Women Redefining Perfectionism: Embracing Flexibility to Achieve Progress

Is your inner critic getting the better of you? Does a need for perfection drive you to overthink tasks, spend excessive amounts of time rechecking work or doubt your own capabilities? Explore the unique challenges of women who are overburdened by a need to be “perfect” in their professional and personal lives and discover strategies for overcoming fear of failure and gaining a more realistic, positive and less perfection-driven perspective.

Based on the book, The Productive Perfectionist: A Woman’s Guide to Smashing the Shackles of Perfection, this course offers you practical strategies for shifting your focus from pursuing and obsessing over perfection to achieving excellence, emphasizing efficiency, effectiveness and overall well-being.

• Transform your inner critic into an inner coach
• Recognize, create and celebrate "situational wins" for yourself and your team
• Gain increased comfort in seeking help, obtaining feedback and expanding your network
• Learn to manage challenging perfectionist types and demanding work environments
• Recognize and overcome imposter syndrome
• Release self-imposed standards of perfection
• Become a more innovative leader who can make faster, more informed decisions

• Distinguishing productive perfectionism from unproductive perfectionism
• Learning the five essential actions for boosting productivity
• Identifying and fostering three core positive emotions for heightened productivity
• Shifting from pursuing perfection to striving for excellence
• Identifying and expanding your comfort with risk-taking
• Applying strategies to work with demanding bosses, challenging colleagues and clients
• Navigating unfriendly or hostile work environments
• Identifying and reframing self-limiting standards of perfection or “shoulds”
• Reviewing common leadership challenges and applying decision-making acceleration techniques

Introduction

• Understand Our Perfectionist Beliefs and Limitations.
• Identify, Imposter Syndrome and Offer Tools for Self-Management.
• Discover and Release Self-Imposed Standards of Perfection to Foster Flexibility, Adaptability Leading to Greater Creativity, Innovation, and Productivity.
• Transform Your Inner Critic Into an Inner Coach.
• Build Competence in Managing Challenging Perfectionist Types and Demanding Work Environments.
• Embrace Challenges Outside Comfort Zones and Set and Achieve Meaningful Goals With Less Stress.
• Develop Skills in Soliciting Feedback and Expanding Your Professional Networks.
• Recognize, Create, and Celebrate “Situational Wins” for Self and Teams.
• Develop Competence to Become a More Decisive and Agile Leader at Work and in Life.

Understanding Productive Perfectionism

• Distinguish Productive Perfectionism From Unproductive Perfectionism.
• Learn When Perfectionism is Necessary.
• Utilize Five Essential Actions for Boosting Productivity.
• Turn Actions Into New Habits.

Cultivation and Coaching Toward Core Positive Emotions

• Effectively Connect and Utilize Three Core Positive Emotions.
• Learn Daily Practices to Enhance Emotional Well Being and Productivity.
• Create a Shackle-Smashing Action Plan.

Pursuing Excellence in Perfection

• Shift from Pursuing Perfection to Striving for Excellence.
• Understand the Link Between Unproductive Perfectionism and Imposter Syndrome.
• Distinguish Between the “Situational Win” and Perfection.
• Develop Practices for Goal Attainment and Increased Satisfaction.

Identifying and Expanding Your Comfort with Risk-Taking

• Identify Mindsets Around Risk and Assess Risk-Taking.
• Expand Comfort Zones to Have Increased Options and Be More Resilient.
• Learn and Use the Three Step Resilience Approach to Risk-Taking.

Strategically Building Your Network

• Understand Trust and Selective Vulnerability.
• Learn a Step-By-Step Approach to Building Trust Quickly.
• Develop Ways to Expand Your Network Strategically.

Managing Challenging Perfectionists

• Apply Tools and Strategies to Work With Demanding Bosses, Overachieving Direct Reports, and Challenging Colleagues and Clients.
• Learn How to Assess Organizational Culture During Job Interviews.

Relaxing Your Self-Limiting Perfectionism and Developing an Action Plan to Becoming a Productive Perfectionis

• Identify and Reframe Self-Limiting Standards of Perfection or “Shoulds.”
• Discover Energizing and Playful Activities Outside of Work to Enhance Creativity and Innovation.
• Review Goals From Day One and See What You Have Learned to Help You to Become a More Productive Perfectionist.

Wrap-Up: Becoming a Decisive Leader, Today

• Discover How Successful Leaders Make Faster Decisions.
• Apply Decision-Making Accelerations Techniques to Leadership Challenges.
• Create Your Action Plan.

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