Stop Sabotaging Yourself

This training is designed for anyone who wants to increase their personal impact, communicate a confident, professional presence and stay calm, focused and in control even when facing challenging situations. This practical and hands on course concentrates on raising your awareness of how your own sabotaging beliefs and habits are undermining your personal effectiveness. It looks at how you respond to challenges and how you present yourself to others. By the end of the course delegates will be able to: · Recognise your personal response to pressure · Increase your awareness of how you are perceived by others · Learn how you are sabotaging your own success · Improve your ability to remain calm and focused under pressure · Communicate a positive, confident, professional presence in all situations

Course Content

Setting the scene

• What are we going to cover?
• Why does it matter?
• Agreeing how we are going to work

Recognise your personal response to pressure

• Observe your conditioned reaction to challenging situations, and how it may be dysfunctional for the task at hand
• Know how to identify the situations that trigger you to act from habit rather than choice

Increase your awareness of how you are perceived by others

• Examine how your habits, beliefs and moods are expressed through your physicality, language, gesture, voice, and use of space
• Understand how this influences how others see you
• Find out how your moods and attitudes are "contagious" and why it matters

Learn how you are sabotaging your own success

• Learn how your history and experiences have shaped you
• Discover how your limiting beliefs, habits and behaviours are undermining your personal effectiveness and how it is possible to change

Improve your ability to remain calm and focused under pressure

• Learn fast-track techniques to shift from negative to positive emotional and physical states
• Learn how it is possible to manage your response to challenges so you can move from unconscious reaction to conscious intention

Communicate a positive, confident professional presence in all situations

• The components of confident presence are explored.
• Learn simple and practical ways to make an impact by presenting yourself with confidence and authority
• Understand the relationship between thoughts, moods, language, breath and physicality with how confident and self-assured you feel.

Action

• How will I maintain and develop what I have learnt from today?