategic organisational goals, values and policies
• Work more creatively as individuals and participate more collaboratively in an environment of innovative thinking that supports work groups and project teams
• Understand environment elements that support creativity and innovation

Benefits:          Organisations that consistently apply Deliberate Creative Thinking principles and methods:

ü  creatively deal with complex situations and make better decisions – faster

ü  have shorter more productive meetings in a more collaborative team environment

ü  plan, manage and implement solutions more thoroughly and effectively

ü  generate innovative ideas to creatively prevent problems and realise opportunities

ü  create an environment of innovation where ideas are shared to achieve business goals

Outline:            This is a highly interactive blended learning program. Topics include:

Creativity on Demand – shows individuals and teams how to focus their creative energy when and where it is needed to facilitate idea generation and sharing

Tools for Deliberate Creative Thinking –simple but effective tools for effectively exploring and creatively solving problems and realising opportunities

Myths and Killers of Innovation – what not to do to create an innovative work environment

            Application and Action – applying creativity to daily issues is the key to success, and here we look at where you will be able to apply the methods learnt

Duration           This program runs best as a full-day interactive workshop, but is available as a half-day introduction and even a 60 minute Lunch & Learn or Conference Presentation.

Presenters:      Bill Jarrard or Jennifer Goddard, co-founders of Mindwerx International

                        “I felt it was a key I had been looking for to unlock unlimited potential and I can see many uses to put it to.  Can’t wait!” …Brian Varney

                        “This is a practical and very interesting seminar.  I enjoyed every minute of it.  I loved the examples and the way Bill delivers the seminar” …Angela Bone

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• Learn to power browse any book in fifteen minutes;
• Learn how eye movements are related to speed reading techniques;
• Learn the seven steps to speed up your reading;
• Learn twenty-two reading formulae for success;
• Apply brain skills and functions to effective reading;
• Improve comprehension and recall with reading;
• Match reading purpose and material with approach;
• Explore the Buzan Organic Study Technique (BOST);
• Learn steps to improve concentration and your reading environment; and
• Discover Mind Maps® for Information Management

Who Should Ideally suited for individuals and for teams from organisations who wish to learn highly effective

Attend?         skills to enhance the most complex thing in the universe – the Brain!

Duration        This program runs best as a full-day interactive workshop, but is available as a half-day introduction and even a 60 minute Lunch & Learn or Conference Presentation.

Facilitator      Jennifer Goddard or Bill Jarrard, founders Mindwerx International and the Buzan Centre Aust/NZ

This could be the greatest foundation that I can get to now improve other areas.
…Adrian Hansberry

Learning to speed read effortlessly and fluently has been claimed by millions of people around the world to be one of the most rewarding and significant achievements of their lives.
 … Tony Buzan

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Perspective shift / warm up (great at the start of a conference or retreat)
• Timeline building
• Reward

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication one-on-one and in teams
• Sense of camaraderie and teamwork
• Creative “out-of-the-box” thinking
• Common understanding & sense of purpose

Team-building &  Communication workshops help your team to get creative, switch on their left brain & change the way they communicate through unique artistic experiences.

Start a conference on a high, strengthen the team over a morning, wake up an audience mid-afternoon or get creative after dinner.

It has been well documented that creative programs and training improve self esteem, self-awareness, motivation, release work-related tensions and stress, and enable effective communication between colleagues.

Indeed, researchers such as Professor Michael Posner have found evidence that arts training strengthens the brain’s attention system, which in turn can improve cognition more generally.

The key to successful leadership, teamwork and engagement is effective communication. In today’s fast-paced environment, we need to think outside the box in order to stay connected, hear and be heard.

Jessamy’s methods,used by some of Australia’s largest companies, foster discussion and connectivity, break down silos across the value chain and inspire an attitude of innovation in employees.

Jessamy has developed a range of workshops, and tailors each event to suit the needs and outcome expectations of the individual client.

