Our jobs demand more concentration, precision and lateral thinking than ever before, but it has become almost impossible to focus at work these days. And it’s only getting worse.

Social media giants now employ armies of engineers, psychologists and scientists aimed at finding new ways of keeping our attention in their apps. Collaboration tools have exploded, unleashing an avalanche of notifications and robbing us of deep focus. As marketers relentless test new ways capturing our concentration and influencing our behaviour, it’s no wonder we end each day feeling overwhelmed, overstimulated and exhausted.

But today, we level the playing field. Today, we strike back. Today, we help you use the same science these corporations have been using against you—the science of focus—to give you unprecedented access to this critical cognitive function to unleash your full potential.

Take a breath and join us on a journey into the intricacies of your brain's focus system. Be ready for a few surprises as we push your attention to its limits, reveal the true capabilities and constraints of concentration, and offer practical brain-based tools that you can apply immediately to transform your focus, your business, and maybe... your entire life.

It’s time to focus on focus.

GET READY TO:

• Transform your ability to concentrate and focus.
• Cultivate a focus-friendly, highly productive work environment.
• End the multitasking debate with hard science.
• Deploy new practical tools that facilitate both deep work and improved collaboration.
• Unlock the full potential of your focus in both your personal and work life.

Prioritisation is a skill that goes beyond work; it's a crucial life skill that separates the good from the great, the ordinary from the extraordinary, and a life wasted from a life well-lived. It impacts our productivity, success, and fulfilment in all areas of life.

However, it's never been harder to prioritise what matters most. Information overload, ever-changing priorities, and constant distractions force us from pillar to post. To make matters worse, many of the world's most powerful organisations have built teams of engineers, psychologists, and behaviour experts to hack our behaviour, literally, to increase their revenue. But are they helping us achieve our priorities or their priorities?

In this workshop, we make it a fair fight. By exploring the science of prioritisation, you'll discover the cognitive and emotive tricks these organisations have been using against you, and how you can use them to influence your own decisions and actions to ensure you make meaningful progress on what matters most to you. You'll also uncover how to help your team and organisation do the same.

Guaranteed to leave you gobsmacked, this workshop will excite, empower, and equip you to level up at work and life by mastering one of life's most important skills. It will help you sift through the noise and tune into what truly moves the needle.

Don't waste your chance to make a difference in the world; prioritise prioritisation and make time count.

GET READY TO:

• Challenge long held belief’s around prioritisation, decision making and behaviour.
• Tap into a suite of practical tools to immediately improve prioritisation and decision quality.
• Discover how to ethically hack your behaviour (and the behaviour of others) to ensure you’re set up to follow through with commitment and enthusiasm
• Become much better equipped to manage high workloads and while staying focused on what matters most.
• Discover how to overcome procrastination and leave the workshop feeling inspired and equipped to make positive change.

With recent world events turning entire industries upside down, an organisation’s ability to adapt has evolved from being a competitive advantage to being essential for survival. Lucky for us, planning is a core cognitive strength, but in a variety of circumstances, the brain’s standard decision-making process can transform from an asset to a liability. We can all too easily get lost in the detail, overwhelmed by emotion, or derailed by our biases. And as we adapt to the “new normal”, the costs of heading down the wrong path have never been greater.

All of this can be avoided if we build systems which proactively help us make optimal decisions, cultivate agility and keep us on track. Kognitive’s Adapt workshop does just that. Starting with the science of how the brain organically forms and adapts a plan, we uncover where it comes unstuck and how you can refine your tools, processes and systems to ensure you and your team are able to build an agile organisation, adapt to the changing environment and achieve your goals in the shortest possible time.

GET READY TO:

• Better understand the core cognitive drivers and shortcomings of the brain’s decision making and planning processes.
• Discover how to cultivate maximum agility without sacrificing direction.
• Build more proactive, productive work habits and processes.
• Unite and align your team.
• Achieve your goals – faster.

The most important asset of any organisation is its people. The right staff, making the right decisions, with the right support is a sure path to success. Yet creating an optimal environment, operating rhythm, alignment and accountability for our staff to bring our strategy to life can be illusively complex.

Add challenging world events, remote working and AI to the mix and creating a high-performance team or culture has never been more difficult. If not managed effectively at the best of times, let alone in the aftermath of an international pandemic, we run the risk of doing more harm than good to our organisation’s and staff.

In this insightful workshop, Kognitive’s founder and managing director, Ethan Glessich, will reveal how new discoveries in cognitive science are shining light into how we can build better cultures. Coupled with research into remote working and case studies from organisations who’ve been operating with remote workforce for decades, you’ll leave with new science-backed and proven ways to create a high-performance organisation as we transition to the new normal.

THIS INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION WILL:

• Explore the cutting-edge science of how the limitations of our cognitive capabilities complicate strategy execution.
• Reveal how an awareness of our cognitive strengths and weaknesses can help us craft more effective cultures.
• Uncover case studies and insights from high-performance organisations who have extensive pre-COVID experience in leading remote teams.
• Deliver 5 practical tools your attendees can apply immediately to start their journey to elevating the performance of their organisation’s culture.
• Reveal the 7 key domains of Kognitive’s Performance Pyramid and how you can use it to optimise your tools, processes and culture.

The mind is a powerful tool, capable of sophisticated planning, prioritisation and creativity. But these thoughts don’t happen in a vacuum. When times are tough, when life is challenging and when the news is bad, the mind can work against us, generating thoughts and emotions we don’t want and interfering with our ability to lead a healthy, happy and productive life. 

There’s often no changing the bad times, but there are ways of changing how we respond to them. Breathe is an enlightening keynote, examining the importance of mental resilience and the scientifically proven ways we can all build it. Kognitive Managing Director, Ethan Glessich, draws on decades of research into cognitive science and his own personal life challenges, to help your audience synthesise the tools they need to build resilience into their day and life.

In light of recent chaotic and stressful events, it has become essential for leaders to prioritise their team’s wellbeing. This keynote is a gift they’ll cherish, one that continues to give even after the presentation. It’s a gift that will help them strengthen their mental resilience, wellbeing and productivity, benefiting all aspects of their professional and personal lives.

THIS TOUCHING PRESENTATION WILL:

• Give your attendees the tools they need to strengthen their mental resilience.
• Reveal the latest scientific discoveries of how we can lay the foundation lasting mental wellbeing.
• Show how small changes can lead to monumental shifts.
• Help build a more resilient, productive workforce and culture.
• Inspire your audience to take positive action today.

Do you have an idea for a keynote presentation or workshop but are not sure how to turn it into a reality? Leverage Kognitive’s extensive expertise in building high impact keynote presentations and workshops and have our team build you a presentation to make your next conference one to remember. We’ll conduct research in the science behind your challenge or desired outcome, build interactive activities that deliver key insights, and co-develop practical takeaways with you, that leave a lasting impression on your audience. We can even train your trainers to enable you to roll it out in a cost effective, controlled manner through-out the organisation. If you’ve got a particular idea or message in mind, get in contact and let’s turn it into a reality.