Personality Development

Beliefs are the single most important variable that impact our ability to achieve stated and unstated outcomes. Our beliefs influence and mold our behavior. They impact decisions, actions, aspirations and achievement. Beliefs are not rational conclusions but emotionally held opinions that have been reinforced by us over time. At the workplace, rigid beliefs about people, self, performance, environment or organizations impact not only the individual but also others. Negative beliefs can result in conflict, sabotage and win-lose at the workplace.

This one-day powerful workshop allows participants to become aware of, understand, study and shift their existing beliefs. Participants are also exposed to beliefs of excellence – beliefs that have been elicited from role models of success, achievement and personal fulfillment. Participants understand circularity of belief systems and how to change a belief. Participants also learn how they can add passion to existing beliefs. Participants also learn to distinguish between beliefs as useful and harmful, rather than right or wrong.

Thinking is an important skill. However, for most of us, the only tools we use are critical thinking, analysis and logic. The potential to break away from these traditional ways of thinking and arriving at new solutions by deliberate design is immense. At the workplace, traditional thinking habits result in categorization (good/bad, effective/ineffective, smart/dumb) and prevent innovation.

This one-day provocative workshop invites participants to challenge their assumptions of how they think they think and experiment with new tools of thinking. Participants learn about patterns of thinking and how they get formed (and how to break away from them). Participants also appreciate the ambiguity and deficiency of language as a medium to express or create ideas. They understand the damage categorization and analysis can inflict on a promising solution. Participants learn new tools for deliberately thinking, creating new ideas and components of designing solutions. Participants also learn how mental strategies (for analyzing, decision-making, communicating, responding etc.) get formed and how they need to be deliberately improvised or rejected.