Group 8
provides professional development that incorporates
recent research into how our brains handle change
and that fosters the best conditions for
stimulating learning and change in both adults and
children.
Most
successful adults can point to key teachers or
mentors who have positively affected their life's
trajectory...
Research indicates that a single adult who genuinely cares for a disadvantaged or damaged child is the minimum necessary for that child to recover and develop normally...
The unconditional love of a mother for her child is a key to a baby's successful development...
What are these teachers, mentors, caring adults and loving mothers doing?
...and how can we use it?
Group 8 specialise in the building of leadership capacity through a unique brain-based approach.
We are an organisation dedicated to the development of the person as the 'core unit' of organisations and society. This focus refers to the long-term, broad-based growth of the mind, that part of a person that continues to grow after physical maturity has been reached.
Through our programs we seek to bring balanced development whilst enhancing the growth of cognition (intelligence, IQ, awareness) that is already built into the structure of our families, schools and workplaces.
The focus on the development of the person is further evolved into cultural change, the development of the person through their engagement with others within specific organisational contexts e.g. schools or professional services, this enhances development as well as giving superior organisational outcomes.
This focus has emerged from our research into the “ideal school” and the use of the latest neuroscience to explain our findings.
Read more of our research and underpinnings.
Research indicates that a single adult who genuinely cares for a disadvantaged or damaged child is the minimum necessary for that child to recover and develop normally...
The unconditional love of a mother for her child is a key to a baby's successful development...
What are these teachers, mentors, caring adults and loving mothers doing?
...and how can we use it?
Sustainable Professional Development
Group 8 specialise in the building of leadership capacity through a unique brain-based approach.
We are an organisation dedicated to the development of the person as the 'core unit' of organisations and society. This focus refers to the long-term, broad-based growth of the mind, that part of a person that continues to grow after physical maturity has been reached.
Through our programs we seek to bring balanced development whilst enhancing the growth of cognition (intelligence, IQ, awareness) that is already built into the structure of our families, schools and workplaces.
The focus on the development of the person is further evolved into cultural change, the development of the person through their engagement with others within specific organisational contexts e.g. schools or professional services, this enhances development as well as giving superior organisational outcomes.
This focus has emerged from our research into the “ideal school” and the use of the latest neuroscience to explain our findings.
Read more of our research and underpinnings.
The Success Zone
05/10/09 16:13
The
Success Zone may
have undergone some title evolution (from
Life in the Blue Zone to Secrets of Blue
Zone Success to The Success Zone), but is
now close to print.
The good news is that you can now pre-purchase our book prior to its release to book stores and outlets. See our page on this site for more details...
The good news is that you can now pre-purchase our book prior to its release to book stores and outlets. See our page on this site for more details...
Doug's latest blog: The power, and the glory - but not leadership...
05/10/09 16:11
Doug's
latest blog: The power, and the glory -
but not leadership...
In 1938 Lord Bertram Russell published his work on Power (Unwin Books).
In this he says “… One of the chief emotional differences [between man and other animals] is that some human desires, unlike those of animals, are essentially boundless and incapable of complete satisfaction. … Of the infinite desires of man, the chief are the desires for power and glory. These are not identical, though closely allied. … the easiest way to obtain glory is to obtain power. .. The desire for glory, therefore, prompts, in the main, the same actions as are prompted by the desire for power, and the two motives may, for most practical purposes, be regarded as one.” (pp7-9)
Russell goes on to say (p20) “… the leader is hardly likely to be successful unless he enjoys his power over his followers. He will therefore be led to a preference for the kind of situation, and the kind of mob, that makes his success easy. … The kind of mob that the [he] will desire is one more given to emotion than to reflection, one filled with fears and consequent hatreds, one impatient of slow and gradual methods, and at once exasperated and hopeful.”
Today, all too often, we see power and the seeking of glory mistaken for leadership.
In 1938 Lord Bertram Russell published his work on Power (Unwin Books).
In this he says “… One of the chief emotional differences [between man and other animals] is that some human desires, unlike those of animals, are essentially boundless and incapable of complete satisfaction. … Of the infinite desires of man, the chief are the desires for power and glory. These are not identical, though closely allied. … the easiest way to obtain glory is to obtain power. .. The desire for glory, therefore, prompts, in the main, the same actions as are prompted by the desire for power, and the two motives may, for most practical purposes, be regarded as one.” (pp7-9)
Russell goes on to say (p20) “… the leader is hardly likely to be successful unless he enjoys his power over his followers. He will therefore be led to a preference for the kind of situation, and the kind of mob, that makes his success easy. … The kind of mob that the [he] will desire is one more given to emotion than to reflection, one filled with fears and consequent hatreds, one impatient of slow and gradual methods, and at once exasperated and hopeful.”
Today, all too often, we see power and the seeking of glory mistaken for leadership.
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