If you are looking for bite-sized learning sessions for your team, we have Lunch and Grow topics below for your selection in the categories of career development, mindset and well-being, collaboration and communication, leadership development and stress management. Lunch and Growth sessions are typically 2 hours long. Grow knowledge, relationships and self awareness!
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Bite-sized learning to deepen soft skills and self awareness while expanding perspectives, and possibilities
If you don't see a Growth topic of interest here, let us know!
Bite-sized learning to deepen soft skills and self awareness while expanding perspectives, and possibilities
Career Development
1. Career Growth and Internal Employability
Every individual seeks growth and progression within an organization. The extent to which this is within our control is often overlooked. In this session, we will uncover the key elements to grow in our career and increase our internal employability, especially in a knowledge-based economy.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Explain employability and protean career attitude
- Identify the key components required for career growth and employability within an organization
- Evaluate oneself based on the key components and identify a focus area to work on for career development
2. Understanding Our Motivations
Good days and bad days in the workplace influence our levels of enthusiasm in heading to work. What makes a day good or bad can be linked to our motivations. In this session, draw out what motivates us at work so that we may create more good days for ourselves and others
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the five different intrinsic motivators that influence our fulfilment levels at work
- Understand your own motivators and uncover what creates your high and lows at work
- Define action steps for yourself to enhance your motivation levels at work
3. Screenwrite our Career Development
“If we work hard, our efforts will be recognized and we will be rewarded accordingly.” This once-common thinking is now that of the past. In today’s knowledge-based economy, we need to be self-directed and drive our own career development. In this session, reflect on our career and identify action steps for ourselves to grow professionally.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Reflect on your career path and consider how you might like to grow in your career within the organization
- Identify career derailers and career priorities
- Create action steps to take to help you with your career development
Mindset & Well-being
4. Happiness is a Mindset
All I really want is to be happy. Don’t you?
What does happiness really mean? And how do we be happy and sustain it?
Positive psychology is founded by Martin Seligman and is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their experiences of love, work and play.
Tapping on the positive psychology frameworks, this two-parts session will help you to uncover the different elements that contribute to our happiness, how we can adjust our mindsets to become happier and techniques we can use to sustain it.
Learning Objectives:
Session 1
Session 2
What does happiness really mean? And how do we be happy and sustain it?
Positive psychology is founded by Martin Seligman and is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their experiences of love, work and play.
Tapping on the positive psychology frameworks, this two-parts session will help you to uncover the different elements that contribute to our happiness, how we can adjust our mindsets to become happier and techniques we can use to sustain it.
Learning Objectives:
Session 1
- Understand more about the 5 ingredients of well-being
- Delver deeper to understand how the different elements influence our happiness level
- Uncover what is missing for our wellness level
Session 2
- Explore our perspectives of happiness and how we view our world
- Learn some techniques which we can put into immediate practice
- Craft out an action plan for ourselves to work on increasing our positivity.
5. Enhancing Mental Toughness
Mental toughness lies at the core of wellbeing and resilience. Participants will learn about the different elements that make up mental toughness. They will be invited to self-reflect on their level of mental toughness and how it might affect one's work.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the core components of resilience and mental toughness.
- Gain deeper insights into your mental toughness and uncover your de-railers
- Learn how to tap on your mental toughness to overcome your challenges
6. Mind Set for Success
Our mind set is our greatest obstacle to achieve personal success. Once we are fixed in our mind-sets, we disallow ourselves from growing and learning, and limit our potential. In this session, explore our mind sets, limiting beliefs, and understand the methods of developing and sustaining a growth mind-set.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Differentiate between a fixed and growth mind-set
- Explore the mind-set and the limiting beliefs we have
- Take steps to create empowering beliefs for ourselves and develop a growth mindset
7. Building Courage, Overcoming Fear
Fear, created by our limiting beliefs, can propagate further limiting beliefs and affect our well-being. It can also stop us from maximizing our potential. There is a lot of power in being able to manage our fear and not let it take control of our lives. In this session, participants will work on finding the courage to overcome their fear.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the basic fears and what are the common fears that people have
- Be aware of the beliefs that we have that creates our fears
- Uncover strategies that will help us find courage to overcome our fear
8. Design Think My Life
One of our biggest challenges is determining what our future will look like, how we want to live it and what solutions we have to achieve it. Instead of looking at the problem in the traditional manner, in this workshop, we merge design thinking with personal development. Design thinking offers a systematic process of thinking that will allow anyone to be creative by following its process.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Utilize the design thinking process to create solutions and strategies to prepare for your future.
