Keynote Speaking by Dr Adam Fraser.
Presentation topics include:
1. FLOW – The Key to High Performance
This presentation outlines the concept of FLOW and its relationship to performance. FLOW or "being in the zone" is where we tap into a high performance state, where an individual is completely engaged, are deeply focused, stress free, have positive emotion, a clear strategy and time seems to disappear. Over the last 10 years psychologists have had studied how individuals can spend more time in FLOW. This presentation steps you through how to get more FLOW in your working day.
More time in FLOW leads to greater productivity, less stress and greater engagement.
Specifically the presentation covers the following areas:
- What is FLOW and how does it affect performance at work?
- The 6 key elements to FLOW
- Why stress and pressure are beneficial and help our performance
- Why slowing down will not reduce your stress levels or improve your happiness
- How FLOW relates to productivity
- How to use FLOW to reduce stress and friction in the work place
- Attention management and its role in performance
- How to be more pro-active rather than reactive
- Why multi-tasking is a myth and bad for your brain
Outcomes
This presentation is perfect for any individual or team looking to improve their performance. It opens their eyes to a new paradigm and a new way to view work, pressure and performance. They will be equipped with a new metric and language to assess their performance, as well as tools and techniques to facilitate FLOW at work.
2. Rehab Your Habits
Many people adopt destructive habits that lead to poor performance, reduced productivity, few tasks being completed, conflict within the work place, high levels of stress, exhaustion, disengagement and negative emotion. Our habits determine our success and productivity. In most cases individuals are not aware of the fact that their habits are detrimental and even if they are, they find it very difficult to change them.
This presentation walks people through a process of rehabilitating their detrimental habits.
This high content yet tongue in cheek presentation will take you through the 9 steps to rehabilitating your habits.
They are:
- Admitting you have a problem
- Auditing your habits
- Conducting an intervention
- Getting an action plan
- Going into rehab (in - patient)
- Getting support
- Setting up your environment to support the new habit
- Coming out of rehab (out – patient)
- What to do when you relapse
Outcomes
This presentation gets individuals and teams to assess and evaluate their habits. It encourages them to be mindful and self reflective about their behaviour as an individual and a team member. They leave being much more strategic about how they are spending their time and with an action plan and tool kit on how they can alter their habits to ones that will increase performance and engagement.
3. Your Brain An Owner’s Manual - Why do I Behave like that?
Are you running your brain or is it running you?
Our performance at work is controlled by the small piece of real estate between our ears. We are all born with 3 pounds of neurons squeezed into our skull but unfortunately it didn’t come with a manual on how to use it. To get the best out of something we need to understand it. In this high energy, high engagement, highly entertaining presentation Dr Adam Fraser will give you a users guide on how to run your brain so that you can get more done in a day, have less stress and more happiness
Here’s what you and your brain will learn:
- Why positive thinking does not work
- How to remodel our brain structure - Neural plasticity; what your brain and Tupperware have in common
- How to make messages stick with your staff
- How to take your brain to the mental gym
- Why how we explain the world is the key to happiness and success
- Common thinking traps we fall into
- Why we have brain snaps and lose our temper with people
- The effect that emotions have on our behaviour
Outcomes
This presentation is perfect for any individual or teams that are under significant pressure or face significant challenges and setbacks. It helps them to understand how their brain operates, and how their thinking style and the conversation they have between their ears ultimately determines their performance and engagement. This session is valuable for teams that want to have better cohesion, communication and culture, as it helps them understand their reactions to certain situations and the behaviour of others in their team.
4. The 3rd Space - Managing how you show up!
Do you ever feel like you have many different roles in your life but you keep no one in any of them happy?
During our day we move between different roles. You could say our day consists of moving from one role to the next. For example, we may move from a meeting where we are a leader and our role is motivate and support a team to our desk where our role is to focus and be productive. Then transition to another internal meeting where our role is to be innovative and strategic, and then to an external meeting with a client where our role is selling to them. Even the trip from work to home is a role transition. Unfortunately we rarely manage this transition well.
How we "show up" to our new role determines our success in that role. Specifically what thoughts, emotions and physiology we bring to each role determines how we will perform.
This presentation looks at how we can use our 3rd space to "show up" in the right state for each role. In addition, it gets people to reflect on how they "show up" and what impact that has on their company and team culture.
- What is the 3rd Space and how to use it effectively
- Why how you show up affects your environment and everyone around you
- Why we are all responsible for company culture not just the leaders of the company
- Why you never want to show up as a Victim, Persecutor, Detractor or Passenger
- How to quickly regulate your thoughts, emotions and physiology
- Emotional self awareness and regulation
- How to control and prevent anger and fear based reactions
- Getting the most out of your physiology