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Mission Statement

The Empowering Beliefs Workshop focuses on the fact that everyone has limiting beliefs holding us back, keeping us playing small and preventing us from reaching our true potential. By the end of the workshop, the women on your team will be equipped with an empowered belief system and a positive mindset allowing them to reach their goals and show up as powerful and confident leaders with the tools necessary to live their best life.

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Objectives

1. Belief System – It’s all about your belief system. You become what you think and believe. In the first course of the workshop, we take a deep dive into understanding the belief system and how it works and steps on how to re-shape your belief system to be in alignment with your goals.
2. Empowered Beliefs – Limiting beliefs can keep us stuck and can sabotage our success. We take a deep dive understanding where these beliefs come from and how they’re formed. We will go through a transformational process that will allow you to reveal and recognize those blocks and learn how to let them go so you can start living up to your full potential.
3. Attitudes and Behavior – Everything we do at work from our relationships to finding new prospects is influenced by how we act. Our professional reputation and career can be boosted as much by our attitude and behavior as by our talents and expertise. We will learn the ABC Structure of Attitudes by Dr. Saul McLeod and the Four Functions of Attitudes by Daniel Katz. We will also discuss how our attitude is formed. In addition, we will uncover Behavioral Intention and Actual Behavior and learn 10 methods to keep your professional behavior at work.
4. Breakthrough Resistance – Resistance can prevent us from moving ahead in all areas of our lives. We will reveal what resistance is and how to recognize it. We will go through the Letting Go of Resistance Process. We’ll learn 3 Tips to Avoid Resistance along with Strategies to address conflict in the workplace. Resistance can be a major obstacle to having what we want and feeling the way we want to. Possessing the tools, you will learn in this course will allow you to get back into the flow again.
5. Overcoming Fear – Everyone is afraid of failure or the fear of the unknown. We can choose to let fear paralyze us or motivate us. In this course, you will learn 7 important facts about fear and the 5 steps to conquering your fear. The only way to grow as a person, a business professional and a leader is to step outside your comfort zone and face your fears, doubts, and the limiting beliefs you have about yourself. Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
6. Treating Trauma – Trauma may be the culprit when it comes to not reaching our goals. Sometimes a small experience from our childhood or a negative experience we had as an adult can create a traumatic loop that can sabotage our success. There are steps you can take to ensure that your traumas do not define your future. In this course, we will learn how to regain control of our minds and create the story we want to live.
7. Be Consistent – Many of us stop short before reaching our goals. Consistency is the difference between failure and success. The problem is the road to consistency is not easy, as there are numerous distractions along the way. In this course, we discuss the 3 Consistency Pillars, 10 reasons why consistency is essential and 10 strategies for dealing with inconsistency. You will gain all of the tools you need to maintain consistency in your life so your actions will start to drive your results.
8. Power of Focus – Focus has the power to transform our lives. What you focus on grows. Focus is a powerful trait that has served many in various leadership roles. In this course, we will dive deep into examples of success stories of highly successful people in history and how they used focus to succeed. We’ll learn the advantages of being focused, how to improve focus and 4 strategies to bring focus to work.
9. Navigating Transition – Life is full of changes and with those changes comes transition. Certain life events can leave us feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or uncertain. These changes cause us to question our beliefs, personal values and even ourselves. In this course, we address the 5 Stages of Change also known as the Transtheoretical Model- this helps us to become aware of and understand each of the 5 stages we go through, so we can achieve sustainable long-term change.
10. Beliefs in Leadership – Belief is the #1 leadership attribute. How we believe in ourselves, our mission, our people, and their belief in us will define your leadership success. In this course, we discuss the 5 Leadership Styles, the 21 Leadership Values and Beliefs and how to implement them into your role as a leader. Bottom line, a great leader not only adds value to others, but through their positive influence they can change the attitude and behavior of others.
11. Empowered Thinking – It’s true, our thoughts influence our actions. Our actions in turn, determine whether or not we succeed in our career, relationships and in life. In this course, we define positive thinking, and the physical and mental advantages of positive thinking. We can actually train ourselves to have a more positive outlook with practice by learning some powerful positive thinking techniques. We will also discuss how we can reap the benefits of positive thinking, so we can begin to change our life and the lives of others for the better.
12. Power Statement – The majority of us have BIG DREAMS for our lives. Unfortunately, most people have no idea how to make their dreams a reality. If you want to transform your life and the lives of others, make an impact on the world, and get paid good money to do it you can. If you BELIEVE you can. In this final course of the workshop, you will discover 8 new Passion Beliefs™ you can adopt to help you create your new and empowered belief system. We will also go through a powerful exercise where you get to create your personal Power Statement which represents the new version of yourself that you’re stepping into.

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Strategies

1. Engage and elicit expectations for the course, introduce the concept of belief systems and why they are important
2. Present Allowing Process to eliminate limiting beliefs
3. Discover a method to establish a work environment that fosters positive attitudes
4. Learn how to breakthrough resistance with the Letting Go Process
5. Identify greatest fears and go through a 5-step process to conquer that fear
6. Practice and learn how to address past trauma begin to re-frame experiences and shift perspectives
7. Create standardized Commitment Process to stay consistent in our actions, so we can reach our goals.
8. Learn powerful focus techniques to reach goals quicker, improve teamwork and communication skills
9. Develop a Job Transition Plan – to demonstrate current role and responsibility to successor and ensure a smooth transition into your new role
10. Increase self-awareness of your leadership traits and styles
11. Access positive thinking techniques and how to can use them while leading others
12. Create a Personal Power Statement representing the new version of ourselves we’re stepping into

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Tasks

1. Go through the Study Guide and Distance Learning lessons first and make notes.
2. Identify the key relationships that need to be managed to ensure project success.
3. Determine needs, critical drivers, concerns, and interests for each relationship.
4. Ensure that these relationships are built and maintained on a regular basis, by soliciting ideas, comments, and assessing value.
5. Schedule a meeting for the participants to meet and discuss the workshop within 30 days
6. Participants to share expectations and feedback during the workshop.
7. Set a deadline for determining and analyzing the time commitment for each of the participants.
8. Participants to demonstrate personal presence, get feedback, and make a plan for further development.
9. Participants to experience the challenges of change and apply learnings to the philosophy of leading change.
10. Participants are to complete each exercise fully, actively participate in all of the group exercises and be willing to discuss the process and results with the group.
11. Participants to complete their project by identifying and implementing changes discussed throughout the workshop.
12. Participants to review resources for inspiration and identify at least one new tool for adoption from the provided list.

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Introduction

The second workshop in our Women Empowerment Program – Empowering Beliefs continues to work on developing a positive shift in our mindset.

Many women professionals have a limited or a negative belief system that prevents them from reaching their desired level of success in their life and their career.

During this workshop, through the impactful training and exercises; we will identify what a belief system is while assessing our own, acknowledge any limiting beliefs we have, and go through a transformational process to let them go. We will take a deep dive into how fear may be keeping us stuck and what we can do to conquer it. We will learn how trauma can also play a role in our lives negatively impacting our mindset and sabotaging our success, we’ll discover how to navigate transition effectively and finally discover powerful positive thinking techniques. By the end of the workshop, the women on your team will be equipped with an empowered belief system allowing them to reach their goals and show up as a powerful and confident leader.

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History

A common self-limiting belief is “Men are simply respected more than women.” Of course, this isn’t always correct, yet it holds some weight. It wasn’t long ago that men were considered breadwinners and women were considered housewives in the United States. Some people who grew up during the period of this mindset are still working. More recently, however, 70% of households have two incomes. As a result, it is clear that the old way of life is fading and that new norms are emerging. According to a 2008 Pew Research Center Social and Demographic Trends study, women are more honest and intelligent than men. The ability to recognize and control emotions, is what leads to the affective construct of self-worth, which then leads to the cognitive construct. They enable us to make sense of our experiences, believe in our abilities, and develop an authentic identity based on our talents and beliefs when we work together.

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Current Position

We have gained significant benefits from the growing role of women in the economy.

“Women are emotional in a way that men are not.” This stereotype has been heard by many women with professional experience. For a long time, emotions were viewed as a negative in the business world, but many companies are beginning to see the benefits. Because positive emotions are contagious, they are not only beneficial to the workplace environment, but they are also profitable, because happy employees are more productive. Furthermore, many employers seek employees with high levels of emotional intelligence. A person who is emotionally intelligent can sense and interpret the emotions of those around her and use this information wisely. This is extremely useful in a variety of situations, including working with customers to close sales and resolving office conflicts to reduce employee turnover.

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Future Outlook

When one believes in themselves, there is little that can stop them from having or becoming whatever, they want in life. Self-belief empowers us to push forward and defy the odds. We are able to face and overcome any obstacles that arise. We’ll also have the power to brush off the naysayers. When we maintain our self-belief, we will have peace of mind.

When we believe in ourselves, we exude confidence. This is different from arrogance. Self-belief is a calm, quiet, and powerful tool, and others will be drawn to it. They will follow our lead, and we will assist in demonstrating what is possible. When we encounter stumbling blocks and challenges along the way (which we will), our confidence will help us move forward. When necessary, we’ll figure out how to take alternative action. People who follow us will respect us for it as well.

We must also have access to tools that we can use to empower our mindset and to keep us on track. It is essential that the workplace environment supports the empowerment and belief system of each women employee. When they believe in themselves and that they are capable leader, this belief provides the energy and focus required to take action. It assists us in positively moving forward and completing our tasks contributing to the success of the company.

Situations, people, and forces will all attempt to bring us down. It is important to create a healthy environment of supportive team members around us. This kind of support will help us stay strong, moving forward with our journey in life to achieve what we want, both personally, professionally, and collectively.

This training workshop will provide the knowledge and tools to create an empowered belief system. To start we will discover what a belief system actually is and then go through a method of identifying old limiting beliefs. We will then, together, learn a transformational process in how to release the negatives beliefs and replace them with new empowering beliefs, so we can be the leader we’re meant to be and live our best life! We will begin to understand fear and how to overcome it once and for all allowing us to live a life and thrive in our careers without limits. Finally, we will have the opportunity to adopt new healthy and empowered beliefs that will serve us in reaching our goals moving forward.

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Executive Summary

Empowering Beliefs is the second workshop in our Women Empowerment Program. It focuses on the fact that everyone has limiting beliefs holding us back, keeping us playing small and preventing us from reaching our true potential.

