Adaptability: The Key for Mastering Change

Adjusting and re-adjusting to a business environment that is constantly changing can feel like a never-ending struggle. Without specific skills to adapt, your productivity, morale and business results can be adversely impacted. You first need to recognize your responses to your environment—and then learn how to adapt your mindset accordingly.

This workshop explores ways to develop great adaptability through emotional intelligence and mindset. Using specific steps, tools and techniques, you’ll analyze your present mindset and be able to adapt it, in order to see change as a positive force. You also examine and learn to better understand your present organizational culture, embrace new strategies to transform your approach to work, and achieve desired outcomes.

• Discover how emotional intelligence can help you deal with change
• Explore unlearning as a way of learning
• Develop greater comfort when facing unfamiliar situations
• Improve your ability to communicate your struggles and be more willing to adapt

• Understanding adaptability within the elements of emotional intelligence
• Recognizing the difference between a “growth mindset” and a “fixed mindset”
• Identifying your organization’s culture to understand the challenges
• Predicting outcomes with existing knowledge to expand options for response
• Adopting a frame of mind that can help you work outside your safe zone

Learning Objectives

• Identify Your Organization’s Culture to Understand the Challenges
• Discover Adaptability Within the Elements of Emotional Intelligence
• Recognize the Difference Between a Growth and a Fixed Mindset
• Apply a Socio-emotional Brain-based Model for Professional Transformation and Lasting Behavioral Change
• Predict Outcomes with Existing Knowledge to Expand Options for Response
• Expand Your Safe Zone and Communicate Your Needs as Well as Your Willingness to Adapt

Acknowledge the Interplay of Change, Adaptability, and Organizational Culture

• Describe the Culture of the Organization
• Review Change Practices Within that Organizational Structure
• Detail Pertinent Approaches to Change, Transformation, and Adaptability
• Predict Outcomes and Expand Options for Change

Discover and Access Brain-based Adaptability

• Describe How Emotions Are Brain-based
• Apply Emotional Self-awareness to the Development of Resilience and Adaptability
• Detail the Interdependencies Between Emotion, Self-talk, and Physical Response
• Address Paradigms, Perceptions, and Self-inflicted Stress
• Discover the Formation of Habits and How to Rewire the Brain to New Behaviors

Plan Adaptability and Communication

• Discover Communication Style Preferences
• Apply Active and Reflective Listening
• Communicate Your Needs and Challenges with Tact and Clarity

Transform, Transition, and Act

• Create a Personal/Professional Adaptability Plan
• Create a Team-based Adaptability Plan
• Action Plan for Future Implementation of Adaptability Skills

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