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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE
TRAINING
PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE COACHING
PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
EUROCLEAR:
TEAM INNOVATION
The Challenge
This executive team had the opportunity to be more than the sum of its parts – to make better use of its collective skills – to enhance innovation. In order to help foster creativity, the Chief Executive Officer identified the need to challenge the team’s traditional affiliative style and increase its comfort level with constructive dissent, viewing it positively.
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The Approach
Physical Intelligence techniques were used to address collaboration and innovation and challenge silo’ed thinking/protectionism. Participants were introduced to posture and breathing techniques to achieve low cortisol and alert relaxation, essential for innovation and to develop the mental strength and clarity to manage their threat response in the midst of innovation – linking their mindset to physicality. They learned what types of movements support convergent vs. divergent thinking and how to relax their minds to foster creative connections. As a team, they collaborated on an exercise designed to promote divergent thinking and constructive dissent and learned how to counteract negative bias. They also learned the importance of networks and social intelligence as opposed to silo’ed thinking to create an environment that fosters the ongoing exchange of ideas.
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The Physical Intelligence group session was followed by one-on-one coaching on the use of physical intelligence techniques to reinforce the core concepts introduced during the group session and provide individual support tailored to each team member.
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The ROI
Within only weeks of the training, it was clear that the team was working together better and interacting in a more effective way. Each individual’s performance and level of confidence had clearly improved. Within months, operating results had increased, feedback from clients had improved, and the team had received excellent feedback from regulators. In addition, because executive team members were more empowered, they, in turn, more effectively empowered their teams, freeing up more time for the executive team to work on strategic planning vs. tactics. As new individuals have joined the team, they have recognized and commented positively on the open collaboration and constructive approach the team takes and its comfort level with challenging each other’s thinking. On a personal level, the physical intelligence training had also positively impacted the personal life for many team members, enabling them to more effectively manage their professional and personal lives.
EUROCLEAR:
TEAM INNOVATION
The Challenge
This executive team had the opportunity to be more than the sum of its parts – to make better use of its collective skills – to enhance innovation. In order to help foster creativity, the Chief Executive Officer identified the need to challenge the team’s traditional affiliative style and increase its comfort level with constructive dissent, viewing it positively.
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The Approach
Physical Intelligence techniques were used to address collaboration and innovation and challenge silo’ed thinking/protectionism. Participants were introduced to posture and breathing techniques to achieve low cortisol and alert relaxation, essential for innovation and to develop the mental strength and clarity to manage their threat response in the midst of innovation – linking their mindset to physicality. They learned what types of movements support convergent vs. divergent thinking and how to relax their minds to foster creative connections. As a team, they collaborated on an exercise designed to promote divergent thinking and constructive dissent and learned how to counteract negative bias. They also learned the importance of networks and social intelligence as opposed to silo’ed thinking to create an environment that fosters the ongoing exchange of ideas.
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The Physical Intelligence group session was followed by one-on-one coaching on the use of physical intelligence techniques to reinforce the core concepts introduced during the group session and provide individual support tailored to each team member.
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The ROI
Within only weeks of the training, it was clear that the team was working together better and interacting in a more effective way. Each individual’s performance and level of confidence had clearly improved. Within months, operating results had increased, feedback from clients had improved, and the team had received excellent feedback from regulators. In addition, because executive team members were more empowered, they, in turn, more effectively empowered their teams, freeing up more time for the executive team to work on strategic planning vs. tactics. As new individuals have joined the team, they have recognized and commented positively on the open collaboration and constructive approach the team takes and its comfort level with challenging each other’s thinking. On a personal level, the physical intelligence training had also positively impacted the personal life for many team members, enabling them to more effectively manage their professional and personal lives.
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THE PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE QUIZ
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ONE-ON-ONE COACHING
sUCCESS STORY #1:
François gains self-belief and transforms his life
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The Challenge
François, a young banker in one of the world’s leading global banks, was extremely clever but often overwhelmed by a lack of social confidence, underestimating his abilities and status in the
world. He was particularly conscious of how uncomfortable he felt working predominantly with colleagues who had MBAs from the top business schools. While he had perfectly good credentials,
his education was different. He had been promoted internally and fast- tracked through the global bank without the traditional MBA. He noticed how the colleagues with MBAs seemed to ‘own the room’ and conducted calls with ease and confidence. In addition, François’ father, a brilliant scientist, had thought he was doing his son a service by constantly objecting to and critiquing his ideas about life but, instead, had unwittingly contributed to his underlying vulnerability and sense of inferiority as a result.