Self-limiting beliefs can become self-fulfilling prophecies, affecting not only our career but also our quality of life. As a result, it is critical for women to replace negative, destructive thoughts with positive, empowering thoughts. The first step is to determine which beliefs you accept. Then, to counteract the negativity, by deciding what we do want or create positive self-affirmations and repeat them frequently. Here’s an example; If you’re struggling with a self-limiting belief about your emotions, try saying to yourself, “My positive emotions are good for my coworkers and company.” When I have a bad day, I can control my emotions and continue to make wise decisions.”

We as individuals, have the power to control our thoughts once we understand where the thoughts are coming from. Our thoughts shape our belief system. Our thoughts effect our feelings which dictates our actions and impacts our results. It is essential that we develop a positive and empowered belief system in order to take the necessary actions to reach success in our lives and in our careers.

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There are 12 courses (or focus areas) in the Empowering Beliefs Workshop.

Here they are:

1. Belief System – It’s all about your belief system. You become what you think and believe. In the first course of the workshop, we take a deep dive into understanding the belief system and how it works. We uncover the affects that our belief system can have on our health and the results in our life. Learn simple yet powerful steps we can take to change our belief system. Finally, we will uncover exactly how we can change our thinking to help us get what we want and make our dreams a reality.

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2. Empowered Beliefs – This course module addresses limiting beliefs what they are and how they’re formed. It focuses on what we can do to identify the blocks and barriers that may be holding us back from reaching our true potential. We will go through a transformational process that will allow you to reveal and recognize those blocks and learn how to let them go so you can start living up to your full potential.

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3. Attitudes and Behavior – In this section of the workshop, we discuss how everything we do at work from our relationships to finding new prospects is influenced by how we act. Our professional reputation and career can be boosted as much by our attitude and behavior as by our talents and expertise. We will learn the ABC Structure of Attitudes by Dr. Saul McLeod and the Four Functions of Attitudes by Daniel Katz. We will also discuss how our attitude is formed. In addition, we will uncover Behavioral Intention and Actual Behavior and learn 10 methods to keep your professional behavior at work.

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4. Breakthrough Resistance – Resistance can prevent us from moving ahead in all areas of our lives. In this course, we will reveal what resistance is and how to recognize it. We will go through the Letting Go of Resistance Process. We’ll learn 3 Tips to Avoid Resistance along with Strategies to address conflict in the workplace. Resistance can be a major obstacle to having what we want and feeling the way we want to. Possessing the tools, you will learn in this course will allow you to get back into the flow again.

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5. Overcoming Fear – Everyone is afraid of failure or the fear of the unknown. We can choose to let fear paralyze us or motivate us. In this course, you will learn 7 important facts about fear and the 5 steps to conquering your fear. The only way to grow as a person, a business professional and a leader is to step outside your comfort zone and face your fears, doubts, and the limiting beliefs you have about yourself. Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

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6. Treating Trauma – Trauma may be the culprit when it comes to not reaching our goals. Sometimes a small experience from our childhood or a negative experience we had as an adult can create a traumatic loop that can sabotage our success. There are steps you can take to ensure that your traumas do not define your future. In this course, we will learn how to regain control of our minds and create the story we want to live.

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7. Be Consistent – Many of us stop short before reaching our goals. Consistency is the difference between failure and success. The problem is the road to consistency is not easy, as there are numerous distractions along the way. In this course, we discuss the 3 Consistency Pillars, 10 reasons why consistency is essential and 10 strategies for dealing with inconsistency. You will gain all of the tools you need to maintain consistency in your life so your actions will start to drive your results.

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8. Power of Focus – Focus has the power to transform our lives. What you focus on grows. Focus is a powerful trait that has served many in various leadership roles. In this course, we will dive deep into examples of success stories of highly successful people in history and how they used focus to succeed. We’ll learn the advantages of being focused, how to improve focus and 4 strategies to bring focus to work.

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9. Navigating Transition – Life is full of changes and with those changes comes transition. Certain life events can leave us feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or uncertain. These changes cause us to question our beliefs, personal values and even ourselves. In this course, we address the 5 Stages of Change also known as the Transtheoretical Model- this helps us to become aware of and understand each of the 5 stages we go through, so we can achieve sustainable long-term change. In this lesson we also define a new job transition plan and explain how to write one if and when you find your self in a career transition.

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10. Beliefs in Leadership – Belief is the #1 leadership attribute. How we believe in ourselves, our mission, our people, and their belief in us will define your leadership success. In this course, we discuss the 5 Leadership Styles, the 21 Leadership Values and Beliefs and how to implement them into your role as a leader. Bottom line, a great leader not only adds value to others, but through their positive influence they can change the attitude and behavior of others.

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11. Empowered Thinking – It’s true, our thoughts influence our actions. Our actions in turn, determine whether or not we succeed in our career, relationships and in life. In this course, we define positive thinking, and the physical and mental advantages of positive thinking. We can actually train ourselves to have a more positive outlook with practice by learning some powerful positive thinking techniques. We will also discuss how you can reap the benefits of positive thinking, so you can begin to change your life for the better.

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12. Power Statement – The majority of us have BIG DREAMS for our lives. Unfortunately, most people have no idea how to make their dreams a reality. If you want to transform your life and the lives of others, make an impact on the world, and get paid good money to do it you can. If you BELIEVE you can. In this final course of the workshop, you will discover 8 new Passion Beliefs™ you can adopt to help you create your new and empowered belief system. We will also go through a powerful exercise where you get to create your personal Power Statement which represents the new version of yourself that you’re stepping into.

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Impact for Positive Change

At the conclusion of each workshop, we will focus our collective attention on how you, as a leader, will put what we’ve learned into practice in your business. Impact for positive change means putting what you’ve learned into practice and taking action to make a significant difference. That starts with a strong desire to change and reflection on what you’re going to do differently. It’s also crucial to consider how you’ll involve people in your organization in the discussion about what you’ve learnt and make requests for what you need from them in order to succeed. Not only will your formal team be involved, but so will your cross-functional colleagues. How would you collaborate to ensure all the women in your company have everything they need to succeed?

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Curriculum

Women Empowerment – Workshop 2 – Empowering Beliefs

1. Belief System
2. Limiting Beliefs
3. Attitudes and Behavior
4. Breakthrough Resistance
5. Overcoming Fear
6. Treating Trauma
7. Be Consistent
8. Power of Focus
9. Navigating Transition
10. Beliefs in Leadership
11. Empowered Thinking
12. Power Statement

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Distance Learning

Introduction

Welcome to Appleton Greene and thank you for enrolling on the Women Empowerment corporate training program. You will be learning through our unique facilitation via distance-learning method, which will enable you to practically implement everything that you learn academically. The methods and materials used in your program have been designed and developed to ensure that you derive the maximum benefits and enjoyment possible. We hope that you find the program challenging and fun to do. However, if you have never been a distance-learner before, you may be experiencing some trepidation at the task before you. So we will get you started by giving you some basic information and guidance on how you can make the best use of the modules, how you should manage the materials and what you should be doing as you work through them. This guide is designed to point you in the right direction and help you to become an effective distance-learner. Take a few hours or so to study this guide and your guide to tutorial support for students, while making notes, before you start to study in earnest.

Study environment

You will need to locate a quiet and private place to study, preferably a room where you can easily be isolated from external disturbances or distractions. Make sure the room is well-lit and incorporates a relaxed, pleasant feel. If you can spoil yourself within your study environment, you will have much more of a chance to ensure that you are always in the right frame of mind when you do devote time to study. For example, a nice fire, the ability to play soft soothing background music, soft but effective lighting, perhaps a nice view if possible and a good size desk with a comfortable chair. Make sure that your family know when you are studying and understand your study rules. Your study environment is very important. The ideal situation, if at all possible, is to have a separate study, which can be devoted to you. If this is not possible then you will need to pay a lot more attention to developing and managing your study schedule, because it will affect other people as well as yourself. The better your study environment, the more productive you will be.

Study tools & rules

Try and make sure that your study tools are sufficient and in good working order. You will need to have access to a computer, scanner and printer, with access to the internet. You will need a very comfortable chair, which supports your lower back, and you will need a good filing system. It can be very frustrating if you are spending valuable study time trying to fix study tools that are unreliable, or unsuitable for the task. Make sure that your study tools are up to date. You will also need to consider some study rules. Some of these rules will apply to you and will be intended to help you to be more disciplined about when and how you study. This distance-learning guide will help you and after you have read it you can put some thought into what your study rules should be. You will also need to negotiate some study rules for your family, friends or anyone who lives with you. They too will need to be disciplined in order to ensure that they can support you while you study. It is important to ensure that your family and friends are an integral part of your study team. Having their support and encouragement can prove to be a crucial contribution to your successful completion of the program. Involve them in as much as you can.

Successful distance-learning

Distance-learners are freed from the necessity of attending regular classes or workshops, since they can study in their own way, at their own pace and for their own purposes. But unlike traditional internal training courses, it is the student’s responsibility, with a distance-learning program, to ensure that they manage their own study contribution. This requires strong self-discipline and self-motivation skills and there must be a clear will to succeed. Those students who are used to managing themselves, are good at managing others and who enjoy working in isolation, are more likely to be good distance-learners. It is also important to be aware of the main reasons why you are studying and of the main objectives that you are hoping to achieve as a result. You will need to remind yourself of these objectives at times when you need to motivate yourself. Never lose sight of your long-term goals and your short-term objectives. There is nobody available here to pamper you, or to look after you, or to spoon-feed you with information, so you will need to find ways to encourage and appreciate yourself while you are studying. Make sure that you chart your study progress, so that you can be sure of your achievements and re-evaluate your goals and objectives regularly.

Self-assessment

Appleton Greene training programs are in all cases post-graduate programs. Consequently, you should already have obtained a business-related degree and be an experienced learner. You should therefore already be aware of your study strengths and weaknesses. For example, which time of the day are you at your most productive? Are you a lark or an owl? What study methods do you respond to the most? Are you a consistent learner? How do you discipline yourself? How do you ensure that you enjoy yourself while studying? It is important to understand yourself as a learner and so some self-assessment early on will be necessary if you are to apply yourself correctly. Perform a SWOT analysis on yourself as a student. List your internal strengths and weaknesses as a student and your external opportunities and threats. This will help you later on when you are creating a study plan. You can then incorporate features within your study plan that can ensure that you are playing to your strengths, while compensating for your weaknesses. You can also ensure that you make the most of your opportunities, while avoiding the potential threats to your success.

