Exploring the mindsets, skills and practices required for personal transformation and success.

1. Personal
effectiveness
(choice, focus, purpose)
in an overwhelming world for
sustained energy and results
Debbie Craig: CEO Catalyst consulting,
Author, I am Talent, I am Alive,
Accelerated Learning

2. Talent consulting
& development
Organisational transformation
& results
Personal transformation
& retreats
Individual Transformation
& results
A bridge between 2 worlds

3. A disruptive world
Disruption &
change
Digitising vs
humanising
Generation
conflict
Leadership
crisis
I.T. is at the epi-centre of this disruption

4. Future Skills
Collaboration
Communication
Content learning
Critical thinking
Creative Innovation
Confidence
6 Cs – predicting life success
Becoming Brilliant: What science tells us about raising
successful children.
WEF future skills 2022
Analytical thinking and innovation
Active learning & learning strategies
Creativity, originality and initiative
Technology design and programming
Critical thinking and analysis
Complex problem-solving
Leadership and social influence
Emotional intelligence
Reasoning, problem-solving &
ideation
Systems analysis and evaluation
Google Project Oxygen
Top 7 most important qualities of
Google’s top employees not STEM
skills but “soft” skills

5. Future Skills
“We define our hiring
and our education
system on skills.
There is no skill which
is robot proof,
someone can build a
tool to do it better
faster cheaper.”
Dr Vivienne Ming
We need to think, learn and show up differently – we
need to shift our mindsets … but how??

6. Personal effectiveness
The ability to make appropriate
and powerful choices in any
moment (regardless of the
circumstances), to take
responsibility for outcomes and
to achieve win-win results
What is it & WIIFM?
Victor … not victim
Alive … not just surviving

7. Tired Overwhelmed
Stressed Frustrated
Not in control Reacting
Resisting Not enough
Vitality Energy
Purpose Passion
Love Freedom
Acceptance Enough
Survive or Alive?
What is your %?

8. Tired Overwhelmed
Stressed Frustrated
Not in control Reacting
Resisting Not enough
Survival mode
Phones: 47-86 x p.d. E.mails 28% or 11 hrs p.w.
Chronic high cortisol leads to
widespread body damage
High blood pressure, death of neurons in the
brains memory centers, high blood sugar, heart
disease, diminished cell repair, accelerated aging,
Alzheimer's disease, fatigue, obesity, diabetes,
slow wound healing, reduced bone repair, fewer
stem cells, reduced muscle mass, increased skin
wrinkling, fat around waist and hips,
osteoporosis
Cortisol takes 20 minutes to dissipate
Our brains don’t know the difference
between an imaginary threat and a
real one.
Mind to Matter – Dawson Church 2018

9. So What?
• Stress = heart disease, diabetes, depression (Women 40%, Millennials
19%, China 75%)
• Stress = sleep deprivation (30-50% not getting enough) , reduced EQ,
heart disease, diabetes (women)
• Stress = cause of 60- 90% of doctor visits
• Illness = +22m illegal drugs, +12m prescription painkillers (U.S.)
• Illness = 500% increase in antidepressants (U.K.)
• Illness = large % of people living with PTSD (S.A.)
• Cost = Germany 59m workdays lost - psychological illness, 80% in 15 yrs
• Cost = U.S. 200 to 300% more on indirect costs of health care
Thrive: Ariana Huffington

10. So What?

11. Choice
Do we really have a choice?
Can we really change?

12. Think back to the last time you
“lost it”
Maybe with anger, frustration,
disappointment, anxiety e.g.
unexpected crisis, traffic, argument,
loss
What thoughts, feelings, actions
did you experience?
What was the trigger?

13. The Survival (victim) Cycle
think
event
react
act
feel
result
?
FLIGHT – FIGHT – FREEZE
(reflexive, limbic)
Stress
Adrenaline
Cortisol

14. The Survival (victim) Cycle
VICTIM
think
event
react
act
feel
result
automatic
⚫ Beliefs
growth vs fixed
mindsets / self-
esteem / risk
tolerance / change
resilience
⚫ Programs
brain states /
preferences /
biases /
assumptions
⚫ Reactions
Automatic reaction vs
conscious responses
/ physiological
response
⚫ Behaviour
Appropriate vs
inappropriate –
supporting goals
& purpose?
⚫ Results
Desired results /
Disappointment
/ Regrets

15. The Alive (victor) Cycle
thinkevent
reflect
act
feel
result
choice
VICTOR
EXECUTIVE DECISION MODE
(reflective, pre-frontal cortex)
Calm
Clear
Connected

16. Choice practices
• Refractory period challenge
• Robot technique
• Observation exercise
• Affirmations – “feel the fear”

17. Choice
“You cannot control
what happens to you,
but you can control your
attitude toward what
happens to you, and in
that, you will be
mastering change rather
than allowing it to
master you”
Brian Tracy

18. Focus
“What we intend to, and pay attention to, become
our reality” John Keehoe

20. Focus
• What is your intention?
• Where is your attention?
• What are you feeling?
• Are you focussed on... being ALIVE or just surviving?
E-motion = energy in motion

21. Focus
practices
• Reflection & Journaling
• Deep work
• Digital detox
• Mindfulness
quiet time, meditation, brain &
heart coherence

22. Purpose
“When you are enthusiastic about what you
do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very
simple.” – Paulo Coelho

23. Purpose
• Who am I?
Consumer/receiver/follower or ..Contributor/initiator/leader
• What is my purpose/vision?
• How can I contribute?

24. Purpose practices
• Contribution project
mentoring, building, sharing
• Vision boards & affirmations
• Team purpose building
“The secret of happiness: Find
something more important than
you are and dedicate your life to it.”
- Daniel C. Dennett

25. Choose to be Alive!
Make wise choices, be focused, be purposeful
for sustained energy and results

26. Contact Us
Catalyst Consulting (Pty) Ltd
Phone +27 11 465 6270
Email debbie@catalystconsulting.co.za
Web www.catalystconsulting.co.za
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