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Brett is a powerful and captivating communicator with 12 years of public speaking experience and is a proficient trainer. He has a gift to connect with his audiences as he is down to earth, inspiring and very relatable. His passion is to help people reach their full potential and to work alongside organisations in positioning themselves for long-term success.
With this background, Brett is an ideal speaker on any topic concerning:
- Unleashing your personal and professional potential
- Behaviours and attitudes of successful people
- Life strategies
- Relational and emotional intelligence
- Leadership
- Motivating and empowering others
- Improving effectiveness and performance
People are your priority. Your success depends on them and their performance. Discover the power of experiential learning and how it can ignite a process of building trust, equipping team members with tools that will enhance better working relationships and develop a powerful dynamic team. Our activities are known to excite, challenge, motivate, teach and transform. They are also invigorating, fun, cause reflection and are life-changing. They will help people to develop life skills and a positive attitude towards life and its many challenges. They are designed to produce deep insight, lasting change and sustainable transformation. The educational process is genuine and profound and has a measurable impact in its transfer back to the work place.
Strong productive teams don’t just happen – they are forged
ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
- Low and high ropes
- Raft building
- Mental and physical challenges
- “Litteria” and obstacle course
- Scenario team building exercises
- Scenario problem-solving exercises
- Mini Adventure race (Suiteable for any venue even at work)
Coaching has become an important component of business life.
A business coach helps leaders to capitalise on their strengths, assess improvement areas, and develop action plans to help maximise their individual and team’s success. Coaching plays a central role in supporting and enabling individuals, teams and organisations to focus, assess and re-evaluate priorities and support the implementation of strategic decisions
Additionally, coaching is ideal to help leaders apply theoretical knowledge in “real life”
business situations. We offer coaching services to executives, managers, and employee teams in the fields of leadership, personal efficacy, strategic decision-making and customer service.
Our workshops offer cutting edge solutions, the latest best practices, and proven strategies and techniques. His sessions will challenge outdated and ineffective behaviours, stir you to new levels of thinking and functioning, and will move you to action. Seminars are run in a true workplay style – interactive, fun and exciting. We merge experiential learning, self-evaluation and life-skills training into one comprehensive approach to take your staff to a higher level of relating and functioning. Delegates work through theory, complete various self-analysis assessments, engage in small group work with practical exercises, and participate in group discussions. All exercises and activities demonstrate and reinforce learning points.
CREATING A HIGH PERFORMANCE CULTURE
Through this seminar you will:
- Recognise the positive effect of good leadership on people’s motivation and performance
- Understanding the necessary interpersonal skills that are indispensable for working with and bringing the best out of your people
- Learn how to increase pride and generate enthusiasm that will transform your organisation into a fun, creative, dynamic and energetic environment
- Identify ways to build an atmosphere of trust, empowerment and productivity
- Discover how to inspire self-directed action, where every employee takes responsibility for their own performance
- Learn how to motivate consistently and keep morale high
- Discover how to create a Good to Great organisation
- Receive practical insights to handle poor work performance and implement incentives that actually motivate staff
BECOMING AN EXTRAORDINARY LEADER
Through this seminar you will:
- Receive practical and relevant insights to develop your personal leadership skills, straightforward and concrete tools to increase your influence, and timeless practices of exemplary leaders
- Articulate the 16 competencies of extraordinary leaders
- Discover your leadership strengths and weaknesses
- Recognise the strengths and behaviours that demonstrate leadership effectiveness in workplace situations
- Draft a growth and action plan to further develop your leadership abilities
- Learn how to successfully increase your influence
- Understanding how your leadership styles affect productivity and the necessity of adapting to different situational requirements
- Learn the essential leadership and interpersonal skills to lead people more effectively
DEVELOPING GLOBAL EXECUTIVES
Through this seminar you will learn:
- The factors driving globalization
- How to go global: Phases of development
- How to find your strategic advantage in the global marketplace
- The essential competencies for global leaders
- How to impact of culture on the dynamics of an organization
- How to lead the emerging “Gen Y” knowledge worker
- How to develop cultural intelligence by understanding the different cultural dimensions and their impact on leadership, behaviour, and expectations
MAXIMISING YOUR LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT POTENTIAL
Through this seminar you will learn:
- How to initiate creative new ways to approach work and successfully solve problems
- How to develop effective strategic planning initiatives
