BUILDING SPIRIT at WORK

Workshop
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Time Frame:
1 day

Group Size:
20-30

Audience:
open to all

Format:
interactive & experiential utilizing large group activities, small group dialogues, and didactic lessons designed to guide the participants in their assessment of self and issues relevant to their ability to correctly perceive issues that underlie conflict situations; assessment of organizational policies and practices that lead to conflict and resistance to change; and determination of appropriate behaviors, attitudes, skills and knowledge necessary to mediate conflict and promote change.

Client pre-requisites:
teleconference or meeting to assess current conflicts and conditions.

Spirit comes from the inside, out. It is born in our beliefs and lives in our attitudes and behaviors. Building spirit at work can not be done by an outside contractor, nor by a well-intentioned boss. If it‟s something that we want at work, then it is something that we cultivate within ourselves and foster within the environment.

This program focuses on helping each individual be a catalyst for building spirit at work, starting with one‟s own spirit. It engages each individual is a series of lessons and activities meant to stimulate an internal dialogue so that the person consciously chooses to unleash his/her spirit instead of wallowing in self-pity and engaging in self-centered interactions with clients and colleagues. The program is extremely motivational, high energy, thought provoking for all, and challenging to some – those who see themselves as powerless at work or who believe that spirit at work is something the boss does for his/her people.

The program focuses on eight developmental areas of a person‟s consciousness:

Its central lessons and components include:

1. Understanding the power of your presence at work: Your Ripple Effect
   
2. Seizing empowerment opportunities
   
3. Harnessing the strength within individuals and teams
   
4. Motivating yourself from the inside, out
   
5. Taking ego out of the workplace
   
6. Understand how to truly support and empower others, and create empowerment zones at work
   
7. Learning behaviors and initiatives that demonstrate your own servant leadership and help others demonstrate it too
   
8. Discerning ways in which to turn customer service strategies inward to support colleagues and supervisors
   
9. Strategies for putting an organization‟s values into operation
   
10. Teaching people how to demonstrate that they truly value others at work
    
11. Learning about recognition and rewards that backfire, and those that work for the long-term
    
12. Learning how to act according to the virtues that you profess and believe in
    When we do all, or any of these, we unleash our spirit at work and build the spirit of others that we work with. They find themselves wanting to be around us, support us, and follow our lead, because they trust us and the attitudes that we exemplify.

When we do all, or any of these, we unleash our spirit at work and build the spirit of others that we work with. They find themselves wanting to be around us, support us, and follow our lead, because they trust us and the attitudes that we exemplify.

Your Facilitator Bob Schout