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The Approach
During the first two months of coaching, François adopted the following morning routine, practised at home: centering his body, centering his voice using a 1–10 counting exercise, and conducting articulation exercises. Then, on his commute, he practised paced breathing, created and addressed his Map of Tension (MOT) and focus practice, moving his attention to his brain and body to prepare for the demands of the day. He artfully integrated strength and flexibility techniques, taking charge of his confidence and adaptability. He began to feel different. He noticed that he was laughing and joking more with team members and was becoming bolder in talking with bosses and gaining their support. If negative thoughts or worry started to take over, François became a regular user of the ‘Bounce Positive’ technique. He learned to handle negative events using the ‘Letting Go’ technique, leaving him free to perform at his best. Having felt isolated from time to time and being highly analytical and hard-working, networking and socialising had been last on his list of priorities. So, François also worked hard on socialising more and diarIsing time with colleagues and mentors to become better connected all around. He practised visualising the future (‘Seeing the Long Game’), to help him create a strategy he could put into action. François knew he wanted to have a partner and a family, but with the long hours and commitment that the banking industry demands, he had to plan and dedicate time to socialising in order to make this a reality.
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The ROI
One year later, François still works to ensure his home and social life are not swallowed up by long hours, but has a partner now, has been promoted twice and has executed two of the most successful deals in his department.
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sUCCESS STORY #2:
TANIA TAKES CHARGE AT WORK AND HOME
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The Challenge
Tania, a senior executive, was working very long hours, using her weekends to catch up, and had no boundaries whatsoever between work and home. An energetic member of the senior team, she was fully involved in corporate projects, board activities and other processes critical to the business. Her and her partner’s elderly parents would visit every year and stay with them for months. While these family visits were important to Tania and her partner, for Tania, this put enormous pressure on family life. They were living in a small house, there was no place for her to just be alone, and her relationship with her partner was also suffering.
The Approach
Taking her unique situation into account, we identified separate priorities and techniques for work and for home. For work, these were:
1. Better resourcing – she used ‘Seeing the Long Game’ and Muscle- Firming and Milestones to envision and map out how she would do this. She integrated Posture, Paced Breathing, Centering, and Vocal Strength into her working life and used them to take charge of her situation. It took eight months to influence the CEO and recruit new team members to create a committed and thriving department.
2. Placing boundaries around her time, working smarter not harder, and pushing back on impossible deadlines – Tania used energy-saving techniques and stopped thinking "me, everything, always" and started to get clarity. She worked hard to obtain interim help and to delegate more; she prioritised the actions she needed to take to realise her strategic goals and the goals of her department and organisation as a whole; and she selected the key tasks that would move the big work forwards and got on with those.
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At home, Tania asked her siblings to share the responsibility for looking after her parents. ‘Relationshift’ and Chemistry of Optimism techniques, especially ‘Bounce Positive’, were applied daily as she tackled entrenched relationships. She invested time and money in moving to a house with an office, her own space where she could close the door and work peacefully from home one day a week. She and her partner also committed to carving out more family time. Realising that their values and purpose as parents were being compromised, they reviewed their Chemistry of Motivation and Appreciation, and committed to being home with their daughters for a family meal at 7pm every day. This created a fantastic new boundary that made everyone in the family happier, and helped them to feel that they were behaving with more integrity as parents.
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The ROI
Two years later, Tania took promotion and moved to a board position in a larger organisation with a bigger team, fully prepared to sustain her high performance, influence for resources, put boundaries around her time and get those around her performing at their highest and living at their happiest, too.
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"All of these techniques have enabled me to manage pressure in the work environment and have improved my sleep and my personal and family life – all with techniques that don’t require much time or effort."
"François"
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"Putting these principles into practise has transformed my way of working and living."
"Tania"