Personal Enhancement Series
Course Overview
Personal leadership is the key to employee effectiveness at work. Employees who are self aware and as a consequence emotionally intelligent are an asset to themselves and their organisations. This course takes the participant on a journey into themselves and shows them how to show up in the world with credibility. The course helps them to take aspects of their life; review it, contrast it, make choices and re-vision it. Further, it also assists them to implement personal life changes (promises) by putting together a personal development plan.
This course will bring the participant:
- Self fulfilment
- Clear values
- Clear priorities
- Balance in life
- Clear purpose
- Credibility
- Peace and success.
- Authentic interactions all round.
This course encourages a commitment to lifelong learning, growth and development. This course is a gateway toward guiding the participant to the next phase in their life’s journey.
Overall Objectives
This course will help participants gain self confidence in making requests, strength in saying no and dealing with difficult people and those whom they consider to be senior to themselves.
They will receive a range of tools which will ensure clear communication and effective conflict management. They will also be taught how to read and anticipate the behaviour of others and how to effectively respond. Their interaction with others will be confident and real resulting in them gaining their respect and cooperation.
Who Will Benefit From The Course?
All staff.
This Course will enable participants to:
- Recognise old mindsets that make it difficult for them to change.
- Consider a different perspective and vision for their lives.
- Explore how their comfort zones may have offered them much needed shelter and protection in the past, are now arenas of negativity and destructiveness.
- Develop an awareness of their inner strengths.
- Learn how not to give away their power.
- Realise that they are responsible for shaping their own destiny.
- Reframe their negative thoughts and limiting self belief patterns into positive and more realistic goals and dreams.
- Explore current work life balance patterns and recognise the adjustments that must be made to have a more positive and sustainable life balance.
- Regain and commit themselves to the core values that guide their life in all its interactions.
- Manage stress and stressors in their life in a more realistic manner
- Develop a growth plan for their lives.
Brief Course Outline
Day 1
Welcome and Introductions
Module 1: Exploring my current mindset
In this module participants are shown how mindsets play an important role in the journey of personal change and leadership. They are shown the impacts when mindsets are left unaltered. How it at times creates limited thinking and increase the (irrational) fear of the unknown. They will see the benefit of practicing the discipline of creating a more flexible mindset.
Module 2: Comfort Zones
Participants will understand what comfort zones are and the factors and reasons that create them. Through reflection and self evaluation participants will explore their own comfort zones and recognise where these zones may be delaying them from honestly and courageously dealing with particular issues, challenges or opportunities in their life. They will come to realise the futility of overstaying their welcome in these comfort zones and develop the conviction to begin the transformation.
Lunch
Module 3: Revisiting and establishing my Locus of Control
In this module participants will learn what internal and external locus of control is. They will understand how their perception of who has most control over what happens to them can significantly influence their attitude towards being a victim or a creator of their own future. They will also come to identify those areas in their lives in which they are still behaving like victims. They will be encouraged to retake control and mastery of those lost areas. They will realise that blaming circumstances, events, the past and others not only slows them down but turns them into victims. They may not always be able to influence the past or change negative circumstances but they have the power to change how they choose to respond.
Module 4: Self-fulfilling Prophecies
In this module participants will learn about the power of visualisation and explore what images they hold about their future, and what they believe is possible for them. They will explore who and what influences their self belief and separate out the ones that have been destructive projections of others. They will learn to understand how at times thinking precedes feeling and by reframing the thinking the feelings can become more positive, realistic and productive.
Check-out
Day 2
Check-in and Review
Module 5: Creating balance
Participants will have an opportunity to review key areas and relationships in their life and establish where they may have underinvested or overinvested. They will study the long and short term consequences of these different scenarios on themselves and others. Through a process of careful thought and consideration they will make choices to redraw and renegotiate the boundaries of these relations and situations.
Module 6: Values based living
Participants will come to appreciate that having a clearly articulated set of values (An internal guidance system) will help them to and live with credibility and integrity in all of their decisions and interactions no matter what. They will prioritise their values and make a commitment to live by it. They will also clarify their credo, their life’s mission.
Lunch
Module 7: Understanding and Managing Stress
In this module participants will separate out the things that they can control and that which is out of their control. They will learn how to influence that which they can control. While developing an understanding between good and bad stress they will recognise what triggers their stress and develop coping strategies. They will learn to manage and anticipate their stressors. “When we change the way we look at things then the things we look at changes” Stressors will also be there but we can choose how we want to respond.
Module 8: Beginning the great journey
Participants will come to appreciate that it is hard to break old habits. Just because the workshop, the facilitator or other participants was inspiring will not be adequate energy to sustain their journey of personal transformation. They will be shown how to draw up a plan of action which will assist them through routine and discipline to embed the change they seek and ensure its sustainability.
Wrap-up, Check-out and Close
Other Additional Courses:
The course above is designed to cover 8 modules over 2 days. Below are some additional courses that you may want your staff to attend:
- Assertiveness Skills
- Developing a Culture of Superior Service
- Presentation Skills
Proposed Dates
This is a 2 day workshop.
What we require from you:
- A venue which can comfortably and adequately accommodate the participants. Should you wish to hold this course at an external venue then all venue hire costs will be for your account.
- The venue must allow for at least two break-away rooms/areas.
- At least two flipchart boards.
- Lunches and morning and afternoon teas.
