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Question: I received
your email (Golf as a powerful metaphor for business success -
the MIND4Golf Corporate Golf Day Events) and
am interested to know to what extent I would gain an insight into
techniques for business improvement, sales success, team development
and rapid learning that I could apply in an organisational context.
Could you give me some information on that? Thanks very much.
MIND4Golf Answer: Many thanks for your
excellent question. The real point of the day is for participants
to have
a lot of fun
and enjoyment, whilst learning new life-skills easily, quickly
and effectively which they can apply to their golf game, playing
performance and enjoyment, as well as to business, sales, communications,
goal focus, and team building. Naturally they need no awareness
of the sophistication and elegance of our advanced methods. Much
like the user-friendliness of your car, TV and computer - the complexity
is hidden. So here goes anyway, for those who really want to know
. . .
In order to answer your query, at least partially, by attending
the ‘MIND4Golf Corporate Golf Day Events’ you
would gain invaluable insights into key ideas, profoundly different
ways
of thinking (and acting), and practical techniques which are directly
relevant to your own, and others, accelerated personal, professional
and organisational development. This event, and our (LeadershipDynamiX.com)
unique business services, have taken many years of serious up-to-the-minute
research, advanced behavioural modelling and practical client experience,
with many executives and organisations, to bring to fruition.
As you will understand to fully appreciate what we deliver requires
an 'immersion' in the experience - hence, as just one approach
(a metaphor), the ‘MIND4Golf Corporate Golf Day Events’.
Within the constraints of this rapid development experience only
being a single day, we expect you will learn a great deal, and
further you will have the rare opportunity to practically apply
your newly acquired skills immediately, ie by actually playing
6 to 9 holes (ie. technically called a 'convincer cognitive strategy'
- you will have irrefutable and measurable proof to yourself, and
others, of your learning success on the same day). What is even
more important is you will have acquired the core generic learning-to-learn
skills of excellence. These keys to improved playing scores and
consistency (professional growth, leadership development, business
improvement and culture change), importantly without further instruction,
involve the 3 S's - Seeing, States and Swing:
- Seeing - involves visualisation (if you can't imagine it,
you absolutely can't do it! - directly relevant to success (and
failure)
in golf, business, relationships and life), energy alignment
(focus of attention - cantering, grounding, peripheral/foveal
vision,
etc. relevant to personal congruency/believability/walking-your-talk.),
decision-making - as in golf, business and life! - and how
to be better), preshot routine (your 'sensory' mind/body pattern
for
success - shows how you can learn a new complex and sophisticated
cognitive/behavioural sequence easily and quickly - relevant
to all learning), pattern recognition (for reading conditions,
interpretation
and making adjustments), thinking strategies (motivation,
dealing with others, distractions, winning/losing/recovery, etc.),
etc.
- States involves the 8 C's - Composure,
Confidence, Concentration, Curiosity, Calmness, Congruency,
Control and Commitment (demonstrates
how new neural (mind/body) connections are made by accessing,
reinforcing and intensifying these 'inner' resources to a new
context - also
learn how to block negative thoughts, change harmful self-talk,
control negative emotions of; frustration, disappointment,
impatience, defeat, anger at bad shots, fear of failure and success,
self-esteem,
persistence, nerves and anxiety, competitive pressure etc.
- relevant in all aspects of business, career, sports and life!),
learn how
to play 'in-the-moment' (just 'being'), etc.
- Swing - involves rapid muscle-memory 'grooving' of successful
shot-making (we take a radically different approach to the
'conventional' swing coaching, which inadvertently promotes slow/even
regressive
learning, and for the most part the 'faults and fixes' approach
deployed perpetuates a culture of sustained failure by continually
focusing on 'what's wrong' (people become very good at getting
what they don't want!). The patterns we deploy enable people
to progress rapidly with further (even infrequent) practice and
playing,
without further instruction.
Whilst it could argued that the golf swing learning part of the
day (using rapid neuromuscular imprinting - less than a quarter
of the day), could be said to be 'context specific', even this
is illustrative of rapid 'one-trial learning' of 'excellence' -
in this case. Versus for most people who experience significant
amounts of negative childhood and cultural behavioural imprinting,
largely responsible for dysfunctional or limiting behaviours in
adulthood. Interestingly the process is the same, and all behaviours
(our business speciality) can for the most part be easily and beneficially
intensified, or reversed and removed!
Many people who take up golf, may typically spend many years,
even their entire lives, trying to accomplish some level of mastery
(and in business and careers), without success. Part of the reason
for this, is they may over time become extraordinarily knowledgeable
about what causes failure, and what goes wrong and why. By focusing
on the 99% of what causes problems, they unwittingly become experts
in the problem NOT the solution. People get PRECISELY what they
pay attention to (either what they want = success, or don't want
= failure!) - in business, careers, relationships, sports and life.
