Personal Mastery through Neuro Linguistic Programming
In the Nature vs. Nurture debate, the former is primarily centered around neurological differences in people. An understanding of the neuro-model of mind-body-behavior of successful people, and the step by step methodology of transferring them as techniques to everyone who aspires to be successful, is the basis core of the Personal Mastery program.
The program is centered around well-researched Eight Peak performance skills. Participants go through stages of identifying their own neurological scripts, understand their brain patterns and how to change them, in order to acquire the eight “peak performance skills”, and retain a resourceful state of mind consistently. Several techniques from frameworks such as NLP and other Brain study areas are used. A 100% experiential programme, it is a life-changing experience.
Useful for all individuals wishing to gain better control over state of mind, reduce stress, and make significant and lasting behavioral changes that benefit them both personally and at work.
Building Optimism and Engineering Success
According to all current research on Achievement, belief is the starting point. Many studies prove that belief precedes talent.
The program is aimed at building positive belief, so that positive results may follow.
A concise program that uses concepts from Skinner to Seligman, providing a comprehensive understanding of what causes optimism, pessimism and learned helplessness, the program helps participants assess their own level of optimism/pessimism. This is knit with an understanding of how beliefs are shaped allowing participants to gain an insight of how they program themselves for success or failure, and re-programme themselves.
Based on several studies on self-talk and language that shapes beliefs, the program is useful for any individual whose confidence needs to be built.
Managing Stress through Mind-body Co-ordination
The programme synthesizes current understanding on stress perception, human stress handling mechanisms and behavioural patterns that are functional/dysfunctional in handling stress.
Stress related issues in an organizational context manifest as health, performance and behavioural issues. It is also commonly seen as the single most important issue in low performance of a competent person. The issue assumes significance when the organizational is on an accelerated growth path, faced with new initiatives or changes.
The program addresses behavioural, bio-chemical, nutritional and thinking based aspects of stress and offers participants comprehensive action plans for overcoming stress/ burnout related performance issues.
Whole Brain Thinking
Decades of research into brain functions and behavioral patterns, have yielded a rich understanding of thinking preferences. Thinking preferences in turn affect communication, decision making, perception, relationships, strategic thinking, problem solving, Team work, planning and other important behaviors.
A series of workshops that focus on each of these aspects and that include an analysis and mapping of individual thinking patterns, and specific techniques of developing whole brain thinking patterns are offered. The workshops can be modeled as short modules of three hours to customized workshops of longer duration.
Team Programmes
Individual effectiveness leads to Team effectiveness. Several factors beginning with the constitution of teams , with each member selected for specific skills, need to be aligned, much as in sports, for a well balanced team. Teams need to be nurtured through interventions designed to bond them; differences among team members need to be constructively utilized and latent potential fostered and channeled toward goal achievement.
Within teams and Between teams, there are usually plenty of untapped energy and synergy.
Mind metrics offers several services to study the status and constitution of teams and tap previously untapped potential.
Team Constituion Analysis
An effective framework to look at team constitution and group dynamics is through understanding the thinking preferences and team role capabilities of the members. This intervention is customized for the analysis of specific teams ,based on different conceptual models, to identify the reason for their current level of performance, recommending changes in constitution, membership, role networks, etc. A powerful diagnostic exercise for teams beset with performance issues or facing challenges and needing acceleration.
Team Effectiveness
Mindmetrics offers Experiential and Game based programmes, including several that measure the stage of team development and the effectiveness of teams. Action plans are then drawn up based on program outputs to bridge the gaps in effectiveness.
Building Team effectiveness is addressed as a time bound, goal-specific task and may include all or many of interventions such as behavioral programs, competence building process re-engineering such as role conflict analysis, redesigning jobs or work flow processes or coaching and mentoring services.
Team Synergy and Bonding
Inter-team conflicts and tensions result in sub optimized performance in several organizations. The origins maybe in individual, role based or process based causes and Mindmetrics offer comprehensive solutions to address all and reduce/eliminate conflict, build confidence between teams and increase synergy between teams.
Transactional games, fish tank exercises, role plays and games are used effectively along with process studies to bring about effective resolution.