- How to confidently implement and lead people through a change process
- How to identify the behaviours and characteristics of superior leaders and managers
- The essential qualities and behaviours of exemplary leaders
- How to cultivate crucial people skills to effectively lead teams
- How to establish and mobilise high performing teams
- How to keep your team motivation and morale high
- How to coach personal competence
- The necessary achieving skills that enhance efficiency and improved performance
BUILDING A WINNING TEAM
Through this seminar you will learn:
- The necessary skills that are indispensable for working with and bringing the best out of your people and boosting productivity
- How to promote a genuine care and support for other team members
- How to create a sense of team spirit
- How to strengthen cohesion and stimulate the building of a strong synergistic team
- How to inspire your staff to become more motivated as a team
- How to increase pride, ownership and enthusiasm that will transform your working environment into a fun, dynamic, energetic and high performance work place
- How to motivate individuals to take greater responsibility for their work and improve production through teamwork
LEGENDARY SERVICE
Through this seminar you will learn:
- The importance of service in a company’s profitability
- How to create powerful first impressions
- How to use Moments of Truth to your benefit
- How to become a customer service star
- How to build rapport and create effective long-term business relationships
- The secrets of the five “F’s” in service
- How to identify and exceed customer expectations
- How to effectively handle and respond to customer problems and complaints
- How to create a passionate service-orientated workplace
BUSINESS CONSULTING
In today’s turbulent environment, competition is more intense than ever before. Companies are under constant pressure to gain and retain competitive advantage over an increasing number of other players in the market place. In this busy and high pressure environment it can sometimes be hard to stay on top of everything and make sure you are running your business the best possible way. Due to these challenges, companies are increasingly in need of outsourcing for services and expertise that are no longer available in-house. As external resource, we help to fill these gaps, by offering customised solutions that firms require for mission-critical strategic initiatives, whether in strategy formulation, organisational design and strategic alignment, human resources development, or initiating change processes.
WE SPECIALISE IN:
- Strategic thinking, strategic foresight, environmental scanning, scenario planning and implementation
- Designing organisational structures for sustainable long-term success and effectiveness
- Cultural transformation and change processes
- Designing leadership development programmes
- Global entrepreneurship
- Creating an empowered and high performance culture
- Stimulating an innovative and creative working environment
The team members of SIMS KHULA have been involved in various outreach projects in less privileged communities and amongst the youth. The majority of the projects were made possible by grants from Sponsors/Donors who saw the projects as a part of their development and social awareness responsibility.
Programmes include
- Youth and Community Leadership
- Personal and Career Growth
- Development of Mothers in Leadership
- Community Facilitation Skills
- Formal Training Interventions based on our accredited programmes
- Family bonding and healing interventions
Our clients include: City of Tshwane, SANCA, SOS Children’s Villages, City of Johannesburg.
Our team process is based on a full-team development process, which includes a Team Assessment, and an off-site intervention to fill gaps in team performance. Off-site intervention can include strategic planning, team facilitation, experiential exercises; adventure-based learning interventions and recreational activities.
Specialists on our team will ensure team growth and enhanced effectiveness through a well-planned scientific approach.
SIMS Khula has extensive experience in the recruitment and selection of personnel for a wide range of job families and industries. We combine recruitment methods i.e. structured interviews; psychometric evaluations etc. to identify the most suitable candidate; at the same time considering the need of the client.
We mainly use the a range of products. A possible list of instruments is listed below:
Personality Assessments
- Person-job-match report
- Manager’s report
- Candidate report
- Management competency profile
- Team types and leadership styles profile
- Emotional intelligence report
- Development action planner report
- Team impact (selection) report
- Team impact (group development) report
- Leadership report
- Stress candidate report
- Performance Needs Analysis (Situational Needs Analysis)
- Job Profile Development
- Training Needs Analysis and Development of Training Plans
- Development of Personal Development Plans
- SAQA Assessment Services
- Mentoring and Coaching on all levels
- Career and Placement Guidance
We are specializing in the accreditation of training providers with different SETA's (Sector Education and Training Authorities) this includes:
- The Development of effective Quality Management Systems for training organisations
- Design and development of SAQA aligned Technical and Soft Skills courses including the alignment of existing training materials and assessment instruments with unit standards
- Facilitation of Assessor, Facilitator (Train-the-Trainer) Moderator and SDF Programmes to ensure compliance with SETA and SAQA requirements
