BOOK TO TANGO with BRAINDANCING

If you are contemplating on reading one of Dilip Mukerjea's books as a preambulatory exercise, prior to signing up for his 'Braindancing' seminar under the auspices of the Singapore Institute of Management in 2011, I recommend the following book:



Please bear in mind that the book was written a few years ago. Dilip has in fact incorporated many of his newer intellectual creations - especially in terms of practical tools for immediate application - within the newly-revamped 'Braindancing' program for 2011.

Enjoy your reading & exploration!

[In reality, 'Brain Symphony' replaces an earlier book by Dilip entitled 'Braindancing', which was written & published during the later part of the nineties.]

BOOK TO TANGO with BUILDING BUSINESS BRAINPOWER

If you are contemplating on reading one of Dilip Mukerjea's books as a preambulatory exercise, prior to signing up for his 'Building Business Brainpower' seminar under the auspices of the Singapore Institute of Management in 2011, I recommend the following book:



Please bear in mind that the book was written a few years ago. Dilip has in fact incorporated many of his newer intellectual creations - especially in terms of High-Performance Skill Sets - within the newly-revamped 'Building Business Brainpower' program for 2011.

Enjoy your reading & exploration!

BRAINAISSANCE: A SUITE OF NEWLY-REVAMPED CORPORATE PROGRAMS FOR ENTREPRENEURS, MANAGERS & PROFESSIONALS

Here's the latest suite of newly-revamped corporate programs from Dilip Mukerjea for entrepreneurs, managers & professionals.

Dilip has taken great pains to enhance the intellectual virtousity as well as the content management of his proprietary programs, which he has crafted & developed over a span of more than 15 years.

The programs are specifically designed to be highly-interactive, information-rich, fun-filled, & more importantly, fast-paced to simulate real-world conditions.

They will be marketed under the 'Brainaissance Programmes'.






Currently, four of the foregoing programs are conducted under the auspices of the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM).

DILIP MUKERJEA'S UPCOMING PROGRAMS AT THE SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

Dilip Mukerjea is scheduled to conduct the following creativity & innovation programs at the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM):

Braindancing:

Aug 26 to 27
Nov 3 to Dec 1

Braintales:

Nov 2 to 3

Lifescaping:

Sep 15 to 17

Building Brainpower:

Oct 27 to 29

For information regarding the relevant program synopsis as well as registration to each of the programs, please visit this link at SIM.

Readers can also visit this link to download the SIM Programs Directory for 2010.

ENCORE: DILIP & THE SUPERBRAINS!

Whenever Dilip Mukerjea takes a coaching class, be it 'Building Brainpower' or 'Braindancing', or 'Lifescaping', under the auspices of the Singapore Institute of Management, there is - always - never a dull moment from the onset, as you can see from the spiritedness of the participating group in the foregoing snapshot.

Besides making learning = fun, Dilip always shares by the end of the day many pragmatic insights, actionable ideas, powerful tools, ready-to-use strategies & practical hints to enable each & every participant in the class to take on the world... by unleashing his or her genius, so to speak... as if telling the world: "Watch out, here I come! Your butt is mine!"

DILIP MUKERJEA'S CORPORATE PROGRAMS @SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

Here's a current overview of Dilip Mukerjea's corporate programs under the auspices of the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM):

THE BUZAN TECHNIQUES: BUILDING BRAINPOWER

~ 14th to 16th July 2010
~ 27th to 29th October 2010

BRAINDANCING

~ 26th to 28th August 2010
~ 30th November to 1st December 2010

LIFESCAPING

~ 15th to 17th September 2010

BRAINTALES

~ 2nd to 3rd November 2010

For the individual program synopsis, & other pertinent details, please click on the appropriate program headings as outlined above.

LIFESCAPING SEMINAR @SIM, scheduled 15-17th September 2010

Dilip Mukerjea is scheduled to conduct the next session of his foregoing popular 'Lifescaping' seminar under the auspices of the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) from 15th to 17th September 2010.

The synopsis of the seminar is outlined as follows:

Introduction:

- Are YOU learning as fast as the world is changing?

- Are YOU agile enough to boost growth and profits?

- Are YOU exploiting opportunities?

- Are YOU living your life out loud?

