World Class Academy of
                                 Excellence@OpenThinking LLC
                                  Bespoke Program Guide



                                  Facilitator and Corporate
                                  Coach Michael J. Tolan
                               Nothing says success better that results that have been
                               created time and time again. Michael J. Tolan has for
                               the past two decades enabled people to get more out
                               of themselves. From starting his first businesses as a young
                               man, he went on to create his own organizations in more
                               that 15 countries employing hundreds of cross tiered staff
                               that he trained within his own organizations. His seminars
                               and workshops on getting the best out of people have
                               been attended by thousands of people. His message is
                               delivered as a facilitator, not as a typical trainer, but

 After a stellar twenty-five   moreover as someone who walked the walk successfully
 year career as an             time and time again. From starting one organization with
 entrepreneur, Michael J,
 Tolan heads the World         2 employees to building it to over 800 people in under
 Class Academy of              three years, his passion has always been to empower
 Excellence.
                               others to get more of themselves.
“Our Passion is
                               Today he heads the World Class Academy of
helping others to
                               Excellence.
discover their
internal and often                Michael Tolan has delivered programs, seminars and
hidden gifts to                   workshops to small to medium size companies as well
                                  as large organizations such as Telecoms, Utilities and
make contributions
                                  Logistical operators within the Mena Region.
that matter.”
Advanced Leadership Communications

                 This leadership
                 development program
                                             This is
                 adopts the principals of
                                             combined
                 the renowned
                                             by
                 Leadership Challenge
                                             communication strategies
                 program, authored by
                                             that empower intelligence
                 Kouzes and Posner.
                                             for leaders while using
                 This program is well        Dale Carnegie
                 suited for organizations    methodology to blend
                 that wish to embrace        these two schools into one
                 best practices in           solid and lasting program
                 leadership today. The       for advanced leadership
                 purpose of the              communications.
    Advanced     workshop is to deeply
                                             The Leadership Challenge
    Leadership   imbed the foundational
                                             is one of the most widely
                 pillars of a proven
Communications   leadership model that
                                             effective and utilized
                                             programs in the US, with
                 has been adopted by
                                             clients such as Microsoft,
                 leading Fortune 500
                                             GE, Aramco, as well as
                 Companies, NGO’s and
                                             thousands of medium to
                 Governmental
                                             small business units that
                 institutions.
                                             understand the core
                 Over 2,000,000 copies of    ethics and values of
                 The Leadership              exemplary leadership.
                 Challenge have been
                                             The Facilitator blends
                 sold worldwide.
                                             these disciplines and
                 The facilitation of this    adapts them to the Mena
                 workshop guides             region for practical
                 participants through the    application. The take
                 how and why of great        away is building lasting
                 leadership with an          best practices in everyday
                 assortment of role-plays,   thinking and behaviors as
                 interactive games,          role models of great
                 academic content to         leadership.
                 fuel the fire of
                 leadership in everyone.
                                             Public Workshop fees per
                                             person: 3,500 -5,500 AED
Negotiate
                                                              Your Future
                                                           with Leverage

                                                           Value Exchange
                                                           Workshop




          Negotiate Your Future,
        Navigate with Leverage                             Negotiating your
                                                           Future allows each
Negotiating is something everyone does every day.
We all have want and needs, just as organizations.         delegate to instantly
Why are good negotiation skills important for personal
                                                           understand and
and professional life?                                     predict barriers and
Simply, these skills help us understand the paradigm of    obstacles while
the See-Saw of exchanging value.                           deploying intelligent
Value can be in many forms such as time, costs, and        empathy to
quality.
                                                           maximize results.
Good negotiators understand that in order to achieve
their desired outcome, they must be constantly             Two-Day Public
negotiating hurdles, people, and challenges in order
to maintain focus and achieve the desired outcome.
                                                           Workshop: 3,500 AED

Using the See-Saw as the driving visual for this
workshop, the delegates are put through a series of
scenarios and tasked with understanding the outcome
from the other persons point of view. They explore new
tools and triggers that can make their own path
smoother and getting the most out of people and
circumstances around them.

Splitting the difference is not the way forward, as most
people choose to do.
Super-Vision for Supervisors
                        Organizations around the world are grappling
                        everyday with the task of getting the most
                        out of their employees, projects and partners.

                        In order to oversee critical processes in
                        people, a deeper understanding of what
                        makes people want to do something is
                        paramount to harmonious attainment of the
                        task at hand.

                        WCA believes that people will do just about
                        anything that you ask them to do, when they
                        are giving enough reasons to do so.

                        Ancient models of using the Carrot and the
                        Stick are today be exchanged by
                        inspirational communication, in others words,
                        catching people doing something right.

                        This positive re-enforcement technique is the
                        greatest tool a supervisor of projects and
                        people can learn and utilize in their day-to-
                        day environments.

