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Moving Ahead: Breaking Behavior Patterns That Hold You Back
Seminar No: 02255 -XNBB
CEU Credits: 1.2
Length: 2 days


You may be your own worst enemy. Overcome destructive workplace behavior!

Steamrolling over others in a quest for power. Constantly rebelling against authority. Being the source of office gossip. Crying at the drop of a hat in stressful situations. These are just a few examples of bad behavior that can result in "career suicide"--even for the most capable employees. Overcome and resolve workplace situations where ineffective behavior is at play so that you can move forward and get the rewards you deserve.

Attendees:
General managers, supervisors, team leaders and anyone who has a negative behavior pattern that has impeded his or her career success.

How You Will Benefit:

  • Identify people and situations that can elicit bad workplace behavior
  • Successfully change or modify career-sabotaging habits
  • Understand how negative behaviors affect teamwork and learn how to change them
  • Achieve better work relationships and change how you are perceived
  • Manage feelings of frustration and anger in workplace situations
  • Gain recognition for contributing to a more positive and happier work environment
  • Positively impact your career path

What You Will Cover:

  • Improve your image in the eyes of co-workers, customers and senior management
  • Use positive self-talk for a more constructive
  • A five-step process for overcoming emotional triggers
  • Increasing your emotional IQ to better handle interpersonal relationships
  • Controlling reactions, instead of being controlled by them
  • The role of empathy in becoming more productive
  • Accepting the responsibility for communicating effectively

Extended/Detailed Course Outline

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify and Examine Self-Sabotaging Behaviors in Others
  • Recognize That Self-Sabotaging Behaviors Are Common in All Workplaces
  • Understand That Most People Are Not Fully Aware of Their Self-Sabotaging Behaviors
  • Determine That Lack of Awareness about Self-Sabotaging Behaviors May Damage Your Career
  • Associate Common Workplace Problems to Self-Sabotaging Behaviors
The Nature of Self-Defeating Behaviors
  • Define Self-Defeating Behavior and Scripts
  • Identify Examples of Self-Defeating Behavior at Work
  • Classify Self-Defeating Behaviors into Four Categories
  • Examine the Psychology of Self-Sabotage
  • Identify Examples of Your Self-Defeating Behaviors
  • Identify, Describe, and Analyze Life Scripts
  • Associate Life Scripts with Self-Sabotaging Behaviors
  • Recognize That Life Scripts Have Common Themes and That Everyone Has Several Life Scripts
Individual Patterns of Self-Defeating Behaviors
  • Identify How the Participant Functions within the Workplace in Four Areas: Structure, Process, Relationships, and Potential (Transformative Mapping Instrument-TM)
  • Analyze How the Participant’s Self-Defeating Behaviors and Scripts Are Related to the Scores on the TM Instrument
  • Recognize, Own, and Take Responsibility for Self-Defeating Workplace Behaviors
Organizations-Identifying and Improving Organizational Self-Defeating Behaviors
  • Analyze Organizations from the Perspective of Contexts That Encourage or Discourage Self-Defeating Behaviors
  • Formulate Ideas about the Characteristics of Organizations That Perpetuate and Promote Self-Defeating Behaviors (Generic to Most Organizations and Specific to Individual Organizations)
  • Determine the Degree to Which Personal Self-Defeating Behaviors Are a Function of the Organization within Which They work
  • Use the GROW Model to Coach Direct Reports on How to Overcome Self-Defeating Behaviors
Techniques to Conquer Self-Defeating Behaviors-Coaching with GROW
  • Identify Nine Ways to Deal with Your Self-Defeating Behaviors at Work
  • Conduct a Reality Check to Assess How Effectively You Will Be Able to Address and Correct Self-Defeating Behaviors
  • Practice a Coaching Session to Work with Your Direct Reports to Correct Their Self-Defeating Behaviors
Action Plans and Coaching Feedback
  • At the End of This Module, You Will Be Better Able to Create a Personal Action Plan to Implement Your Learning Back at Work

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