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The below topics carry a unique blend of scientific research stemming from applied positive psychology and performance psychology. This allows for all the topics to have an evidence base which makes the workshops nuanced and robust and less anecdotal. 

 

Format:
These topics can be delivered in various formats and levels of depth ranging from customized modules lasting a few hours to 3-days comprehensive training programs.

I. The Extraordinary Individual: Fulfilled. Engaged. Resilient

A revolutionary training program focused on providing access to inner resources that help us become fulfilled, engaged, and resilient at work and beyond. Engagement helps us focus, Fulfillment leads to satisfaction with all domains of life, and Resilience helps us weather the challenges in life. The presence of all three of these elements provide us the ability, skills, and behaviors necessary to help elevate us to a position of satisfaction, success, and happiness in life, a position that is Extraordinary.

 

In this comprehensive program, using the science of positive psychology, performance psychology, and organization behavior, participants learn about:

  • Engagement
  • Burnout
  • Increased Performance
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Work-Life Satisfaction
  • Meaning & Purpose
  • Resilience
  • Stress
  • Well-being & Fulfillment
 Tools:

Participants obtain immediate to use tools that help increase personal and professional Fulfilment, Engagement, and Resilience, including:

  • Ways to create sustainable change.
  • Strategies to find more engagement at work.
  • Techniques to create better relationships at work.
  • Ways to generate more meaning with your work and in life.
  • Tools to help you meet, not just set goals.
  • How to generate more joy at work.
  • Tools to be resilient in even the most challenging of times.
  • Skills to generate more hope and optimism in your life.

II.  Mental Agility: The Flourishing Mindset

Mental health is not the same as the absence of mental illness. Just like one does not need to suffer from physical under-development to benefit from the gym, our mental capabilities if properly exercised allow us to buffer against illness and nourish our best. This critical resource, our mental capability, is often misunderstood. In both professional and personal domains of life, much of happiness, satisfaction, and our ability to deal with adversity is dependent on our mental abilities. This workshop teaches participants on exactly what these abilities are and how to use them to flourish in all domains

of life resulting in true mental health and not just the absence of mental illness.

 

Tools:

  • Models to understand the workings of the brain. Demystify conventional wisdom and learn what science has to say about mental processes.
  • Awareness and understanding of unconscious biases and the inherent ways in which our brain responds to circumstances.
  • Techniques to increase flexibility of thinking and increase one’s ability to problem solve.
  • Skills to develop flexible thinking patterns and better perspective taking.
  • Techniques to develop healthy attitudes and thought processes for better personal and professional outcomes.
  • Skills to determine the causes of events and their impact on us.
  • Tools to avoid common pitfalls that prevent us from using our full mental capacity.
  • Activities that increase the neuroplasticity of the brain.

III.  Positive Interactions at Work: Moving from Communication to Connection

Work in organizations cannot proceed without communication. We are social beings that require connection and many argue that most work in organizations is conducted by using informal methods and networks. This session harnesses

psychological and management research on emotions, relationships, and connections at work, to teach participants ways to communicate better and form high-quality work relationships. The session will also touch on the benefits of such relationships in developing trust and gaining more productivity. The tools learned in this workshop can also be applied to one's personal life.

 

 

Tools:

  • A deep understanding of the role of emotions in communication.
  • Listening techniques to help build relationships.
  • Assessment to understand how you engage with others at work - favorably or unfavorably.
  • Tools to help cultivate stronger relationships with your team and people outside of your team.
  • Ways to identify your trust patterns at work.

IV.  Beyond Emotional Intelligence: Harnessing the true power of emotions

This workshop goes beyond the traditional understanding of emotional intelligence to incorporate the latest research from emotions sciences about the role of emotions to build resilience and to intentionally use them to thrive in life. Emotions play a fundamental role in our daily lives, influencing our decisions, relationships, and overall well-being. Harnessing the true power of emotions involves understanding them at a deeper level including their impact on our thoughts and behaviors. In today's dynamic workplace, fostering emotional intelligence and cultivating positive relationships are crucial for organizational success and individual well-being. This emotions science based interactive workshop invites you to explore the transformative power of positive emotions and ways to navigate your emotions effectively to build stronger relationships and enhance your personal and professional growth.