                        Understanding the process of the task to be
                        supervises today requires Super- Vision, to get
                        the best out of people in the workplace, to
                        use encouragement and approval to
                        stimulate ingenuity, loyalty and team work to
                        create a feel good atmosphere where the
                        subordinates look forward to coming to their
                        office.

                        This communications workshop for supervisors,
                        which is one of the many hats of managing
                        today, deploys the delegate back into the
“Super Outcomes erupt
                        work arena with new tools to guide the
from those who
                        employees to have a desire to perform their
empower others by
                        best, with verification strategies and test
Sharing their Vision”
                        driving delegation imbedded in this
                        workshop.

                        2-Day Workshop – Public 3,500 AED per
                        person
and begin to share with
Speak Like a Star                                             purpose and passion.

                                A deeper look into this
                                unveils pre-learned
                                experiences of feeling
                                incompetent, of making
                                mistakes in public and
                                being judged by others.

                                Speak Like a Star digs
                                deep into the personalities
                                of each delegate and
                                provokes each person at
                                their own level to open up

Speak Like a Star is a
program that invites
delegates to understand
that great
communication skills
armed with confidence
and humanity are the
qualities that we all             “Enabling others to
respect in a storyteller.                                     Miracle breakthroughs are
                                over come their fears         often experienced in this
Everyone has a story              and replace it with         workshop after each
inside him or her, a story to      solid confidence is        delegate has gone
share.                                                        through a series of role
                                  the take away Star
                                                              plays, mini-presentations,
No one was born to be a                Power Delivers”        spontaneous talks that
great speaker or
                                                              improve the level of
presenter, but today
                                                              confidence while
more and more
                                                              reaching their audience
organizations are
                                                              with heart.
compelled to have a
professional                                                  2 Day Workshop: Public:
spokesperson to                                               3,500 AED
represent their product,
brand or service.

Understanding that
when asking 100 people
what are their 5 biggest
fears, speaking in public
come in as one of these 5
for more than 75% of
people.
themselves as today.
                                    Mission I’m Possible        The workshop is created
                                   This event is a              to set the stage for
                                   cornerstone of mind set      positive change through
                                  change for positive           altering the perceptions
                                  empowerment.                  that hold people back.

                                  This one or two day event     The first day of presenting
                                  is pure passion and fire to   this material charges the
                                  unleash the old believes      audiences to drop old
                                  that hold people back         excuses and accept
                                  from reaching their           responsibility to
                                  potential.                    understand what is
                                                                holding them back from
                                  The methodology is            reaching their full
                                  presented by using            potential.
                                  inspirational real life
                                  examples, helping the         The delegates are given
“Mind Sets for Positive Change    delegates to understand       tools to allow them to use
  Happen Here at Mission I’m      what is really holding        other words that “But” I
               Possible Events”
                                  them back from being          Can’t”
                                  more that who they see        Or “yes, but my situation is
                                                                different”.

                                                                Once these brick walls of
                                                                believe are shattered, the
                                                                workshop takes them
                                                                forward to explore new
                                                                possibilities, new goals,
                                                                new achievements in their
                                                                personal life and careers
                                                                that will drive them
                                                                forward with a new
                                                                positive perspective.



                                                                Half Day Workshop:

                                                                AED 1,200 per person
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2013 inpower programs