- Are YOU creative enough to combat corporate challenges?

Savour the exhilaration of your embedded talents via these offerings:

Leadership, Innovation, Fellowship, and Entrepreneurship!

Lifescaping™ helps you to:

• Develop Strategic Response Capabilties for your business

• Design & Develop Projects to move from aspiration to activation to actualisation

• Design blueprints for your life and career

Lifescaping is a unique, visually provocative, highly interactive business (and work *) planning, and personal, life-design tool. It provides a gestalt, large-picture perspective by slashing learning curves normally deployed for preparation and consolidation of plans.

[* Public Sector agencies and non-profit]

Benefits to You:

Fully interactive experience that enables you to amplify your capabilities via INITIATIVE, CREATIVITY, and PASSION, in order to become:

- STRATEGICALLY NIMBLE

- RELENTLESSLY INNOVATIVE and

- IMMEASURABLY ENGAGING

It gets you to define your vision, and chart a course towards it. Achieve this by recognising your needs, determining your values, and crafting your beliefs. Success is inevitable.

Significant enhancement to your sense of motivation. Puts you in control of your life via control of your mind, guided by the purity of your spirit. With power, purpose, and forward direction.

Entrepreneurship and Leadership:

Acquire a range of techniques that give shape and dimension to your life. Create a vision that needs no revision.

Direct your attention to The Triple Bottom Line of: Economic Prosperity, Environmental Well-Being, and Social Justice. Awaken your spirit and allow yourself to experience success.

Programme Outline:

· Identifying lessons from the past

· Envisioning possibilities and scenarios by charting with Lifescapes™

· Preparing for contingencies and risks

· Lessons and exercises in entrepreneurial thinking

· Understanding current realities relevant to markets and competitors

· Developing strategies and SMART goals

· Monitoring progress and growth for continual success

· Multiple insights on leadership across domains

· Conducting ‘vulnerability & opportunity audits’

· Creating game plans

· Creating business plans

· Suite of techniques in creativity & innovation

· Strategic Thinking skills to move ahead from aspiration, to action, to actualisation!

Who Must Attend:

Executives at all levels and from any discipline in the corporate and educational ecosystems. Anyone who desires to leap ahead, from confusion to profitability. People who wish to connect with the symphony of their spirit.

Venue : TO BE ADVISED.

Time : 8:30 - 18:00

Fee : S$1,605.00 (SIM Members) (Inclusive of 7% GST)

Enquiries : 62489407 exec@sim.edu.sg

For more information about seminar, you can download a brochure from this link.

For seminar registration, please proceed to this link.

THE BUZAN TECHNIQUES: BUILDING BRAINPOWER SEMINAR, by Dilip Mukerjea

Dilip Mukerjea is scheduled to conduct the next session of the foregoing popular seminar at the Royal Plaza on Scotts from 28th to 30th April 2010, under the auspices of the Singapore Institute of Management.

The seminar synopsis is outlined as follows:

Introduction:

It is said that the human brain is like a computer, but unlike a computer, “Hard Drive Full” is something your brain will never experience. With its unlimited capacity to learn, the brain is seemingly infinite in power and capabilities.

The thing is, how do you tap into this unlimited source of power?

Benefits to You:

Mind Mapping®, Speed Reading and Power Comprehension, and Memory Enhancement train your brain to:

- convert information into usable intelligence
- attain simple solutions to complex problems
- understand that true TQM equates effective brain usage

It will also:

= Significantly enhance your information processing capabilities
- Boost individual and group mental literacy
- Become an intellectual power pack.

Programme Outline:

- Checking your Brain
- Test your memory
- Measure your creativity - how good a problem solver are you?
- Thought organisation - disentangling clutter
- Leading through thinking
- Reading speed and comprehension
- Are you a positive thinker?
- Mind Mapping®
- Dramatically increase memory and concentration via Mind Maps®
- Stimulate creativity in yourself and others via Mind Maps®
- Applying Mind Maps® in note-taking, note-making, problem solving, speech writing, meetings, planning and studying
- Distil immense amount of information or materials onto one sheet of paper
- Speed Reading
- How to immediately increase your reading speed
- Boosting comprehension to merge with the increase in reading speed
- Equate speed reading via power browsing, to Mind Mapping®, and achieving a high-speed thought organisation
- Boosting your Memory
- Stretch your memory with advanced memory techniques for a tremendous improvement in recall and retention of names and faces, data and numbers
- How to use your memory before/during/after learning
- How to improve access to your memory when under stress

Learning Features:

Fast-paced but with ample opportunity to develop these skills for future use. Emphasis will be on practical applications.

