Karbochem gets inspired by motivational Hojo

Karbochem enrolled 20 of their finest employees to a programme, based on the Seven Core Fundamentals for Success, at Blue Ridge Guest Farm on November 8.

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Brett Shuttleworth, a motivational speaker, shared his exciting journey and wisdom gained throughout his life.

The initiative was aimed at developing, growing and bringing out the best of Karbochem’s leadership, unleashing team spirit and getting each individual to perform and flourish by unlocking inner power.

Brett has distinguished himself as a professional sportsman, supermodel, Hollywood actor, corporate sales director, entrepreneur and adventurer. He has worked with 30 of South Africa’s top companies, and developed a training formula to evolve team motivation, productivity sales, leadership, communication, customer relationships, team spirit and company culture.

He customises his facilitations with individual company values, desired outcomes and client time-lines. Brett’s purpose is to create a ripple effect of love in business, sports, and life, consistently to ensure every year is the best year ever.

Brett was born in Pietermaritzburg and moved to Newcastle when he was five years old. He was educated at Busy Bee, Newcastle Senior Primary School and Newcastle High School. His family still resides in Newcastle.

“It took me a long time to find my purpose in life and now I am fulfilling it. I have shifted out of my ego’s mind into wisdom of the heart, and I have searched my whole life to realise that love is the ultimate success,” explained Brett.

His approach to life is that the present is always the happiest moments.

Despite his accomplishments, Brett is humbled by his 11-year-old daughter, Noa Sunshine. “I am attracted to the child in everyone. Children are authentic and come to us as teachers, and I learn so much from my daughter. They are carefree and live in the moment, not worried about responsibilities. The vulnerability in a child is pure courage.”

Brett is extremely excited to be back in Newcastle. “To be back here and have the opportunity to change people’s lives is exceptional. I am proud to be from Newcastle and so glad to be back in the place that has moulded me. Spending time with my family has been a remarkable joy.”

Brett considers his greatest achievement to be discovering love and discovering himself beyond the identity, by understanding that he, himself is pure love. Brett hopes people understand his intention of the ripple effect of love.

“The space between the notes makes the music. In a similar way, the space between your thoughts is pure love,” said Brett.

After the Brett’s inspiring talk, the Karbochem team also took part in a Motivational Hojo team-building exercise, which is a sword-fighting martial arts practice, developed by monks in Japan in defence of their monasteries. Brett has developed his training formula, using the most powerful strikes.

The strength of the Hojo training lies in participants’ being able to identify their own breakthroughs, experiencing the unleashing of their core power and shattering their minds’ limitations as to what they feel is possible.

Karbochem Human Capitalist Specialist, Aveer Chandraprakash explained Karbochem was a very old company and employees could stay with the company for up to 20 to 30 years.

“We are finding that our senior employees are starting to retire at a rapid rate. The skills they have, in terms of running the plant and maintaining our quality, are lost once they gone. As a result, we decided to run a junior management course so there is skills transfer for employees and we can identify future leaders for our plant,” he said.

Karbochem is currently running a two year programme to train employees on operational requirements and develop leadership skills. The company also has a graduate programme for engineers and human resources.

“There is now a need to invest in the production employees, who actually make the rubber, and so we started this programme,” explained Mr Chandraprakash.

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Karbochem looks after its employees and prides itself on employee development, especially now because they have many young employees.

“We are trying to run something like this every year to get trained and competent employees, so senior management can retire, knowing the plant is in good hands. We have been in business for 53 years this year, and we hope that we can get another 53 years with the employees we invest in to stay with the company for at least 30 years.

“The audience was quite captivated by Brett throughout the presentation and that just showed that we were able to relate with him. We learnt that you are basically your own limitation because you have the potential within you, so if you want to achieve something, all you need to do is believe in it and put in the hard work. Nothing comes without effort,” concluded Mr Chandraprakash.