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Course Leader
 Tony Buzan is the author/co-author of the recently published best sellers The Brain Smart Leader and Grass Roots Leaders.
Tony has coached many leaders, including members of the National British Rowing Squads for Olympic competition. His teams rowed in the finals of the Olympics in Seoul Korea, Sydney Australia, Barcelona Spain, and Beijing China. In the 2008 Olympics, one of his protégés, Zak Purchase, won the Gold.
Tony has worked as an adviser in thinking, leadership, and ‘thought leadership’ with many of the Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, Disney, HSBC, Oracle, BP, Boeing, Barclays International, Xerox, Nissan, the Young Presidents Organisation, STABILO, McLaren, and many others.
His advice is also sought by governments and government bodies in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Bahrain, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Dubai, UK, Scotland and Ireland. Tony is the world’s leading author of books on the brain, learning and leadership, having authored and co-authored more than 100 books to date, with sales totalling £8m (and accelerating!).
Mr Buzan’s books and other products have achieved massive success and leadership positions in more than 150 countries, and 35 languages, generating revenues in excess of £200m.
Introduction
We are currently in times of crisis. It is leaders who show the way through. Therefore, every company in the world now has an urgent need for strong and creative leaders. Indeed, the cascading growth in bankruptcies, are caused by one major underlying bankruptcy: the bankruptcy of thought; the bankruptcy of ideas; the bankruptcy of intelligence. In other words, the bankruptcy of well trained, inspired and creative leadership.
The Chinese word for crisis is written in two separate characters. The first: Danger. The second: Opportunity.
The opportunity is there for everyone. It is only those who can lead, and who are thought-leaders, who will be able to grasp the many opportunities that crises offer.
In this ground-breaking new seminar, Tony Buzan, a global leader in many fields will work with you to develop your own leadership skills, and thus enable you and your organisation to be among those who make fortunes in times such as the present.
Who should attend
Anyone in your organisation who has any leadership role.
Attendees should also include those who are primarily followers, as the leaders will benefit from the followers knowing the qualities and actions they need to follow!
Course Outline
- The leadership dilemma.
- The leader as follower; the follower as leader.
- Developing the prime leadership characteristics: Vision, Commitment; Belief; Persistence; Creativity; Master Mind groups (a) real, (b) virtual; Mental Literacy; Physical Health/stamina; Planning (short- medium- and long-term); Learning from mistakes; Love of the Task.
- The leader’s multiple intelligences and their expansion – Verbal, Mathematical, Creative, Sensory, Social, Personal, Physical, Spatial, ethical, and spiritual.
- The Brain and Leadership – New Discoveries.
- Examples of the Greats.
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