Success in business depends not just on correct analysis and strategy, but also on personal effectiveness and the ability to execute. The challenges of corporate life can deplete individuals of energy, which can lead to impaired business performance and missed opportunities.
Fit for Business programmes and lectures show individuals how to attain and maintain optimal effectiveness at work. Using cutting-edge and real-World knowledge, these interventions can boost physical wellbeing and mental energy, leading to enhanced energy, enthusiasm and liveliness. Allowing individuals to be on top of their game, even in the face of significant challenges, translate into better business and an improved bottom line.
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Lecture and Programme Formats
Lecture/programme formats and tools:
1. Lectures and presentations
2. ½ and 1-day programmes
3. Residential programmes
4. Nutrinalysis™ on-line nutrition profiling tool
1. Lectures and presentations
- Dr Briffa offers a range of lectures designed to offer practical, easy-to-apply advice regarding several lifestyle factors. Lecture length varies from 30 – 120 minutes depending on client needs. Typical lecture topics include:
- Nutrition in a Nutshell – everything you need to know about nutrition in an hour or less
- Recommendations abound regarding the need to eat a healthy diet, but is there any real agreement about what this means? In this session, a science-based approach is used to dissect the realities of healthy eating. Along the way, major nutritional myths are debunked, including the notions that the only way to lose weight is to eat less or exercise more, that margarine in healthier than butter, and that artificial sweeteners are effective for weight loss.
- This session is based on the scientific literature, but its aim is actually to give individuals a ‘philosophy of food’ – a way of thinking about nutrition that will enable them to make truly informed decisions about what they eat both now and in the future.
- Brain Power – getting the best out of your brain
- The brain is a finely tuned organ, and even relatively minor imbalances can lead to impairment in thinking and decision-making. In this presentation, Dr Briffa explores a range of lifestyle factors that have been shown to optimise brain function in terms of mental energy, focus and concentration.
- This presentation also looks at strategies which reduce the risk of dementia and help preserve our mental faculties as we age.
- Staying Alive – how to add years to your life and well as life to your years
- Advice about healthy living abounds, but what factors seem to be really important in determining our health and well-being? This session focuses on the major causes of death, and examines the evidence for the lifestyle factors that are likely to be most protective with regard to these conditions.
- This session presents up-to-date information and advice about a range of factors including diet, body weight, cholesterol, activity and exercise, sleep and sunlight exposure.
- Dream Ticket – why sleep is not a waste of time and how to get enough of it
- When the going gets tough, sleep is usually the first lifestyle factor to suffer. Yet, while sleep may seem like ‘wasted’ time, the fact that we spend about one third our lives doing it suggests something important is going on while we slumber. This session explores the role sleep has in the health, and reveals the short and long-term issues that can occur as a result of sleep deprivation (including an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes and reduced longevity).
- The session invites individuals to focus on symptoms and signs that can be signs of ‘sleep debt’. Finally, practical solutions are given that are designed to enhance the sleep experience. Specifically, strategies are given that are designed to help individuals get to sleep, stay asleep, and get maximum recuperation from whatever time is spent in bed.
How to Overcome the Energy Crisis – effective strategies for boosting energy and ensuring peak performance
Most individuals do not have a specific, diagnosable, chronic health issue such as diabetes, heart disease or cancer, but may nonetheless be experiencing symptoms that suggest that not all is well within the body. The most common everyday symptom encountered in practice is fatigue. Many of us, for instance, can experience a significant slump in the mid-late afternoon. Some of us may feel fatigued a lot of the time, no matter how much sleep we get. In this session, Dr Briffa presents an eclectic range of strategies for overcoming persistent fatigue and optimising energy including nutritional and sleep-related factors.
2. ½ and 1-day programmes
These courses are designed to give individuals a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of good health and well-being, as well as advice on how to apply these practically in real life.These programmes are normally led by Dr Briffa, but typically also utilise other health experts (usually an exercise physiologist and/or a business psychologist). The programmes generally include a mix of lecture/workshop-style presentations, along with professional-led exercise sessions.Generally, group numbers of 20-40 are recommended. These numbers generally allow good group discussion and interaction, and enable sufficient opportunity for individuals to have any specific queries answered personally.
3. Residential programmes
Dr Briffa and his associates also offer residential programmes (typically lasting 1½ days. These programmes typically mix lectures and workshop-style presentations and exercise sessions, with one-to-one coaching sessions with each of three main facilitators (nutrition and general health, exercise and psychology).
4. Nutrinalysis™ on-line nutrition profiling tool
Nutrinalysis™ is an on-line nutrition profiling tool which provides individualised feedback and advice regarding an individual’s diet, and the changes they might make to optimise their health and wellbeing.Nutrinalysis™ can be used as a standalone tool, or be employed as part of a lecture or programme.For more information about Nutrinalysis™, click here.
For benefits for individuals and organisations click here.
For testimonials and feedback from delegates click here.
To make an enquiry, email Dr John Briffa at john@drbriffa.com.