Ingo Kusch - Coaching & Training
Human leadership, more focus and well-being
The VUCA world in which we live in challenges us constantly. Mindfulness in daily life strengthens your emotional intelligence. With self-awareness and self-management you learn more about your intrinsic motivation. With empathy and compassion you will find ways to more robust relationships with your surroundings. Integrate the new skills in your personal leadership style so that your team benefits and is enabled to contribute to their best.
Search Inside Yourself (presence or virtual)
The two-day SIY workshop combines mindfulness practices with neuro-scientific research and emotional intelligence insights. Participants get a new perspective of themselves and others. The combination of science and experience overcomes barriers and widens the horizon. You will learn very practical ways to develop your mastery of emotional intelligence to deepen your capacity for empathy, compassion and self-care. After the course you will receive a 28 day challenge with inspirations to bring more mindfulness into your life and a capstone webinar to talk about habits and how to change them. Costs for companies on request, individual participation €1250,-, dates on request.
Effective Teaming (virtual)
This 4 hour webinar introduces the Art and Science of a successful team bilding. Successful team have created a sense of psychological safety for all team members. This course shows the basics of psychological safety and enables an open discussion within the team of what this means to you. This webinar is a perfect start into a team coaching zu develop a culture of psychological safety within the team. The benefits are a better place to work, happier employees and better outcome for the team! Costs for corporation on request, individual participation €500,-, dates on request.
Adaptive Resilience (virtual)
This 4 hour online course explains the basics of resilience in day to day life. How can I better manage the disappointments in life? Winner are getting up one more time. How can I be calmer in the face of unpleasant situations? An optimistic explanatory style allows to learn more from mistakes and to be motivated for the difficult changes necessary. Costs for corporations on request, individual participantion €500,-, date on request.
The beginning
In his book "Search Inside Yourself" Chade-Meng Tan describes how the SIY program came to life at Google in 2007. He writes about the unique approach of connecting neuro-scientists with mindfulness practitioneer to develop a practical approach to strengthen emotional intelligence skills of participants. In these early phases Daniel Goleman held a talk at Google explaining the concepts of social intelligence.
My SIY experience...
42
sessions
900
participants
13
countries
MINDFULNESS = SELF-AWARENESS
Content
Mindfulness
The basis of self-awareness are mindfulness practices. These techniques are important tools to develop new insights about your inner being.
Self-awareness
The clear understanding of one's self is necessary to focus on the important things in life and to prioritize your actions. Get to know and value yourself.
Self-management
With self understanding you can better manage and regulate your emotions and impulses. You learn to be handle difficult situations more calm and appropriately.
Motivation
How do I align my life with my values? What is my vision for a future worth living? How do I overcome setbacks along the way?
Empathy
Recognizing the emotions of others and to react appropriately is important for developing robust interpersonal relationships.
Leadership
How do I integrate mindfulness with my role as a leader? How do I become the leader who I'd like to be?
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Emotional intelligence describes the skills of recognizing your own and other emotions, and to use these insights to guide one's actions and thinking. People with high emotional intelligence are managing the highs and lows of life more skillfully and balanced.
Emotional intelligence can be trained!
Mindfulness is the basis for emotional intelligence. Good EI skills allow you to build a higher self-awareness, manage your impulse better, understand your motivations to development more empathy and compassion for others. As a consequence, a more concious life that is better aligned with your values becomes possible.
Feedback from participants
After my SIY training session trainees have the opportunity to give anonymous feedback about their training experience with Search Inside Yourself - below you find a few typical quotes:
The fact that it combines theory with practice every step of the way was awesome, as it gave me the chance to actually test and validate if the item discussed is something that would be of value to me or not. In general, I think that it was a great program that I have already started implementing in my day-to-day life.
One of the most powerful training here in the company. Strongly recommend to be done twice per year as for all colleagues to train themselves into these practices. The most useful are the insight and the real practices I can perform in any case. I understood the view of the mindfulness and why we need to improve ourselves.
The content taught, the interraction and active participation expected from the participants, as well as the approach and delivery from both instructors was
wonderful. They offered both conceptual & theoretical learnings, in order for us to immerse in the scientific background of the taught concepts, but fully adjusted practices fitting for both our work reality, and any level of available time to invest - in order for them to be applicable to everyone.
I am highly appreciative of the instructors and their knowledge! their manner of delivering the content was amazing! I felt highly inspired!
This training should be mandatory to everyone in the company.
This was an amazing training. The 2 days were intense, but very rich and worth it. Every single practice was worth it and I really like the challenge/ follow-ups after the training.
Emotional Intelligence is a win-win...
for employees...
who show a higher productivity, better resilience, creativity, higher engagement and overall well-being.
for leaders...
who show a higher performance, make smarter decisions, inspire, motivate and receive more respect. Emotional intelligent leaders make happier and more creative employees.
for teams...
who deliver better results, are more productive, handle stress better and are more content with their job.
for organizations...
MENTAL HEALTH
In 2024, the estimated costs of mental health related diseases in Germany totalled about 55 billion Euro. Mental health related sick days have grown by 50% in the last 10 years. The average sick leave for mental diseases takes about 28 days. Women are more often impacted than men. The occupations with the highest sick leave times for mental health related issues are day care for the elderly and child care.
What are the risk factors in relation to mental health issues?
Lack of experts in business, pressure, our VUCA world (volatile, uncertain, chaotic an ambiguos), being overwhelmed, conflicts and crises in general. About 50% of all employees are effected.
What can we do?
Leadership - psychological safety in teams, belonging, communication and respectful appreciation of each other can help.
Structure - Flexible working hours and home office can be helpful. In some cases, this can also become a stressor if the boundaries between work- and private time become too fluffy and this also doesn't work for all occupations. Employee Assistance Programs can support employees in difficult life situations.
Culture - Openess, failure tolerance, trust and respect can make a huge difference, if these behaviors are demostrated by leadership and codified in the organisation. Without active top-down support those attempts lack authenticity and won't work.
What are the benefits?
The level of content within the organization grows, employee attrition drops, productivity goes up, self-motivation of employees raises and leave of absences drop. Companies such as SAP, Google, Procter & Gamble, Deutsche Telekomt and Bayer have recognized the ROI of prevention programs for mental health and actively support internal program for mindfulness and well-being.
Only 30% of all companies invest in prevention trainings supporting mental health. How do you support your employees?