Accepting responsibility as a student

Training programs invariably require a significant investment, both in terms of what they cost and in the time that you need to contribute to study and the responsibility for successful completion of training programs rests entirely with the student. This is never more apparent than when a student is learning via distance-learning. Accepting responsibility as a student is an important step towards ensuring that you can successfully complete your training program. It is easy to instantly blame other people or factors when things go wrong. But the fact of the matter is that if a failure is your failure, then you have the power to do something about it, it is entirely in your own hands. If it is always someone else’s failure, then you are powerless to do anything about it. All students study in entirely different ways, this is because we are all individuals and what is right for one student, is not necessarily right for another. In order to succeed, you will have to accept personal responsibility for finding a way to plan, implement and manage a personal study plan that works for you. If you do not succeed, you only have yourself to blame.

Planning

By far the most critical contribution to stress, is the feeling of not being in control. In the absence of planning we tend to be reactive and can stumble from pillar to post in the hope that things will turn out fine in the end. Invariably they don’t! In order to be in control, we need to have firm ideas about how and when we want to do things. We also need to consider as many possible eventualities as we can, so that we are prepared for them when they happen. Prescriptive Change, is far easier to manage and control, than Emergent Change. The same is true with distance-learning. It is much easier and much more enjoyable, if you feel that you are in control and that things are going to plan. Even when things do go wrong, you are prepared for them and can act accordingly without any unnecessary stress. It is important therefore that you do take time to plan your studies properly.

Management

Once you have developed a clear study plan, it is of equal importance to ensure that you manage the implementation of it. Most of us usually enjoy planning, but it is usually during implementation when things go wrong. Targets are not met and we do not understand why. Sometimes we do not even know if targets are being met. It is not enough for us to conclude that the study plan just failed. If it is failing, you will need to understand what you can do about it. Similarly if your study plan is succeeding, it is still important to understand why, so that you can improve upon your success. You therefore need to have guidelines for self-assessment so that you can be consistent with performance improvement throughout the program. If you manage things correctly, then your performance should constantly improve throughout the program.

Study objectives & tasks

The first place to start is developing your program objectives. These should feature your reasons for undertaking the training program in order of priority. Keep them succinct and to the point in order to avoid confusion. Do not just write the first things that come into your head because they are likely to be too similar to each other. Make a list of possible departmental headings, such as: Customer Service; E-business; Finance; Globalization; Human Resources; Technology; Legal; Management; Marketing and Production. Then brainstorm for ideas by listing as many things that you want to achieve under each heading and later re-arrange these things in order of priority. Finally, select the top item from each department heading and choose these as your program objectives. Try and restrict yourself to five because it will enable you to focus clearly. It is likely that the other things that you listed will be achieved if each of the top objectives are achieved. If this does not prove to be the case, then simply work through the process again.

Study forecast

As a guide, the Appleton Greene Women Empowerment corporate training program should take 12-18 months to complete, depending upon your availability and current commitments. The reason why there is such a variance in time estimates is because every student is an individual, with differing productivity levels and different commitments. These differentiations are then exaggerated by the fact that this is a distance-learning program, which incorporates the practical integration of academic theory as an as a part of the training program. Consequently all of the project studies are real, which means that important decisions and compromises need to be made. You will want to get things right and will need to be patient with your expectations in order to ensure that they are. We would always recommend that you are prudent with your own task and time forecasts, but you still need to develop them and have a clear indication of what are realistic expectations in your case. With reference to your time planning: consider the time that you can realistically dedicate towards study with the program every week; calculate how long it should take you to complete the program, using the guidelines featured here; then break the program down into logical modules and allocate a suitable proportion of time to each of them, these will be your milestones; you can create a time plan by using a spreadsheet on your computer, or a personal organizer such as MS Outlook, you could also use a financial forecasting software; break your time forecasts down into manageable chunks of time, the more specific you can be, the more productive and accurate your time management will be; finally, use formulas where possible to do your time calculations for you, because this will help later on when your forecasts need to change in line with actual performance. With reference to your task planning: refer to your list of tasks that need to be undertaken in order to achieve your program objectives; with reference to your time plan, calculate when each task should be implemented; remember that you are not estimating when your objectives will be achieved, but when you will need to focus upon implementing the corresponding tasks; you also need to ensure that each task is implemented in conjunction with the associated training modules which are relevant; then break each single task down into a list of specific to do’s, say approximately ten to do’s for each task and enter these into your study plan; once again you could use MS Outlook to incorporate both your time and task planning and this could constitute your study plan; you could also use a project management software like MS Project. You should now have a clear and realistic forecast detailing when you can expect to be able to do something about undertaking the tasks to achieve your program objectives.

Performance management

It is one thing to develop your study forecast, it is quite another to monitor your progress. Ultimately it is less important whether you achieve your original study forecast and more important that you update it so that it constantly remains realistic in line with your performance. As you begin to work through the program, you will begin to have more of an idea about your own personal performance and productivity levels as a distance-learner. Once you have completed your first study module, you should re-evaluate your study forecast for both time and tasks, so that they reflect your actual performance level achieved. In order to achieve this you must first time yourself while training by using an alarm clock. Set the alarm for hourly intervals and make a note of how far you have come within that time. You can then make a note of your actual performance on your study plan and then compare your performance against your forecast. Then consider the reasons that have contributed towards your performance level, whether they are positive or negative and make a considered adjustment to your future forecasts as a result. Given time, you should start achieving your forecasts regularly.

With reference to time management: time yourself while you are studying and make a note of the actual time taken in your study plan; consider your successes with time-efficiency and the reasons for the success in each case and take this into consideration when reviewing future time planning; consider your failures with time-efficiency and the reasons for the failures in each case and take this into consideration when reviewing future time planning; re-evaluate your study forecast in relation to time planning for the remainder of your training program to ensure that you continue to be realistic about your time expectations. You need to be consistent with your time management, otherwise you will never complete your studies. This will either be because you are not contributing enough time to your studies, or you will become less efficient with the time that you do allocate to your studies. Remember, if you are not in control of your studies, they can just become yet another cause of stress for you.

With reference to your task management: time yourself while you are studying and make a note of the actual tasks that you have undertaken in your study plan; consider your successes with task-efficiency and the reasons for the success in each case; take this into consideration when reviewing future task planning; consider your failures with task-efficiency and the reasons for the failures in each case and take this into consideration when reviewing future task planning; re-evaluate your study forecast in relation to task planning for the remainder of your training program to ensure that you continue to be realistic about your task expectations. You need to be consistent with your task management, otherwise you will never know whether you are achieving your program objectives or not.

Keeping in touch

You will have access to qualified and experienced professors and tutors who are responsible for providing tutorial support for your particular training program. So don’t be shy about letting them know how you are getting on. We keep electronic records of all tutorial support emails so that professors and tutors can review previous correspondence before considering an individual response. It also means that there is a record of all communications between you and your professors and tutors and this helps to avoid any unnecessary duplication, misunderstanding, or misinterpretation. If you have a problem relating to the program, share it with them via email. It is likely that they have come across the same problem before and are usually able to make helpful suggestions and steer you in the right direction. To learn more about when and how to use tutorial support, please refer to the Tutorial Support section of this student information guide. This will help you to ensure that you are making the most of tutorial support that is available to you and will ultimately contribute towards your success and enjoyment with your training program.

Work colleagues and family

You should certainly discuss your program study progress with your colleagues, friends and your family. Appleton Greene training programs are very practical. They require you to seek information from other people, to plan, develop and implement processes with other people and to achieve feedback from other people in relation to viability and productivity. You will therefore have plenty of opportunities to test your ideas and enlist the views of others. People tend to be sympathetic towards distance-learners, so don’t bottle it all up in yourself. Get out there and share it! It is also likely that your family and colleagues are going to benefit from your labors with the program, so they are likely to be much more interested in being involved than you might think. Be bold about delegating work to those who might benefit themselves. This is a great way to achieve understanding and commitment from people who you may later rely upon for process implementation. Share your experiences with your friends and family.

Making it relevant

The key to successful learning is to make it relevant to your own individual circumstances. At all times you should be trying to make bridges between the content of the program and your own situation. Whether you achieve this through quiet reflection or through interactive discussion with your colleagues, client partners or your family, remember that it is the most important and rewarding aspect of translating your studies into real self-improvement. You should be clear about how you want the program to benefit you. This involves setting clear study objectives in relation to the content of the course in terms of understanding, concepts, completing research or reviewing activities and relating the content of the modules to your own situation. Your objectives may understandably change as you work through the program, in which case you should enter the revised objectives on your study plan so that you have a permanent reminder of what you are trying to achieve, when and why.

Distance-learning check-list

Prepare your study environment, your study tools and rules.
Undertake detailed self-assessment in terms of your ability as a learner.
Create a format for your study plan.
Consider your study objectives and tasks.
Create a study forecast.
Assess your study performance.
Re-evaluate your study forecast.
Be consistent when managing your study plan.
Use your Appleton Greene Certified Learning Provider (CLP) for tutorial support.
Make sure you keep in touch with those around you.

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Tutorial Support

Programs

Appleton Greene uses standard and bespoke corporate training programs as vessels to transfer business process improvement knowledge into the heart of our clients’ organizations. Each individual program focuses upon the implementation of a specific business process, which enables clients to easily quantify their return on investment. There are hundreds of established Appleton Greene corporate training products now available to clients within customer services, e-business, finance, globalization, human resources, information technology, legal, management, marketing and production. It does not matter whether a client’s employees are located within one office, or an unlimited number of international offices, we can still bring them together to learn and implement specific business processes collectively. Our approach to global localization enables us to provide clients with a truly international service with that all important personal touch. Appleton Greene corporate training programs can be provided virtually or locally and they are all unique in that they individually focus upon a specific business function. They are implemented over a sustainable period of time and professional support is consistently provided by qualified learning providers and specialist consultants.

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Support available

You will have a designated Certified Learning Provider (CLP) and an Accredited Consultant and we encourage you to communicate with them as much as possible. In all cases tutorial support is provided online because we can then keep a record of all communications to ensure that tutorial support remains consistent. You would also be forwarding your work to the tutorial support unit for evaluation and assessment. You will receive individual feedback on all of the work that you undertake on a one-to-one basis, together with specific recommendations for anything that may need to be changed in order to achieve a pass with merit or a pass with distinction and you then have as many opportunities as you may need to re-submit project studies until they meet with the required standard. Consequently the only reason that you should really fail (CLP) is if you do not do the work. It makes no difference to us whether a student takes 12 months or 18 months to complete the program, what matters is that in all cases the same quality standard will have been achieved.

