In this workshop, we will explore a range of brain-friendly strategies and tools to help you improve your work performance. Throughout the workshop, you will have opportunities to try out the tools and discuss how to apply them to your own workplace performance challenges. You will also discover the latest research on how the brain works and how to optimize its performance.

This workshop will be highly interactive, incorporating a variety of learning modalities, including hands-on activities, group discussions and individual reflections. You will receive feedback and guidance from the workshop facilitator.

By the end of the workshop, you will gain valuable practical strategies and tools to improve your work performance.

Objective

Upon completion of the course, learners will be able to:

• describe the brain-friendly way to learn, think and remember for improved work performance
• identify how to tap the synergistic power of the brain for improved work performance
• apply mind maps, a powerful tool for the brain, for improved work performance
• state ways to improve the brain for peak performance

Outline

Keys to Personal Work Performance in the 21 st Century

• Common Workplace Challenges

Brain-smart Strategies for Personal Work Performance

• Brain-friendly way to Learn effectively
• Brain-based Thinking to generate thoughts faster
• Harness the Brain’s Synergistic Power 
• Recall and Retain with the brain-in-mind

Mind Map® – a powerful Brain Tool

• Principles of Mind Maps®
• Keys to Creating a Mind Map®

Applying Mind Maps®

• Using Mind Maps® professionally and personally
• Mind Map® Practice
  • Generating and Organising Thoughts/Ideas
  • Presenting with Mind Maps®

Brain-works for peak performance

• Feeding the brain
• Exercising your brain
• Smart vs Intelligent
• Building a Second Brain

Who should attend

Tan Kwan Liang's Profile

Kwan Liang helps individuals / teams / organisations navigate towards improved performance and business results through training, facilitation and coaching.

Kwan Liang got interested in how to use his ‘bio-computer’ while working in the IT industry. In the journey, he discovered and learned the Buzan Mind Map® by himself as there were no workshops on Buzan’s tools, in the mid-80s.

After 15 years in IT, Kwan Liang went on to pursue a career in Adult Education. For the last 23 years, he has been:
• training executives on how to use mind maps at and outside of work;
• sharing with executives effective ways to tap their brains’ powers; and
• facilitating brain-friendly strategic thinking sessions for organisations.

In addition, he also coaches and facilitates workshops for leaders.

Some of the organisations he had worked / works with are: Singapore Airlines; M1; Singapore General Hospital; Roche; Sembawang Corporation; McDonald’s S.E.A.; SAP; Credit Suisse; Singapore Government Investment Corporation; Jurong Health Group; Singapore Ministry of Defence; Singapore Housing Development Board; Singapore Police Force; Brainpower (Korea); Brain Capital Group; Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants; Singapore Institute of Management; Hong Kong Management Association, Singapore Civil Service College (Institute of Leadership and Organisation Development).

Kwan Liang, a graduate from NUS, has the following certifications:
• ThinkBuzan Licensed Instructor (ThinkBuzan, UK)
• Specialist Diploma in Advanced Facilitation (Institute of Adult Learning, SG)
• Advanced Certificate for Trainers and Assessors (WDA, SG)
• Analytic-Network Advanced Coach (Analytic-Network Coaching Ltd, UK)
• Training Analysis and Impact Measurement (Institute of Adult Learning, SG)
• Advanced Certificate for Trainers and Assessors (WDA, SG)