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More has been learned about
the brain and the mind in the
last
decade -the so-called decade of the brain -than during the entire previous history of psychology
and neuroscience.
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The
desire to become mentally sharp and perform to our potential
Numerous articles published by the prestigious Mayo
Clinic Foundation for Education and Research, the New
England Journal of Medicine and other distinguished
institutions, cite the importance of regular “brain
workouts” in helping all types of professionals go to
the next level in their personal and professional
development.
“People
have become aware that fitness does not stop at the neck,” says Dr Skiffington the Learning Director of BCI.
Dr Skiffington is a world leader in the development
and supply of special coaching tools/exercises designed to achieve
levels of "cognitive fitness"
or "mental fitness". Engaging
in mental exercises for the purpose of increasing
cognitive fitness has become a must have
for executive and leadership coaches.
The Science of 21st Century Professional Coaching
Dr Skiffington's brief, structured cognitive
coaching exercises are designed to activate new brain
circuits (stimulate the development of vital mental
functions), enhance neurotransmitter production
(increase brain capacity and performance), and
lengthen the brains neurons’ functional
life span (keep the brain and body healthy and
prevent mental atrophy). The cognitive coaching
exercises are designed to be delivered one-to-one
or in a group by a specially trained and
certified coaches.
Mind WorkOut Coaching Tools that wake the
mind
up and stimulate the brain to grow new
neural connections!
-Dr
Skiffington's Mind WorkOut
Tools provide coaches the ability
to help their clients maximize their greatest asset --Brain Power!
-First,
train
the brain and wake the mind up!
-Like
the rest of our body, the brain needs a workout to function
at its
best. People
are waking up to the fact that mental fitness is just
as
important as physical fitness -as
both require structured regular coaching
Everyone has the potential for achieving their
goals.
Dr Skiffington's proven Mind WorkOut
Coaching Tools®
provide the techniques and exercises to stimulate and use a
person's complete brain and get better results out of their
professional life.
And, the participants can expect to see results far quicker with brain
training than they can from physical workouts.
How to help
people create the freedom to succeed!
Coaches can now obtain
an invaluable proven roadmap for assisting persons reach their personal,
professional and organizational goals.
How
to help
people move from operating in autopilot!
-Show
your clients how to build mental muscle!
When a person achieves true
competence, they feel that they can handle any situation
that they encounter with ease.
Think of
the Mind WorkOut Coaching Tools® as a full brain workout -a series
of easy-to-apply, fun exercises capable of re-wiring and
creating new thinking skills to maximize potential
naturally.
>Mind
Coaching Tools
The Mind
WorkOut Coaching Tools use a
Two Stage
Empirically
Proven Process:
-The
'Foundational' Mind WorkOut Tools "wake up the
mind"
by enhancing core mental skills and,
-the Personal
Skills Coaching Courses
then focus on
applying
the
enhanced mental skills to building up nominated personal
skills
to achieve optimum levels of performance
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Worldwide Network
of Coaches
Ou Institute's Faculty members
can only be in so many places and work with so many
people. Today, thousands of companies (large and small)
and individuals all around the world
require support to become the best they are capable of.
By providing these unique Coaching Tools as part of her
internationally renowned Certified Master Coach Course
graduate coaches are therefore able to service the needs of a much larger, ever-growing
marketplace than she is positioned or able to service.
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Dr Skiffington's Mind
WorkOut Coaching Tools are currently
used
in more than 30 countries and are used by
hundreds of qualified practitioners worldwide (in private
practice, in corporate coaching programs and in schools).
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Learning
Partner Program..
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My
Mental Gym
WorkOuts have become
a business strategy
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MARTIN
TELFER comfortably
juggles an executive lifestyle
and an invigorating mental
fitness regime, having a
'workout' at least once a week
with his personal coach for the
past two years.