 

 

Tools:

  • Gain a holistic understanding of emotions and their impact on life and relationships based on latest research.
  • Develop practical skills for recognizing, regulating, and harnessing emotions in various contexts.
  • Discover strategies for enhancing resilience, and overall emotional well-being.
  • How to use emotions to recover, build resilience, and sustain happiness for as long as possible.

 

 

V.  Leadership: A Strengths-based approach

This session focuses on a strengths-based approach to leadership at and outside of work. Using tools developed through decades of research, hundreds of peer-reviewed studies, and millions of surveys, this body of knowledge is unique and provides answers to questions like who do I need to be? and what does it mean to come from a position of strength? Focusing on what is wrong, areas of weakness, or things that need to be improved can only take us so far, combined with what’s working well, our strengths, we can harness a lot more potential. This session takes a deep dive into the language of strengths and how to apply them.

 

Tools:

 

What a strengths-based approach is.

Obtain a rank ordering of their strengths and how to interpret their results.

The difference between existing strength-based approaches.

How to lead with strengths in organizations and in life.

How strengths play a part in our well-being by helping us feel better and function more effectively.

 

 

 

VI.  Positive Leadership: Unlock Hidden Potential In Teams 

This workshop highlights the unique aspects of leadership that allow one to bring out the best in others and in organizations by cultivating positive, meaningful, and relationship-based cultures. All strategies, activities, and techniques in this workshop are based on thorough scholarship and research and is what differentiates this workshop from any other leadership workshop.

Organizations need leaders who can lead regardless of which level of hierarchy they operate in. Organizations also need leaders that are capable enough to harness possibilities and potential in a manner that allows individuals to operate at their best. This workshop focuses on the specific leadership skills that allows leaders to create environments of optimal functioning in organizations. 

 

 

Tools:

  • Tools to help create better connections within and between teams.
  • Methods to find inspiration in your work and that of others.
  • Techniques to manage your emotions and those of others, mindfully.
  • Ways to generate meaning from the work that you do.
  • Strategies to exemplify behavior that inspires others to act their best.
  • Behaviors that would empower others to take initiative.

VII.  Meaningful Work: The Art and Science of Job-Crafting

Regardless of our jobs, we find new and creative ways to do them. Through this workshop, learn the techniques to intentionally craft your job in such a way that it provides more meaning, engagement and satisfaction to you. Learn what psychology has to say about the benefits we reap when we find meaning in our jobs and when we are able to fully apply our skills towards them.  

 

 

Tools:

  • At least three techniques to help align your work to your skills and interests.
  • Ways to generate more engagement with your work.
  • A revised job description based on activities done in the workshop to have a meaningful discussion with your manager.

VIII.  The Resilient Leader: Thrive at Work and Bounce Back Better for Success

Stress is ever present in our lives. It cannot be avoided. Burnout is common at the workplace. This workshop teaches individuals to flourish and thrive despite stress. The workshop offers science-based tools and techniques to use stress in such a way that we can use it to our advantage. Learn to prevent burnout by tapping into your inner physical, emotional and mental resources. The workshop also teaches participants the power of purpose and meaning to develop resilience. This is an essential program to gain the skills that can be easily learned and readily applied at work and in one's personal life.

 

 

Tools:

  • Tools to help you manage your energy better throughout your day.
  • Proven ways in which emotions can be used to generate resilience.
  • Techniques to recover at work and at home.
  • The use of Engagement as a buffer for burnout.
  • The use of relationships to better cope with stress and burnout.
  • Ways to generate better relationships at work.
  • Learn to harness meaning at work to prevent burnout.
  • Mental agility as a mode to build resilience.
  • Personal inventory of strengths to help build resilience, prevent burnout, and deal with stress.
  • Plan with actionable steps to help build resilience at work and beyond.