Self Development
- Optimizing Your Personal Strengths
- Assertiveness Skills
- Succeeding With the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®)
- Seeing the Glass Half Full: The Art of Optimism
- NO MORE GUILT! Ruling Guilt Out of Your Life...While Remaining a Nice Person
- When Perfect Isn't Good Enough: Coping With Perfectionism Without Sacrificing Quality
Optimizing Your Personal Strengths
Are you aware of your strengths? Do you know how your actions facilitate or impede your effectiveness? Are you as successful as you would like to be? This course helps you get the results you desire when working independently or with a team.
You will learn to:
- Recognize your values and strengths
- Clarify personal goals and priorities
- Identify which behaviors strengthen your self-image
- Give positive feedback
- Examine the choices you make and the impact on your accomplishments
- Develop techniques for improving cooperation
- Identify and eliminate personal time-wasters
You will benefit by:
- Achieving goals resulting in growth
- Communicating more effectively
- Increasing your ability to interact with others
- Managing criticism more effectively
- Using effective listening skills
- Acquiring skills for improving confidence
Audience:
All staff members interested in acquiring comprehensive interpersonal skills that will provide greater personal and professional success
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Cost: $349 |
Dates & Times: Mon. 6/14, Wed. 6/16 & Mon. 6/21/10, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
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Assertiveness Skills
Do you have a difficult time saying “no?”Are you frustrated because you are so busy attending to the needs of others that your own go unfulfilled? This course helps you stand your ground and secure the respect of others. Discover how to manage powerful emotions and feelings, express yourself with confidence and learn a step-by-step approach for increasing your personal power.
You will learn to:
- Be empowered in interpersonal relationships
- Express yourself from a position of strength
- Benefit from early negotiation
- Break down obstacles and barriers to effective communication
- Solve problems
You will benefit by:
- Gaining new skills to help resolve “sticky” situations
- Understanding yourself better and increasing your self-worth
- Seeing old relationships in a new light
- Realizing a new freedom in asserting yourself
Audience:
All staff members who want to handle communication situations with confidence and build interpersonal strength
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Cost: $149 |
Dates & Times: Fri. 9/18 & 9/25/09, |
| Dates & Times: Wed. 4/14 & 4/21/10, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Code: SFD002 |
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Succeeding With the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®)
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® is one of the most highly regarded systems in the world for understanding why people respond to situations in the way they do. The MBTI® can help you understand your own and others’ strengths and natural preferences and help you communicate more effectively.
You will learn to:
- Identify your preferred style in taking in information and decision-making
- Recognize how others’ style preferences are similar to and differ from yours
- Recognize the impact when you are required to work outside of your preferences
- Determine ways to use your preferred style to work with others more successfully
You will benefit by:
- Developing increased skills in working with others with different styles
- Becoming more effective in making decisions
- Increasing your pride in your unique and innate talents
Audience:
Anyone who desires to learn more about their innate strengths and abilities or those wanting a refresher in the MBTI®
Program Note:
MBTI® assessment prior to taking the class.
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Cost: $149 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 3/11/10, |
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Seeing the Glass Half Full: The Art of Optimism
Some people are born optimists and some are not. The good news is that, even in the face of turbulence, you can still learn to see the glass half full and encourage optimism in others.
You will learn to:
- Demonstrate the importance and impact of optimism as a communication style when conducting yourself both inside and outside of the workplace
- Identify when pessimism can be used in conversation as an effective course of action
- Reframe your communication style to encourage optimism in others
- Examine your own thoughts as optimistic or pessimistic and how to self correct when applicable
You will benefit by:
- Understanding how to determine whether specific communications are optimistic or pessimistic
- Identifying your personal strengths and weaknesses in order to successfully deal with life’s setbacks and challenges
- Setting goals for the self-correction of pessimistic thinking
- Developing optimism strategies that positively affect your communication and self-talk
Audience:
Anyone wishing to better deal with life’s difficulties in a more optimistic fashion
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Cost: $139 |
Dates & Times: Wed. 10/7/09, |
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NO MORE GUILT! Ruling Guilt Out of Your Life... While Remaining A Nice Person
Guilt is not helpful. It decreases your effectiveness at work and creates barriers in your personal life. Learn why guilt is destructive and how to banish it from your life.
You will learn to:
- Analyze the issues and circumstances which cause you to feel guilty
- Explore your patterns of thinking
- Take responsibility for your actions
- Discover practical ways to express your feelings more honestly while considering others’ feelings and reactions
You will benefit by:
- Increasing your interpersonal effectiveness at work and home
- Being honest with your reactions to your commitments and obligations
- Viewing your actions with a new sense of commitment and responsibility
Audience:
Anyone who feels guilt impacting their ability to interact with others
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Cost: $129 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 2/11/10, |
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When Perfect Isn’t Good Enough: Coping With Perfectionism Without Sacrificing Quality
We all want to excel at our jobs, but obsessing on perfectionism will sap your energy and actually lower your productivity. In this session, you will acquire tools and strategies to confront and combat perfectionism as well as gain an understanding of the motivation behind perfectionist behavior.
You will learn to:
- Identify the various signs and symptoms of perfectionism and how they impact your work life
- Intervene and redirect behaviors that tend to get in the way of positive and productive interactions
- Flex your behavior style, anticipating the behaviors of others who struggle with perfectionism for more positive, win-win interactions
- Find ways to comfortably express your wants and needs more assertively
- Use strategies to interrupt the thinking that causes perfectionism
- Set goals of reasonable excellence
You will benefit by:
- Increasing your overall productivity;
- Recognizing how anger, worry and perfectionism are intertwined
- Increasing your overall self-esteem and self-worth
- Accepting imperfection, criticism and negative feedback
Note: Participants will receive a copy of the book: When Perfect Isn’t Good Enough: Strategies for Coping with Perfectionism by Martin Antony, PhD and Richard Swenson, MD
Audience:
Anyone who feels that the obsession for perfectionism is lowering their productivity
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Cost: $129 |
Dates & Times: Fri. 3/12/10, |
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