Scholarship Overview

The scholarships will be offered to emerging leaders of charitable not-for-profit organisations who meet agreed selection criteria. Meikle Files Black is specifically designed for leaders who are:

1. Considered to be the highest performers/have the highest potential

2. Required to stimulate improvements in performance from their teams.

The program runs over for three full days in Sydney - two days in 2013 and one day in 2014 - Monday 5 August, Monday 14 October and Monday 14 April 2014 (dates are set and full attendance is compulsory and non flexible). Each session provides a depth of understanding into specific areas of human psychology and behaviour, performance and change. Each session is one full day and is delivered by Andrew Meikle. 

Some scholarships for flight cost for attendees based outside of Sydney will be available.

This course will be delivered at Elkiem Office, Lvl 2, 63 William Street, East Sydney NSW.

Course Outline:

DAY 1 - Strong Minds - What are the cognitive patterns that lie behind strength of mind?

• Defines clearly what is a strong mind
• Demostrates how to test strength of the mind
• Teaches the four cognitive patterns of strong minded individuals
• Teaches how to stimulate these cognitive patterns in individuals

DAY 2 - High Performance Environments - What are the specific circumstances that stimulate human beings to improve their performance?

• Defines the circumstances that stimulate performance in human beings
• Covers the different applications of the High Performance Environmental Structure
• Teaches how to measure the effectiveness of the High Performance Environment
• Teaches how to build a plan to stimulate stronger performance from the population

DAY 3 - Human Desire - How to stimulate changes in human motivation in order to stimulate improvements in performance?

• Defines human desire and what influences human desire
• Investigates the differences between human desire in Olympians compared to those in the arts, military and science
• Teaches how changes in human desire can affect the personal resourcefulness of the individual
• Teaches how to stimulate changes in potency, consistency and style

MFB Participant Comments:

"I participated the Meikle Files Leadership program four years ago. It was the single most outstanding self-development program I’ve seen. From challenges to my personal beliefs and values, to inspirational and practical thinking about leadership skills, to insightful frameworks for high performance organisations and systems, this program had it all, and I have applied my learnings in many different contexts since. If you get the chance – go; if you get to go, invest yourself in it and you will reap the benefits." Andrew Young, CEO at The Centre for Social Impact (2009 participant)

"This is a fantastic program for people who want to push themselves and their team to achieve high performance." Doug Taylor, CEO at United Way Australia (2010 participant)

"The importance of having a clear focus on high performance helped me understand that every time an issue that was not achieving high performance was let to pass you get one step closer to being ' beige' - and no organisation becomes successful by being beige!" Jane Meyer Tucker, CEO of Good Beginnings Australia (2011 participant)

"Working with Andy and his team has opened up new leadership territory that I had not fully appreciated before. It gave me key insights into what drives people to improve and why and how people change. The greater understanding of the cause/effect of my actions gave me the courage and confidence to take significant action in the areas where I had previously been tentative. Now I am much sharper in my expectations of people and also what I do about it when those expectations are and are not met. This has had a number of important effects on my people managers: performance standards are rising, we are more confident in the way we are dealing with customers, we don’t ‘hide behind bushes’ so much anymore, and more people are asking to take on harder challenges – in fact they’re demanding it."

"The program has been challenging and insightful, it has given me the tools to constantly and consistently improve."

"Highly challenging, engaging and confronting."

"I'm confident I'm a much better leader and demonstrate this in my leadership and the way I'm developing my team."

"My decision cycle time has decreased and I have increased my confidence that the decisions I have taken are the correct ones."