"NEVER SURRENDER" Workshop in Dusseldorf

"NEVER SURRENDER: Achieve and maintain Peak Performance under pressure"

Learn to apply the strategies of sport champions to maximize your executive performance under pressure by improving your Focus, increasing your Energy and designing your Breakthrough

One- Day Professional Development Course for Executives

Course Directors: Klaus Regnault (Germany) and Carlos Salum (USA) - Peak Performance Experts
Date: Monday, November 24 from 9:00 to 17:00 hours
Location: PowerPrinting GmbH Headquarters
Im Taubental 30 - 41468 Neuss - Germany
Language: English – with clarification in German, if required

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 14, 2008
Early Registration Fee: Euro 495 per person + 19% Tax before Deadline
Late Fee: Euro 595 p.p. + 19% Tax at the door (subject to availability)

Course Description
What do peak performers in sports and business do exceptionally well?
Why do peak performers overcome monumental challenges while others give up?
What keeps high achievers motivated after they have conquered their goals?
What do some of the world's elite athletes have to teach us as professionals?
How do the skills and routines they practice translate into helping us all achieve peak performance for ourselves and our clients?

As professionals, we are all performers. We all need to deliver results on demand and under pressure, just like world-class athletes do.
The global financial crisis has reshaped the corporate landscape for several years to come. To respond effectively to challenges and difficult situations, we need to train to become Peak Performers.
Peak Performers in sports align, integrate and monitor three critical factors: Focus, Energy Management and Breakthrough Design. We call this alignment “Performance Architecture”
As professional Peak Performers, we systematically use specific techniques to operate in our Ideal Performance State to remain fully engaged and increase our creative thinking skills. As a result, we are able to manage more effectively, help our clients in more responsive ways and improve our organization’s creative output.

Key Factors in Performance Architecture:
Focus: Identifying the Right Things to Do
Define your values, worldview, goals, objectives and inspiring visions.
Broaden your perspective and expand your possibilities.

Energy Management: Doing Things Better
Expand your physical and mental capacity to respond to challenges.
Increase your influence by instilling energy and purpose in others.

Breakthrough Design: Doing Better Things
Surpass existing parameters to mobilize others towards positive change.
Accelerate your transformation and generate exponential growth.

Who Should Attend
Any professional, corporate executive or entrepreneur of any background, culture, educational history or slate of personal experiences who wants to the opportunity to take the fullest advantage of unique, astonishing developments in human performance.

Overview
To enhance your "life's portfolio" and assure your long-term success as an executive, you must adopt a multi-dimensional training program, just like professional athletes do. The quality of your life as an executive is directly proportional to your ability to think better and to manage your physical, emotional and mental energy.

This course will teach you how to achieve and maintain your Ideal Performance State [IPS] by expanding your physical, emotional and mental skills through systematic training. Through peak performance training, you will balance your individual needs, your family responsibilities and your profession's demands. Your training plan will allow you to improve your efficiency in practical, measurable ways.

“Never Surrender” also teaches you leading-edge ideas and findings in such frontier sciences as evolutionary psychology and biology, brain research, game theory and theory of moves, complex adaptive systems, non-linear dynamics and numerous other post-postmodern fields of inquiry.

Course Goals
To provide a road map that will enable you to align their personal and professional goals
To help you understand and manage their behavior under pressure, which is essential to achieve and maintain the Ideal Performance State (IPS)
To empower you by making them aware of the power of the mind-body connection, so they can operate more effectively, both at the interpersonal and team levels
To provide you with lateral thinking tools that will enhance their capacity to think creatively and find alternative solutions in a variety of situations
To introduce you to effective performance design tools to refine their goals, overcome barriers and define action plans in the context of their individual, professional and social roles
To integrate the individual training process with the corporate culture, a sure way to consolidate the overall progress of an organization

Course Benefits
At the end of this insightful, comprehensive course you will:
understand how the mind-body connection influences your behavior under pressure
manage your emotional responses by using effective mental and physical strategies
design a personalized road map to achieve and maintain your lifelong performance goals
have more physical and emotional energy available throughout your weekly schedule, thanks to compact yet effective workouts
become more resilient and resourceful in the face of obstacles and disagreement
interact with others in the organization in a more effective and constructive way by developing new ideas out of solution-design instead of resorting to argument and criticism
transfer your peak performance mastery to your relationship with your colleagues and your clients

Methodology
Inventory: You will be introduced to the fundamentals of peak performance, followed by intensive analysis of your lifestyle and working patterns.
Training Plan Development: You will create a personalized training plan to increase your physical, emotional and mental energy overtime. The application to team training issues follows a specific model and group exercises. The Course Director employs a variety of training tools, such as: personalized inventories, questionnaires, tests, workshops, group discussions, flow diagrams, video examples, physical and mental exercises, role-playing, study binders, guide charts, reading recommendations and a personalized plan outline.
Commitments: You will commit to achieving measurable results, which you will monitor through specific charts.



About the Course Directors
Klaus Regnault is a Peak Performance Consultant based in Düsseldorf, Germany. In association with Josef Brauner, former president of Sony Germany, Board Member of Deutsche Telekom and CEO of T-Com. Together, they run Complex Coaching and Consulting, covering the areas of business, sports and the arts.

As a corporate trainer, he conducts workshops based on his "Complex Coaching" method, which unifies physiological, mental and emotional aspects of performance. Regnault also talks about his experiences with the Maasai Warriors in Tanzania. The Maasai are regarded as the most mentally tough native Warriors on Earth. Certain aspects of their training and sense of teamwork are applicable to the corporate world in Western countries, and Regnault helps organizations make the transfer in practical and effective ways.

As an international tennis coach, he works with professional players ranked in the top-100 in the world. He also trains golfers to help them become mentally tough under pressure. Klaus Regnault has been the European representative of Dr. James Loehr’s sport psychology speaking tours from 1988 through 1992.


Carlos Salum is the President of Salum International Resources, Inc., a management consulting firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Since 1993, he has focused on Performance Architecture applied to executive training and corporate events’ management.

His clients are located in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Salum regularly lectures on Performance Architecture for corporate audiences, which include HSBC Private Banking, Bank Julius Baer, ABN AMRO Private Banking, Benfield Group, The New York Knicks Organization, US Air Force Academy, Swiss Military Leadership Academy, Manres AG, Information Management Group, KPIT Cummins and The Neurological Institute, among others.

He has participated in ground-breaking research in peak performance training with some of the world's leading sport scientists, such as Dr. Jim Loehr, Dr. Nick Hall, Dr. Jack Groppel and Pat Etcheberry This work involved some of the world's top athletes. Salum contributed to the careers of outstanding tennis players such as Gabriela Sabatini (U.S. Open champion, 1990) and Sergi Bruguera (French Open champion, 1993-94) and the Italian Davis Cup Team, among many others. Salum has organized corporate events featuring world-renowned creative thinking experts like Dr. Edward de Bono, Richard Saul Wurman and Dudley Lynch.

He is currently developing a sponsored conference in Europe in association with Promostudio (Italy), which will feature several Nobel Prize Laureates in Economics and top Economics' professors from Harvard, Yale, MIT and Stanford. Salum is also an international tennis coach, a radio and television journalist, a produced playwright (London, Tampa, and Buenos Aires) and a documentary film producer.


INFORMATION and REGISTRATION:

Klaus Regnault
E-mail: kr@complex-coaching-consulting.com

Carlos Salum

E-mail: csalum@saluminternational.com