Asked how he finds time in a
50-hour-plus working week,
Telfer, 42, says: "I can't afford
not to make the time. I run my
own business and I need a
way to sustain the mental
energy required by my
business. I just need to be the
best I can."
Telfer is a member of a local
owner-operated mental fitness
centre 'Fitness Forever' that
delivers the WorkOuts to
nearby businesses and
schools. He describes the cost
of joining a WorkOut
Program as "an absolute
bargain". "It's all about
results,
and that's what brings you
back." he says.
Like many of us sometimes
struggling to be our best on
any given day and fearful
of the erosive effects that
aging will have on our mind,
vitality and youthfulness,
Telfer still admits to having
initial doubts. However, the
bottom-line results speak for
themselves and he adds.
"The mental exercises are fun
and easy, I feel fit and great,
I'm getting the best from my
self, I'm enjoying my work
and I'm even looking forward
to the latter stages of my life."
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Organizations
key staff who
have recently participated in
Dr
Skiffington's Courses include:
Walt Disney World
Toyota
Westminster University
Daimler Chrysler
Department of Defence
Vodafone
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Bank of New York
Mt Sinai Hospital
Rockwell Automation
Saatchi & Saatchi, NY
Canada Customs Agency
University Hospital Birmingham
Lower Colorado River Authority
Hong Kong Civil Service
Ernst & Young
Woolworths Group
Sony Corporation
Red Cross
Lloyds Bank
Empowering Lantinas
Nextel
SingHealth Polyclinics
Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals
Jane's Information Group
Mass Mutual Financial Group
Alcatel
ExcelleRX
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Suitable
For: Solo Practitioners,
Businesses, Organizations and Educational Providers.
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Dr Skiffington's
Behavioral Coaching Institute trains and certifies qualified individuals
with world
class complete resource coaching materials and step-by-step,
1-to1 instructional guidance.
- Professional
consultants, coaches and trainers etc -can grow their
business by adding Mind WorkOut Programs®
to their own client services toolkit with Learning Partner
Certification.
- Organizations
-can grow their people and their business by adding Mind
WorkOut Programs® to
their professional development initiatives
- Educational
Providers -can deliver 'world best standard'
coaching courses to their students.
>Mind
WorkOut Coaching Tools
"Easy
to apply and uniquely powerful. Dr Skiffington's Mind WorkOuts are the
most dynamic
innovation in personal change
management in over a decade.”
-Bill Harrison, Director of
Professional
Development, Office of Education. WA
"Dr
Skiffington's ground breaking Mind Tools are without
peer. Her stimulating coaching
tools have provided us some
fresh air and invaluable bottom-line results to both our
senior
management group and our front-line staff."
-Dr
Rogers. Director
IMG
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The Foundational Science
-Why it Works!
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The mental exercises and change models in the
Mind WorkOut Tools are supported by
published clinical research and have been cited in hundreds
of scientific studies and papers.
-The
Mind WorkOut Tools only use empirically proven techniques from the fields of Clinical
Psychology and Neuroscience and are delivered by the
validated Behavioral-Based Coaching Model of Change.
-The
Mind WorkOuts also use clinically
supported science backed by research studies by the US Department of Health and Human
Services (NIH) National Institutes of Health Agency.
Mind Workouts - "The key
to unlocking brain power ”
-Mental exercises can actually boost brain
function.
Your brain is like a muscle. The more you use it, the
more you can use it. And, the more you can stimulate the
right connections, the more you can prevent loss of
capacity and memory. It follows, that optimizing your
brain's function is essential to being the best you can.
The Mind WorkOut Coaching Tools use easy interactive
mental exercises (called elementary cognitive tasks, ECTs)
to stimulate a person's neurons to fire more rapidly and to
generate more connections within their brain. Recent
studies have confirmed that ECTs increase
blood flow to the region of the brain being exercised,
increase the number of neural receptors, and enhance the
uptake and synthesis of neurotransmitters, especially
those used by the brain to perform the specific cognitive
task. This is the cognitive equivalent of going to the gym
for a workout.
