Personal Excellence – How To Be Brilliant

• The course comprises six sections delivered over a single day. We underpin all the practical activities with a base of scientific evidence. You’ll receive additional resources, links and further reading to support further self exploration.
• The course will follow an agenda, but our facilitators will adapt the focus to meet the personal needs of the participants.
• During the course you will learn practical skills and reflect on how you will use these to contribute to the development of your own personalised action plan.
• We limit numbers to a 1:8 facilitator:delegate ratio, to ensure that participants receive a high level of personal attention and support.

The agenda shown below provides the core session content, but we always tailor courses to exactly what you need and skills & experience you may already have.

There is no course assessment, instead you will be asked to develop personal learning objectives which will form the basis for reflection at the end of the course.

For each day: What does excellence look like to you in your life? We’ll get you thinking about the nature of personal excellence; what it means in your life and work, so you can start to develop your personal learning objectives for the day.

Meet our Model for Excellence
This session introduces our own model for excellence; a framework for lifelong learning and development into which the content of the rest of the course is placed.

Get to Know Yourself
We believe that self-awareness is the cornerstone of excellence. This session starts with a practical exercise designed to help you identify your intrinsic talents, personal strengths, values, beliefs and motivation. If you need them, we may also offer you additional psychometrics you could use to explore these areas further.

Get to know the Basic Tools
We’ll introduce you to two of the basic tools in the toolkit: mindfulness and imagery. This is a practical session that will help you start to use these techniques, in part so that you’re ready and able to apply them later on in the day.

Understanding Purpose, Mission and Goals
We’ll take the insight we gained from the first session and apply it to develop a way to achieve desired outcomes. Understanding the complementary roles of mission, aspirational intent, loosely held and closely defined goals forms a theoretical basis for practical goal setting.

Equipping Yourself for the Journey
We’ll start with an exploration of mindset and the neurophysiology of learning, and start to apply mindfulness and imagery skills to your intent. You’ll start to design your own unique toolkit in relation to your goals and needs, and begin to identify the most effective ways to focus your learning and practice.

Plan for Success
The focus for this session is the development of a personal action plan applying the self-awareness, knowledge and practical techniques you’ve gained. This ensures that your plan will be robust and practical, inspiring action by being designed around your unique talents and strengths.

Reflect and Close
The day will close with a practical reflection exercise that encourages you to embed the learning and insights from the day, along with the creation of a supportive mindset and inspiring action, to implement the plan developed.

When you complete this course, you will:

• Understand the importance of self-awareness
• Be able to use practical mindfulness and imagery tools to support your personal journey
• Understand how important it is to create a motivational framework that is unique to you
• Be able to develop your own effective action plan, coupling your immediate goals with the power of your higher values and purpose
• Have learned the skill of personal reflection and experienced what a powerful tool for ongoing personal development it can be
• Have your own ongoing framework and personal action plan for success, tailored to you