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Support Process

Please forward all of your future emails to the designated (CLP) Tutorial Support Unit email address that has been provided and please do not duplicate or copy your emails to other AGC email accounts as this will just cause unnecessary administration. Please note that emails are always answered as quickly as possible but you will need to allow a period of up to 20 business days for responses to general tutorial support emails during busy periods, because emails are answered strictly within the order in which they are received. You will also need to allow a period of up to 30 business days for the evaluation and assessment of project studies. This does not include weekends or public holidays. Please therefore kindly allow for this within your time planning. All communications are managed online via email because it enables tutorial service support managers to review other communications which have been received before responding and it ensures that there is a copy of all communications retained on file for future reference. All communications will be stored within your personal (CLP) study file here at Appleton Greene throughout your designated study period. If you need any assistance or clarification at any time, please do not hesitate to contact us by forwarding an email and remember that we are here to help. If you have any questions, please list and number your questions succinctly and you can then be sure of receiving specific answers to each and every query.

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Time Management

It takes approximately 1 Year to complete the Women Empowerment corporate training program, incorporating 12 x 6-hour monthly workshops. Each student will also need to contribute approximately 4 hours per week over 1 Year of their personal time. Students can study from home or work at their own pace and are responsible for managing their own study plan. There are no formal examinations and students are evaluated and assessed based upon their project study submissions, together with the quality of their internal analysis and supporting documents. They can contribute more time towards study when they have the time to do so and can contribute less time when they are busy. All students tend to be in full time employment while studying and the Women Empowerment program is purposely designed to accommodate this, so there is plenty of flexibility in terms of time management. It makes no difference to us at Appleton Greene, whether individuals take 12-18 months to complete this program. What matters is that in all cases the same standard of quality will have been achieved with the standard and bespoke programs that have been developed.

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Distance Learning Guide

The distance learning guide should be your first port of call when starting your training program. It will help you when you are planning how and when to study, how to create the right environment and how to establish the right frame of mind. If you can lay the foundations properly during the planning stage, then it will contribute to your enjoyment and productivity while training later. The guide helps to change your lifestyle in order to accommodate time for study and to cultivate good study habits. It helps you to chart your progress so that you can measure your performance and achieve your goals. It explains the tools that you will need for study and how to make them work. It also explains how to translate academic theory into practical reality. Spend some time now working through your distance learning guide and make sure that you have firm foundations in place so that you can make the most of your distance learning program. There is no requirement for you to attend training workshops or classes at Appleton Greene offices. The entire program is undertaken online, program course manuals and project studies are administered via the Appleton Greene web site and via email, so you are able to study at your own pace and in the comfort of your own home or office as long as you have a computer and access to the internet.

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How To Study

The how to study guide provides students with a clear understanding of the Appleton Greene facilitation via distance learning training methods and enables students to obtain a clear overview of the training program content. It enables students to understand the step-by-step training methods used by Appleton Greene and how course manuals are integrated with project studies. It explains the research and development that is required and the need to provide evidence and references to support your statements. It also enables students to understand precisely what will be required of them in order to achieve a pass with merit and a pass with distinction for individual project studies and provides useful guidance on how to be innovative and creative when developing your Unique Program Proposition (UPP).

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Tutorial Support

Tutorial support for the Appleton Greene Women Empowerment corporate training program is provided online either through the Appleton Greene Client Support Portal (CSP), or via email. All tutorial support requests are facilitated by a designated Program Administration Manager (PAM). They are responsible for deciding which professor or tutor is the most appropriate option relating to the support required and then the tutorial support request is forwarded onto them. Once the professor or tutor has completed the tutorial support request and answered any questions that have been asked, this communication is then returned to the student via email by the designated Program Administration Manager (PAM). This enables all tutorial support, between students, professors and tutors, to be facilitated by the designated Program Administration Manager (PAM) efficiently and securely through the email account. You will therefore need to allow a period of up to 20 business days for responses to general support queries and up to 30 business days for the evaluation and assessment of project studies, because all tutorial support requests are answered strictly within the order in which they are received. This does not include weekends or public holidays. Consequently you need to put some thought into the management of your tutorial support procedure in order to ensure that your study plan is feasible and to obtain the maximum possible benefit from tutorial support during your period of study. Please retain copies of your tutorial support emails for future reference. Please ensure that ALL of your tutorial support emails are set out using the format as suggested within your guide to tutorial support. Your tutorial support emails need to be referenced clearly to the specific part of the course manual or project study which you are working on at any given time. You also need to list and number any questions that you would like to ask, up to a maximum of five questions within each tutorial support email. Remember the more specific you can be with your questions the more specific your answers will be too and this will help you to avoid any unnecessary misunderstanding, misinterpretation, or duplication. The guide to tutorial support is intended to help you to understand how and when to use support in order to ensure that you get the most out of your training program. Appleton Greene training programs are designed to enable you to do things for yourself. They provide you with a structure or a framework and we use tutorial support to facilitate students while they practically implement what they learn. In other words, we are enabling students to do things for themselves. The benefits of distance learning via facilitation are considerable and are much more sustainable in the long-term than traditional short-term knowledge sharing programs. Consequently you should learn how and when to use tutorial support so that you can maximize the benefits from your learning experience with Appleton Greene. This guide describes the purpose of each training function and how to use them and how to use tutorial support in relation to each aspect of the training program. It also provides useful tips and guidance with regard to best practice.

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Tutorial Support Tips

Students are often unsure about how and when to use tutorial support with Appleton Greene. This Tip List will help you to understand more about how to achieve the most from using tutorial support. Refer to it regularly to ensure that you are continuing to use the service properly. Tutorial support is critical to the success of your training experience, but it is important to understand when and how to use it in order to maximize the benefit that you receive. It is no coincidence that those students who succeed are those that learn how to be positive, proactive and productive when using tutorial support.

Be positive and friendly with your tutorial support emails

Remember that if you forward an email to the tutorial support unit, you are dealing with real people. “Do unto others as you would expect others to do unto you”. If you are positive, complimentary and generally friendly in your emails, you will generate a similar response in return. This will be more enjoyable, productive and rewarding for you in the long-term.

Think about the impression that you want to create

Every time that you communicate, you create an impression, which can be either positive or negative, so put some thought into the impression that you want to create. Remember that copies of all tutorial support emails are stored electronically and tutors will always refer to prior correspondence before responding to any current emails. Over a period of time, a general opinion will be arrived at in relation to your character, attitude and ability. Try to manage your own frustrations, mood swings and temperament professionally, without involving the tutorial support team. Demonstrating frustration or a lack of patience is a weakness and will be interpreted as such. The good thing about communicating in writing, is that you will have the time to consider your content carefully, you can review it and proof-read it before sending your email to Appleton Greene and this should help you to communicate more professionally, consistently and to avoid any unnecessary knee-jerk reactions to individual situations as and when they may arise. Please also remember that the CLP Tutorial Support Unit will not just be responsible for evaluating and assessing the quality of your work, they will also be responsible for providing recommendations to other learning providers and to client contacts within the Appleton Greene global client network, so do be in control of your own emotions and try to create a good impression.

Remember that quality is preferred to quantity

Please remember that when you send an email to the tutorial support team, you are not using Twitter or Text Messaging. Try not to forward an email every time that you have a thought. This will not prove to be productive either for you or for the tutorial support team. Take time to prepare your communications properly, as if you were writing a professional letter to a business colleague and make a list of queries that you are likely to have and then incorporate them within one email, say once every month, so that the tutorial support team can understand more about context, application and your methodology for study. Get yourself into a consistent routine with your tutorial support requests and use the tutorial support template provided with ALL of your emails. The (CLP) Tutorial Support Unit will not spoon-feed you with information. They need to be able to evaluate and assess your tutorial support requests carefully and professionally.

Be specific about your questions in order to receive specific answers

Try not to write essays by thinking as you are writing tutorial support emails. The tutorial support unit can be unclear about what in fact you are asking, or what you are looking to achieve. Be specific about asking questions that you want answers to. Number your questions. You will then receive specific answers to each and every question. This is the main purpose of tutorial support via email.

Keep a record of your tutorial support emails

It is important that you keep a record of all tutorial support emails that are forwarded to you. You can then refer to them when necessary and it avoids any unnecessary duplication, misunderstanding, or misinterpretation.

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Individual training workshops or telephone support

Please be advised that Appleton Greene does not provide separate or individual tutorial support meetings, workshops, or provide telephone support for individual students. Appleton Greene is an equal opportunities learning and service provider and we are therefore understandably bound to treat all students equally. We cannot therefore broker special financial or study arrangements with individual students regardless of the circumstances. All tutorial support is provided online and this enables Appleton Greene to keep a record of all communications between students, professors and tutors on file for future reference, in accordance with our quality management procedure and your terms and conditions of enrolment. All tutorial support is provided online via email because it enables us to have time to consider support content carefully, it ensures that you receive a considered and detailed response to your queries. You can number questions that you would like to ask, which relate to things that you do not understand or where clarification may be required. You can then be sure of receiving specific answers to each individual query. You will also then have a record of these communications and of all tutorial support, which has been provided to you. This makes tutorial support administration more productive by avoiding any unnecessary duplication, misunderstanding, or misinterpretation.

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Tutorial Support Email Format

You should use this tutorial support format if you need to request clarification or assistance while studying with your training program. Please note that ALL of your tutorial support request emails should use the same format. You should therefore set up a standard email template, which you can then use as and when you need to. Emails that are forwarded to Appleton Greene, which do not use the following format, may be rejected and returned to you by the (CLP) Program Administration Manager. A detailed response will then be forwarded to you via email usually within 20 business days of receipt for general support queries and 30 business days for the evaluation and assessment of project studies. This does not include weekends or public holidays. Your tutorial support request, together with the corresponding TSU reply, will then be saved and stored within your electronic TSU file at Appleton Greene for future reference.

Subject line of your email

Please insert: Appleton Greene (CLP) Tutorial Support Request: (Your Full Name) (Date), within the subject line of your email.

Main body of your email

Please insert:
1. Appleton Greene Certified Learning Provider (CLP) Tutorial Support Request
2. Your Full Name
3. Date of TS request
4. Preferred email address
5. Backup email address
6. Course manual page name or number (reference)
7. Project study page name or number (reference)

Subject of enquiry
Please insert a maximum of 50 words (please be succinct)
Briefly outline the subject matter of your inquiry, or what your questions relate to.

Question 1

Maximum of 50 words (please be succinct)

Maximum of 50 words (please be succinct)

Question 3

Maximum of 50 words (please be succinct)

Question 4

Maximum of 50 words (please be succinct)

Question 5

Maximum of 50 words (please be succinct)

Please note that a maximum of 5 questions is permitted with each individual tutorial support request email.

