Overview: Our Unique System

Every business needs to keep up the morale, motivations and skills of its workforce. To that end, we offer a unique training and development program based on our proprietary Brain Upgrade system. Brain Upgrade combines the best and most innovative training practices with a unique change process that brings results in record time.

Brain Styles, Communication, and Team Building

How are left-brained people different from right-brained people? What are their different work styles? Communication styles? Problem-solving styles? Can they learn to get along? Participants will learn to solve many communication problems by recognizing and understanding the strengths, weaknesses, and special needs of both their own brain styles and those of their co-workers. Plus, they will expand their abilities by switching on both brain hemispheres so that:

• detail-oriented individuals will see more of the big picture,
• individuals who have problems with planning meeting deadlines will become more organized,
• individuals who have difficulty controlling their emotions will become more rational, and
• overly cerebral individuals will become more empathetic.

Managing Change and Creating a New Future

Dramatic changes like mergers, restructuring or even getting a promotion all call for new behaviors. However, people often find themselves stuck in old ways and are unable to adapt. This is because sudden changes activate the brain's survival centers, which in turn block the part of the brain where rational thinking and new learning takes place. Brain Upgrade uses physical techniques that disengage the survival reflexes. This approach immediately restores the ability to adapt and make new choices, and it generates enthusiasm for new opportunities.

Upgrading Emotional Intelligence

This highly innovative seminar combines our contemporary left-brain/right-brain model with the ancient Chinese approach to understanding emotions. Participants will experience practical exercises that create better communication between their rational and emotional brain centers. Equipped with these exercises, participants will have permanent tools to continue developing emotional intelligence on their own. Topics include:

• Who is really in charge of our brains
• What emotions are really saying
• How to effectively handle emotions
• Why there are no "negative" emotions
• How to make room for emotions in the workplace
• Effective alternatives to "self-control"

Anger Management

From the point of view of brain organization, emotions, including anger, are processed by the right brain hemisphere while logic, reason and verbal skills are processed by the left brain. The most common thing that happens under stress is that the hemispheres stop communicating with each other. That's why it's so difficult to reason with a person who is agitated.

The good news is that the right brain, as well as the lower brain centers that are also involved in anger, can be easily reached by methods other than verbal persuasion. Brain Upgrade approach to anger management is unique, using simple and easy skills, which can be used daily not only to manage anger but also prevent it. This seminar includes learning:

• What anger is and why it’s there
• How it relates to other emotions
• Why denying or repressing your emotions is counterproductive
• Unexpected ways to gain control over your anger
• How to prevent future angry outburst

Participants have reported decrease in their angry feelings from 20% to 90% in just 15 minutes!

Stress Management

The brain centers responsible for stress reactions are generally not under our conscious control. They include the autonomic nervous system and the deeper brain structures that are responsible for the body, called the reptilian brain and the limbic brain. Breathing is one of the commonly used methods to gain control over these centers. However, in addition to breathing there are many other techniques that can easily reach our stressed nervous system. Brain Upgrade uses 26 proprietary activities that calm down the agitated brain centers and increase communication among them. These activities result in immediate decrease of stress reaction, calmer behavior and increased rational thinking. When practiced regularly, these activities decrease people's susceptibility to stress, so they don't feel bothered by situations previously throwing them off balance.