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.

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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

Dealing with career setbacks

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Life can deal us many blows.  Some of the toughest events to deal with are those related to the career.  This is because many of us have our identity tied to what we do for a living, and when this is threatened or taken away, there is a profound feeling of loss and confusion. These events could be anything from being laid off, get passed over for a promotion opportunity, missing out on an employment opportunity, frequent rejections of your resume and so on. 

When your resume gets frequently rejected, or you don't clear the final round of the interview at the organization where you were very keen on working, or if you are laid off, your morale can really drop.  You start wondering if you are good enough, or if you ever will be.  The imposter syndrome kicks in, and you end up feeling worse. Check out my article about using your strengths to tackle your imposter syndrome.

Here are some ideas to deal with career setbacks, particularly job interview rejections:

• First, introspect honestly on the circumstances that brought you through your current place. Clearly articulate your role in the entire process before anyone else's role.
• Revise your strategy and keep trying.
• Reflect on top 3 situations / interviews that you think went really well.
• Identify and note down 5 things that you did particularly well in those situations.
• Similarly, for 3 situations / interviews that you feel went really poorly. Reflect on what could have gone better. Note these down.
• Consider how you could enhance the use of your strengths to improve.
• If you can call someone who was present at the time for feedback, you can ask them for 3 things you did well and 3 things you can improve on. Don't get defensive during these calls and only make notes of their suggestions.  Thank them of course.
• Consider how you can improve your adaptability to the environment.
• Finally, remember that what happens to you can define you personally, only if you let it get to you personally.  It's ok to fall down now and then, just don't stay there.

Accordingly, you can now modify your approach and restart.  You could consider engaging a strengths-based career coach (like myself) to help you polish your approach.

Wish you all success in bouncing back from your setbacks.

Songs of Resilience

 Songs of Resilience.

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Mondays (and a few special other days) sometimes can be really tough and knock us down really hard. Coming back the next day is a challenge at times. So we use difference tools to build our #resiliency to these days. Some of us use music.

Here's one of my favourite tracks, particularly since it brings a lot of energy back. I have shared the lyrics version to make it easier to understand the words.

Check it out here

If #music is what you use to bounce back, please share your favourite track / tune.