- Work out a prototype and define your action steps.
Collaboration & communication
9. Handling Office Politics
Office politics is often viewed as something negative that affects collaboration and teamwork, and make it seem difficult. Consciously or unconsciously, in the pursuit of our goals, we may deploy techniques that contribute to office politics. In this session, we will learn about these techniques and how that may impact others.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Identify what defines and contributes to offices politics
- Learn the different strategies of office politics
- Understand how we may contribute to office politics and how to manage office politics
10. Engage Others through Mindful Conversations
Beyond technical skills, keeping up in the digital age requires good communication skills. How we hold conversations can affect the overall communication experience and engagement levels. This session will help us to be more aware of ourselves and others for better conversations and relationships.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Learn what it means to build trust and rapport
- Understand the impact of not holding mindful conversations
- Learn to hold mindful conversations to build better relationships.
11. The Power of Listening
“I wanted to make an effort, not to listen, but to hear you and to know you as a person. I started picking up some of the words you were saying, then sentences and then paragraphs. I can be very comfortable around you and be myself around you from now on.”
How often do we listen to people from the heart, and hear them for what they are truly saying? How often do we block people out and in the process create an invisible barrier between us and others? This session will question how well we listen.
Learning Objectives:
How often do we listen to people from the heart, and hear them for what they are truly saying? How often do we block people out and in the process create an invisible barrier between us and others? This session will question how well we listen.
Learning Objectives:
- Be aware of how you listen
- Be conscious of the thoughts in your head as you listen
- Improve your ability to listen
12. From I to we
Using the Emergenetics brain-based framework, participants will increase self-awareness and build rapport with others by gaining accurate insights into thinking styles and behavioural dynamics. This session will help each one appreciate the diversity of the brains in the room and how to apply one’s learning in communication and decision making.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what the 4 different thinking preferences are and how these preferences would affect communication
- Understand the 3 behavioural attributes to allow you to understand why you and your colleagues may react or behave differently
- Be aware of what one’s preferences are
13. Communicate for Success
Success can only be achieved when communication happens and everyone understands what they need to work towards. In this session, reflect and strategize on how to communicate better to improve performance, especially amidst uncertainty and change.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to work within a team and work across teams
- Learn the importance of effective communication within the team
- Understand that a breakdown in the communication across teams will impact the end outcome
- Identify effective communication strategies for the group
Leadership development
14. Enhance your Emotional Intelligence to better handle people
Emotional Intelligence, a term created by two researchers Peter Salavoyand John Mayer and popularized by Daniel Goleman, is defined as the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others. Studies have shown that individuals with high EI are better able to work in teams, adjust to change and be flexible. As the workplace continues to evolve to make room for new technologies and innovations, EI may become increasingly important for one to succeed. To achieve any goals, we require the help of people around us and this involves knowing how to work with others and manage them. However, what most people forget is that we first need to know how to work with ourselves and be more self-aware before we can better engage others. This 2 hour interactive session will help you gain tips to enhance your emotional intelligence to be more aware of yourself and others in order to handle other people more effectively.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Increase your awareness of how you make others feel
- Evaluation of your thoughts and feelings to improve your communication
- Understand the importance of putting aside differences to achieve a common goal
15. Increasing Employee Engagement
Increasingly, employees seek personal development, a sense of belonging, and continuous learning in the workplace. This 5 part session puts in place a structure for teams to tap on the strengths and value of the people within their team to expand perspectives and develop one another, while creating a sense of belonging.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Establish a learning culture within the team
- Learn the 9 steps to create an interactive Ted Talk with introspection the Growthbeansway
16. Building Empathy
Empathy is not only essential for emotional resilience, but also for managing stress and enhancing one’s well-being. A leader with empathy is one who is also better able to engage his/her people. Being able to develop empathy requires one to reserve judgment of others and to be aware of how one listens and reacts. This is a two part session to help individuals reflect on any judgment they have placed on others and how well they have been listeningto others.
