3Q Corporate Training: Whole Brain Training For High Performance
3Q Corporate Training: Whole Brain Training For High Performance
3Q Corporate Training: Whole Brain Training For High Performance
Table of Contents
1. Foreword
3. Objectives
4. Program Benefits
5. Stakeholder Benefits
6. Program Format
7. Course Content
8. Outcomes
1. Foreword
Conditions in the modern workplace signify that a third revolution is now occurring in the world
of work. The first (industrial) revolution swapped fields for factories, while the second
(information) revolution replaced muscles with brains. The third revolution involves a shift
from “left-brain” to “whole-brain” economic production. The “left brain” is mainly
associated with logical thinking. This is an area that computers are well suited to deal
with. “Whole-brain” economic production uses the full range of human capabilities to
maximise productivity and increase job satisfaction.
Research on the changing world of work emphasizes that individuals desire more of
their employer than merely providing a job. Newer generations want more from life than
money. Self- awareness, mission and purpose have become equally important. This is the
province of the whole brain. “Whole-brain” management streamlines work practices by
eliminating unnecessary hierarchy and bureaucracy, and has the flexibility to deal with chaos
and meet new challenges that are without established solutions. Over the coming
decades whole-brain economic management will shape work and life in a manner that
enables people to reconnect with what brings fulfilment and creates a high quality experience,
and at the same time enables individuals and organisations to thrive in the new world of work.
The demands in the modern workplace for fast and effective solutions require workers,
managers and leaders to call on the full range of their intelligence. Academic education is
focused on IQ, or intellectual intelligence. IQ manages facts and information, using logic and
rational analysis to make decisions. EQ, or emotional intelligence, is the next level of
intelligence. EQ is necessary to feel and regulate one’s emotions, while being sensitive to the
feelings of others. However, IQ and EQ are not sufficient in themselves to maintain top
performance and provide enduring fulfillment.
Spiritual intelligence endows us with the following life skills and abilities:
• to use our deepest inner resources, which include the capacity to care and the power to
tolerate and adapt;
• to discern the real significance of events and circumstances, and be able to make work
meaningful;
• to live those values without compromise and thereby demonstrate integrity by example;
• to understand how each of the above is sabotaged by the ego, which means being
able to go beyond destructive ego motivations.
The results of using spiritual intelligence include the ability to stay calm and focused in the
face of crisis, greater access to intuition and creativity in the face of uncertainty,
higher-order problem-solving skills, a more flexible approach to meeting new challenges, and
a more selfless
©Camelia Stefan Licensed Practitioner SQ & NLP Coach
While many people think there is nothing spiritual about work, nevertheless there are many
areas of working life in which spiritual intelligence can be beneficially applied. These are three
of the most important:
For example, who would you prefer to work with? Who would an organization tend to retain
when the downsizing begins?
Is it Person A who:
• causes conflicts with others and attempts to control others, instead of being a team player;
Or is it Person B who:
• takes ownership of the task and exercises responsibility for their part in the solution;
Person B will have high SQ, a developed awareness of their inner resources and
qualities, and will know how to use them in work and in relationships at work. Their
sense of personal security is high and therefore more stable, thus equipping them to
contribute at their best.
Empathy is one of the important foundations for healthy relationships. The building of
an empathic relationship is difficult for many managers and leaders as it challenges them to
reach beyond the facts and functions of a task, and into the feelings and emotions of the
individual carrying out the task. In an organizational culture that is largely task-focused, it is
only in the past 10 to 15 years that relationship building has been perceived as an important
part of the role of management and leadership. In the future world of work, adaptive forms of
leadership will be required, not only to meet the unpredictable opportunities of emerging
markets, but also to meet these human needs for connection, relationship, and effective
communication.
Now that more people are acknowledging that they don’t leave the organization, they leave
their manager, retaining staff is one of many reasons why managers need to understand
others at a deeper level. Being able to recognize, understand and respond to the emotions of
others requires
a level of emotional maturity that can only be developed by learning to recognize one’s own
feelings and emotions. This falls squarely in the arena of emotional intelligence (EQ).
For example, when a manager coaches staff through performance problems they will
need intellectual intelligence (IQ) to gather and marshal the facts, emotional intelligence
(EQ) to identify the emotions that are affecting performance, and spiritual intelligence (SQ) to
discern the true cause and why the emotions were created in the first place. It doesn’t
mean today’s manager becomes a psychologist or spiritual teacher, but to be effective as
a manager it’s necessary to know how to relate to people’s inner landscape in order to assist
them to make informed decisions.
Managing change and unblocking innovation is the responsibility of managers and leaders.
An emerging leadership style known as Adaptive leadership is about managing change
and unblocking innovation by distributing leadership across the whole organization.
Adaptive leadership means that anyone at any level in an organisation can offer leadership
on matters commensurate with their level of expertise. To be successful, adaptive leadership
requires that everyone in the organisation can call on their full resources. Consequently its not
enough for staff
to employ merely their IQ and EQ. They also need to work with SQ.
The 3Q program trains employees to use all three dimensions of intelligence: not only
IQ and EQ, but also SQ.
3. Objectives
4. Program Benefits
The benefits of 3Q Training are summarized in the table below, including the cost of
not acquiring 3Q skills.
5. Stakeholder Benefits
©Camelia Stefan Licensed Practitioner SQ & NLP Coach
space for initiative respected and engaged allied to mission meaning and purpose
greater fulfillment at work
positive impact on family life outside of work
6. Program Format
7. Course Content
3Q Methodology
• Whole-Brain Problem-solving
3Q Leadership
• Identity
By connecting with your deeper identity, you can build on your strengths, mitigate your
weaknesses, and improve your performance.
• Purpose
When spiritual intelligence guides daily activities at work, it provides a framework within which
work has deeper meaning and purpose
• Balance
• Connection
Interpersonal skills are essential for relating to co-workers and clients. 3Q whole brain
capabilities raise interpersonal skills to a high level.
• Impact
3Q whole brain training develops the ability to make an impact through effective
communication.
8. Outcomes
9. The 3Q Model
At the beginning of the scientific study of intelligence in the early 20th century, the only
dimension of intelligence recognised by science was intellectual intelligence (IQ), based on
the work of Alfred Binet (1904). His narrow definition of intelligence prevailed until the mid
1980s, when a second dimension of intelligence was identified, called emotional
intelligence (EQ).
The study of spiritual intelligence was introduced by Zohar and Marshall (2002). A test for SQ
was designed by Cindy Wigglesworth (2008), employing scientific standards of validity and
reliability, which provided a way of assessing one’s personal SQ score. Soon
afterwards Richard Griffiths published his work on the SQ paradigm (2010), which defined the
basic operating principles of IQ and EQ and SQ, and provided an easy method for access to
spiritual intelligence. Based on his methodology, 3Q Training introduced whole- brain training,
which combines all three dimensions of intelligence in order to activate greater human
potential, and generate high performance.
3Q Training uses all three dimensions of intelligence, in contrast to other forms of training,
which use only IQ and EQ. Thus 3Q training trains the whole brain. Compared to Courses
that focus on IQ and EQ, which develop only parts of the brain, 3Q training is therefore more
thorough and effective, and results in lasting benefits.