Who Must Attend:

Executives at all levels and from any discipline.

Venue : Royal Plaza on Scotts (for 28/4-30/4/2010 class only)
Time : 8:30 - 18:00
Fee : S$1,605.00 (SIM Members)
(Inclusive of 7% GST)
Enquiries : 62489407 exec@sim.edu.sg

For registration, please proceed to this link at the Singapore Institute of Management.

BRAINDANCING: CREATIVITY & INNOVATION IN ACTION, scheduled for 12 to 13th May 2010 @SIM

Dilip Mukerjea is scheduled to conduct his foregoing popular seminar at SIM in early May 2010.

The synopsis is outlined as follows:

Introduction

Creativity is controlled chaos, or so you’ve heard but yet to experience. Then get ready to enter the eye of the creative storm with this mind-blowing programme that explores the creative process and teaches you how to make sense of this little understood and
unpredictable process.

Benefits to Participants:

Apply a range of creativity techniques in your work and personal life. Acquire expertise in converting breaks into breakthroughs.

Enhance your creative abilities, as well as boost your group intelligence. You will be able to apply the skills immediately in your life. This seminar is extremely valuable for idea generation and invaluable for enhancing flexibility in thinking.

Programme Outline:

- Generate ideas through a range of brilliantly simple but formidably-proven tools and techniques
- Prioritise powerfully in the creative decision-making process
- Dismantle mindsets and attain fluency, flexibility, and fluidity in confronting competitive creativity in a chaotic marketplace
- Learn how ideas emerge to create the advances we take for granted today
- Break out into areas of relevance and significance
- Work on the system, instead of in the system. Create constructive chaos for achieving 'chaordic' (chaos + order) relevance
- How many know about the latest software for their laptop computers but don't have a clue about the latest software for their cranial computer? Get the know-how here
- How many can surf the net but don't know how to surf their heads? Consider InterNet versus InterHead

Learning Features:

Fast-paced, interactive, and with ample opportunity to develop your skills for future integration in the workplace. Emphasis will be on practical applications.

Who Must Attend:

Executives at all levels from any discipline.

Venue : TO BE ADVISED.

Time : 8:30 - 18:00

Fee : S$963.00 (SIM Members) (Inclusive of 7% GST)

Enquiries : 62489407 exec@sim.edu.sg

For registration to the seminar, please proceed to this link.

250 MILLION PEOPLE ALREADY 'MINDMAP': FACT OR HYPERBOLE?

I find it intriguing as well as amusing to read that the Buzan Organisation has claimed that

"... 250 million people already 'mindmap'..."

on their newly created ThinkBuzan website.

Is this a fact or pure hyperbole? Or, did they just pluck the figure from the sky or is it an audited figure?

Likewise, in the corporate website of the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), which offers professional programs to the corporate world as well as to the general public, I have noted that Tony Buzan has claimed that he is

"the owner of the world's highest Creativity IQ".

I like to know who is the ranking or rating authority.

Interestingly & also amusingly, Tony Buzan also claimed

"he has been consistently ranked as one of the top international speakers at all levels & to groups from 1-15,000..."

"... rated as the top international lecturer in 15 national & international management associations."

In the first instance, any young kid can tell you that 1 is definitely not a group.

More importantly, I like to know the respective ranking or rating authority in the two instances.

Did the relevant people in SIM bothered to conduct due diligence on the "accolades"?

Hopefully, the relevant people at SIM, being a premier management training institution, are not entrenched in colonial mentality. Layman calls it the 'Ang Moh Factor'.

['Ang Moh' is a widely accepted & used as a simple term to describe a Causasian. You will hear the term in local TV & movie productions, radio shows, & also read it in the magazines or books.

By the way, readers can pop into this AngryAngMo website for elaboration on the term. The website is run by a German expatriate.]