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The Activities

Part One: Change and Me-Introduction

1: Raising My Awareness of Me

This activity is designed to help participants establish who they are and how they feel about themselves and begins to explore what they want for the future.

2: Heightening My Awareness of My Values

This activity is concerned with increasing self-knowledge, looking at some personal values and creating the opportunity to consider personal change.

3: Reordering My Personal Goals

This activity is designed to enable participants to reflect upon their personal goals and offers a process for reordering of key goals, thereby increasing the likelihood of achieving them.

4: Increasing My Creativity

This is an activity that involves developing creativity when a group (or individual) needs inspiration. The activity concentrates on the creativity of each individual with the intention of improving group cohesion. It gives participants the opportunity to explore their creativity and, at some opportune time in the future, they may be able to make use of this insight - probably individually rather than as a group. The end result of this activity is that each individual will have prepared a unique presentation, perhaps consisting of information previously unknown to themselves. Whether or not these presentations are used and given at the training session will depend on the group's own feelings. "How we got there" and "How we feel now" are likely to be more important than the product itself.

5: Raising My Confidence

This activity is for people who have felt a lack of self-confidence in certain situations. By progressing through a series of steps, participants will be able to decide what to do in order to reduce instances where this occurs.

6: Improving My Listening

This lively activity involves people in a range of different listening situations. Some strong feelings are likely to be evoked among participants. This activity is powerful and most participants will learn or have reinforced key listening skills.

7: Overcoming Resistance to Situations I Avoid

This activity helps participants to examine situations that they consciously and unconsciously avoid. It provides an opportunity to consider common threads and to experiment with a change in behavior.

8: Reducing My Self-doubts

This activity examines self-doubts and, while acknowledging that most people are prone to these feelings at some time, enables participants to recognize some potentially positive outcomes.

9: Letting Go of My Old Behaviors

This activity is designed for people who have expressed a wish, together with personal commitment, to increase, reduce, or cease particular behaviors. The activity takes participants through a "checking-out" stage in which they explore their desired changes. Then a sharing stage occurs in which intentions are announced to others. Next, the opportunity is presented to practice, coupled with support and feedback. Finally, there is some reflection about the learning from the activity together with commitment to future actions, who can assist and how this support will actually happen. Following this activity, participants will be better equipped to apply the process to other behaviors which they wish to reduce or cease in the future.

10: Widening My Support Network

This activity is designed to help participants recognize and acknowledge the type of support they get and need from others. It will also enable them to explore ways in which they can improve and/or widen their support network.

11: Shifting My Home/Work Balance

This activity helps participants to review their life goals against what actually happens, and is of particular use where there appears to be an imbalance between life at home and work. The classic example is the executive who works excessively long hours, resulting in a detrimental effect on life at home. The other extreme is where social activities impede performance at work and dissatisfaction is felt about this imbalance. By analysis and commitment to a plan for change, participants are able to redress the balance.

This activity seeks to provide the opportunity for participants to increase their levels of trust in others through self-analysis and practicing new behaviors.

This activity is designed to help individuals reaffirm and strengthen their own motivation and personal drive.

This activity will enable participants to analyze incidents that placed them under severe pressure or stress and which caused great discomfort.

This is an activity that examines emotional reaction to a crisis, identifies the opportunities presented, and creates a constructive action plan

This activity is designed to bring loss out into the open; to accent the natural process of loss. Opportunity is made for participants to examine the spectrum of loss, to reflect of their skills in managing "endings" and to recognize the inherent opportunities.

This activity enables participants, with the help of others, to consider transition, that is, the passage from one place, state or stage to another.

This activity deals with a subject that is often forgotten: that is, other people have problems as well as ourselves. A commitment to some changes in our behavior can raise awareness of this often neglected area.

This activity is designed to remind people that change is not always threatening, bad or frightening. Through involvement in role plays, participants are reminded that change can be fun, challenging and exciting.

This activity is designed to help people recognize that some changes in life are inevitable.

This activity begins to explore the differences between people and looks at how to begin to values and make use of those differences.

This activity aims to help people share their ways of helping and influencing the past as a means of discovering new ways in the future.

This activity considers the skills, qualities and abilities that are needed to influence others, and explores ways in which these can be "triggered" in ourselves in order to influence others more effectively.

This activity encourages managers and supervisors to consider their role in developing staff fro the longer term.

This activity enables participants to review their traditional learning habits and preferences. New ways of learning are identified and explored...

This activity looks at consulting in its widest sense including situations where people are helped to solve problems, seek improvements or achieve change.

This activity provides an opportunity for participants to practice basic counseling skills, to discuss and receive feedback on their performance, and to form conclusions about heir strengths and areas for further development.

This activity is designed dot help people recognize how they can encourage change in others through personal example.

This is a dynamic activity enabling participants to test some managerial behaviors with others in a safe learning environment. With the focus on managerial behaviors, much of what happens within the activity is decided by the participants.

This activity enable participants to identify potential areas at work within which they may currently have a narrow viewpoint.

This activity uses a case study to help participants reflect upon and discuss practical procedures for dealing with reactions to organizational change.

This activity considers a range of techniques that can help people to identify strategies for change.

This activity is designed to open participants' eyes to the meaning of organizational culture and provide an opportunity for them to examine their own perceptions of culture within their own organization.

This thought-provoking activity allows participants to explore the mission of their organization and to identify those ingredients of organizational culture that are most desirable for the achievement of its strategic goals.

This activity is designed to help employees seek out, discuss and confirm their organization's key goals.

This activity is designed to help team members jointly to develop realistic team goals which positively contribute to organizational goals and objectives.

This activity helps participants to reflect on conflict and to consider ways in which this can be used constructively.

This activity takes a proactive view of innovating change in the workplace. Emphasis is given to the need for everyone to contribute to their organizations success...

This activity enables participates to review their attitudes toward internal quality and offers a framework for personal improvement and change.

This activity concentrates on the effects of acquisitions and takeovers and help participants to consider ways of adapting to the changes that result.

This activity is aimed primarily at a group rather than an individual and is a means of enabling the group to focus on restrictive and short-sighted behavior that restricts change and growth.

This activity is designed to help participants consider the impact and effects of current demographic changes on their organization.

This is an activity designed to help participants think creatively about the range of recruitment opportunities available to them at a time when external labor markets are shrinking.

This dynamic, creative activity is particularly suited to organizations who acknowledge that all staff have views, opinions and suggestions that could lead to improvement.

This activity aims to raise the level of awareness with regard to customers-who they are, how they should be treated and how participants might be able to influence others within their organization by promoting customer conscious attitudes.

This is a challenging activity that takes a look at why customer service goes wrong and examines the impact of social attitudes together with "management controllable" failures.

This activity provides participants with an opportunity to define what is meant by customer service and to identify the key components which are necessary to get it right.

A flexible, though-provoking activity designed for the benefit of anyone who is involved in identifying and satisfying market needs.

This activity is designed to help raise awareness of the issues and implications of an international market. It could also be used to help identify any market areas/competitors.