Managing yourself in the workplace

1. Managing yourself in the workplace (2)
Kayode Adebiyi, FCA, MBA
Oct 2019 Knowledge Sharing Session (KSS)
PPMC HQ
Abuja
Oct 30, 2019

2. Our Roadmap
Openers
Your Stress
RecapQ & A

3. Openers

4. Managing YOU

5. Performance equation

7. ~ Arthur F. Carmazzi
World’s Top 10 Ranked Leadership Professional
Founder of Directive CommunicationPsychology
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Identity is constant,
Environment is changing
Make your decisions based on your
identity, not on your environment.

13. “In times of change learners
inherit the earth, while the
learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal
with a world that no longer
exists.”
Eric Hoffer
You are in the 4.0 era

14. Managingyour
Stress

15. Stress and life

16. 16
Why stress ?
OpportunitiesStress
Try to balance stress and opportunities

17. Who Wants to Get Rid of All the
Stress in Your Life?
Only One Group of
People Have No
Stress

20. What is stress?

22. Awareness of Stages of Stress
Alarm
Adaptive/Resistance
Exhaustion

23. Intense or Prolonged Stress
Leads to:
• Difficulty thinking clearly
• Dwelling on meaningless activities
• Tunnel vision
• Expressing hostility or numbness
• Impulsiveness
• Feeling incompetent
• Reduced ability to retain information

24. Mental Noise Theory
When under stress, our cognitive ability is decreased significantly. Message
retention falls by 80% or more. We cope by:
• Reducing complexity
• Acting on current beliefs
• Seeking analogies
• Blocking new information

25. Emotional Equation

26. S & A: Partners in crime

27. 9–27
Decision-Making Conditions
Level of ambiguity and chances of making a bad decision
Lower HigherModerate
Certainty UncertaintyRisk
The decision
maker faces
conditions of...
Figure 9.1

28. Risk vs Uncertainty (1)

29. Risk vs Uncertainty (2)

30. Risk vs Uncertainty (5)

31. Risk vs Uncertainty (6)

33. Small things matter

34. Certainty of uncertainty

37. This too shall pass!

38. Law of gravity

39. See the bigger picture

40. Framing

41. Reframing
Changing the frame,
changes the meaning

42. Face it

43. Learn to ignore

44. Forgive yourself

45. Keep going

46. Move on

48. Laughter

49. Inner Peace

50. Face Reality

51. Permanence of impermanence

53. NO

54. Never Complain

55. COMMUNICATION SKILLS.
Silence and Smile
Smile & Silence are two most powerful tools……….
Smile is the way to Solve many problems………
A person with a smile is always welcome
Silence is the way to avoid many problems…………
Silence can never be misquoted.

56. Stress busters
• “This too shall pass”
• - Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of
shape.
• - “Angels fly because they take themselves lightly”
• If you don’t like something, change it. If you cant change it, change
the way you think about it.
• Life is a bitch but every dog has its day
.

57. Plan B………

61. The way we treat a headache here is to divert
your attention to something else.
Creative diversion!

62. Fortheroad

65. Albert
Einstein’s
Theory
A = X + Y +
Z
A = Success
X = Work
Y = Play
Z = Keeping your mouth

66. • 08033181225
• Kayode.adebiyi@nnpcgroup.com