Mental Fitness

Overview

Whether you are 8 or 88, a well functioning productive brain is crucial to your personal and professional success. As an employer or manager, you can make a difference to the brain power and productivity of your team. At 8 or 88 you can age proof your brain. Mental fitness is the name of the game.

Tony Buzan the inventor of Mind Mapping, affirms that anyone can age proof their brain "As the human brain gets older, on average its mental ability declines," he says. "That is totally unnecessary and not natural. The reason it declines is because people don't keep themselves physically fit, mentally fit or learn the basics of memory, which is imagination and association. They don't learn how to use any form of memory technique which is actually likely to be beneficial for their brain. These are all the things they need to do if their brain is not going to decline as they get older."

The key is understanding how our brains work and how our memory improves. This Short Course is based on Tony Buzan’s new programme and bestselling publication, “Age Proof Your Brain”.

The ageing of the workforce is the greatest challenge to face Australasian employers this decade. The available talent pool is dramatically shrinking; 85% of the new and growing workforce are over 45’s. Only employers, who understand how to attract, retain and utilise people from the whole generational spectrum will thrive. The key is that people’s essential cognitive skills can both be maintained and enhanced from their 20’s onwards, if the right action is taken now.

Topics Covered

This fun, challenging participative Short Course includes a number of skill sets and modules, with practical exercises and applications:

• How fit is your brain?
• Learn how your brain works, how to get more from it and bust all those myths
• Memory
  • understanding how it works
  • how the brain stores memories
  • types of memories and learning how to retrieve those memories
  • Making new memories
  • How to improve your memory to
    • Retain information from training sessions
    • Remember names, faces and telephone numbers
    • Remember things to do, facts and information
    • Remember speeches
    • Remember learning from reading
• Mind Mapping™
  • “How To” for those who those new to the concept
  • Application of Mind Mapping™ for information management and memory
• Reading
  • Using the brain to read more effectively
  • Improve comprehension and recall
  • Improve concentration
• Multiple Intelligences
  • What are they
  • Sharpening the intelligences and the Mind
• Strong Body, Strong Mind
• The 7-Day Get Sharper Plan
• The 7-Week Get Sharp Plan: Where to Next – a practical guide to continue to Age Proof Your Brain

Who should attend

• Mature individuals who recognise the value they bring to their organisations by keeping the brain sharp
• Younger people who recognise the importance of brain fitness for their success in their career
• Managers and Team Leaders needing to understand generational thinking differences, and who want to experience the difference brain sharpness makes
• Managers seeking strategies to energise their teams to higher levels of performance
• Individuals needing to find a better way to plan, think, organise, remember or report
• Anyone looking to improve their ability to remember meeting outcomes, names, phone numbers facts, information and much more
• Adult learners returning to study who need to extract maximum value from their time.

Outcomes

You will:

• See a personal improvement in your mental sharpness
• See an improvement in your performance on traditional IQ tests
• Be better able to read, digest and recall information
• Understand how to use Mind Mapping™ and other tools to manage information overload
• Understand the importance of a strong body for mental fitness