Euradec (our partner in Germany and UK)

Research at EURADEC is characterized by the diversity of the science networks it maintains as well as by interdisciplinary fields of research that establish research foci and set future research trends. EURADEC promotes the transfer of knowledge and offers junior scholars a high level of education.

Science Networks
Intensive cooperation with universities and external research institutions as well as private enterprise reinforces and broadens the fundamental, application, and contract research carried out at EURADEC as well as the Research Foundation’s position as a competitive research institution on a global scale.

Research in Clusters
Since 2010 EURADEC has been pursuing an interdisciplinary cluster strategy that shapes its research profile. The goal of this strategy is to identify social, economic, and cultural trends on a global scale and to develop relevant fields of research. Its aim is to focus the research content and profile of individual departments in transdisciplinary fields of research to develop solutions for globally relevant issues.

Transfer of Knowledge
In addition to actively promoting the transfer of knowledge and technology to the broader public and private enterprise, EURADEC encourages the utilization of innovative research results by private industry. In addition, the university supports the foundation of business ventures by its students, graduates, and scholars.

Nelson S. Lima

Director of the Psychological Research Division

European Association for the Development of Education and Citizenship

EUradec (http://www.euradec.eu/)

7 Ways to Spot Tomorrow’s Trends Today

In the more than 40 years since the World Future Society was founded, futurists have developed a range of techniques to study the future. Here are a few techniques futurist use to spot new opportunities and potential problems. These methods give individuals and organizations an edge to help them succeed in a fast-changing world:

1. Scan the Media to Identify Trends—Futurists often conduct an ongoing and systematic surveys of news media and research institutes. These surveys help spot significant trends and technology breakthroughs. Futurists call this environmental scanning.

2. Analyze and Extrapolate Trends—After the trends are identified, the next step is to plot the trends to show their direction and development into the future. Trend analysis and extrapolation can show the nature, causes, speed, and potential impacts of trends.


3. Develop Scenarios—Futurists often describe the future development of a trend, a strategy, or a wild-card event in story form. These scenarios can paint a vivid picture that can help you visualize possible future developments and show how you can prepare effectively for future risks and opportunities. Scenarios help you to blend what you know about the future with imagination about the uncertain. Scenarios help you move from dreaming to planning and then to accomplishment.

4. Ask Groups of Experts—Futurists also conduct “Delphi Polls” which are carefully structured surveys of experts. Polling a wide range of experts in a given field can yield accurate forecasts and suggestions for action.


5. Use Computer Modeling—Futurists often use computer models to simulate the behavior of a complex system under a variety of conditions. For example, a model of the U.S. economy might show the effects of a 10 percent increase in taxes.

6. Explore Possibilities with Simulations—Futurists create simulations of a real-world situations by means of humans playing different roles. For example, in war games, generals test out tactics they may later use on the battlefield, or corporate executives can explore the possible results of competitive strategies.

7. Create the Vision—Futurists help organizations and individuals systematically develop visions of a desirable future. Visioning creates the big picture of the possibilities and prepares the way for goal setting and planning

What is Executive Intelligence?

According to Justin Menkes, executive intelligence is the ability to digest, often with the help of others, large amounts of information in order to form important decisions.
Menkes says, "Personality is not a differentiator of star talent. It is an individual's facility for clear thinking or intelligence that largely determines their leadership success."
What do you think is the relative importance of executive intelligence, style, and personality in effective leaders?
Stephen Burkett said: "… I find that the core of the issue remains the definition of executive intelligence … Executive intelligence is less about number-crunching power or one's grasp of advanced concepts, and more about evaluating situations and taking appropriate action." Quinton van Eeden added, "Executive intelligence seems to be the sum of the parts—emotional intelligence, IQ, personality, values, and experience … A demonstration of executive intelligence must lie in the demonstrable ability to act and execute." Paul Jackson took us to the next step in commenting, "Once defined, how do we measure executive intelligence? Once measured, how do we assess its impact or usefulness?" And, we might add, how do we incorporate it into our everyday assessment of potential or actual leadership talent?

There was a full range of opinions regarding the importance of EI, perhaps in part due to the breadth with which the term was defined in each case. For example, Rowland Freeman opined, "Intelligence is of value, but more important is demonstrated common sense. Some of the most intelligent leaders I have known were failures at leadership." As Malvin Bernal put it, "Executive intelligence will only guarantee a sound processing of information that produces decisions … Execution is the basic ingredient that makes a great leader." On the other hand, Philip Derrow argued, "Executive intelligence, particularly as Mr. Menkes defines it, is, I believe, the most important component for long-term leadership effectiveness … Three words that best describe effective people in any organization: smart and happy. Both the order and the conjunction are important . . . ." Harry Tucci went even further, saying: "The concept of executive intelligence is a very useful measure of success … When it comes to meeting earnings and Street expectations I'll take the manager with his nose deep in a book any day".
In: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5449.html
Read more: http://uk.askmen.com/money/successful_150/155_success.html