Please download the Workshop Overview for more information, or get in touch.

“Jessamy facilitated a team building workshop for my team at Origin Energy. Using her creative skills, Jessamy encouraged the team to create a piece of artwork reflecting a shared vision of where we saw the team heading. 

Jessamy’s approach was extremely professional and reflected her extensive creative talents. I would thoroughly recommend Jessamy for any similar project.” - Tony Monley, Origin Energy

About the Artist…

Jessamy Gee is a visual artist who specialises in using art as a tool for team-building and better communication through dynamic classes, workshops and visual interpretations at conferences and events (clients have included NAB, MARS Asia, ANZ, Telstra, Australia Post, Origin Energy, Minter Ellison, General Mills Australia and more).

Jessamy studied Drawing and Portraiture, Contemporary Painting Techniques and Art Therapy at Box Hill Institute of TAFE, Victorian College of the Arts, and La Trobe University respectively.

Jessamy also takes active part in a variety of community-based work – in particular working with young people of diverse abilities - and strives to promote equality, respect and inclusion for these groups through creative programmes.

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When / why would you book this service?

• Workshops / conferences / breakouts
• Internal & external meetings
• Cafe conversations
• Any analysis, dialogue, decision-making, brainstorming, conflict resolution or strategising.

What are the key benefits?

• Increased engagement
• Common understanding of the subject
• Acknowledgement all ideas are being heard
• Common sense of ownership
• Comprehension and memory tool

Graphic Recording (or Scribing) is the process of visually recording a presentation, conversation or meeting using a combination of images and words to create a ‘map’ of key themes and ideas.

More than just pictures, the process is a powerful tool in assisting analysis, dialogue, decision-making, brainstorming, conflict resolution and visualising strategy.

It also creates a clear common understanding, sense of ownership, comprehension and memory tool for the participants. We are incredible at remembering pictures. Hear a piece of information, and three days later you’ll remember 10% of it. Add a picture and you’ll remember 65%.

Used by leading innovators such as TED Talks and Creative Innovation, Graphic Recording is a powerful  tool to visually enhance presentations as they are happening, as well as record the themes & ideas from the day in a clear, engaging and easily accessible way.

Images are created on a whiteboard as the presentation or conversation is in session, in real time. The final images are then photographed and can be edited and coloured for use in slides, websites and reports.

Images can also be used to develop models and corporate journey images that can be refined and reproduced

For more information on how Graphic Recording can enhance your next event, please get in touch.

“If there was only one word I could use about Jessamy and her work it would be this: WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW.

She absolutely stunned me (and the other 200 people in the room) with her genius (yes, a strong word) at being able to capture a fast-moving seminar I was presenting. The program was called INSPIRE! And that is precisely what Jessamy does. Use her — you’ll be as thrilled and stunned as I have been.”  Paul Dunn – Chairman, Buy1Give1

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Perspective shift (great at the start of a conference or retreat)

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication & self-awareness
• Enhanced wellbeing (click here for more on the benefits of choral singing for employees)
• Enhanced productivity

Break your team into 2 or 3 groups, learn some vocal techniques, start singing in harmony and then sing-off against one another. This is a brilliant team building activity, shifting employees out of their comfort zone into a creative space. Your song could be performed in a public venue like a shopping centre, office foyer, gala event or hospital to raise funds for a charity of your choice.

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When / why would you book this workshop?

• Communication and team building for new teams
• Communication and team building within siloed organisations
• Perspective shift (great at the start of a conference or retreat)

What are the key benefits?

• Enhanced communication & self-awareness
• Enhanced wellbeing (click here for more on the benefits of choral singing for employees)
• Enhanced productivity

Break your team into 2 or 3 groups, learn some vocal techniques, start singing in harmony and then sing-off against one another. This is a brilliant team building activity, shifting employees out of their comfort zone into a creative space. Your song could be performed in a public venue like a shopping centre, office foyer, gala event or hospital to raise funds for a charity of your choice.