In one of the first major
attempts to test whether mental skills coaching
works, a recent federally funded study (of over
2,000 people) found that persons who
received 10 brain-training sessions scored much better on
thinking tests -and the effect lasted for at least three
years. Mind exercises taught strategies aimed at
improving reasoning skills, the processing of new
information and memory etc. "It was pretty
amazing," said Dr. Carlson (Professor at John
Hopkins University, School of Public Health).
Think of the WorkOut Tools as a full brain
workout to
maximize potential naturally!
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How are brain can grow new cells daily!
Until recently, it was believed that we
were born with all the brain cells we
would ever have, and that we would lose a
significant number of these cells as we aged.
The latest advancements in brain technology has
confirmed that we will all lose some brain
cells as we age, however (in the absence of
degenerative neurological diseases) the brain
is capable of generating new cells even in the
higher processing centers of the brain involving
learning and memory.
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Brain cell growth is
affected by mental exercises
Increasing the levels of activity in the
performance of specialized exercises has now been
shown to stimulate new cell growth. This production
of new nerve cells has been a revolutionary finding as
it means that our cognitive function can be
improved at virtually any stage in our life. (See: Brain
Facts -Neurogenesis -for details).
The need for an evidence-based
approach!
Structured, empirically proven mental exercises are already
a routine part of cognitive development
(delivered by qualified practitioners trained in
the behavioral sciences eg; clinical psychologists).
However, beware of gimmickry, pseudo-scientific,
so-called movement-based brain exercises -such as those involving arm
waving and stomach rubbing. Also, it's long been recognized that mental activities
such as; reading, crossword puzzles and brain
teasers etc. can also help improve some mental faculties.
However, recent brain-imaging studies
have shown that
more targeted mental exercises are a more effective
way to improve your cognitive functioning -as used
in the Mind WorkOut Coaching Tools developed by Dr Skiffington.
The Mind WorkOut Coaching
Tools utilize
proven Scientifically-Based Methodology!
Participates using the Mind WorkOut's
cognitive training exercises are able
to develop more neurons, more connections between
neurons and more efficiency in using their
brain cells -and have fun in doing so! It also follows
that baby boomers / senior management/leaders are able to build a "cognitive
reserve" account in their brain which they can
draw on at older ages to help protect themselves
against memory problems and diminishing thinking,
reasoning skills etc.
The principle underlying the Mind WorkOut Tools is
to improve the "core" abilities and
self-control necessary for an individual to
function at their best levels. The structured
exercises are part of a coaching 'behavior and
skills development model' used to work directly in
the areas where specific mental skills/
cognitive functions are to be enhanced.
Some Benefits
Dr Skiffington's Mind WorkOut Tools contain valid and proven exercises designed to
increase a person's cognitive functions -such as:
- processing information more quickly and
effectively
- improved decision-making processes -complete
more decision cycles per fixed unit of time
- increasing IQ
- performing multiple tasks simultaneously
(multi-tasking)
- retrieving and acting on information more
quickly and efficiently
- learning new information more easily
- increasing the power of attention,
concentration and awareness.
- reducing anxiety -being able to concentrate in
the presence of distractions
- developing faster physical reflexes and
sharper visual discrimination
>Mind
Coaching Tools
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Some Typical
User Groups:
Businesses/Organizations:
For HR and L&D
Managers, Trainers, Internal Coaches etc -looking to develop an organization's most
important asset -their people (individuals and
teams).
Professional
Service Providers:
For Consultants and Coaches in Private Practice etc -looking to enhance
a client's key
mental thinking skills and professional skill sets to
achieve optimum results and go to the next level of their
development.
For
Life Coaches: Helping Baby-Boomers face old-age -and
maintain their vitality and youthfulness through the use of mental exercises
to: a) further develop their mental faculties against
future loss and, b) promote a healthy life.
