Ways of Wellbeing: Working the Edges — Wellbeing in Uncertain Times

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Ways of Wellbeing: Working the Edges — Wellbeing in Uncertain Times

Times of accelerated change, both personal and public, require us to shift, adapt, and adjust as individuals and as teams. Discover healthy strategies, approaches, and mindsets to help regain your work-life balance. You will understand how to recognize the environmental stressors that affect you and your team and practical tools and techniques to better address them.

Learning Objectives

  • Learn healthy practices to improve mental and physical wellbeing
  • Describe how to shift your thinking, behaviors, habits, and physical environment
  • Determine which practices improve how to balance work and home lives in a max telework posture

Ways of Wellbeing: The Why of Wellness

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Ways of Wellbeing: The Why of Wellness

Are you looking to make improvements to your existing wellness routine and don’t know where to start? This presentation explores a non-traditional definition of what “wellness” is, why it matters, and provides tips and tools to improve your overall wellness and wellbeing. This high energy, fast paced, and interactive presentation will give you insights into how you can focus on and incorporate daily small moves to create big impact results that transform your health and energy levels. (30 min presentation or 90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Define wellness
  • Identify specific practices (short and long-term) that improve overall wellness
  • Make commitments to your personal strategy for wellness

Ways of Wellbeing: Team Resilience and Wellbeing

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Ways of Wellbeing: Team Resilience and Wellbeing

As leaders, it is important to your team’s wellness to recognize how stress manifests itself. Participants will learn tactics and strategies to build a strong foundation for your team and better understand how to keep connected. You will review developing a team charter which will help to define your team’s goals, core values, deliverables, and name the roles, skills, and capabilities that will help your team succeed. Participants will review communication styles, social contracting, and discuss ideas for connecting and celebrating with your team. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Define the foundations of a strong team and importance of social contracting
  • Apply templates and best practices to support team cohesion, good health, and connectedness

Understanding Your Mission, Gauging Your Motivation

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Understanding Your Mission, Gauging Your Motivation

Learn to distill the root of your essence by evaluating your daily routine, examining your priorities, identifying your core values, and ultimately determining what your personal mission is. Participants will determine how both your personal and professional lives can help you find more fulfillment in daily living. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Comprehend core principles related to mission and motivation including routine, priorities, and values
  • Identify individual essence statements that drive personal mission and motivation

Staying Grounded

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Staying Grounded

Grounding is a strategy for connecting with the present moment and focusing your mind on a safe place in order to not be overly reactive or overwhelmed by stressors around you. In a challenging VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment filled with distractions, it is difficult to stay grounded and maintain our mission. Participants will learn the definition, inspiration, benefits, and principles of staying grounded. A key to staying grounded is maintaining awareness of your choices. We will experiment with different strategies and techniques for doing so. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Define what grounding is and its benefits
  • Identify insights into how your values and choices affect your grounding
  • Apply practices and techniques for grounding at work

Secrets of the Most Productive People

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Secrets of the Most Productive People

Identify ways to improve your and your team members’ productivity. Participants will start by taking a productivity quiz to assess your strengths and weaknesses before diving into the top 10 secrets of highly productive people. And trust us, these are not your run of the mill tips and tricks! Come prepared to share what helps keep you motivated. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Assess baseline level of productivity
  • Identify and incorporate the best practices of highly productive people

Resilience Workshop: Pattern Interrupt

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Resilience Workshop: Pattern Interrupt

Gain an understanding of building individual resilience; its approaches and specific tactics. Viewing your resilience through the lens of an “energy continuum,” you will identify which activities contribute to your energy destruction, depletion, regeneration, and renewal. Participants will uncover ways to continue to incorporate energy regenerating and renewing work into your day and ultimately contribute to your overall resilience. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Assess how periods of sustained stress may affect your habits and patterns
  • Define tools and frameworks that help maintain mindfulness and equilibrium in sustained periods of stress

Recognizing the Value and Types of Rest

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Recognizing the Value and Types of Rest

All rest is not created equal. Having an awareness of various kinds of rest helps individuals
and groups understand its importance. Studies show that rest is critical to your professional growth, including “If you take 11 or more of your vacation days, you are more than 30% more likely to receive a raise” (Achor & Gielan, “The Data-Driven Case for Vacation,” Harvard Business Review, July 2016). Participants will evaluate which types of rest are needed in different working contexts and your personal rest habits and preferences. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Define different types of rest
  • Identify signals that indicate you are drained or feeling “burnt out”
  • Recognize which different types of rest practices and methods to employ in different situations

Embracing Your Virtual Work Environment

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Embracing Your Virtual Work Environment

In today’s virtual work environment, strategies for managing wellness and productivity are more important than ever. Discover key guiding principles and strategies to effectively navigate your physical and mental space as you work from home. Participants will be equipped with techniques and resources to help you intentionally design your physical and mental spaces and conquer the virtual work environment! (60 min workshop)

 

Learning Objectives

  • Increase self-awareness of your preferences within the virtual environment
  • Identify specific practices for managing your physical and mental space in a virtual environment
  • Develop a tailored plan of action to optimize your virtual work environment for wellbeing and productivity

Cultivating Your Virtual Network

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Cultivating Your Virtual Network

Gallup found that “People who have a “best friend at work” are seven times as likely to be engaged in their job” (Vital Friends, Tom Rath). We all know workplace relationships are key; and in a virtual setting, it can be difficult to figure out how to widen your circle. Participants will practice virtual networking. In addition to learning from and teaching your colleagues, we will share well-established tips and tricks for growing your professional network, as well as the benefits it provides. You will leave with a “Vital Friends” worksheet that helps you determine which of your colleagues play key roles in your professional network, so you can continue
to strengthen those bonds. (45 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize the value of your social network and the implications of your professional network
  • Define approaches on how to both deepen and expand your network
  • Learn tips and tactics to identify and build your network