Motivation, Persuasion & Creativity in Online

Many people go through life not knowing what they want. Without direction we are lost. Many business people try hard to learn the art of productivity and invariably succeed in achieving some short term objectives, most however end up losing precious time and money because they don’t know what their long term goals and objectives are. What is our life all about? What is it that we ultimately try to achieve? Our mission statement defines who we are and what we want to do in life to feel fulfilled and happy. In short, knowing your mission statement for life is critical and deserves a fair amount of time for your own benefit. Research shows that most people don’t have stated missions, let alone written goals. You will be introduced to elegant and effective methods which help you to set your goals effortlessly without hitting the usual blank wall of “I don’t know what I want to do in life”.

You will also learn about new tools that can be used to increaseyour creativity such as mind mapping. You will get to practice brainstorming with other group members and understand how new techniques can empower team members to work cooperatively & creatively together. In addition, you will learn a number of techniques to become productive and learn how to avoid procrastination.

Another important topic covered in this course is how to persuade which is an essential skill in today’s business world. With new psychological techniques you can start to get results immediately. For example, if you lack confidence which impacts your persuasiveness, you can use novel methods such as NLP to get immediate results by applying simple mind reprogramming techniques rather than following time consuming traditional methods. You will also explore principles of persuasion and explore what it takes to convince others of your ideas or products.

This highly interactive course includes a range of practical exercises and group discussions that help you to develop new personal mind skills, in addition to using technological tools to achieve more with less effort. In particular, the course will address the following:

• How goal-oriented thinking can make a huge difference in your productivity and satisfaction
• Draw up your mission statement and your goals and decide what you want to get from life professionally andpersonally
• Learn how to balance your life based on your roles, so you can fulfil all your goals
• Explore a number of grand presuppositions; rules that will help you get more out of life
• Learn about the differences between the new positive psychological methods (such as NLP) and the traditional methods
• How to motivate yourself and others to meet challenges and achieve goals
• Develop your self-confidence and create positive mental attitude
• Learn powerful persuasion strategies
• Learn to use the most persuasive words in your conversations
• Explore long-term strategic thinking and how you need to respond to friend or foe and stay consistently successful
• What are cycles of decision making and how they can help you to do anything you desire
• How to avoid procrastination. Learn how to kick-start those tasks you are putting off
• Learn from your previous mistakes systematically using novel psychological techniques that let you explore all angles and increase your insight
• Become creative by using a simple yet powerful technique

• Define a personal mission statement that captures who you are and what you want
• Set long-term goals instead of chasing only short-term objectives
• Overcome the blank wall of not knowing what you want from life
• Apply elegant, effortless methods for writing down your goals
• Connect daily productivity to a clear long-term direction