Action from FDP session - Mindfulness and Emotional Resilience

 I was thrilled to be invited to be a part of the Faculty Development Program of Anjuman College of Hotel and Tourism Management Studies and Research.  This program is spread over a week and has other external faculty like myself, who are covering different aspects of the theme "Wellness to Wisdom".

All the faculty invited for this Program

I opted for the topic, Mindfulness and Emotional Resilience for Educators.  The challenge - only two and a half hours to cover such a fascinating and deep topic.  I had a further discussion to understand how this topic came up, and based on this, I put the components of my session together.

Through facilitator led discussions, I covered how emotions can create distortion of reality and facts, what emotional resilience contains, the difference that a Growth Mindset can make, the fallacy of multi-tasking and it's links to stress and productivity, mindfulness and got them to practice a mindfulness journaling exercise.  

The faculty participants marvelously did their part of being student learners, with insightful questions and comments.  They made the session more interesting and impactful, especially when they took up a specific action to put into practice.

                                          

Practical Expectations Captured

Key Insight and one Action

Dr. Harish Suvarna, the Principal presents me a memento on behalf of the organization

My gratitude to the Principal, Mr. Harish Suvarna, the faculty and particularly Ms. Priyanka Kandalkar for the warm hospitality they provided to me throughout my time there.  I wish them all the best, and look forward to working with them again in future.

Do connect with me on +919820155778 if you want your people to experience such topics.

Action from Training for Improving Long Term Performance

Here's the action from a program I did for a group of new employees from sales with varying years of experience (1 yr to 20 years).  The objective was to get them to think on how and why to go about improving performance in the long term.

Some of the topics covered were Personal Brand, Motivation, Resilience, Mindset, and how to develop Power Habits that make one successful.  The time allocated was less than optimum to cover such topics in detail, but I managed to get them thinking with the help of facilitator-led group discussions and processes.

The participants were alert and full of questions and insights that made the workshop fun and interesting and gave positive feedback about me to the organization.

Here's some of the action from the session.

Expectations

Habits that make us unsuccessful

Habits that lead to success

Building Resilience

Learnings of the day

How to encourage yourself

We talk to ourselves - every day.  Some of us do it throughout the day, and we sometimes miss what is happening in the world around us.

Our self-talk helps us make sense of the world we live in, as things happen to us.  The self-talk may not be positive most of time for us.  Yet, these talks shape both our moods and us as people, and help us reach wherever we are today, whether we want to be there or not.  The self talk helps us develop a Fixed Mindset or a Growth Mindset.

 Here's an interesting image sourced from Pinterest.

As you may notice, they are about a growth mindset.  These are some messages you can give (gift?) to yourself as you start your day or plan your next day.  How about reflecting on these questions:

• Which ones would you like to gift yourself today?
• Which ones can wait for another time?  What is the need for them to wait? Any gains?
• What is your plan to gift them to yourself in the coming days?
• Which of your strengths could aid you in making any of these messages a reality i.e. a daily practice?
• Which of your strengths could be coming in the way of you making any of these messages a reality i.e. a daily practice?
• Who in your circle needs to receive any or all of these messages? How much impact would they have on them?
• Who in your circle should you demonstrate one or more of these messages to?

Share your thoughts and responses if you like, and I invite you to think over these messages and questions.  After all, this is about your self-development and evolving to your best self.

Need help to take the first few steps? Call or write to me on ryanbbarretto@hotmail.com

How to conquer limited beliefs and build a Growth Mindset!

Fascinating article about understanding the employee's #mindset and what to do about it.

From the article - "Your #leaders and managers have an essential role to play in helping employees address any #limitingbeliefs they have, while also overcoming any that they might hold about themselves too."

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How to Banish a Toxic Blame Culture

Super article on negating a #blame #culture and #toxicculture 

From the article: "If the idea doesn’t work out, or a mistake’s made, they know that while they must learn from it, they’ll be supported. Across an organisation, this enables the kind of measured risk-taking that drives creativity and innovation."

My view - A culture of #responsibility starts with hiring the appropriate #mindset, as well as based on leveraging #strengths  of the employees at all levels. 

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