The Mind of an Innovator: A Woman’s Guide to Seeing Possibilities Beyond the Glass Ceiling
Change the psychological orientation from accepting ‘what is’ to designing what could be’ to give women an edge. Participants adopt a creative thinking mindset and apply an ‘anything is possible’ attitude to their work situations. Every segment of the day is structured in a ‘demo then do’ format so that each theory or tool is introduced, then practiced for experiential learning.
Two days are formulated into four parts that build upon each other:
Part One: Developing an Innovator’s Mindset
Part Two: Greater Self-Knowledge vis-à-vis ILA Profile
Part Three: Crafting a Vision of the Future
Part Four: Making it Happen
Explore the human challenges being experienced during the COVID-19 crisis and understand how to support yourself and others as a leader.
This 90-minute webinar is designed to support leaders of people, both as individuals and leaders of others, in being centered and effective during this chaotic and uncertain time. In this interactive, virtual session, leaders learn how to process their emotions, experiences, and reactions generated by this global pandemic. We examine how to work effectively with others and assist them in processing their emotions and reactions.
Many tools and tips are offered to the leader and their staff to increase calm and centeredness in the face of chaos and uncertainty. Practice of tools, dialogue and a Q&A session promote adaptation of learnings. A robust handout is provided as an on-going reference post-session.
The seminar focuses on the standard project management terms and processes associated with initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing a project in a one day format.
The Fundamentals of Project Management is a one-day, instructor-facilitated, session designed to provide an introductory overview of the project management discipline.
The seminar structure effectively combines introductory lecture and discussion with hands-on application of the most basic project management principles.
Topics areas include:
| • Project Management Terminology |
• Project Organizations |
| • Project Selection and Prioritization |
• Initiating a Project |
| • Scope Definition |
• Project Planning and Scheduling |
| • Resource Identification and Assignment |
• Project Budgeting |
| • Project Reporting |
• Risk Management |
| • Scope and Change Control |
• Project Closure |
Learn skills that will nurture optimism and help build emotional flexibility and resilience.
These are turbulent times. COVID-19 has turned our lives upside down. The shelter-inplace mandate has had a dramatic on our social lives. Every day amid the news of the numbers of illnesses and deaths, we hear of rising bankruptcies, political instability and uncertainty about what the future holds. Not surprisingly, anxiety and depression rates are at an all time high. Despite feelings of helplessness at times, there are things you can do to take back control.
Tough times don’t last, but tough people do. No matter how stressful things are, you can be realistic about the present without sacrificing your emotional fortitude. With some intentional effort, you can set yourself up to shine and become resilient to build a life of greater meaning.
This class enables you to acquire exemplary communication and listening skills.
Communication is key in everything we do, and listening is the pivotal silent secret of success.
Through this interactive workshop, you will discuss current challenges and develop ways to overcome them. Learning and leveraging proven techniques will allow you to be recognized as an effective listener within your team and peer groups. After putting the techniques into actions, there are fewer breakdowns in both verbal and written communications.
Our mental energy is connected to our physical and emotional energy. We can learn to synchronize our bodies and minds, thus making every moment fresh.
“Brain lifting” increases the lightness of our being. It is available to everyone. A concept that emerges with startling consistency throughout the ages is that some type of energy or life force is a necessary component of health. In a sense, we are all beings of energy in a vast universe of energy. But if that is true, why do so many of us feel unsettled? If we befriend our minds, we will never be alone. Our complex brains are very malleable.
Through meditation and mindfulness, we can develop habits to rewire, renew and reboot our brains.Research shows that consistent practice of meditation and mindfulness significantly decreases stress and increases focus, communication and emotional stability. In this course, we engage in experiential practices drawn from yoga, East Asian religions, positive psychology, physiology and brain science.
Unproductive thinking (descending into the rabbit hole of confusion, fear, worry and anxiety) leads to unhappiness. We can overcome this thinking and built healthy habits for our physical, mental and emotional health.
These feelings can become so overwhelming; they overtake us and may become contagious. One person flares up and it spreads like wildfire. Our feelings also trigger hormonal responses in the body and limbic brain which ultimately weaken our immune systems. We can build habits for our physical, mental and emotional health, incorporating the work of James Clear’s Atomic Habits.
To build a good habit: make it attractive; make it easy; and make it satisfying. To break a bad habit: make it invisible; make it difficult; and make it unsatisfying. We will review stories about how people handle stress. When under stress, some people under function and become helpless, while others over function and take over. Both patters can create toxic behaviors and conflict from trivial and momentous issues. Everyone knows toxic people who drain our energy. At times we may be difficult to deal with. If we could examine ourselves through a microscope and then slow our interactions with others, we could observe millions of subtle micro exchanges, both energizing and toxic. We constantly affect each others’
We can learn to build our immunity to stress. Challenging times require bravery and vigilance to build our health and well-being.
An external stimulus that creates an internal “flight or fight or freeze” response causes stress. We call this response “getting triggered” because it often occurs quickly and is partly biological. Everyone has a unique pattern of stress response. Over time, unmanaged stress can culminate in premature aging, illness, anxiety, depression, exhaustion, apathy, substance abuse and dysfunctional relationships.
Stress tolerance starts with synchronizing body and breath. It is willingness to be ourselves, become vulnerable and not try to “have it all together.” We can engage mindfulness and awareness (bow & arrow), combining gentleness and precision. Every moment is fresh. We can learn to treat stress as a familiar acquaintance–to recognize it and skillfully let it go. This course helps us build new thought patterns. It introduces beneficial practices in the way we live, eat, THINK, love and work. We can become aware of and release stress in our bodies, minds and hearts.
Many tools and tips are offered to the leader and their staff to increase calm and centeredness in the face of chaos and uncertainty.
This 90-minute webinar is designed to support leaders of people, both as individuals and leaders of others, in being centered and effective during this chaotic and uncertain time. In this interactive, virtual session, leaders learn how to process their motions, experiences, and reactions generated by this global pandemic. We examine how to work effectively with others and assist them in processing their emotions and reactions.
Practice of tools, dialogue and a Q&A session promote adaptation of learnings. A robust handout is provided as an on-going reference post-session.
Guide leaders and teams to embrace the current chaotic circumstances in healthy and productive ways and explore how to effectively move through tumultuous times while preparing for an uncertain future.
Designed for leaders of teams as they navigate their way through the chaos and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. This 90-minute webinar provides insight, and practical tools to guide their teams through the random, erratic and tumultuous experience all individuals, teams and businesses are encountering.
Leaders will gain an understanding of how prolonged chaos impacts individuals and teams as well as gaining tools to take advantage of the uncertainty. They will know how to support their team to operate the best now and prepare with contingency plans as they make their way to the future.
