The high-impact motivational sessions listed below is usually between 40 – 90 minutes long and can be presented both in the public forum and in-house. All the talks are filled with great business and life lessons, easy to remember tips, infectious energy, humour and interaction.
Why should you use a speaker at your meeting, conference or break-away?
- Entertaining and motivational
- Re-inforces the strategies, values and smart goals the company wants to focus its team on
- Set the scene for participation
- Wonderful way to begin or end on a high note
In addition people in South Africa operate in a highly competitive market, a difficult and often stressful country where in addition to the “ normal “ stresses faced elsewhere our teams battle with crime, strained personal relationships, financial duress and overal insecurity as to our future.These workshops will motivate and empower your team with a range of survival skills to cope in the stressful environment they operate within.
The Mindspa also has the capability to customise a presentation for your specific theme or organisation.
To book a seminar or for more information please contact us on 087 943 7449/50 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .Spring Clean Your Mind
This presentation focuses on the issues of self-motivation and how individuals in an organisation can motivate themselves, not just relying on the company or their bosses.
You will learn
- How to motivate yourself
- How to plan your own goals
- How not to blame others
- How not to use work, colleagues or bosses as an excuse for not being successful
- How to cultivate positive habits
- How to practically incorporate Stephen Covey’s habits of highly effective people
Enhance your Emotional Intelligence
EQ, more than IQ, determines professional and personal growth and success. The fundamentals of EQ will improve your inter-personal relationships, communication skills, conflict and anger management.
You will learn
- What EQ is and how you can improve your own levels of EQ
- How you can use emotionally intelligent communication techniques in your daily life
- How you can improve your inter-personal relationships with all levels in the organisation
- How to use EQ to positively deal with conflict and anger
- How EQ can help you deal with stress
- Top EQ tips for an improved life at work and at home
Become fit for change
In business and in life, change is the one constant. Darwin said “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”. Make yourself, your team and your business fit for change, flexible, creative, innovative and directed towards a common vision.
You will learn
- What the change process cycle is
- How to manage yourself and others through the change cycle in a positive, productive manner
- How to anticipate change and make it work for you
- How to deal with unexpected changes or a crisis
- How to become flexible and fit for change
- Top tips for dealing with change
Customer Care is an Attitude (not a department)
In today’s highly competitive business environment and strenuous economic circumstances where customers have a wide variety of choice, it is your level of customer service that can make the difference between success and failure. Tony Allessandro said “Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game.”
You will learn
- What excellent customer service is
- The customer may not be right but …
- Do’s of customer service
- Most important elements of service delivery
- Key competencies staff need for excellent customer service
- What the new trends are in customer service
- 4 C’s and 3 R’s and 6 steps of customer needs
The X Y Z Generation – our new employees, our new customers
What makes the next generation tick, how do we employee them, how do we motivate them, how do we sell our products to them.
You will learn
- What the latest research around the YZ generation indicates
- How this new generation communicates
- How they perceive your advertising and marketing messages
- What their view of the world is and how this influences their behaviour
- What you can expect from them in the workplace
- How they perceive and deal with authority
- How they deal with change and diversity
- How to manage them
- How to market to them
Top Tips for Women in Business
Specially designed for women in business, this presentation will energise, encourage, motivate and above all assist career women with their unique challenges.
You will learn
- How to integrate your work/life balance
- How to make a crack in the glass ceiling
- How to negotiate successfully
- Assertive behaviour and assertive verbal skills
- Understanding gender differences in communication styles
- Management Issues Specific to Women
- Women’s management styles that work!
- What women bring to the organisation
- Differences are not negative!
- How to remain feminine
- Competence versus Trust
Mothers and warriors – celebrating Motherhood
A fun presentation filled with hints and tips about surviving our offspring, whilst retaining our own selves and sense of purpose. It celebrates motherhood in all of its forms and is perfect for Mother’s Day.
We communicate, but do we connect?
- Do you talk to people, or do you connect with them?
- Why is connecting a skill?
- Connectors are the ‘cement’ who keep people together
- Connectors relate & inspire
- Connecting on 4 levels: visually, verbally, emotionally and intellectually
- Connecting with individuals
- Connecting with an audience
Stop, think…whose truth is this?
- Is what I’m saying true?
- Why do I behave the way I do?
- Sometimes good people do bad things
- The dangers of believing beliefs without questioning
- Make the journey easier: stop & think....
Failure is a teacher, not an undertaker
- I failed...NOW WHAT???
- Picking up the pieces
- Why did I fail?