Too much work bad for brain

Putting in extra hours at the office may boost company productivity, but a new study shows that working too long and too hard is bad for workers’ brain health. Researchers at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health found that middle-aged employees who worked more than 55 hours a week had poorer short-term memory and other mental skills than those who worked 41 hours a week or less.
This study shows that long working hours may have a negative effect on cognitive performance in middle age. The link between cognitive impairment and dementia later in life is clearly established.
The difference between employees working long hours and those working normal hours is similar in magnitude to that of smoking, a risk factor for dementia.
Professor Cary Cooper, an expert in workplace stress from Lancaster University, told the Daily Mail: "Working long hours obviously makes you very tired. If you do that on a consistent basis it's going to affect your brain function. Long hours are not just bad for health, they are also bad for your performance."

Trends of the Extreme Future

The 1st international congress of Instituto da Inteligencia (Portugal and Brazil)

Algarve (Portugal), 25th October

European Intelligence Institute

In an emerging, dynamic and high growth market the future of management and leadership demands for a new intellectual aptitude, full mind abilities and some new core competences. The emergent executive intelligence tasks for business excellence and marketing sucess includes some cognitive and personal skills like a large vision of the new extreme future concept, a rich and pratical imagination and a critical thinking talent using the fantastic mind-brain power! Everything you have learned in the university is not enought today. The new business world is full of opportunities but you find much more risks then before. You must be gifted and talented in executive intelligence.

So we invite every manager, entrepreneur, professional, strategist, business leader and investor to learn how to think, manage and decide using its mental gifts better then ever.

Our workshops, lectures and seminars:

Choose from a variety of programs or contact us to design a program to suit your specific needs.

- Executive Intelligence: from theory to pratice

- How to identify, retain, and grow the potential of Executives

- New challenges, new minds

- Managing with the Multifocal Brain

- From Analitic Thinking to Creative Decision

- Using Mind Maps in Business Decisions

- How to improve Executive Intelligence in individuals and teams

- The Executive Intelligence in marketing operations

- The Executive Intelligence in human resources management

- How to develop Emotional Intelligence in pratice

- Cury Multifocal Intelligence Model in Business Situations

- From the Idea to the Execution: 5 steps to sucess!

- How to innovate in management

- The challenges of management: how to be prepared

- How the brain build talent in business

- Solving problems with the Executive Intelligence

The impact of the new business challenges and the atmosphere of economics uncertainty are demands for new mind abilities and high management techniques. The risk intelligence is one of the most fundamental cognitive abilities to gain competitiveness. It depends of ongoing observation, exploration and learning and is similiar to a core competency of an individual, a team or an organization so it is possible to learn and train.

The application of risk intelligence competences and techniques is necessary to solve risk problems and make excellent business decisions with the guarantee of a maximum of competitive advantage.

Choose from a variety of programs or contact us to design a program to suit your specific needs.

- The role of the risk in the management decisions

- Types of business risks in the Globalization Era

- Risk intelligence and core competencies

- How to study business risks in the open markets

- How to take decisions with a minimun of risks

- Measuring RI (risk intelligence)

- Building teams to win risks

- How to increase RI (risk intelligence) in the company

Foresight is an inevitable instrument of modern management to make decisions and improve success in business. In an age of hyperchange and hypercompetition, developing foresight and seeing our way to the future is harder. But you can now learn more about foresight techniques (such as trend analysis, scanning, scenario analysis, and more) with our help. We offer a variety of lectures, seminars, workshops and courses for individuals, companies and other organizations to understand megatrends and discover the future concerning economic and business development and global trends of general interest.
Workshops, Lectures & Seminars:
- What is Futuring?
- Visions for the 21st century
- How to design future maps
- Foresight, innovation and strategy
- How to think creatively in turbulent times?
- The Exploration of Business Today and Tomorrow
- The Future of Globalization
- The Future of Education
- Prepare your workforce for the future challenges
- Business Excellence in the Knowledge Economy
- New markets, new business
- New world, new values
- New business, new jobs
- New mind for the future challenges
- The end of an Era: the future of management
- Smart decisions in hypercompetitive markets
- Introduction to Neuroeconomy
- What is Neuromarketing?
- What is Neuroadvertising?

To decide and manage in an environment marked by rapid change and higher levels of complexity demands for new instruments of strategic thinking like future maps. Future maps are non-linear graphical diagrams used to structure, visualize and classify information, options and action plans to help companies and other organizations to antecipate the competing obstacles and opportunities they can expect to navigate on the future. They encourage also a logical approach to risk intelligence decisions, to choose alterantives projects and to create future scenario analysis. Graphically they are similar to cognitive maps where different elements are organized into groupings and branches to gain clarity and a sense of direction for the years ahead.