Out Bound Traning
Mindmetrics offers customized workshops for team development using outdoor facilities that break the monotony and restraints of office environments.
The pedagogy is game oriented and experiential and uses tools and props that engage the participants effectively, delivering a refreshing and fulfilling experience. The output of these sessions can be tailored, ranging all the way from behavioral aspects such as communication and trust, to functional skills such as decision making and project management. Both individual learning and group learning are maximized.
Conflict Resolution and Consencus Building
While it is impossible to remove conflict from organizational settings, it is possible and necessary to build a capability throughout the organization, to resolve conflicts effectively, as and when they arise. Conflicts serve as effective substrata for creativity and diversity, and when well understood and taken advantage of, lend teeth to an organization!
Mindmetrics offer specialized programs on consensus building that involves powerful and memorable experiential learning. One using feature films ; another using the frame work of Thinking preferences; and a third neuro psychological framework for understanding and managing perceptions have all been used successfully by many organizations.
Leader Development
Though every component of an organizational system is important, the Leadership component is arguably the most critical. Effective and highly empowered teams maintain their level of engagement and passion through effective leadership. Synergizing powerhouses of functional teams into an organization and helping the organization to be self re generating requires leadership skills of the transformational nature.
Leader development is a complex task that demands an understanding of the organizational situation, goals and the teams that need to be led. Mindmetrics offers the entire range of products and services, with consulting services to help build effective leaders.
Mindmetrics offers solutions for the study of Leadership profile of organizations, mapping different types of leaders / managers required at different levels, the transformational or transactional nature of such leaders, conducts assessment of existing leaders and helps build a blue print for continuous leader development
All programmes listed under individual programmes are also suited for leaders.
Team Constituion Analysis
An effective framework to look at team constitution and group dynamics is through understanding the thinking preferences and team role capabilities of the members. This intervention is customized for the analysis of specific teams ,based on different conceptual models, to identify the reason for their current level of performance, recommending changes in constitution, membership, role networks, etc. A powerful diagnostic exercise for teams beset with performance issues or facing challenges and needing acceleration.
Team Effectiveness
Mindmetrics offers Experiential and Game based programmes, including several that measure the stage of team development and the effectiveness of teams. Action plans are then drawn up based on program outputs to bridge the gaps in effectiveness.
Building Team effectiveness is addressed as a time bound, goal-specific task and may include all or many of interventions such as behavioral programs, competence building process re-engineering such as role conflict analysis, redesigning jobs or work flow processes or coaching and mentoring services.
Team Synergy and Bonding
Inter-team conflicts and tensions result in sub optimized performance in several organizations. The origins maybe in individual, role based or process based causes and Mindmetrics offer comprehensive solutions to address all and reduce/eliminate conflict, build confidence between teams and increase synergy between teams.
Transactional games, fish tank exercises, role plays and games are used effectively along with process studies to bring about effective resolution.
Out Bound Training
Mindmetrics offers customized workshops for team development using outdoor facilities that break the monotony and restraints of office environments.
The pedagogy is game oriented and experiential and uses tools and props that engage the participants effectively, delivering a refreshing and fulfilling experience. The output of these sessions can be tailored, ranging all the way from behavioral aspects such as communication and trust, to functional skills such as decision making and project management. Both individual learning and group learning are maximized.
Conflict Resolution and Consencus Building
Mindmetrics offers customized workshops for team development using outdoor facilities that break the monotony and restraints of office environments.
The pedagogy is game oriented and experiential and uses tools and props that engage the participants effectively, delivering a refreshing and fulfilling experience. The output of these sessions can be tailored, ranging all the way from behavioral aspects such as communication and trust, to functional skills such as decision making and project management. Both individual learning and group learning are maximized.
Organization Programs
The fundamentals of an organization are crucial to its performance. Yet, they are often intangible and their power to steer the course of organizations is underestimated.
These factors include Vision, Management Philosophy, Culture, Strategy, Structure, Organizational Neurology, Linkages of Processes and so on.
The issue is made more complex by the fact that these factors are assumed to be the responsibility of the top management to articulate, and yet they permeate all levels and need a buy-in from all levels to be effective.