- How can I learn from this experience
- Enjoying the more clever me...it’s all in the mind
- Using the glasses of favourable perception
What we damage in a minute may take years to fix
- I do...I think. Trouble
- Take time to nurture
- Understanding the triangle of truth
- Seek first to understand...
- I think...I do. Growth
The colour of perception
- Is this truth or perception?
- Understanding our limited view
- Going beyond: broadening your view
- Perception is both friend and enemy
- Using empathy to change perception
I want to change…but how??
- Why do I do things that I don’t want to do?
- Why is change so difficult at times?
- The difference between “can” and “want”.
- Meeting FOF and FOP
- Self-talk: the make or break factor
The journey with FOF and FOP (Fear of Failure and Fear of People)
- The image we need to uphold
- How about living with honesty for a change?
- Who cares about FOF?
- FOP: Pleasing people we don’t even like
- Getting to FO-less headspace
Successfully cheating yourself
- Giving it almost your best
- Why ‘sort of’ isn’t good enough
- Love thy neighbours like...who again?
- I can’t give what I don’t have
- Walking the extra mile with yourself
The miracle of support
- Pride: keeping us right where we are
- Reaching in...reaching out
- With broken leg, use crutches
- The world is bigger than me
- The sum of us
Multi-tasking or multi-juggling?
- Doing one more thing? Or more things at once?
- Spreading your focus: pros and cons
- The difference between multi-tasking and juggling
- The case for focus: touch once!
How to draw with broken crayons: creativity explored
- Why am I in a box? It’s crowded in there...
- New uses for old things
- Why do we throw broken crayons away?
- Everything starts with a thought
- Allowing your brain to do what is does best
Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today
- Why do today what can be done tomorrow?
- Meeting opportunity...and recognising it!
- Not just a step ahead, but a whole flight of stairs
- Taking the steps..there is no lift
- Thinking the fact
- Living the picture
Our precious protective walls
- Wearing emotional masks
- What causes us to start wearing masks?
- What do these masks look like?
- Why isn’t it healthy?
- How does it impact our relationships?
- Coming out from behind the mask
Toxic emotions & the war against fat
- Overweight is effect, not cause
- What could be the cause?
- Manifesting outwardly what we believe inwardly
- Making peace with you
Women: Master jugglers craving for a life
- I’m in my workshop too!
- The constant partner: GUILT
- The clingy friend: FEAR
- Exploring other avenues
- Be YOU for a CHANGE
Let it go or let it grow
- Nurturing unforgiveness
- The effect of bitterness
- Allow other people to be themselves
- Decide to let it go
- Shifting your focus from nag to nurture
Having the emotional maturity to move on
- Clinging to the past
- Clinging to the present
- Recognising when and why we need to move on
- It’s okay to have a life of your own
- You are not just a spectator in your life
Help…I’m a UFO!! (Unfit, Fat and Over 30!)
- Look around you...it’s obvious that you’re the only UFO ever made
- So...do I want it to be different? REALLY?
- Starting to change U
- Change small habits and kick F’s butt
- Accepting the O (in more ways than one)!
- Celebrate YOU! (Youthful, Outstanding, Unlimited)
Do your emotions look like an accident scene?
- Is it because you’re a ‘drunk driver’?
- Making sense of chaos
- Recognising compromising behaviour
- Drama & catastrophe
- Getting back on the road again...in 4x4!
Forgiving our parents
- The legacy of childhood
- What did they do right?
- You can’t blame them forever
- Hurt & unforgiveness inhibit growth
- Adjusting our thinking patterns: thanking them
Perfection: our self-inflicted scourge
- So, who wants to be imperfect anyway?
- The burden of perfection is heavy
- Understanding the origin of the drive for perfection
- Is she perfect? Or just a damn good actress?
- Chinks in the armour makes you human
Chill…who’s looking anyway?
- Nice meeting you...er... Superwoman!
- Getting 1st prize for wanting 1st prize
- If they don’t pay your bills you don’t have to please them
- Will it matter five years from now?
- Will it even matter tomorrow?
- The Hawaiin greeting
Be SMART with People
SMART: Strategic Meaningful Assertive Results-orientated Techniques for dealing with all people.
This fun, practical workshop explores all aspects related to effective and emotionally intelligent management of people at all levels of your business and personal life. It will equip delegates with the knowledge and practical skills to manage difficult people, difficult conversations and conflict. It will explain the principles of effective inter-personal communication and how to understand behaviour in order to modify it. This workshop will be beneficial for everyone who have wanted to handle bosses, spouses, children, in-laws or employees in a more effective manner.