The 7-Ups to Personal EffectivenessPersonal Effectiveness and Productivity

Introduction

Do you wish you had more time to do the things you want? Would you like to learn how to handle stress better? Would you like to increase your current level of EQ? Do you want to learn how to create and maintain synergistic relationships with people around you? Do you want to consistently inculcate positive habits that would help you attain personal effectiveness?

This workshop is designed to help you inculcate and exercise positive habits in your life. The habits taught encompass both the private and public areas of your everyday life.  Through attending the workshop, participants will learn critical skills and habits to help them achieve personal effectiveness. Skills such as learning how to manage difficult people, time management, empathy, EQ development, proactivity and collaboration will be covered.

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to;

• Understand what are the positive habits

• Learn the differences between proactivity and reactivity

• Understand the importance of having a personal mission statement and personal visioning

• Learn how to manage time and resources better

• Develop your EQ capabilities

• Learn how to think win-win

• Learn to empathize and better understand others

• Learn what it takes to synergize with others

• Understand what it takes to achieve balance in the 4 areas of life

Who Should Attend

• Young Professionals and Early Career Employees: Those seeking foundational personal effectiveness skills to excel in their careers and personal lives.

• Mid-Level Managers and Team Leads: Individuals responsible for guiding teams who want to enhance their productivity and personal impact.

• Individuals Seeking Self-Improvement: Anyone looking to develop habits and practices to boost their personal and professional effectiveness.

• Students and Recent Graduates: Those about to enter the workforce who want to build effective habits and personal discipline.

• Corporate and Community Leaders: People in leadership roles who wish to refine their approach to effectiveness and model it for others.

Programme Outline

Welcome and Introduction

• Workshop Objectives Overview of the Positive Habits to Personal Effectiveness: Set the tone and explain the day’s goals.

Habit 1 – Taking Responsibility

• 90-10 rule by Stephen Covey.

• The owner vs. the blamer.

• Proactive and reactive behaviour.

• Using proactive language.

• The three mirrors—genetic, past and environmental.

• Choice, focus and responsibility.

Habit 2 – Personal Visioning

• Personal visioning.

• Values and principles

• What is the centre of your life?

• Writing your personal mission statement.

Habit 3 – Managing Oneself

• Understanding the difference between production (goal) and production capacity (objectives).

• The 80/20 rule.

• The time management matrix.

• Differences between urgency and important activities.

• Prioritising.

• Quadrant 2 challenges.

• Living effectively in quadrant 2.

Habit 4 – Maintaining Winning Relationships

• Abundance and scarcity mentality.

• The outcome and relationship matrix.

• Achieving win-win outcomes (collaboration).

• Understanding interests vs. positions.

Habit 5 – The Power of Empathy

• Becoming an emphatic listener.

• Six basic emotions and the importance of understanding one’s expectations of self and others.

• Self and social competencies in EQ development.

• Identifying barriers to EQ.

• Personal EQ assessment.

Habit 6 - Synergising

• The power of synergising.

• Ingredients to encourage synergistic relationships.

• The 3 levels of communication.

• Valuing our differences.

• Achieving synergy.

• How to say “no” if need be.

Habit 7 – A Balanced Lifestyle

• Understand what it means to sharpen the saw.

• The 4 basic areas of achieving balance and renewal (4 gifts)—self-awareness, conscience, imagination and independent will.

• Synergy in renewal.

• Achieving a balanced lifestyle.

Closing and Reflection

• Group Share: Key takeaways and personal commitments.

• Wrap-Up: Final thoughts and motivational quote to inspire continued growth.

Methodologies

• Lecturing.

• Group Discussion/Brainstorming.

• Case Studies.

• Self-Analysis/Critique Session.

• Learning from a Partner.

• Interactive Exercises.

Duration

1 Day (9am to 5pm)

Programme Trainer

Dr Caroline Josephine Dawson holds a professional Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from Teesside University (TU), United Kingdom and Master of Arts degree in Mass Communications from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Director of Caroline Dawson International, Dr Dawson has more than 20 years of invaluable experience as an Editor of lifestyle and technical publications and 15 years teaching business management, environmental and soft-skills communication.

Dr Dawson’s pragmatic real world approach ensures that she understands and responds to the real pressures and issues faced by adult learners especially. By closely observing and identifying individuals with special learning needs, she has maintained that experiential, innovative teaching methods and highly interactive curriculum are key motivational factors that enhance one’s communication and personal development skills.

During her numerous corporate exposure with local and foreign delegates, Dr Dawson has provided counselling and coaching services to many multicultural individuals and teams while also mentoring fellow educators in developing their professional skills.

As a former journalist, Dr Dawson’s professional work experience as a Corporate Trainer has required her to market the value of her programs and persuade clients to value and understand the urgency of good communication and management skills in the work force. As an ACTA certified WSQ trainer, She has also worked with the Workforce Development Agency of Singapore to develop training content for the Employability Skills System where she successfully attained industry approved competencies in conducting, planning and designing competency based assessments for communication workshops. 

Her experience in working with public and private sector training has become one of her training strengths. Participants of her training workshops attest to her motivational, instructional and highly experiential training methodology that have helped them in their workplace business writing. Dr Dawson has trained operational, supervisory and managerial staff from various organisations.

She has attained the Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) certification through the London Teacher Training College and also teaches English as a foreign language. Dr Caroline is also an MBTI®, DISC Accredited Administrator, Enneagram, Lumina Spark practitioner; and Life Coach. She has administered the tools to top level managers and supervisors on managing their leadership styles and team members. She is currently a Professional Member with Asia Professional Speakers Singapore and a Member with Toastmasters Club Association, International Women’s Federation of Commerce and Industry (Singapore), Business & Professional Women’s Association (S), Society of Singapore Writers and Adult Educators Network Singapore.