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Procedure

* List the questions that you want to ask first, then re-arrange them in order of priority. Make sure that you reference them, where necessary, to the course manuals or project studies.
* Make sure that you are specific about your questions and number them. Try to plan the content within your emails to make sure that it is relevant.
* Make sure that your tutorial support emails are set out correctly, using the Tutorial Support Email Format provided here.
* Save a copy of your email and incorporate the date sent after the subject title. Keep your tutorial support emails within the same file and in date order for easy reference.
* Allow up to 20 business days for a response to general tutorial support emails and up to 30 business days for the evaluation and assessment of project studies, because detailed individual responses will be made in all cases and tutorial support emails are answered strictly within the order in which they are received.
* Emails can and do get lost. So if you have not received a reply within the appropriate time, forward another copy or a reminder to the tutorial support unit to be sure that it has been received but do not forward reminders unless the appropriate time has elapsed.
* When you receive a reply, save it immediately featuring the date of receipt after the subject heading for easy reference. In most cases the tutorial support unit replies to your questions individually, so you will have a record of the questions that you asked as well as the answers offered. With project studies however, separate emails are usually forwarded by the tutorial support unit, so do keep a record of your own original emails as well.
* Remember to be positive and friendly in your emails. You are dealing with real people who will respond to the same things that you respond to.
* Try not to repeat questions that have already been asked in previous emails. If this happens the tutorial support unit will probably just refer you to the appropriate answers that have already been provided within previous emails.
* If you lose your tutorial support email records you can write to Appleton Greene to receive a copy of your tutorial support file, but a separate administration charge may be levied for this service.

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How To Study

Your Certified Learning Provider (CLP) and Accredited Consultant can help you to plan a task list for getting started so that you can be clear about your direction and your priorities in relation to your training program. It is also a good way to introduce yourself to the tutorial support team.

Planning your study environment

Your study conditions are of great importance and will have a direct effect on how much you enjoy your training program. Consider how much space you will have, whether it is comfortable and private and whether you are likely to be disturbed. The study tools and facilities at your disposal are also important to the success of your distance-learning experience. Your tutorial support unit can help with useful tips and guidance, regardless of your starting position. It is important to get this right before you start working on your training program.

Planning your program objectives

It is important that you have a clear list of study objectives, in order of priority, before you start working on your training program. Your tutorial support unit can offer assistance here to ensure that your study objectives have been afforded due consideration and priority.

Planning how and when to study

Distance-learners are freed from the necessity of attending regular classes, since they can study in their own way, at their own pace and for their own purposes. This approach is designed to let you study efficiently away from the traditional classroom environment. It is important however, that you plan how and when to study, so that you are making the most of your natural attributes, strengths and opportunities. Your tutorial support unit can offer assistance and useful tips to ensure that you are playing to your strengths.

Planning your study tasks

You should have a clear understanding of the study tasks that you should be undertaking and the priority associated with each task. These tasks should also be integrated with your program objectives. The distance learning guide and the guide to tutorial support for students should help you here, but if you need any clarification or assistance, please contact your tutorial support unit.

Planning your time

You will need to allocate specific times during your calendar when you intend to study if you are to have a realistic chance of completing your program on time. You are responsible for planning and managing your own study time, so it is important that you are successful with this. Your tutorial support unit can help you with this if your time plan is not working.

Keeping in touch

Consistency is the key here. If you communicate too frequently in short bursts, or too infrequently with no pattern, then your management ability with your studies will be questioned, both by you and by your tutorial support unit. It is obvious when a student is in control and when one is not and this will depend how able you are at sticking with your study plan. Inconsistency invariably leads to in-completion.

Charting your progress

Your tutorial support team can help you to chart your own study progress. Refer to your distance learning guide for further details.

Making it work

To succeed, all that you will need to do is apply yourself to undertaking your training program and interpreting it correctly. Success or failure lies in your hands and your hands alone, so be sure that you have a strategy for making it work. Your Certified Learning Provider (CLP) and Accredited Consultant can guide you through the process of program planning, development and implementation.

Reading methods

Interpretation is often unique to the individual but it can be improved and even quantified by implementing consistent interpretation methods. Interpretation can be affected by outside interference such as family members, TV, or the Internet, or simply by other thoughts which are demanding priority in our minds. One thing that can improve our productivity is using recognized reading methods. This helps us to focus and to be more structured when reading information for reasons of importance, rather than relaxation.

Speed reading

When reading through course manuals for the first time, subconsciously set your reading speed to be just fast enough that you cannot dwell on individual words or tables. With practice, you should be able to read an A4 sheet of paper in one minute. You will not achieve much in the way of a detailed understanding, but your brain will retain a useful overview. This overview will be important later on and will enable you to keep individual issues in perspective with a more generic picture because speed reading appeals to the memory part of the brain. Do not worry about what you do or do not remember at this stage.

Content reading

Once you have speed read everything, you can then start work in earnest. You now need to read a particular section of your course manual thoroughly, by making detailed notes while you read. This process is called Content Reading and it will help to consolidate your understanding and interpretation of the information that has been provided.

Making structured notes on the course manuals

When you are content reading, you should be making detailed notes, which are both structured and informative. Make these notes in a MS Word document on your computer, because you can then amend and update these as and when you deem it to be necessary. List your notes under three headings: 1. Interpretation – 2. Questions – 3. Tasks. The purpose of the 1st section is to clarify your interpretation by writing it down. The purpose of the 2nd section is to list any questions that the issue raises for you. The purpose of the 3rd section is to list any tasks that you should undertake as a result. Anyone who has graduated with a business-related degree should already be familiar with this process.

Organizing structured notes separately

You should then transfer your notes to a separate study notebook, preferably one that enables easy referencing, such as a MS Word Document, a MS Excel Spreadsheet, a MS Access Database, or a personal organizer on your cell phone. Transferring your notes allows you to have the opportunity of cross-checking and verifying them, which assists considerably with understanding and interpretation. You will also find that the better you are at doing this, the more chance you will have of ensuring that you achieve your study objectives.

Question your understanding

Do challenge your understanding. Explain things to yourself in your own words by writing things down.

Clarifying your understanding

If you are at all unsure, forward an email to your tutorial support unit and they will help to clarify your understanding.

Question your interpretation

Do challenge your interpretation. Qualify your interpretation by writing it down.

Clarifying your interpretation

If you are at all unsure, forward an email to your tutorial support unit and they will help to clarify your interpretation.

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Qualification Requirements

The student will need to successfully complete the project study and all of the exercises relating to the Women Empowerment corporate training program, achieving a pass with merit or distinction in each case, in order to qualify as an Accredited Women Empowerment Specialist (AWES). All monthly workshops need to be tried and tested within your company. These project studies can be completed in your own time and at your own pace and in the comfort of your own home or office. There are no formal examinations, assessment is based upon the successful completion of the project studies. They are called project studies because, unlike case studies, these projects are not theoretical, they incorporate real program processes that need to be properly researched and developed. The project studies assist us in measuring your understanding and interpretation of the training program and enable us to assess qualification merits. All of the project studies are based entirely upon the content within the training program and they enable you to integrate what you have learnt into your corporate training practice.

Women Empowerment – Grading Contribution

Project Study – Grading Contribution

Customer Service – 10%
E-business – 05%
Finance – 10%
Globalization – 10%
Human Resources – 10%
Information Technology – 10%
Legal – 05%
Management – 10%
Marketing – 10%
Production – 10%
Education – 05%
Logistics – 05%
TOTAL GRADING – 100%

Qualification grades

A mark of 90% = Pass with Distinction.
A mark of 75% = Pass with Merit.
A mark of less than 75% = Fail.
If you fail to achieve a mark of 75% with a project study, you will receive detailed feedback from the Certified Learning Provider (CLP) and/or Accredited Consultant, together with a list of tasks which you will need to complete, in order to ensure that your project study meets with the minimum quality standard that is required by Appleton Greene. You can then re-submit your project study for further evaluation and assessment. Indeed you can re-submit as many drafts of your project studies as you need to, until such a time as they eventually meet with the required standard by Appleton Greene, so you need not worry about this, it is all part of the learning process.

When marking project studies, Appleton Greene is looking for sufficient evidence of the following:

Pass with merit

A satisfactory level of program understanding
A satisfactory level of program interpretation
A satisfactory level of project study content presentation
A satisfactory level of Unique Program Proposition (UPP) quality
A satisfactory level of the practical integration of academic theory

Pass with distinction

An exceptional level of program understanding
An exceptional level of program interpretation
An exceptional level of project study content presentation
An exceptional level of Unique Program Proposition (UPP) quality
An exceptional level of the practical integration of academic theory

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Preliminary Analysis

Empowering your company’s women is critical for establishing a positive work environment and for organizational development and growth. Helping these women, create a healthy and empowered belief system is a crucial element to this happening. This will require considerable changes to the company’s culture, systems, and processes. As a result, this empowerment strategy encourage transformation. Positive activities are enabled by a supportive infrastructure, which also serves as an efficient and strategic business foundation.

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Current Challenges for Women Leaders in the Workforce

Despite the unique challenges that female leaders face, women continue to break down barriers in order to serve their mission and reach their full potential. We all lose when women are underrepresented in top leadership positions in government, administration, and business. This sober assessment should not deter us, but rather inspire us to identify and better understand the challenges that female leaders face.

Top 5 Challenges:

1. Being treated equally

Women are systemically placed on an uneven playing field, from being held to a higher standard than their male counterparts to facing persistent gender stereotypes.

2. Advocating on their own behalf

While men’s ambition is regarded as a sign of strength, women cannot rely on their ambition being regarded positively.

3. Trusting in their own voices

Women frequently have to overcome internal and external barriers in order to gain the confidence to express their ideas. It may be difficult for women in business to trust in the unique aspects of female executive presence and recognize them as personal and organizational assets.

4. Creating alliances

Long-standing business conventions teach men how to “play the game,” allowing them to form alliances and influence others. Women may need to take different paths to form mutually beneficial alliances and strategic relationships.

5. Imposter Syndrome

When confronted with systemic gender bias and inequality, women frequently struggle to form an accurate self-assessment, a condition known as “impostor syndrome,” which can impair their ability to stand confidently in their accomplishments.

Women in leadership roles who exercise strong, confident leadership are frequently perceived as competent but unlikable. Women with a softer managerial style, on the other hand, may be regarded as likable but incompetent. It is essential to explore the conscious and unconscious biases that influence women’s leadership perceptions. Women need to learn to advocate for themselves in order to advance more quickly within their organization.