We only focus on the 1% of skills, competencies and knowledge
'excellence' that you really need to know to succeed, and importantly,
sustain improvement (generic learning-to-learn techniques) with
practice and playing. For example you will actually learn some
aspects of the world number one Tiger Wood's patterns of excellence.
As far as we know we are the only people in the world anywhere,
who understand and teach this. Why do we do this? Simply they are
best, and the results are replicable by anyone, even if they don't
play very often, Furthermore, it takes less effort and time than
the traditional 'faults and fixes' sustained-failure hope-dependency
approach, and the results are miles, and miles, better. Though
as you would expect you would need a little more than that to seriously
rival the best player/s in the world!
As you can imagine this approach will not be welcomed by everyone.
It may seem alarming, even threatening (since it challenges the
very foundations of many 'proven theories' and 'well-established
reputations'!), to the largely slow, difficult and inefficiency
of most conventional learning (training, development, education,
instruction, e-learning, etc.) methods. This event is just one
innovative example of the emergent transformation in Rapid Effective
Learning that has already begun. If you've got this far, I hope
this answers your question? In the meantime I look forward to meeting
you at one of our events in the very near future.
The deputy editor of Golf Monthly participated in a recent event;
this is what he published about his experiences; "Do you find
an excuse to avoid playing golf because you don't want to embarrass
yourself? Well, the MIND4Golf Corporate Golf Day Events combine
sports psychology with simple instruction techniques to enable
beginners to grasp the basic golfing skills and to instil confidence
to go out on the course. Much of the emphasis is placed on the
psychological aspect of the game . . . ensuring you have the correct
mental approach. On the instruction side, don't expect lots of
in-depth analysis of how to grip the club, how to grove the perfect
swing or get the right posture. The technique adopted is 'look
and learn', as you study the . . . swing for long irons, the short
game and putting . . . are simple and easily practised." Gary
Martin. Deputy Editor. Golf Monthly. September 2001.
Appendix
If you really want to get technical, we use (by stacking, layering
and sequencing) a vast number of advanced conscious and unconscious,
multi-level, communications techniques to rapidly accomplish
our/and our client’s outcomes. We use these approaches
in ALL our business, team-building and sports work - coaching,
courses and consulting, and this includes; learning styles,
sensory thinking modalities (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic
and non-sensory
words/phrases), psycholinguistics (negation, sensory-based
and submodality predicates, many other language patterns),
preconscious
processing (to minimise resistance), non-verbal language (body
language - all shifts in posture, gestures, facial tension,
movement, etc.), metaphors and stories (isomorphic), state
management (emotions,
moods, feelings), cognitive strategies (motivation, decisions,
commitment, etc.), visualisation, goal setting and achievement,
energy alignment (centering, grounding, etc.) belief change,
values alignment, muscle-memory programming, inner-game methods,
autosuggestion, zoning/peak-performance states, foveal/peripheral
vision (peak performance/enlightenment state), relaxation techniques,
etc. etc.
Some general notes about MIND4Golf learning and development
events
We use a wide diversity of accelerated learning-to-learn principles
in all our work (coaching, courses and consulting). Since we
know what people can actually do and directly apply to their
work situation,
before they leave the classroom, the feedback after each event
is always affirmative.
By way of contrast 'conventional' training methods are typically
directed at 'what' to do, transferring knowledge or building understanding
of the problem, or academic theory. We work with many people who
have attended numerous 'conventional' courses and understand the
theory but cannot actually do it. Our work by contrast is almost
exclusively focused on rapid effective behavioural change, the
'how' to do it, and giving people the practical ‘skills’,
enabling them to succeed. These events use a state-of-the-art multi-level
learning-to-learn design and delivery methodology called the High-Performance
Format (HPF) - A universal & measurable, workshop methodology
proven to compress the learning curve
This state-of-the-art unique innovation in training and development
productivity is a powerful, well-proven and universal methodology.
Designed to seriously reduce training & professional development
time and costs, with courses being 10% to 20%, even 50% (up to
10 times is possible), more productive. It enables people to measurably
learn more skills, in greater depth, more easily, in less time,
and be able to apply new skills and behaviours more effectively
to their job and workplace. This accelerated training blueprint
is a skilled integration of state-of-art, global best-practices
in accelerated learning, advanced training methods, and cumulative
developments modelled from the worlds best trainers, presenters
and communicators.
Tried and Tested Benefits
- Huge time and cost savings.
- Universal application - can be applied independent
of material content or topic.
- Measurable advances in applying learning, skills and
behaviour more effectively on the job and into the workplace.
- Ideal and well-proven for people and behavioural skills
transfer.
- Suited to all organisational training and development
levels - from boardroom to office.
- Delegates alternatively learn many more skills or in
greater depth, in the same allocated time.
- Attendees are away from their work for much less time.
- Learning is intensive yet easy, relaxing and enjoyable.
More details and information on the unique High-Performance Format
Methodology can be found at www.LeadershipDynamiX.com
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