Competency and Performance Solutions » assertiveness http://www.c-psolutions.com Customized, results-based training Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:47:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Confidence & Self Esteem: an essential in business success: Nov 2010 http://www.c-psolutions.com/2010/04/confidence-self-esteem-an-essential-of-business-success/ http://www.c-psolutions.com/2010/04/confidence-self-esteem-an-essential-of-business-success/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:06:19 +0000 Glynis http://c-psolutions.com/?p=897 Sign up for this event.

Dates: Early November, 2010

Location: The Centre Club,
123 South Westshore Blvd, Tampa, Florida 33609.

On-line credit-card registration below. Checks accepted.

Half day. Includes breakfast and mid-morning refreshments and snacks in luxury surroundings. Free parking. Participants may stay for Centre Club buffet lunch ($15). (Please notify CPS, in advance, about lunch requests if possible, or book on-line.)

Start. Registration 8.15. Course starts 8.30 a.m. End. 12.30. p.m.

Cost: $125  Discount: $15 for early registration (5 business days). Small class size owing to topic.

Contact details, terms and conditions.

Suitable for: Business people, especially executives, sales professionals, managers, and those who have recently been promoted in corporate environments. Mid-career employment-changers, entrepreneurs and fast-tracked high performers find this workshop especially beneficial.

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify how self esteem and confidence affect business situations, actions and results.
  • Solidify this knowledge with a (brief) review of mainstream research.
  • Prepare for new insights: differentiate between action-reaction and action-thought-reaction.
  • Build a structured understanding of how participants achieved their current levels of confidence. (The workshop provides a professional environment, with an experienced facilitator, and is therefore suitable for co-workers to attend together.)
  • Explore six techniques that deliver an on-going growth of real, lasting self-esteem and confidence.
  • Review cycles of challenges and growth. Identify examples of these in participants’ lives, along with their current phase of the cycle.
  • Predict where challenges lie, and foresee what specific challenges may affect sustainable results from the workshop.
  • Plan to implement up to five specific tactics or strategies to ensure that the growth of confidence and self esteem develops sustained and sustainable momentum.
  • Map a personalized action plan, including contingency plans, for the journey forwards.

    • Previous Client: Sasol

Why CPS’s interactive, accelerated workshop approach? No one learns from “talk and chalk” or “Death by PowerPoint.” Learning is interactive and collaborative, fun and engaging… or it doesn’t happen.

Custom versions of the program are available. In a custom version, CPS will visit your company, free of charge, and assess your challenges. The workshop will be customized around your people’s specific needs and requirements. CPS does the paperwork for Workforce funding if desired.

Previous Client: Coca Cola

Previous Client: IBM (ISM)

]]> http://www.c-psolutions.com/2010/04/confidence-self-esteem-an-essential-of-business-success/feed/ 0 Retaining valuable “women who don’t ask” http://www.c-psolutions.com/2008/04/retaining-valuable-%e2%80%9cwomen-who-don%e2%80%99t-ask%e2%80%9d/ http://www.c-psolutions.com/2008/04/retaining-valuable-%e2%80%9cwomen-who-don%e2%80%99t-ask%e2%80%9d/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:03:27 +0000 Glynis http://c-psolutions.com/?p=6 Research shows that even young, highly-educated and assertive women do not ask for what they want, or know how to maneuver their way through systems that penalize them for asking.

The cost, to both women and organizations, is high.

Research proves that when women do ask for what they want, they do not do so as clearly, quickly or as often as men do. GenX and GenY women are following in the footsteps of their Boomer and Traditional predecessors in this pattern.

Women also tend to think that what is offered (“what is on the table”) is all that is available. Men draw on their socialization (which includes things like being taught how to slip the Maitre d’ a few bucks for a better table) and assume that their wants and needs might be met if they speak up, irrespective of what seems to be on offer.

Organizations suffer. Their valuable women work and wait for rewards or options, then one day, *poof*! They’re working for your competitor or running their own small business, and you’re saying “why didn’t she TELL me she wanted that position, the same salary as John, that title, a new computer screen, a more flexible schedule, a space heater? It would have cost so little … a tiny fraction of what this is costing us now!”

Linda Babcock, Co-author of “Women Don’t Ask”, admits that those who ask, often get. She describes how she, herself, gave more resources and opportunities to men in her department, while she was researching the way women are socialized to wait for rewards, and why women don’t imagine possibilities outside The System. She did this because men asked.

Great read: “Women Don’t Ask” (by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever) has some great strategies for managing men and women who are valuable assets to your organization, but do not ask clearly for what they want. It’s also a must-read for working women or parents of daughters.

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