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Opportunity for Change

As women begin to step into more and more leadership roles, they must possess a positive mindset that is based on an empowered belief system.

The Women Empowerment Leadership Program is a process of accelerating women’s professional development in the workplace. Women have made significant strides in the workplace, but there is no doubt that they continue to struggle to advance up the corporate ladder. Women are often operating form a limited or negative belief system which enables them to reach their full leadership potential. This program provides the proper support and tools to equip these women with everything they require to succeed. This will in turn benefit the overall growth and profitability of the company. Workshop 2- Empowering Beliefs focuses specifically on developing a success mindset.

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Preparing for the Workshop

As mentioned in the first workshop, participants are encouraged to come into the program with an open mind and be ready for a transformation from the inside out. Once again, there will be a lot of mindset work that involves being open to change.

Be sure to assess your organizations current stance on mindset development this will be helpful before you start making significant changes to its structure.

Take a look at your current processes and infrastructure.

Participants should also ensure that they are familiar with the major people-related processes of the company. All participants should be familiar with the processes of performance management, recruitment, talent assessment, and talent development. The workshop’s goal is not to change these processes, but rather to supplement them with the Women’s Empowerment Business Transformation Process to improve their effectiveness. Participants compile a list of their most recent successes and failures in each of these processes. The list will be useful later on when discussing how to integrate the process into the existing model.

It may be advantageous to the participants if these processes are also examined from the perspective of the employees. One or two of the participants should meet with a few key employees to discuss the success of the processes. The effectiveness of these processes, rather than the method itself, should be the focal point of these discussions. When discussing the efficacy of the process, it is critical to consider the outcomes from the perspective of the people it is supposed to help. Ineffective processes, regardless of their efficiency, fail to meet the expectations of the customer. The Women’s Empowerment Business Transformation Process will be able to fill in the gaps discovered by identifying flaws in these procedures.

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The Business Transformation Process

The core objective of the Women Empowerment Leadership Program is to enable organizations to develop empowered and skilled women leaders within all departments of their organization.

Each month we will dive deep into a component of the Women Empowerment Business Transformation Process. Our objective is to implement a process that will provide the women in your organization with high-level skills, tools, and support, so they can reach their true leadership potential. This profound shift will dramatically change the environment and culture of your organization and is essential for future success. As you advance through the course, we will guide you through the flowing process to reshape how women are currently seen, treated, and represented within your company. We start with Mindset Shift, Leadership Development, Personal Presence, Advanced Communication and Presentation Skills and end with Creating and Implementing Your Success Action Plan.

The second workshop in our Women Empowerment Program – Empowering Beliefs continues to work on developing a positive shift in our mindset.

Many women professionals have a limited or a negative belief system that prevents them from reaching their desired level of success in their life and their career.

During this workshop, through the impactful training and exercises; we will identify what a belief system is while assessing our own, acknowledge any limiting beliefs we have, and go through a transformational process to let them go. We will take a deep dive into how fear may be keeping us stuck and what we can do to conquer it. We will learn how trauma can also play a role in our lives negatively impacting our mindset and sabotaging our success, we’ll discover how to navigate transition effectively and finally discover powerful positive thinking techniques. By the end of the workshop, the women on your team will be equipped with an empowered belief system allowing them to reach their goals and show up as a powerful and confident leader.

How this will be achieved, is by implementation of the following strategies:

1. Engage and elicit expectations for the course, becoming conscious of our current belief system.

2. Identify most common limiting belief and go through the Allowing Process to eliminate it.

3. How to establish a work atmosphere that fosters positive attitudes.

4. Breaking through resistance with the Letting Go Process.

5. Face fears with career goals with 5 Step Conquering Fear Method.

6. Identifying trauma – retraining the mind.

7. Creating a standardized commitment process to stay consistent in your actions.

8. Committing to more Focus and strategies to incorporate this focus in your life and career.

9. Stages of Change Exercise.

10. Leadership beliefs and leadership style assessment.

11. Positive Thinking techniques and how to implement them.

12. Creating our personal Power Statement representing the new version of ourselves that we’re stepping into.

Resources:

Great Meditation for Creating a Wealth Mindset – The Soul of Wealth Meditation by Carrie Bush

https://www.audioacrobat.com/play/W2DW3vyk

More on Overcoming Fear – Inspiring Stories – Overcoming fear: Celebs share inspiring stories about overcoming fear (today.com)

More on Trauma – The Inspired Performance Institute – www.inspiredperformanceinstitute.com
More on Consistency – Check out this great book – The Power of Consistency – Prosperity Mindset Training for Sales and Business Professionals by Wheldon Long The Power of Consistency: Prosperity Mindset Training for Sales and Business Professionals: Long, Weldon: 9781118486801: Amazon.com: Books

More on Focus – Suggested Read – The One Thing – The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results – By Gary Keller and Jay Papasan – The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results: Keller, Gary, Papasan, Jay: 9781885167774: Amazon.com: Books

More on Navigating Transition – The Transtheoretical Model – Behavioral Change Models- Table of Contents (bu.edu)

Case Study on Organizational Change- Employee Resistance To Organizational Change: A Case Study Of Telenor: [Essay Example], 2327 words Grades Fixer

Powerful Case Study on Women in Leadership – Women in Leadership: A Comparative Case Study on Successful Leadership (umb.edu)

Put a Preliminary Plan in place:

Important questions that should be asked (but not solved just yet). The following are some of the questions the leaders should ask:

• “Which departments, branches, or business units will be piloted first?”
• “How do we position the program?”
• “What are the participants’ primary concerns?”
• “What are the most likely stumbling blocks or areas of resistance?

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Course Manuals 1-12

Course Manual 1: Belief System

“The mind is everything. What we think we become.” (Buddha)

It’s all about your belief system. You become what you think and believe.

Your belief system is what influences how you think and feel. Whether you’re melancholy, joyful, sad, thrilled, or bored is determined by your belief system.

Your courage, fears, and behaviors are all determined by your belief system.

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Understanding Your Belief System

You can simply examine your life to see your belief-system at work, as reflected in your level of success, your health, wellbeing, and the quality of your relationships.

Your belief system — the ideas you have and the “facts” you take for granted — is your “auto-pilot.” It is the source of all the good things in your life, including love, joy, money, and pleasant surprises, as well as all the drama, conflict, frustration, stress, and other unpleasant experiences.

There is a gap between the stimulus and response. We have the power to pick our response in that area.

In other words, between something happening to us and our reaction to that event, comment, or action, we transit through our belief system, although rapidly and without much awareness.

Understanding and learning to “catch ourselves” when we are reacting in habitual ways is essential for change. We learn that we are not victims of our emotions and that we cannot blame our actions on drugs, alcohol, or other influences like culture or peer groups. We also learn that we are not “victims” of some hard-to-reach subconscious — everything is available to us consciously if we remember to catch ourselves responding consistently, especially those responses and feelings that we fear or wish to avoid.

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Awareness

Contact, sensing, excitement, and gestalt formation are all characteristics of awareness. Being fully in contact with reality is required for awareness. The nature of awareness is determined by sensing: whether it is distant (e.g., vision or sound), close (e.g., touch), or internal (e.g., muscular sensations or mental phenomena such as dreams and thoughts). The arousal of interest and emotion, towards excitement, heightens awareness.

The desire to form a gestalt is always present alongside awareness: to focus attention within a field of information so that a meaningful organized whole emerges. During this search, a foreground item or figure stands out from its context or background.

Greater awareness results from a free embrace of the various possible relationships inherent in a field, so that more and more meaning is integrated towards a realization of truth, most often a simplicity; lessened awareness results from fixation on any one aspect.

This belief system is what we’re aiming to transform, and it’s something that is most likely utterly invisible to us. Here’s an example: A joke is spoken by someone. One individual is chuckling at the joke and considers it to be a beautiful insight and a humorous remark on life. They are having a good time. Someone else is offended when they hear the same joke, at the same moment, by the same comedian. One of them interprets it according to their own interpretation, resulting in a sensation of laughter, joy, and insight. Someone else has been insulted in the past. They are in pain. They feel betrayed or whatever the case may be. The situation remained the same. What caused one person to have experience A while another had experience B? The response is based on each person’s perception of the joke’s meaning. The experience is defined by their perception of the joke and how they apply it to the world. Their interpretations were fundamentally different. But that interpretation happened very quickly, and we were unaware of it.

Are we conscious of how we interpret a joke when we hear it? Are we conscious of our part in understanding a comment that offends or hurts us in the moment? Then we react, becoming annoyed or angry. We became irritated when they mentioned something. We laughed when they said something. We are oblivious to the fact that something has occurred within us first. The belief system resides in that unseen, quiet mechanism. It elicits reactions from us. We don’t stand a chance if we want to live in the world and be happy, yet I have a belief system that produces anger, frustration, judgments, victimization, and unhappiness.

We’re not even sure where the reactions are occurring. We can only see that they said something, so it had to be them. This is because, until we start looking for it, the belief system is largely unseen and silent.

Until we truly begin to observe time from a conscious standpoint, asking ourselves, “What’s going on in that moment between something being spoken and my emotion or the responsive words in my mind?” “What goes on in there?” That is significant since it is what determines our life experience. That is what is shaping our current emotional experience. This emotional experience of life, be it happiness, misery, or suffering, is caused in part by something unseen. I look at what appears to be an invisible process of a belief system that is interpreting life in that neglected zone. This necessitates an intentional and determined effort.

Belief Systems operate in ways that are invisible to us while we are unaware of them.

Most people look beyond themselves and say things like “Oh, you irritate me” or “That’s sad” or “OK, that’s very beautiful,” or “You’re awesome.” They believe they are simply reacting to something outside of themselves. “You made me feel that way,” they’re thinking. That’s why I’m feeling this way because of what you did.” This is the mental habit of taking a victim mentality and blaming other people or events outside of themselves for the emotions they are experiencing.

This is the surface level comprehension, not noticing, of the interpretation and meaning that the belief system applies to experiences, and it is what is changing everything. Our bodies require 12-14 years to grow to the point where we may reproduce. It is in t For some, it may be much later or never. The mind develops at a higher rate early in life. At some point between the ages of 30 and 50, consciousness awakens and asks, “Hey, what’s going on in my mind?”

The mind does not have the ability to perceive the mind clearly, but consciousness does.