Learning Objectives:
Session 1:
Session 2:
Learning Objectives:
Session 1:
- Appreciate what we have taken for granted
- Uncover how well we listen and how we judge others
Session 2:
- Be better able to understand and share the feelings of another.
- Be able to put into practice one’s empathetic abilities and receive feedback
- Create action steps to work on continuously developing one’s empathy levels
17. Appreciation and feedback
Empowering and motivating a team begins with appreciation. The ability to appreciate within a team can bond a team and enhance the well-being of employees. Pairing constructive feedback with appreciation will also help employees to grow and keep them engaged. This session is ideal for leaders and teams to bond together.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Uncover the power of appreciation
- Learn how to give constructive feedback
- Identify elements about yourself you had not realized before
18. The Key Elements of Coaching
It’s hard being a leader where you are expected to support and guide your team without taking on a top down approach. However, it is possible to build an engaged team. Coaching is a tool to help you empower your staff to take action and achieve goals.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles of coaching
- Learn the techniques of coaching
STRESS MANAGEMENT
19. Stress Management 101
Who doesn't want to be happy and lead a stress-free life? All of us wear many hats in every day life and sometimes life throws us obstacles after obstacles and challenges after challenges. When things in our life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day does not seem enough, we sink into stress before we realise it. It is just so important that we remember to practice self-care. This is also really important for your team, for their emotional and mental well-being, and then for the performance of the organization.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Understand our triggers of stress
- Recognise symptoms of stress
- Learn a key technique on how to manage stress
20. Reframe our fears
Have you ever stopped to think about what your stress is triggered by? If you do, you'd know that it is often due to some underlying fears that we have. This is a session to dissect and confront your fears, and to adopt a new relationship with fear itself.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Evaluate our underlying fears and how it causes stress
- Reframe our fears to deal with stress
- Learn a technique to support the re-framing of our fears
21. Take control of stress
Ongoing and chronic stress can result in serious health problems. Hence it is very important that we start to take control of the stress we face. Often times, under stress, we may find ourselves worrying a lot, not being able to focus, being pessimistic, and feeling disorganised. However, this will only continue the spiral of stress that one faces. Stop thinking, start doing.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Analyse your thoughts and gain clarity
- Understand the critical factors you need to overcome stress
- Itemize action steps to support our goals
22. Stress & emotions
Stress can be debilitating to our self esteem and self-worth, and affect the way we relate to others. This symptom of stress if not arrested, can affect our relationships, influence our beliefs and level of self confidence in the long run.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Awareness of our emotions and effects on self and others
- Regulate our emotions
- Rebuild our sense of self to achieve goals
23. Manage Our time
Managing workload, personal and family time can be one of our greatest causes of stress - when you feel like nothing is within your control and everything is spiralling out of control. Pause. Take a breather and reflect on how things are, and find areas for improvement. Rebuild control step by step.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Evaluate our time and what it means to us
- Identify areas for improvement
- Identify action steps to manage time better
24. Are you stressing others?
People can be one of the biggest sources of our stress - good stress and/or bad stress. When too much bad stress is being generated, especially within a team, that's when we see an increase in negative behaviours, a loss of productivity and affected relationships. As team leads, as team members or even family members, we want to ensure that stress is managed, and that we are not stressing others negatively.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Reflect on our sources of stress
- Examine how we create stress for others
- Identify other ways to get things done
25. Personal stress management strategy
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26. Organizational stress management strategy
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