Our Workshops, Lectures & Seminars:

- What is Futuring?

- Visions for the 21st century

- How to design future maps

- Foresight, innovation and strategy

- How to think creatively in turbulent times?

- The Exploration of Business Today and Tomorrow

- The Future of Globalization

- The Future of Education

- Prepare your workforce for the future challenges

- Business Excellence in the Knowledge Economy

- New markets, new business

- New world, new values

- New business, new jobs

- New mind for the future challenges

- The end of an Era: the future of management

- Smart decisions in hypercompetitive markets

- Introduction to Neuroeconomy

- What is Neuromarketing?

- What is Neuroadvertising?

In our competitive era people need mental fitness to set goals for themselves and to have the motivation, skills and persistency to reach their goals successfully. The dynamic competitive atmosphere in business today requires high mental performance levels as well as emotional well-being to liberate the best of our human potential and capacities.

Research strongly suggests that regular mental fitness exercises keep the mind clear, sharp and functioning optimaly throuhout the entire life.

Our programmes can also give you a bit more brain power. They includes a range of regular and funny exercises, different activities and significant life-style suggestions to improvepsychological health, strategic mental skills, memory capacity, lateral thinking, executive intelligence and full innovative imagination.

Brain fitness
Your brain is the control center for cognition activities, emotions, behavior and body functions through the nervous system. The pratice of regular brain fitness can improve concentration, attention, memory, executive functions, process information, problem solving, decision-making, motor coordination and general mental flexibility. Together with a health lifestyle habits, mental stimulation, good nutrition, physical exercise, sleep and good stress management the brain stays young and strong. Our brain fitness programmes include neuro stimulation exercices scientifically based to improve mental faculties and performance and prevent degenerative brain diseases.

Do you need a speaker for your company? Choose from a variety of programs or contact us to design a program to suit your specific needs. We offer coaching, workshops, presentations, and consultation to help you or your company work-force improve brain activity and overall well-being.

Contact us to learn more about how these programs can work for you and how we can be a part of your decision to your business success.

Some examples:

- How to manage stress for peak performance

- How to exercise the brain for top productivity

- How to improve memory

- How to increase concentration

- Up-front Decision-making

- How to improve intelligence and creativity with mentalfitness

- Secrets of the brain to improve peak performance

Neurofeedback systems for brainfitness

Peak Performance is that rare moment when you are functioning at your absolute best, when your focus, attention and intuition combine to help you perform effortlessly and successfully.
If peak performance is your goal, our Mental Fitness Program will help you achieve it.
The Mental Fitness Program is a one-on-one, peak performance coaching plan, specifically designed to help individuals reach optimal mental states and maximize their performance. We combine our expertise in the field of peak performance training and your individual goals and abilities to customize a training plan just for you. Through individual coaching, neurofeedback and biofeedback techniques, mental fitness exercises, and consistent support and guidance, executives will learn to:

• Improve attention and concentration
• Control physical and emotional stateIncrease speed of decision making
• Sharpen focus
• Accelerate learning speed
• Enhance creativity and imagination
• Gain performance confidence
• Feel comfortable speaking publicly
• Reduce stress and social anxiety
• Increase energy
• Achieve mental clarity
• Increase overall confidence and reduce self-consciousness
• Significantly improve memory
• Achieve stability of the nervous system
• Heighten level of awareness and perception
• Improve problem solving skills
  In order to design a personalized coaching plan, we begin with a comprehensive evaluation that consists of:
• An Initial Interview
• QEEG/Brain Mapping - a non-invasive diagnostic procedure that allows us to objectively ascertain your level of brain function in specific areas of the brain.
• Cognitive Skills Assessment - Attention, Memory and other Cognitive Skills.
• Personality Assessment - how does your personality contribute to your success?
• Goals Assessment - what are your goals and what do you need in order to achieve them?P

Instituto da Inteligencia

In the Knowledge Economics creativity is an important strategic core competency for leaders and managers, and a crucial component of the innovation equation. As an intellectual central ability it requires the whole-brain thinking, intuition and executive-brain logic exercise. Today most sucessful organizations are led by creative leaders with a strong impact in innovation, employee engagement, change and renewal. So, creativity and innovation training is crucial in today's market, for any business or corporation to succeed and to be ahead of the game in the national or international scene. It means that if any organization that can't create and innovate will be left behind.

Our seminars and workshops to develop key creativity skills give participants insights into individual and group creativity and innnovation thinking. We have designed our training programms to encourage creativity and innovation in the workplace, to achieve business success from new, innovative and creative ideas, to motivate employees to bring their creative talents to work , to create a healthy work environment and to gain creative ideas for business start-up and expansion.