Mindmetrics offers several solutions aimed at toning organizational fundamentals, articulating them, communicating, implementing and institutionalizing them, resulting in building a high performance culture and monitoring systems/ metrics.
Programmes aimed at organization-wide effectiveness are most beneficial administered as part of a wider consulting framework, which includes implementing or preparing organizations for adopting Balanced Scorecard and other Performance Management Systems.
Vision Clarification and Staircasing
Workshop using key people in organizations using Appreciative Inquiry and Double loop Learning Techniques to clarify and enunciate the Vision, Values , Mission and Implementation path. Workshops cater to small or large groups, creating a committed, passionate atmosphere that engages all participants. Articulation can be visual, statement, metaphorical forms .
Action plans for effectively communicating the vision and elucidating them, making them everyday realities, and creating task groups and implementation plans with a timeframe are also outcomes of the workshop. The vision is also effectively linked to policies and business processes through rational steps of articulating the Mission of the organization, developing strategies, instituting measures for monitoring progress.
Competency Mapping and Capability Building
Every organization is unique in its core strengths. To make these strengths sustainable is the challenge.
Competency mapping involves job analysis on the one hand and individual strength analysis on the other, to help organizations utilize them well. It also extends to mapping organizational competencies in some context. Fostering these competencies across employees helps build organizational strength.
Mapping the core values and competencies of organization and individuals serves to make them visibly inspiring. With appropriate linkages, it benefits the organization in several ways from job assessments, to maximizing individual fit to the job, to building a value structure to ensuring succession of competency.
Building Strategic Framework for Organizations
A blend of consulting and training work, Mindmetrics helps clients build a structured path between the business goal and the business practice/actions. By exposing senior management to several strategic frameworks / models, and evaluating their fit-for-use for the client organization, the strategic quotient of the organization as a whole is increased.
It gives the organization a chance to make an informed decision on the framework, trains all middle and senior managers on the framework, and lays the foundations for several key processes such as Strategic Planning, Target Setting, Investment Planning, Market Planning (including Branding, Positioning, Competitive Strategy etc), Competency Building and Portfolio Planning.
The programme draws heavily on both Marketing and Financial concepts besides strategy.
Building HR effectiveness
The strategic value of HR is enhanced in organizations where the goals of the HR department are themselves aligned directly to business goals.
Consulting services include setting lead and lag indicators, building performance and engagement metrics into the function so that the effectiveness of the department as well as employees in general may be tracked more objectively and proactively, laying the foundation for implementing performance management systems such as HR score card.
Mindmetrics offers several training programmes which are specifically necessary for HR Professionals for achieving strategic effectiveness, such as Facilitation skills, Interpersonal and Group Handling skills and Conflict Resolutions skills, Performance Counseling skills etc. These programmes are offered as game based workshops.
Building Sales Effectiveness Organizational Transformation
Mindmetrics addresses sales as a specialized and well differentiated function.
Programmes have a conceptual component, which is based on classical and state of art thinking, and a practical game/exercise based component which are customized and use audio visual tools liberally.
Programmes offered include separate modules for Retail Sales, Solution/Concept Sales, Customer Centric Selling, Big Deal Management, Account Management and Project Sales.
Extensive pre coursework is done to enable meaningful customization and to develop cases studies and exercises relevant to clients.
Organizational Transformation
Mutli dimensional approach to assessing current organizational effectiveness indices; clarifying Future Goals and designing and implementing solutions across the organization in a sequential manner, building capability to achieve the goals through total transformation.
Several or all dimensions of an organization are systematically assessed through interviews, assessment inventories, surveys, questionnaires , as well as market or customer feedback etc; these dimensions include culture, structure, people(leaders and teams), operations, support services, communications, processes, strategies, sales and finance; indices include performance measures, quality measures, satisfaction and social responsibility measures, etc.
Organizational transformation is usually a concerted exercise of a fairly intensive nature, embarked upon by organizations, in preparation for new management, market challenges, strategic initiatives and business acceleration are some triggers for transformation, which is an immersive exercise involving the whole organization.