You begin to examine yourself and what’s going on in your mind from the perspective of consciousness, you’ll discover the mind making interpretations you weren’t aware of before. You start to notice all of these things going on in your thoughts, and you realize it’s all automatic. These are the things we’ve been programmed to do. Making the interpretation, applying meaning from a belief system, is what it is all about. It’s a natural reaction to be offended or furious. That’s something you’ll notice happening on its own. What’s the deal with that? That’s absolute nonsense. All those uncontrollable, negative thoughts or worry appear insane from a conscious standpoint. It’s out of place and unneeded from the standpoint of consciousness.

We’re working on developing our consciousness, or awareness, which has been gestating in this human form. That takes a long time. With workouts and a strong commitment, you may accelerate your development and actively practice it. If you practice being conscious, whether through meditation or other techniques that I or others teach, you will grow consciousness more quickly. Through workouts, you’re essentially strengthening the muscles of your consciousness and attention.

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How Can Your Belief System Affect Your Health

For the past 30 years, research has consistently demonstrated that your beliefs, rather than diet, exercise, or genes, are the most important factor of your health. Dr. Herbert Benson states “We now have scientific proof that the mind (beliefs) can heal the body. This means that you have the innate ability to self-heal diseases, prevent life-threatening conditions, and supplement established drug and surgical procedures with mind body techniques that can improve your physiology, biochemistry, brain functioning, and genetic activity.”

How we handle food, diet, nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, rest, and play is largely determined by our belief systems. Even the notion that one’s beliefs can enhance one’s health can be consoling and therapeutic to individuals suffering from illness. On the other hand, “A 12-year research of almost 7,000 participants found that those who had health anxiety at the start of the study were nearly 70% more likely to develop heart disease than those who did not. Furthermore, the researchers discovered that the higher the anxiety level, the greater the risk of heart disease.”

Seven of the nine factors discovered to be common among those who recovered from “terminal” (untreatable) cancer are belief-system based.

Having a strong belief and conviction in your health (rather than wishful thinking) can motivate you to take the steps necessary to improve your health (or in some cases when fears, depression and negative thoughts dominate, your belief-system will generate ill-health).

“You were born free like water. But then you were directed into a canal (belief system). At some point of life, you must break away from the canal and find your own banks, your own truths.” – Shunya

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Steps to Changing Your Belief System

Changing your belief system is primarily motivated by your desire to do so. The first step has been taken.

It’s not for naught that we’ve been told for hundreds of years that desire and faith are required to obtain “anything you desire.”

Your belief system is part of your thoughts, as well as your deep-seated emotions, loves, dislikes, opinions, anxieties, and so on.

Your belief system influences even your sense of smell. When people are hypnotized, they can believe that an onion tastes and smells like an apple, and that they can eat that onion as if it were an apple.

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Unpleasant Thoughts

The fear of our personal safety, wellbeing, health, and financial situation, as well as our fear or belief that we’re not as good, moral, strong, virtuous, wealthy, or beautiful as our partner, family, friends, and the wider community want or expect us to be, are the most common causes of “unpleasant thoughts.”

To put it another way, unpleasant thoughts are frequently our fears of disappointing ourselves (failing), disappointing others (and maybe “hurting them”) or being scorned for not conforming to existing cultural standards and expectations.

As a result, the first step towards “stopping” unpleasant thoughts is to talk to individuals whom you believe you will disappoint or let down. In most cases, they will alleviate your fears, and so the worry will vanish. Alternatively, talk to a trusted confidante who will remain nonjudgmental and help you reclaim your sense of belonging.

Everyone has a vested interest in helping you be a valuable and loved member of your connections with partners, family, groups, work, and community since we’re all in this together.

Others’ small-minded views, worries, or expectations about you may be the source of some “unpleasant thoughts,” such as shame and guilt. In that situation, their negative feelings toward you suggest that they require more assistance and understanding than you.

Knowing this can help to alleviate “unpleasant thoughts” caused by others’ condemnation, as their disapproval frequently speaks more about them than about you.

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Feeling That You Don’t Fit In

As a result, as we begin to become conscious and shift our belief system, we may feel a little estranged. We may feel isolated. We are no longer able to interact with others in the same manner that we formerly did. “What am I doing?” we begin to question. “Is this all, right?” Hopefully, we have enough awareness to check in and say, “I could do their story, but that’s misery.” “I’m afraid I won’t be able to do it.” That’s the insane thing, to go live in one’s head or in stories of misery that say, “It’s someone else’s fault.” We move forward, and we have faith in our ability to do so.

We will have anxieties and doubts about our growth if we believe what our friends and family say, if we listen carefully and examine it. We can even try to turn off our consciousness and put it to sleep again. This is similar to the scene in the movie The Matrix where Cypher want to return to the Matrix.

Sometimes, a relationship does not work out on its own. You gradually start searching out new interactions in that altered state of consciousness, and you talk to people on a conscious level about this thing called the belief system, or mind, or whatever title you find for it that you’re unwinding and discovering.

It’s cool that you have a conscious dialogue about what the mind does unconsciously.

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How to Transform Your Thinking

It’s better to think in a way that gets you what you want and is appropriate for you. Imagining what you want is the initial step in this process. Then there are a few measures to do in order to make your dreams a reality.

Begin by picturing what you want, as described in the preceding question. Then begin to act in accordance with those desires. Be on the lookout for “downward causation” – cultural expectations in the shape of people who will try hard to keep you where you are (in order for them to remain comfortable, profitable, in control etc.). “Downward Causation” is a living process that condenses infinite possibilities into a smaller number of probabilities from which we choose our reality.

(In philosophy, downward causation is a causal relationship from higher levels of a system to lower-level parts of that system: for example, mental events acting to cause physical events. The term was originally coined in 1974 by the philosopher and social scientist Donald T. Campbell.)

If you don’t let your habits control what you do and experience, you can change. Change, as previously stated, begins with envisioning what you want and then taking physical action in accordance with that new “you.”

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Exercise 2:1: Becoming More Aware

Awareness is the first step toward improving any aspect of one’s life. The exercise today will help each participant become more conscious of their present beliefs as it pertains to the workshop itself.

Truth and Lies

A simple game to get people to open up. Teams gather together in an intimate environment. Each team member says three truths and one lie about himself. Team members have to guess the lie out of the four statements.

Number of participants: 4-10

Duration: 30 minutes

Objective: Break the ice and get people involved

How to play

1. Ask the players to sit in a circle.

2. Each player has to think up three truths and one lie about himself.

3. Each player then gets up in the center of the circle and says four statements about himself (three truths, one lie).

4. The rest of the group has to guess which of the statements is a truth, which one is a lie.

5. The process repeats for all other players.

Strategy

There is no competitive element to this game. Instead, it’s designed to get people to open up and get to know each other better. The opportunity to lie can also get some hilariously outrageous statements from players, which further improves the group’s mood.

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Course Manual 2: Limiting Beliefs

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.” Tony Robbins

This course module focuses on finally addressing the blocks and barriers that may be holding us back from reaching our true potential. We will go through a powerful process that will allow you to reveal and recognize these blocks and learn how to breakthrough and let go of all limiting beliefs.

Do you have any goals you would like to achieve? You may wish to enhance your profession, get a promotion, discover love, or strengthen your relationship, exercise, and reduce weight, or begin healthy routines. We all have desires in life, and growth is a powerful human need.

So, what’s holding you back?

Any response you provide to that question is an excuse, not a fact. That is the simple truth. The only thing holding you back are your own self-limiting thoughts.

We don’t have a filter when we’re kids, so we see the world as it is. As we experience everything for the first time, we are free to approach life without prejudices or opinions.

However, as we become older, we start to establish beliefs that give our lives shape.

Some of these ideas are beneficial – they prevent us from saying something improper in a meeting or crossing the road without looking both ways – but many of the beliefs we create over time are self-imposed limitations that can negatively affect our lives.

These are what we refer to as limiting beliefs.

What are limiting beliefs?

Limiting beliefs are those that prevent us from renewing ourselves or growing.

We all have ideals, and we all fall short of them at times, but limiting beliefs tell us that we will never accomplish our ideals or reach our full potential. We must have faith in our ability to attain our goals, no matter how enormous or daring they appear to be.

On the other hand, imagining that facts aren’t what they appear to be can devastate our lives. As a result, believing that a reality is not a fact is a limiting belief because it inhibits us from dealing with the actual issue, we must deal with in order to attain our goals.

As a result, we are perpetually torn between having trust in our goals and confronting the harsh realities that lie between where we are now and where we ideally want to be.

If you can’t maintain this paradox as you mature, you’ll most likely fail and fall prey to erroneous, restricting notions.

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Examples of Limiting Beliefs

The either/or dichotomy, which is a false dichotomy, is a good illustration of a limiting belief.

“I must do one thing or another,” for example, is a common manifestation of this limiting thought, when it is feasible to accomplish “one thing and another.”

For example, you may enjoy teaching health, but there is always more to learn about wellness because the field of healing and wellness is vast and would take many lifetimes to master and exhaust.

One reaction to this would be to believe you don’t know enough to begin and hence feel like an imposter.

The limiting belief here is that in order to begin teaching wellness, you must know everything about it; else, you would be an imposter. This is a form of perfectionism that will prevent you from ever starting because you will never know everything there is to know about wellness.

Instead, evaluate whether you can teach wellness without knowing everything there is to know about it without appearing to be an imposter.

To do so, you must accept the above paradox (also known as the Stockdale paradox), which states, for example, “I am the best wellness teacher in America,” as well as the harsh reality that “There is an immeasurable amount of knowledge to master in the universe of wellness, and I’ll never know it all.”

You can begin without having complete understanding of wellness by accepting the notion that wellness is an infinite body of information that no one can master in a lifetime.

Surprisingly, perfection is more often than not, a limiting belief. Nonetheless, you must have some knowledge to begin. You must confront the harsh realities and put in the necessary effort, at the very least to get started. And how much is adequate is decided by society and what society declares to be sufficient.

Perhaps you need to attend some classes, become an expert, obtain a license, intern, apprentice, or research anything.

So, in this situation, you’d take your cues from society as well as your personal standards—enough for you to be able to begin, albeit imperfectly.

As a result, you can see that in order to get started, you must be willing to be both defective and perfect at the same time!

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How are Limiting beliefs formed?

In brief, limiting ideas are established as a result of our life experiences, and some of the most strong of these were formed while we were young.

They begin in our interactions with others, when we become frustrated because I make a mistake or don’t perform something as expected of us.

Such experiences have meaning for us, which causes a physiological and emotional response.

The body keeps track of the score, and the human brain wants to prove that we are accurate, so we hunt for evidence to back up our self-perceptions.

