Mary Robinson Reynolds' Column This Week
Do You Want Better Productivity THIS Year?
Here's How...
The difference between mediocrity and greatness is... how you acknowledge the greatness in others, as well as how you acknowledge the greatness in yourself.
Intention:
The learning activities provided in this UTRAIN®&Coach activities program are designed to help everyone in your workplace reach a sense of a greater "community" by learning how to successfully Acknowledge our own greatness and therefore the greatness in every one else. This program teaches that:
1) We have a responsibility to offer ongoing training for our colleagues in order to be contributors and valuable members of society. To assist our entire work force to believe in themselves and to not only have dreams, but honor their dreams daily by putting one foot in front of the other –one personal and professional success at a time –to make a difference in the world.
2) We ALL have the responsibility to each other to step in and make a difference when opportunities present themselves, because being a part of a community of caring people, we learn that "me" becomes "we."
3) You can change the world one person at a time by encouraging co-workers to encourage others by passing acknowledgment on. If 1 of them can touch 1; then 1 can touch 3! This becomes exponential in its reach.
Daily Acknowledgment of Others and of Oneself is Energizing!
Excerpt from Make A Difference with the Power of Acknowledgment UTRAIN® Program for Business:
The social-emotional issues within our places of work today can and will either make or break a person's ability to settle down and focus their entire attention on the tasks at hand so they can perform well while meeting continuous distractions.
You maybe asking: "What social-emotional issues?"
Today's economy can affect how people are feeling about themselves and others, and if fear and negativity are left unattended to, we find that our places of work often resemble high school antics with negativity,
backstabbing, pettiness, opposition, irritibility and even belligerence among people on our team. Without productive and effective means of communicating our way through these emotional land mines, the culture's energy - and therefore sales - of a company can in fact, spiral down.
Think about it: If you are stressed out and upset about something that's happened, our breathing becomes shallow. Shallow breathing means less oxygen to the brain. Less oxygen to the brain mean's a decreased ability to think and reason.
Research about the brain reveals that compassionate thoughts literally LIGHTs UP the frontal lobe of a person's brain. (The frontal lobe is where the mind can access solutions!!!) When we are resentful or angry, there is no light in that part of the brain, and so we shut down and fail to function well. As soon as we deliberately think - or are on the receiving end - of compassionate thoughts or actions, this part of the brain LIGHTs UP, and we can literally go from thinking something is IMPossible to deal with or understand to it Is Most Possible.
LET'S GET THE LIGHTS TURNED ON and KEPT ON in every single person on our team, all of the time with the empowerment that the daily practice that acknowledgment brings!
Compassion must be learned... and the best place to begin is through experiencing the transformative power of Acknowledging others and ourselves in positive, affirmative ways.
An unconditional, heart-felt connection never causes harm to one's self or to others. Very simply put, authentic acknowledgment creates a connection that gives a sense of something greater than the self.
The practice of connecting with affirmative Acknowledgment creates a ripple effect that changes attitudes, reinforces the positive, and can have an impact far greater than we realize. A psychological sense of connection is a feeling of union and transcendence, motivated by compassion, awe, peace or joy. This is all about bringing the intention of compassionate connection into our conscious experience every day.
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