Another management program organised by TMC presented by Russel Kerkoven

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Boost your minds capacity

This short program will help you work, think and learn more effectively. Based on Tony Buzan’s widely recognised technique for effective thinking and learning, this program will show you how to apply mind mapping and benefit from it, in the business environment. It will enable you to think more creatively, plan more effectively, improve your memory and raise your effectiveness at work. Benefits of this course:

Learn and apply practical Mind Mapping techniques

Improve your organisational skills.

Identify and understand a project using a visual structure to maximise the thinking potential of your brain.

Add structure to plans and structure projects, presentations, writing and other business tasks.

Refresh your thinking using the single page format allows you to revisit a subject, refresh it and where required review that subject quickly and easily.

Share your work using a simple format means others can read, understand and add their own ideas.

Enhance creativity andpromote freethinking and become more creative.

Improves memory.

Solve problems by bringing all of the information together from differing sources to one page.

Save time – Mind Maps can be adapted to almost any task and will improve efficiency and help you to become more effective.

Versatility – Mind Maps are so versatile that they can lend themselves to virtually any task in and out of the workplace.

Applications in business:

Planning and organising.

Preparing and delivering presentations.

Problem solving.

Option generation and decision-making.

Note taking in meetings, workshops and more.

Staff assessment.

Enhancing creativity and learning skills.

About the presenter Cdr Russell Kerkoven is the CEO and Principal Trainer of Learning Space and was the former CEO of Distance Learning Centre, which is a joint venture between the Government of Sri Lanka and the World Bank. Cdr Kerkoven has a MBA from Post Graduate Institute of Management of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura as well as an MSc from the University of Madras. He served 21 years in the Sri Lanka Navy, and retired after holding the rank of Commander. He also held the appointment as Commanding Officer Naval Dockyard. The staff appointments he held included the Deputy Director Naval Personnel. On completion of his naval career in 1996, Russell worked in the Private Sector. He served at Prima, and Gesco – as local representative of the Harris Corp, Honeywell, and SIMRAD. He also served as Projects and Administration Manager of Bodyline Ltd during the year 2000. Cdr. Russell Kerkoven additionally functioned as the Continuous Improvement Champion at Bodyline (Pvt) Ltd, in which period Bodyline won several prestigious awards, namely, Taiko Akimoto 5S Competition, Most Energy Efficient Company, Sri Lanka National Quality Award and Sri Lanka National Productivity Award. Cdr Russell Kerkoven was the CEO of DLC Ltd, which is a World Bank Funded Advanced Training Facility. While at DLC he was instrumental in getting DLC Colombo remapped into the prestigious East Asia Pacific Region of the Global Development Network, the Learning and Knowledge arm of the World Bank. He has travelled extensively and was trained in Great Britain, India, Pakistan, Israel, and USA.