The Workshops - what you get

Participants will be given tools to enable them to be the best they can be. With Gold Fever’s holistic approach, participants will not only understand how to achieve a higher performance in the classroom, in examinations and the workplace but also see how they can realise more of their personal and health-related goals.

Resources are available for participants to help them over the subsequent months and to put the lessons they have drawn from Gold Fever into effect. Each participant will receive a course workbook, including lots of helpful hints and tips.

The Gold Fever team will spend a day in your school or workplace delivering between 3-4 workshops sessions to your chosen cohort. Depending on your chosen workshops and daily timetable, these will be between 60-120 minutes in length. Each workshop includes being coached by inspirational personal coach and Olympic champion Martin Cross who works with a number of FTSE 100 companies.

Media follow up – Gold Fever will work closely with the local media in your area to ensure maximum positive publicity with an Olympic Champion visiting. As the London 2012 Games approach this is becoming an increasing highlight of the workshops.

A quality relationship that will last. We hope that we will get the chance to work with you and your school/organisation in the long term and will work with you to tailor our programmes to your specific needs.

1. The Gold Fever Four Stage Tool Kit

Participants will learn how to apply the successful techniques, the four stage tool kit, used by top performers from the worlds of sport, business and entertainment. For example schools have used the Gold Fever tool kit to help their students both prepare more effectively for their exams, or as a motivational experience, which adds to their classroom-based work.

The 4 stages in the tool kit are as follows:

  1. Tool: The Wheel of Life - Where are you now?
  2. Tool: Role-models - What have you got going for you?
  3. Tool: Goal-setting - What do I want to achieve?
  4. Tool: Belief Wall - How do I keep on track?

2. Dealing With Negativity

The workshop will take participants through a process. They will learn how to recognise and avoid their own patterns of negative-thinking and crucially understand how to challenge them and replace negativity with more positive thoughts. Finally, to help them stay strong and deal with some of the tough feedback that they may face, they will learn how to build their levels of self-belief.

  1. Tool: The Brain Magnet – Bringing negative thoughts out
  2. Tool: What’s going on? – Recognising & sorting negative thoughts
  3. Tool: Learned optimism - Challenging & transforming
  4. Tool: Belief Wall – Staying strong when the going gets tough

3. Managing Stress

Participants will learn how to focus on what is in their control – ‘control the controllables’. It will allow participants to add to and/or improve their current stress-coping mechanisms; they will have a chance to identify identification of negative and self-defeating thought patterns and learn how to lower their stress levels through simple techniques around  exercise, diet and relaxation. In schools this can have a specific focus around examinations.

  1. Tool:  What’s stress? – Unwrapping what’s going on physically & mentally.
  2. Tool:  Personality profile – How do you react to stress around work activities or revision & exams?
  3. Tool:  Control the contollables – How to deal effectively with your own stress during revision & exams and work activities.
  4. Tool: Developing more coping strategies - Exercise, nutrition & relaxation.

4. Coaching Skills

Participants will explore their beliefs about their own and others’ potential and how that might be realised more effectively through a coaching approach. They will get the chance to understand and explore the fundamentals of coaching: how to listen effectively, ask great questions and give good feedback. With the longer workshops, participants will have the chance to develop these skills further by engaging in coaching practice with each other using the GROW model.

  1. Tool:  Maximising your performance – Understanding how using coaching skills can increase your own and others' performance.
  2. Tool:  Asking great questions – explore and practice the art of generating really effective questions.
  3. Tool:  How to listen effectively – Unwrapping different levels of communication.
  4. Tool: Giving and receiving feedback – exploring what type of feedback can generate the most effective performance in ourselves and others.
  5. In longer workshops… Tool: Unwrapping GROW – Understanding how coaching conversations can be structured to be really effective.