  • 1.
    World Class Academyof Excellence@OpenThinking LLC Bespoke Program Guide Facilitator and Corporate Coach Michael J. Tolan Nothing says success better that results that have been created time and time again. Michael J. Tolan has for the past two decades enabled people to get more out of themselves. From starting his first businesses as a young man, he went on to create his own organizations in more that 15 countries employing hundreds of cross tiered staff that he trained within his own organizations. His seminars and workshops on getting the best out of people have been attended by thousands of people. His message is delivered as a facilitator, not as a typical trainer, but After a stellar twenty-five moreover as someone who walked the walk successfully year career as an time and time again. From starting one organization with entrepreneur, Michael J, Tolan heads the World 2 employees to building it to over 800 people in under Class Academy of three years, his passion has always been to empower Excellence. others to get more of themselves. “Our Passion is Today he heads the World Class Academy of helping others to Excellence. discover their internal and often Michael Tolan has delivered programs, seminars and hidden gifts to workshops to small to medium size companies as well as large organizations such as Telecoms, Utilities and make contributions Logistical operators within the Mena Region. that matter.”
  • 2.
    Advanced Leadership Communications This leadership development program This is adopts the principals of combined the renowned by Leadership Challenge communication strategies program, authored by that empower intelligence Kouzes and Posner. for leaders while using This program is well Dale Carnegie suited for organizations methodology to blend that wish to embrace these two schools into one best practices in solid and lasting program leadership today. The for advanced leadership purpose of the communications. Advanced workshop is to deeply The Leadership Challenge Leadership imbed the foundational is one of the most widely pillars of a proven Communications leadership model that effective and utilized programs in the US, with has been adopted by clients such as Microsoft, leading Fortune 500 GE, Aramco, as well as Companies, NGO’s and thousands of medium to Governmental small business units that institutions. understand the core Over 2,000,000 copies of ethics and values of The Leadership exemplary leadership. Challenge have been The Facilitator blends sold worldwide. these disciplines and The facilitation of this adapts them to the Mena workshop guides region for practical participants through the application. The take how and why of great away is building lasting leadership with an best practices in everyday assortment of role-plays, thinking and behaviors as interactive games, role models of great academic content to leadership. fuel the fire of leadership in everyone. Public Workshop fees per person: 3,500 -5,500 AED
  • 3.
    Negotiate Your Future with Leverage Value Exchange Workshop Negotiate Your Future, Navigate with Leverage Negotiating your Future allows each Negotiating is something everyone does every day. We all have want and needs, just as organizations. delegate to instantly Why are good negotiation skills important for personal understand and and professional life? predict barriers and Simply, these skills help us understand the paradigm of obstacles while the See-Saw of exchanging value. deploying intelligent Value can be in many forms such as time, costs, and empathy to quality. maximize results. Good negotiators understand that in order to achieve their desired outcome, they must be constantly Two-Day Public negotiating hurdles, people, and challenges in order to maintain focus and achieve the desired outcome. Workshop: 3,500 AED Using the See-Saw as the driving visual for this workshop, the delegates are put through a series of scenarios and tasked with understanding the outcome from the other persons point of view. They explore new tools and triggers that can make their own path smoother and getting the most out of people and circumstances around them. Splitting the difference is not the way forward, as most people choose to do.
  • 4.
    Super-Vision for Supervisors Organizations around the world are grappling everyday with the task of getting the most out of their employees, projects and partners. In order to oversee critical processes in people, a deeper understanding of what makes people want to do something is paramount to harmonious attainment of the task at hand. WCA believes that people will do just about anything that you ask them to do, when they are giving enough reasons to do so. Ancient models of using the Carrot and the Stick are today be exchanged by inspirational communication, in others words, catching people doing something right. This positive re-enforcement technique is the greatest tool a supervisor of projects and people can learn and utilize in their day-to- day environments. Understanding the process of the task to be supervises today requires Super- Vision, to get the best out of people in the workplace, to use encouragement and approval to stimulate ingenuity, loyalty and team work to create a feel good atmosphere where the subordinates look forward to coming to their office. This communications workshop for supervisors, which is one of the many hats of managing today, deploys the delegate back into the “Super Outcomes erupt work arena with new tools to guide the from those who employees to have a desire to perform their empower others by best, with verification strategies and test Sharing their Vision” driving delegation imbedded in this workshop. 2-Day Workshop – Public 3,500 AED per person
  • 5.
    and begin toshare with Speak Like a Star purpose and passion. A deeper look into this unveils pre-learned experiences of feeling incompetent, of making mistakes in public and being judged by others. Speak Like a Star digs deep into the personalities of each delegate and provokes each person at their own level to open up Speak Like a Star is a program that invites delegates to understand that great communication skills armed with confidence and humanity are the qualities that we all “Enabling others to respect in a storyteller. Miracle breakthroughs are over come their fears often experienced in this Everyone has a story and replace it with workshop after each inside him or her, a story to solid confidence is delegate has gone share. through a series of role the take away Star plays, mini-presentations, No one was born to be a Power Delivers” spontaneous talks that great speaker or improve the level of presenter, but today confidence while more and more reaching their audience organizations are with heart. compelled to have a professional 2 Day Workshop: Public: spokesperson to 3,500 AED represent their product, brand or service. Understanding that when asking 100 people what are their 5 biggest fears, speaking in public come in as one of these 5 for more than 75% of people.
  • 6.
    themselves as today. Mission I’m Possible The workshop is created This event is a to set the stage for cornerstone of mind set positive change through change for positive altering the perceptions empowerment. that hold people back. This one or two day event The first day of presenting is pure passion and fire to this material charges the unleash the old believes audiences to drop old that hold people back excuses and accept from reaching their responsibility to potential. understand what is holding them back from The methodology is reaching their full presented by using potential. inspirational real life examples, helping the The delegates are given “Mind Sets for Positive Change delegates to understand tools to allow them to use Happen Here at Mission I’m what is really holding other words that “But” I Possible Events” them back from being Can’t” more that who they see Or “yes, but my situation is different”. Once these brick walls of believe are shattered, the workshop takes them forward to explore new possibilities, new goals, new achievements in their personal life and careers that will drive them forward with a new positive perspective. Half Day Workshop: AED 1,200 per person
  • 7.
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