For Educators and Education
Coaches: -looking to
develop a student's thinking, learning and personal skills to best succeed at school and beyond.
-For
Use by Organizations and Businesses
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used by many of the world's leading companies and organizations: |
- The Mind WorkOuts are a personal development system
that delivers a tremendous ROI on people performance.
Developing Professional
Power by enhancing Thinking!
More and
more professionals are engaging in Mind WorkOuts to further
develop their thinking skill sets and give themselves
that extra edge.
For a good
business to become a great business it must realize it's
people's Strengths and fulfil their Potential..
-The bottom-line!
Unleashing the full power of an organization starts with the
individual. With Dr Skiffington's Mind WorkOut Coaching
Tools®
the
individual can be shown how to self-manage himself or
herself and significantly up-grade his or her
personal and professional skill sets, feel balanced,
alert, in control and powerful and be able to make the
greatest contribution to the organization. When an
organization's people move into a zone of optimum,
sustainable best performance, so does the organization.
Some further benefits include: Mastering Your Workload
and Minimizing Stress, Finding Focus, Building
Self-Confidence, Finding Fulfilment and Better Career
Direction.
Management and Staff love the Mind WorkOut Coaching Tools because they:
- are packed with fun, fast paced 'real-world'
learning that everyone can immediately apply
- improve well-being and performance both immediately and for the
long term
- deliver
measurable, positive change in thinking skills that
affect professional skills
- are highly popular and engender great goodwill and
loyalty to employers that offer the Coaching.
- are easily integrated with other training, coaching
and professional development initiatives
Fun,
Enlightening and Productive use of Coaching -that
Pays For Itself Over and Over Again!
Dr
Skiffington's coaching tools tackle real-world organizational
challenges that yield far greater value than the cost of
the coaching programs (including the value of the employees’ “non-productive”
time in the training!).
For
Use by Individual
Practitioners
"Dr Skiffington
is one of the world's foremost authorities in the development of
personal development
methodology and techniques and her Institute is without doubt the world's
leading supplier of change
technology."
-HR Monthly
2005
By using
Dr Skiffington's Coaching Tools you can take real action towards improving someone's life!
The Coaching Tools are for everyone who
want to discover
how to use their minds more effectively to get more out of
life.
Go way beyond the traditional model of life/personal
coaching, and coach participants how
they can consistently optimize --instead of just manage or
improve --their life.
It doesn’t matter what stage of life a person is in, or in
what circumstances they may find themselves in --by
working with a specially certified coach they can use the
Mind WorkOut Tools to: a) instantly make the
most of their life and/or b) to
learn how to optimize their thinking and gain instant
access to their best self in any situation and, acquire the
requisite mental tools and personal skill sets to apply to every area in
their life.
"Become
the best you can!"
-Based
upon proven personal change methodology from the
behavioral sciences the Mind WorkOuts contain mental
exercises that have only now become available to anyone
willing to improve themselves.
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Academic
and Business Advisory Board:
Co-Chaired by -Professor Vlatka Hlupic-Vidjak, Ph.D.,
and
Professor Moto Ibano. Ph.D
-To help the Institute's staff keep
abreast of all scientific development
and industry
best-practice the International Academic and Business
Board was formed.
-The Board is comprised of some
of the world's pre-eminent thought leaders
and influential
figures in modern business.
-The role of the board is to:
-Highlight new thinking, processes, technology and
methodology
that the Mind WorkOut Tools should consider
-Advise
on the overall integrity and value of what the Tools
provide
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Dr
Skiffington's invitational,
fast-tracked, 4 Day, Very
Small Group Certified
Master Coach Course (conducted in N.Y., London,
Sydney, Singapore etc) meets the critical needs for business and
executive coaches to be trained and mentored in the use of
validated, reliable psychology-based tools and techniques.
Read More >....
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Dr Skiffington
Behavioral Coaching Institute
New York, London & Sydney
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