The following workshops are available to the public and corporate organisations. Workshops are also developed and customised to meet the specific needs of the small business and organisation.
- Master Communicator for Business
- The Power of NLP
- Coaching in the Workplace
- Effective Communication for Team Building
- Extended DISC
- Customised Workshops
Master Communicator for Business
- This seven hour workshop is designed for managers, business owners, and professionals seeking to improve performance in their business. Learn how to use Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) in your business so that you are a Master Communicator with your employees, colleagues or clients.
- You will become successful in setting SMART goals, creating rapport with others, and anchoring resourceful states so that you communicate with excellence on a daily basis.
In this workshop you will discover:
- The NLP Model of Communication and how your internal representations (pictures, sounds, feelings) determines the results that will produce your behaviour

- How to use sensory acuity to achieve the purpose of your communication
- How to create rapport with others by matching and mirroring and identify predicates used by others when communicating
- How to use eye patterns to determine primary representational system used by others
- How to use resource anchors for communication excellence
- The importance of your time line for your success and achievement of your goals
The Power of NLP Workshop
- The Power of NLP is a three hour workshop where you will discover how NLP when used in everyday life and/or business leads to improved results and performance.
- The workshop is designed for professionals, business owners, managers and anyone interested in better results for their life. Neuro Linguistic Programming is the study of excellence and how you use the language of the mind to consistently achieve your specific and desired outcomes for your life (e.g. personally, health and fitness, relationships, finance, work etc).
Discover how to use:
- Being at ’cause’ rather than ‘effect’ to produce better results
- Your own internal representations (images, sounds, feelings) to improve your daily performance
- The five principles for success
- SMART Goals to actually achieve your set goals and place them into your future time line
This workshop was conducted on 12 August 2011 and see below for a sample of the comments:
- “Interesting content. Very good and well presented. Likeable and friendly”
- “Enjoyable and professional”
- “Really good, solidly and easily explained. Smooth and well done”
- “Course met my expectations and was easy to follow. Trainer was easy to follow and took questions throughout”
- “Met expectations. Eager to learn more. Very knowledgeable and helpful and understanding”
- “Very relevant – good context that I could relate to. Good range of resources and the presenter kept my attention throughout the session”
- “Felt comfortable and the content was delivered at a great pace”
- “Yes it was good, short and direct. Darren is an excellent speaker”
- “Very informative and met my needs. Straight forward and easy to identify with. Well presented clear and easy to understand”
- “Very good, exceeded my expectations. Very good, visualisation techniques were new to me and very powerful. Excellent and good delivery”
Coaching in the Workplace
This five hour workshop is specifically designed for managers, leaders and supervisors who want to use coaching techniques in the workplace. Coaching is a valuable tool for the workplace. Recent research has shown that when coaching is used in conjunction with training, performance of the team or organisation improves by 88% compared to only 23% with only training.
In this workshop you will discover and develop the skills to
- Define what is meant by coaching

- Learn and apply key coaching tools and techniques
- Understand how coaching is different to other forms of learning and feedback
- Set SMART goals
- Be an effective listener and questioner thereby improving your communication
- Develop a structured coaching model
- Provide effective feedback to your employees or colleagues
Effective Communication for Team Building
- This six hour workshop is specifically designed for managers, team members, business owners, professionals and anyone seeking to improve their performance in a team and communicate more effectively.
- The overall purpose or objective of this workshop is to understand the importance of an effective team through communication, trust and cooperation by recognising individual strengths, developmental areas and communication styles
In this workshop you will discover
- The map is not the territory

- Communication and your behaviour is the result of filtering through your five senses
- You have a primary representational system by which you process and encode information and make sense of the world
- You have a different behavioural style to others which is your style that you use when at work compared to your personal life
- Each behavioural style has a preferred way of communicating and being motivated within their work environment
Extended DISC®
- This four hour workshop is specifically designed for managers, team members, business owners and individuals seeking to be more effective in their communication. Communication is an important part of any relationship, whether it is in a team, in a workplace or personal life.
- The purpose of this workshop is to develop practical action plans to improve effectiveness as communicators in life or business. In this workshop you will learn a model that will help you to understand how you are different and how you can more effectively interact with different styles and, therefore, ultimately improve your performance.
In this workshop you will learn:
- What is the Extended DISC® Model
- To develop and understand the different individual behavioural styles using Extended DISC®
- How to identify you own behavioural style
- How to identify the style of others
- How to adjust your style for more effective communication
- How to adjust your style for improved sales
Customised Workshops
All workshops and seminars are developed and conducted to meet the specific needs and objectives of the individuals, teams and organisations.
- Anger Management
- Career Development
- Effective Communication
- Conflict Resolution
- Decision Making
- Extended DISC
- Goal Setting and Achievement
- Leadership Competencies
- Motivation
- Negotiation Skills
- Time Management
- Presentation Skills
- Project Planning
- Stress Management
- Values Elicitation and Alignment
- Work/Life Balance
For your public or customised workshop contact Forward Performance today by email, darren@forwardperformance.com.au or telephone Darren Johnson on 0448 0447 86.

