CBT | Workshop Descriptions
Workplace Mental Health & Awareness
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Realistic Optimism
Surprisingly, staying positive when things get tough is an acquired skill and not something we are born with. In this hard-hitting workshop you will understand the key habits of ‘self-talk’ that lead to both optimism and pessimism and see clearly the relationship of these to resilience, well-being and productivity. You will then learn how to change counterproductive mental habits and encourage others to do likewise. This workshop takes positive psychology and makes it real for all those who participate.
Peak Performance under Pressure
This session is designed for those who work in, or manage others in, high pressure and dynamic workplaces. It charts the typical roller coaster ride we take in meeting deadlines and provides practical strategies for dealing with the twin perils of deadline-driven workplaces: too much stress and, its partner in crime, too much procrastination. Knowing about stress & procrastination is half the answer. Participants have frequently called this workshop ‘life-changing’ with its emphasis on practical cognitive and behavioural strategies for managing and responding to stress and procrastination. With applied stress and procrastination busting techniques – extended out-breathing and an anti-procrastination plan, among others - you will re-assess the way you operate day-to-day and learn to rebalance your life.
Combating Conflict
This workshop uses the Total Behaviour Model as a framework for participants to better manage conflict situations, both at work and elsewhere. Different responses to conflict and personality types are explored to introduce the concept of understanding others’ perspectives to alleviate conflict. This session is practical and easy to understand
Working Well with Change (available in managerial and general staff formats)
As the saying goes, ‘change is a constant’ and there are typical emotional and behavioural responses to change. You will understand these reactions to change, the stages of change and, more importantly, you will learn how to support yourself and others through significant change. You will self-assess your level of ‘change readiness’ - identifying and leveraging strengths for change and will emerge with practical actions to apply immediately.
Personal Efficiency & Performance
The three elements that build efficiency and performance at work are effective work planning, goal achievement practices and the ability to enter into a state of ‘flow’ more often. This eminently practical workshop integrates these three elements to give you the tools you need to stay focussed and maximise your time. Work planning is comprised of realistic practices involving prioritisation, optimising time and realistic work schedules. Goal achievement moves beyond smart goal setting and provides a practical template for actually getting goals done. Practical guidelines are also given on how to more often enter ‘flow’ – an undistracted, highly efficient mental state – and work with optimal balance between levels of challenge and skill in your work.
Interpersonal Dynamics 1: Staying Balanced
Introducing Transactional Analysis, this practical workshop provides immediately usable insight into interpersonal dynamics (the basis of all emotional intelligences). The session develops the capabilities that underlie communication skills so you can be skilfully assertive and constructive. The task is not only to understand why we (and others) might lose our balance, nor to simply be given rules or techniques to ‘apply’. The real task is to stay in calm and constructive states and to make it easier for others to be more calm and constructive. Understanding how to do this, you will then learn to apply these insights in a structured process of assertiveness.
Interpersonal Dynamics 2: Manage Self, Manage Others
Building on the work with Transactional Analysis, this workshop undertakes advanced work on feedback and enabling others. All feedback should be about empowering others. Some people just seem to know naturally how to enable and empower others. This workshop unpacks this ability and introduces three original concepts: being an ‘enabling space’ for others, the structure of ‘advanced empathy’ and the ‘Language of Possibility’ (how the intelligent and skilled use of language helps other people to get unstuck). Specifically, you will learn how to structure, deliver and receive feedback; how to enable others by operating to their strengths (not weaknesses); and how to use language to interrupt patterns in others that don’t work and amplify patterns that do.
Problem Solving & Decision Making
In the course of their everyday work, most individuals make multiple decisions and judgements. Often these are made under considerable time and workload stress as well as extraneous pressures. This workshop is designed for individuals to take a step back from their work and explore and analyse these processes in order to improve them. This workshop aims to increase participants’ confidence in making decisions and developing and enhancing skills in the process of making decisions and judgements.
Managing Meetings Well
Productive meetings are the life-blood of productive organisations. Poorly conducted, they are also a very common cause of disengagement, frustration and discontent. The pattern of meetings allows for communication flows inside organisations and is crucial to maintain engagement and ongoing workplace improvement. This workshop provides strategies for the structure and process of a range of meeting types – from full agenda sit-downs, to quick stand-ups, to ‘water-cooler’ conversations – all with an emphasis on information flow and involvement. You will receive practical guidelines for constructing good agendas; general principles for managing people; identify and deal effectively with ‘difficult meeting types’; and simple rules for meetings that work
Practical Resilience
The Practical Resilience session delivers what it promises: It provides a comprehensive ‘health-check’ with practical steps to maintain resilience and vitality in everyday life. The workshop explores dimensions such as physical wellness, social engagement, concentration and focus, problem-solving and emotional self-management. Participants analyse their current circumstances to identify those dimensions which are in more need of attention in order to maintain and build their ability to bounce back when faced with challenges and when working in more difficult times.
Problematic Personalities in the Workplace
People with personality disorders, and more commonly people with sub-clinical features of personality disorders, can be prime cause of workplace conflict.
This workshop explores these workplace issues and the problematic personalities that may be behind them and provides insights into the likely signs that you are dealing with problematic personality types. The workshop outlines some of the strategies employed to assist in these often difficult and challenging situations and provides a forum to practise basic techniques that can be utilised when interacting with those who demonstrate problematic interpersonal behaviours.
People with personality disorders, and more commonly people with sub-clinical features of personality disorders, can be a prime cause of workplace conflict. This workshop explores these workplace issues and the problematic personalities that may be behind them and provides insights into the likely signs that you are dealing with problematic personality types. The workshop outlines some of the strategies employed to assist in these often difficult and challenging situations and provides a forum to practise basic techniques that can be utilised when interacting with those who demonstrate problematic interpersonal behaviours.
Coming soon due to popular demand:
- Advanced Negotiation
- Dealing with Difficult People
