Delegates are taught about –

• How people think and create their behaviour.
• The conscious and unconscious minds.
• Positive, self-empowering beliefs.
• Values, things which are important to you in different aspects of life.
• How to release negative emotions from the past.
• How to change limiting beliefs.
• How to still the conscious mind, to improve focus and productivity.
• How to improve connection with other people.
• How to set worthwhile, achievable goals.
• How to manage time.
• The components of a positive mindset.

People who are experiencing burnout at work may feel overly tried, anxious, or irritable. They may have difficulty sleeping, enjoy their job less, and may even display physical symptoms, such as headaches. Burnout is often caused by overwork, a lack of support, unreasonable time pressures, unfairness, insufficient resources.

The programme isn’t a substitute for effective leadership and management, but can help employees cope better in their work situation and can help improve the effectiveness of leaders and managers.

Burnout in the workplace is much more common than most people realise. Recent research from the Future Forum said that over 40% of 10,000 office based workers polled claimed to be burnt-out. With women and workers under 30 being more likely at risk.

The impact of burnout for an organisation is more days lost to sickness, higher staff turnover, lost or underutilised talent, and a snowballing negative effect on workplace culture.

For the individual the impact can be even more challenging. Unaddressed stress and burnout can manifest as physical illness, mental turmoil, loss of income, lack of workplace enjoyment, loss of confidence or self-belief, which then means their range of talents and potential aren’t fully expressed.

During the programme delegates have the opportunity to release negative emotions from the past, and to change limiting beliefs about themselves. They are also taught strategies for dealing with anxiety, stress, and the components of a positive, proactive mindset. These elements together have the effect of freeing up more of the delegates mental and emotional capacity to use at work and at home.

Imposter syndrome is where people doubt their intellect, skills, or accomplishments. These thoughts sit counter to the individual’s actual intellect, skills, and accomplishments. It can happen to anyone, though it is often highlighted in high achievers. Doubting self can result in people ‘performing-down’ to what they think they are capable of, rather than performing at their best, and can result in talented people not applying for promotions. It also causes stress, which itself has a corrosive effect on wellbeing and performance.

People who attend the programme have the chance to let go beliefs about themselves which cause self-doubt and teach the components of a positive mindset. They can also frame their lives better, seeing themselves at a moment in an unfolding journey of growth and discovery.

People who understand their own strengths and weakness and who are prepared to see others as unique valuable individuals with their own strengths and weaknesses find it easier to genuinely put themselves in the shoes of someone else. This ability helps to resolve interpersonal conflicts.

By understanding the mechanisms by which we all think and produce our behaviour we can come to understand others better. By knowing how to put ourselves into someone else’s shoes we can see the world from a perspective other than our own. By letting go of our own negativity we can create more space between action and reaction. All of these help to build self-awareness and thereby enhances emotional intelligence.

Anxiety is caused by focussing on what we do not want happening in the future. Through this understanding we can learn to use the sense of anxiety simply as a messenger which requires conscious attention. We can then work on changing how we are imagining the future, by taking action in the present. The programme allows people to let go negative emotions associated with past events and to change limiting beliefs they harbour about themselves. The programme also teaches the structure of a positive mindset. All of these things together reduce delegates’ stress and anxiety.

After being absent from work for an extended period, due to pregnancy, illness, or other reasons, people can worry about how they will cope in an environment which was familiar but now may not feel that way. Anxieties about; Am I current with the technical content of the role? Can I cope with the changed circumstances of my life which caused the absence, and work too? Has technology changed? Has the team or my boss changed? All these anxieties play into a sense of “Can I do it”. The programme helps people to build self-worth, confidence, and self-esteem. So that they understand that they can do cope back at work in spite of the change in themselves or the work environment.

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Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test have been used to assess human intelligence for over one hundred years. Though these tests can have some utility, they fail to capture the whole gamut of what makes people effective, both in and out of the workplace. Emotional Intelligence, often referred to as EQ, is way to understand a broad range of more personal and social skills. It covers –

• Self-awareness: one’s ability to accurately assess self, and seek to improve.
• Awareness of others: this is about relating to others as a unique individual. It includes building empathy and listening to understand.
• Self-management: this is about being proactive in life, making and keeping agreements or commitments, and managing emotions.
• Leadership and management of others: once we are effective through the first three components of EQ we can then inspire, resolve conflict between individuals or groups, and accurately assess the development needs of others.

A high IQ can help you get a job, but high EQ will get you promoted. Emotional Intelligence is teachable.

Emotional Resilience is a measure of one’s ability to cope with the unexpected or unplanned events, having multiple deadlines to meet, or multiple work streams or people to manage, to communicate effectively, even when incoming communication is unclear or emotional. You can sum this up as the ability to work under pressure and or to deal with stress. This stress could be inside or outside the workplace. Improving Emotional Intelligence improves Emotional Resilience.

As an analogy, think about our mental and emotional capacity being like a cup. The more negative emotions we feel from past events, the more anxious we feel about imagined future events, and the more limiting beliefs we hold about ourselves, the more our cup gets filled up or even overflows. As our cup of mental and emotional capacity fills up the more stressed we feel. The programme increases the capacity of our  mental and emotional cups, thus improving Emotional Resilience.