Date:
Wednesday, 19 August 2020 - Friday, 18 September 2020
Leverage Your Superpowers To Fuel Success
Organised by Thrive HR Exchange
Only 17% of people spend their time at work playing to their strengths yet it is faster and easier to amplify your strengths than turn around your weaknesses.
Join Karen Kwong, Founder of RenOC and Davina Ho, Founder of Potentiality for a 1-hour mindfulness session on Wednesday 19 August, starting from 5pm SGT/ 10am BST/ 11am CEST.
What you’ll learn:
Why you should focus on enhancing your strengths rather than turning around your weaknesses.
How do you find your superpowers?
What does that look like in practice?
How mindfulness can help you discover and enhance your strengths.
Explore fascinating case studies illustrating how leaders have managed to transform their teams and businesses using their strengths. Complete a guided meditation that supports you to find your own innate inner strengths.
Using your superpowers can enhance your professional development, get the best out of your team and improve your business results.
About your presenters:
Karen Kwong (Founder of RenOC) and Davina Ho (Founder of Potentiality) provide a fresh perspective empowering people and organisations to thrive. The webinar is based on specific, proven and effective psychological interventions from Karen Kwong, an executive coach and organisational psychologist. And somatic mindfulness techniques that train you to use the intelligence of the body from meditation and mindfulness expert Davina Ho. Both also have a significant amount of experience working in financial services.
Time stamps on the session:
3:20 Welcome & introduction by Stephanie Nash, Thrive HR Exchange
5:45 Introduction by Davina Ho (https://www.meditationforlife.co)
6:45 Introduction by Karen Kwong (https://www.renoc.co.uk) and to Leveraging your Superpowers to Fuel Success. With the purpose of addressing topics and themes to help you succeed and flourish within the HR community
9:25 Case study – a leader surrounded by dysfunction and how using her strengths brought about significant and positive impact
15:32 What are superpowers – ie strengths?
16:15 Why are they important?
18:25 When you are in flow – what does that look like?
21:12 What it looks like when you use your strengths eg at work
22:07 What it looks like when your strengths are over- or mis-used
24:47 Only 17% of people spend their time at work playing to their strengths – a waste!
25:05 How to find your superpowers
26:25 Training and using your superpowers for good
28:17 Homework – using your strengths to move forward
29:28 Q&As
Q: What if you work with a toxic manager?
30:00 Karen – bolster your resilience using your strengths, focus on these to energise you and if needed find a new job playing to those
31:30 Stephanie – think about who can help you give that person feedback. Implement AID – Action, Impact & Desired Outcome
32:05 Q: What technique to use to ensure not misapplying?
33:21 Karen – increase self-awareness to notice when you’re using what strengths. Start journaling – ie gathering data to inform and practise behaviours going forward
34:55 Q: Honing strengths to exploring new ones
35:15 Karen - strengths are innate and certainly you can focus on lesser used ones. But differentiate between strengths and skills. The former can be always used with some strategic and creative thinking
37:40 Davina introduces the somatic part of the webinar. Experiencing your inward journey to discover strengths
38:08 Using the Inner Resource tool – feeling a sense of security within the body. When we feel positive emotions within the body, we will feel safer and this leads to us being our authentic selves, ie the best version of ourselves
39:20 Start of meditation
52:57 End of meditation. Homework is to integrate inner resources into your life. Set a reminder on your phone. Week 1, work on one inner strength 5x a day for 2 mins to bring awareness to it. Programme your body and nervous system to attuning to strengths
54:24 Close by Stephanie Nash. A healthy reminder to think about our own selves and to fill your own cup first!