“Performance equals Potential minus Interference.” – Timothy Gallwey

Personal Limiting Beliefs

Many individuals often have negative thoughts or beliefs about themselves. These beliefs are very disempowering and will most likely sabotage your success or prevent you from reaching your true potential.

Your belief system really dictates everything that you do. It really can have such a, a negative impact or a positive impact on your life depending on how you’re operating.

Have you ever gotten so close to a goal, but for some reason you just couldn’t reach it, or you may wonder why you procrastinated? You have this big to-do-list, and you have your goals sorted and you know what you want to do, but you’re procrastinating and you’re not getting it done. Can you relate to any of these statements? Chances are you can, and this is most likely the result of limiting beliefs.

I want to share a little bit about my story and how this was, so prevalent in my life and how I discovered how limiting beliefs were impacting my life. So, I’ve always been pretty goal oriented and very determined, and confident person – I believe I was born that way. But what I had noticed in my business about 20 years ago, while working my plan and getting after it I was feeling like everything was such a struggle.

I tried to stay positive thinking I’m going to push through and continue to work towards those goals. But why does it feel so hard? It felt like I was pushing a rock up a hill. Everything felt so difficult and even though I was strong and determined that I can do it, after a while, it was absolutely exhausting. What I had realized was that I was following all the gurus, you know, seeing, okay, who’s successful in what I wanted to accomplish. I thought- I’m going to follow them and do what they’re doing.

The problem was, I was focused on what I felt like I needed to be doing versus what I wanted to do. So, my belief was I have, have to do it this way to get the results, because this is how everybody else is doing it. Right? So, I convinced myself that that was my truth.

And that’s why I struggled, uh, because I believed that to be true. Since then, I’ve done a lot of work on myself and realized that we get to decide how we want to do things and how we want to live our lives. We can choose ways of doing things that are in alignment with our true self, with our passion, and our purpose, our natural way of doing things. Choose things that are fun versus things that are forced and unnatural. And when you’re able to make that shift focusing on what you want versus what you think you need then you can tap into flow and abundance.

Over the last ten years, I’ve had the opportunity to run my business in a way that is authentic and genuine to me. A way that is fulfilling and fun. Focusing on what I love to do, what I’m super passionate about.

I’m going to share with you a powerful process to help you first identify what limiting beliefs might be keeping you stuck might be keeping you playing small or preventing you from reaching your ideal level of success.

And then we’re going take a look at like, how is that really impacting you and then go through a process to help you release and eliminate those negative beliefs, so you can create room for new healthy and empowering beliefs.

How does that sound?

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7 Common Negative Beliefs

There are seven common negative beliefs. Now these by any stretch are not the only limiting beliefs but they are the most common. So, I’m going to address go through those one at a time so you can think about each and see which ones that you feel you resonate with the most. Feel free to write these down.

• The first, most common negative belief is – I can’t do it.

Maybe other people are doing what you want to do, but you’re feeling like you’re unable to.

You can’t do something that you aspire to do or would like to do.

• The second negative belief is – I’m not good enough. Now this is a biggie. Often this one is adopted at an early age. Maybe you were told by a family member or significant other a young child or even young adult that you weren’t good enough.

• The third one is – I’m not worth it. Maybe, you have never been successful. So, you feel like you’re not worthy of being successful.

• The fourth one is – I’m alone. Now being a success -minded professional woman absolutely can feel very isolating. And a lot of times people don’t understand where you’re coming from. You may often feel like you’re doing this all on your own and have no support.

• The fifth one is – What if? What if I go to that networking event and get out there and talk to people and I make a fool out of myself, or what if I go on stage and, you know, speak to this group of people and I make a fool out of myself. The truth is, “what if” actually works both ways. Because, what if you get on that stage and connect with the right people and rock it and change lives? I’m going challenge you if, what if you are telling yourself, what if I fail? What if I do this and screw up? What if I make my offer to someone and they reject me. Then, think about what the opposite of that would be for you. That’s an easy way to shift that belief.

• The sixth one is – I have no direction in my life. This is a big one with women professionals because there’s so much information out there and so many things to do. We often just get stuck in information overload. Not knowing what the next best step to take in your life.

• The seventh one is – I’m afraid. I’m afraid of rejection. I’m afraid of failure. This is very, uh, closely related to fear, right? Fear is the one big thing that keeps us stuck.

So, those are the seven negative beliefs. Chances are, you’re struggling with at least one of these and do on a regular basis.

Re-cap of the 7 most common “Negative Beliefs”

1. I can’t do it.
2. I am not good enough.
3. I am not worth it.
4. I am alone.
5. What if…. (usually relates to a fear of foreseeing a negative outcome)
6. I have no direction in my life.
7. I’m afraid.

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Case Study

A salesperson found herself struggling financially and working really hard to make money in her career. She was discounting her company’s products and services and panicking about money. We discovered several limiting beliefs that held her back, including “I am not worthy of success”. Once these beliefs were addressed, she reached her targets for the first time, and started to exceed them within a couple of months. She also started to attract higher quality clients, her income increased significantly, and she created a much better work life balance.

(Source: https://www.qttransformation.com/how-limiting-beliefs-limit-career-and-business-success)

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Making It Personal

Think about your current situation in your career. What belief is showing up? It all starts with a belief and with a belief comes a thought with a thought comes a feeling, and then that feeling leads us to taking an action or sometimes not taking action at all but instead being stuck.

And then with actions, we can get results. This is how our beliefs will impact ultimately the results in our lives and careers. That’s why it’s so important to get this squared away.

So, again let’s think about our current situation in our career. Discern what is coming up, what beliefs or thoughts, especially feelings are coming up for you right now. Are you feeling overwhelmed? Are you feeling stressed out or fearful? Um, what did it, what is it for you? Then think about the one thing keeping you from moving forward in your career, or one thing, keeping you from getting the results you desire in your career. All right, now focus on the feelings that are showing up for you. What is actually happening in the mind is the mind is contracting.

When the mind contracts, we are no longer able to tap into our creative mind and no longer able to problem solve and no longer are we able to know what the next best step is to take on our career path. A big factor here is that you will be really unattractive to anything that you want to attract in your life. So, in essence, you are paralyzed, you’re stuck, you’re unproductive and like a repellent to anything you want to create or attract in your life or career. That is contraction. What we want to do is move into expansion and we’ll talk about expansion in a moment.

All right, so now we’re going to go through a powerful process to help you Eliminate these limiting beliefs it’s called the Allowing Process. We’ll walk through how to actually shift from a negative state of being into a positive state of being moving from contraction to expansion.

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Allowing Process

Step 1: Start by getting comfortable in your chair, put your hands on your lap, shoulders down and back. And I want you to take some deep breaths and concentrate on the feelings that you’re feeling when you’re thinking about why you’re not able to get the results you desire in your career right now. Really think about it. How are you feeling? Are you feeling stressed? Are you feeling overwhelmed? Fearful? Think about the common, negative beliefs we just went over, what one is coming up strongest for you? Focus on that. Then, think about those feelings and start breathing into those feelings. As you’re breathing into those feelings, I want you to accept the fact that you’re feeling that way. Okay? So, we’re acknowledging and recognizing it first, but then you’re accepting those feelings and welcoming those feelings into your being.

Keep taking those deep cleansing breasts, focusing on those negative feelings. Okay? I want you to keep doing this, take those cleansing breasts, focus on those feelings until all of a sudden, they become a little bit lighter. Continue to do this. Now. Sometimes it works pretty quickly. Sometimes you’re going to have to do this for several minutes. Now, for time’s sake, I’m going to walk you through it a little bit quicker, but keep in mind, you’re breathing into these feelings, welcoming them into your being, accepting them into your being.

Step 2: Ask yourself, can I let these feelings go just for now? Your mind will be like, no, I got to hold onto them! So, you can reason with your mind and say just for now, can I let these feelings go? Next, you’ll want to get to that place where they’re light enough or you can temporarily let those feelings go.

Then, ask yourself this, “What if I can have what I desire? “What would be the ideal outcome that I’m going for here”? Or probably, what’s the opposite of where I’m at right now. Start thinking about what you want to create, what that ideal outcome is. Close your eyes and visualize what that’s going to look like. And then I want you to think about how you’re going to feel once you get there. Are you going to feel joyful? Peaceful?

Address the feelings that are showing up when you’re thinking of yourself already at your end goal.

Step 3: Then, with those new feelings, I want you to start breathing into those new feelings and start recognizing those new feelings that are there. And then I want you to start welcoming those new feelings into your being, take those deep cleansing breaths. Focus and concentrate on those positive feelings and continue to breathe deeply as you now accept these new feelings into your being. Keep breathing, keep breathing and focusing on these feelings and then what’s going to happen. And again, this can take a little bit longer, but we’re going to move through it. What will happen is you’ll be able to move from that contraction, that contractive state, where you’re stuck, feeling paralyzed, uncreative, and unproductive, to being able to focus on the positive feelings, you’re going to expand your mind.

All of a sudden, you’re able to tap into creativity again. You’re now going to be able to tap into your problem-solving skills. You’re going to know what the next best step will be to take towards your career goals. Maybe not the full picture, but the next best step. And once you take that step, you’ll know the next best step and so on and so on. And the most amazing part of this is you’re going to be incredibly attractive to the people around you and to opportunities that are going to support you and your goals in your career. As you can see, we are our beliefs. How we’re feeling in any given moment will impact who we are being. This is your state of being.

It’s important to make a conscious effort on a regular basis to check in and see where you’re at in terms of your state of being, are you focusing on negative things or are you focusing on positive things because that will really impact the results that you’re getting in your life and career.

“We don’t get what we want, we get who we are.” – Myron Golden

Your state of being is the #1 thing that will impact your decision making and your results!

How to Overcome or Eradicate Limiting Beliefs

You may entirely eradicate your limiting beliefs and become the person you were born to be with enough sincerity, passion, honesty, and internal motivation.

This is what great people throughout history have done—not just great spiritual leaders like Buddha, but thousands of others like Julia Child, Dolly Parton, Shakespeare, Goethe, Cervantes, Martin Luther King, and thousands more we’ve never heard of because their passion was to live a deep, sincere, modest life, unconcerned with the public eye, realizing their true self by tending to their community, friends, or family.

Action is the most effective technique to eradicate a limiting belief

You can start to overcome the ideas you’ve forced on yourself by asking yourself uncomfortable questions, focusing on generating alternative beliefs, and actually putting your views to the test.

Limiting beliefs thrive on inaction, so if you don’t act, you’re merely demonstrating that you’re hampered by some underlyi