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Overcoming Overthinking Training

Avoiding Analysis Paralysis

Chaired by
Mark Channon

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Overview

Overthinking can get to all of us, whether it’s laying awake at night thinking of a conversation you had that could have gone better, worrying about an email you missed or the way you responded, or how you should take a comment that was made by a senior member of staff.

Overthinking and worrying create feelings of distress that can have long term negative effects on your wellbeing and decrease productivity levels. Learning the skills to take back control of your thoughts is the key to feeling peaceful and being able to focus on the important things.

Join esteemed Author and memory expert, Mark Channon, to learn how to better absorb relevant information and filter out not so important facts.

Develop strategies and gain practical tools to avoid wasting precious time and energy on a single issue.

Leave the day with a practical toolkit to help overcome decision-making paralysis.

What Have Previous Delegates Said About the Course?

  • "Loved the course content which was expertly delivered by Mark" - Account Director, PTS Consulting Partnership

  • "Fantastic course and trainer! I felt engaged and focused and am really impressed with how much I have learnt and can put into practice straight away" - Finance Business Partner, The National Lottery Community Fund

  • "Amazing course, instant results. Can be transformational. Can't wait to try this in my life. Mark is an amazing lead" - Detective Chief Inspector, South East Regional Organised Crime Unit

  • "Absolutely wonderful. By far the best training course I have been on. Very engaging and informative and lot's of things to put into practice and use" - Project Manager, The Children's Society



Executive Coach in Memory and High Performance

Mark Channon is a trainer and coach in memory and high performance, working with a wide range of clients, from CEOs, managers, presenters and senior civil servants, to doctors, lawyers and actors.

Mark originally trained as an actor, before becoming one of the first 8 people in the world to become a Grand Master of Memory in the 1995 World Memory Championships. He has worked as a trainer and coach for over 15 years, running seminars for organisations such as Rothschild, Lincoln National and the BBC in Memory, Mind Mapping and Creativity.

He is also a Product Manager for the BBC and has created several shows, including a memory gameshow. In 2019, he appeared as the on-air Memory Coach for Channel 4's ‘Can I Improve My Memory?‘. Most recently Mark has worked with Gok Wan, Valarie Singleton and Joey Essex on Channel 4’s Memory Show. Read more…

About the Trainer: Mark Channon

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand why you overthink issues

  • Gain techniques to better absorb relevant information

  • Learn how to filter out unimportant
    information

  • Practice using tools to avoid decision making paralysis

  • Create an overcoming overthinking toolkit





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Agenda

09:25 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:00 Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

10:00 - 10:45 De-Mystifying Overthinking

  • Gain a brief overview on why people overthink issues

  • Discuss with the trainer and other delegates what issues you overthink the most

10:45 - 11:00 Morning Break

11:00 - 12:00 Absorbing Information

  • Learn how to interpret key facts and figures

  • Understand how we learn and memorise information

  • Learn skills to better absorb relevant information

12:00 - 13:00 Overcoming Barriers to Overthinking

  • Gain practical tools and techniques to reduce overthinking

  • Learn how to filter out unimportant information

  • Prime your brain for high performance

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:45 Tools for Avoiding Overthinking

  • Learn how to appropriately frame the problem/opportunity you are facing

  • Gain tools and techniques to quickly analyse a problem:

  • Switch between a pessimistic and optimistic mindset to analyse and problem solve

    1. Reduce negative chatter by identifying the ‘missing’ value

    2. Utilise the 331 method to give you greater clarity

    3. Tiny Habits for clarity and focus

14:45 - 15:00 Afternoon Break

15:00 - 16:00 Workshop: Action Planning

Apply the day’s learnings through interactive exercises and take back a toolkit to help you reduce overthinking issues:

  • Develop strategies to avoid decision making paralysis

  • Learn how to reduce an issue to its simplest form

  • Create a toolkit to reduce overthinking

16:00 - 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation and Close

Here’s What Previous Delegates Have Said:

  • "Loved the course content which was expertly delivered by Mark" - Account Director, PTS Consulting Partnership

  • "Fantastic course and trainer! I felt engaged and focused and am really impressed with how much I have learnt and can put into practice straight away" - Finance Business Partner, The National Lottery Community Fund

  • "Amazing course, instant results. Can be transformational. Can't wait to try this in my life. Mark is an amazing lead" - Detective Chief Inspector, South East Regional Organised Crime Unit

  • "Absolutely wonderful. By far the best training course I have been on. Very engaging and informative and lot's of things to put into practice and use" - Project Manager, The Children's Society

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