Optimising The Team

How to Learn and Still Have FUN!

Many businesses can no longer afford the old luxury of team days without clearly defined positive outcomes. That's why we have put together something very different. We still believe people need to enjoy the process of team development and we also think that this can be significantly more sustainable in terms of profitability and the growth of your business.

All business relies upon some degree of team working and all business leaders know that attitude is paramount to profitable collaboration. Even assuming you have people with the right skills, knowledge and attitudes to build your business, there are always challenges. It takes something special to stay focused and make a real difference. This is why we created Optimising Your Team!

Optimising Your Team - The Benefits

Discover new ways to motivate yourself and others
Create success through simple mind altering techniques
Begin to enjoy work more
Find easier and more successful solutions
Eliminate all that stress
Eradicate meaningless interpersonal conflicts
Create optimally functional and professional working relationships
Have loads of FUN
Learn about how people really think, feel and behave
Apply your learning in any professional and personal context
Massively improve staff retention and productivity
Ramp up your competitive advantage through people power

The Trainers

Harvey Taylor is widely known for his unique approach to management training as well as being a hypnotherapist and NLP trainer. He integrates mind bending techniques into his programmes in a humorous and highly practical way. Harvey launched the Optimum Moustache Project to counter the gloom merchants of the 'recession'.

Harvey is notoriously challenging and has carved out a unique niche as the person to call when it is time for a change. Past triumphs include the Chicken in Your Lingerie Drawer and Attitude Positioning Techniques programmes. Harvey's understanding of the mind derives from 20 years' study, training and consultancy in corporate businesses , SME's and the public sector.
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Sandra Hewson is a specialist in Stress Management. She is also a practitioner of the unique 'no-hands' approach to massage. Sandra has worked with Harvey combining massage with hypnotherapy to provide a unique experience for clients in developing more resourceful ways of coping.

Sandra has been working in the health and fitness industry for 20 years and has a wealth of knowledge of the human mind and body.

Sandra's clients range in age from 11 years to 70 years old and she prides herself on being able to understand individual needs. Her unique "down to earth" style allows her get the very best out of everybody. Sandra is also qualified in sports specific training, injury management, nutrition and massage.

Optimising The Team - The Programme

Focus - In difficult times people can easily become very problem focused. This is counter-productive because achievement requires a focus on success. When we agree the outcome for today, this week, this month, this year, for the duration of the project, we create a momentum for achievement. Having crystal clear outcomes is crucial to success in any team endeavour. Creating a focused state of mind is a skill which can be learnt.

Mind and Body - Fine tuning mind and body is vital. Daily routines which access positive states of mind and body are essential to efficiency and continuing success. These simple routines help to improve not only the way in which individuals operate but also improve communication as people take more personal responsibility for their optimising their own minds, attitudes, beliefs and physical actions.

Flexibility - Everyone knows that change requires new learning and many people have yet to learn how much easier it is to make changes than it is to stay stuck in a mindset and a routine which no longer work. Developing the habits of flexibility, utilising team strengths and getting rid of all the sacred cows is essential if teams are to be responsive to challenge.

Free Communication - Free Communication is a specific discipline in which people learn to say exactly what is on their mind without fear of censure. They also learn how to say things in a way which will increase the chances of successful communication. Using a simple filter, everyone in the team learns quickly to distinguish between 'negative' stories, attributions and beliefs and positive ways of constructing their interpretations of reality. People learn how to frame things in a way which induces positive responses in themselves and amongst others. Free Communication dramatically changes the way people think and communicate with one another so that conflicts are managed efficiently and positively with all the relevant outcomes firmly in focus.

Anchoring Success - Success is 90% attitude and 10% skill/knowledge. You can always access new skills and knowledge, but attitude is something we each individually have to be able to create and sustain minute by minute and day by day. This is why having an anchor or two makes such a huge difference. Knowing that we can access an attitude through a given physical posture, a key word, an internal image, or simply by pressing the right 'button', is the difference between success and failure.

People love this session - because it provides them with the solution to the solution problem - how do I keep coming up with solutions as things get tougher and tougher? By anchoring a solution focused mindset! Doing this in teams significantly enhances the effect because there is always one person in a team at any given moment ready to access and reinforce the anchor for everyone else. By chaining these anchors together people quickly learn how to turn disasters into triumphs without even stopping to have a moan en route!

Team Meeting Monitoring - This process extends Free Communication allowing teams to develop stronger and more dynamic ways of running important meetings and getting the best results from these. By introducing some key principles as a basis for all meetings, teams rapidly become more self-sufficient, task focused and outcome oriented.