Keep the Flames Burning! Connecting Values, Preserving Identity, and Cultivating Passion to Avoid Burnout
When emails pile up, co-workers test your patience, and organizational politics create conflict, it can be a part-time job to stay focused and committed. Most employees, despite finding work that they feel is aligned with what they enjoy, experience varying levels of burnout throughout their careers. All professionals, at all levels, need to share tools and techniques to stay connected to the vision, mission, and goals. For some, you may feel that you are in a position that may not quite fit your bigger vision. The challenge for you is still the same. We must connect with our values, find ways to express our identity and creativity, and find passion. “Wherever you go, there you are.” Become a professional that seeks opportunities to express your greatness despite changing tasks, and circumstances. This workshop will help you re-energize and shift your thinking in ways that can turn a dead end into a multiple path of opportunities, morale and effectiveness. At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to: a. Identify strategies to connect personal and professional values. b. Manage stress, change, and industry rumors. c. Examine strategies to move from a task manager to strategic professional. d. Explore five techniques to cultivate passion and commitment.
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Keep the Flames Burning! Connecting Values, Preserving Identity, and Cultivating Passion to Avoid Burnout
- 1. KEEP THE FLAMES BURNING! Connecting Values, Preserving and Cultivating Passion to Avoid Burnout
- 2. Workshop Agenda • Learning Objectives • Working Definitions • Packing Your Tool Box • Interactive Activity • Identifying and Checking Values • Matching Your Values With Company Values • The “What Ifs” • Conclusion 2 PPT Presentation Title (change in header and footer dialogue box)
- 3. Working Definitions 3 PPT Presentation Title (change in header and footer dialogue box) Authentic Happiness is Realizing Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment Dr. Seligman
- 4. Packing Your Tool Box 4 PPT Presentation Title (change in header and footer dialogue box) Strengths • Represent core values • Make you feel good • Provide sense of purpose • Inspire and elevate • Authenticate you STRENGTHS MORAL TRAITS CHARACTER TRAITS ABILITIES
- 5. WHY SHOULD I IDENTIFY MY STRENGTHS • Strengths are closely related to personal values • Personal values are important when thinking of career choices • Do you know your personal character strengths? • How might you use them with greater focus and intention daily? • How can you apply them toward your ideals? 5 PPT Presentation Title (change in header and footer dialogue box)
- 6. Identifying & Checking Your Values Activity • Under each value heading (affiliation, power, etc.) there are two statements. Place a check mark beside the one that is most like you. • Based on your small group discussion, underline the five most important value headings. Rank those five as to their importance to you (“1” being the most important and “5” being the least). • Participants are divided in small groups; a recorder is assigned and participants compare their values with others and discuss how the values influenced their job search, varying levels of burnout, and which value headings they think are most important. • Recorders report on discussions and record the responses on flipchart. 6 PPT Presentation Title (change in header and footer dialogue box)
- 7. Conclusion • There are no right if wrong answers to this activity. • One can often connect to their employer’s core values. • If your company does core values does not match yours, will working with other community agencies suffice for you? 7
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- Strengths are moral traits, traits of character that people can acquire and build. Talents are inborn gifts. If you have a talents, you can hone and refine it to some degree. But if it’s not a part of your personal make-up you can’t will yourself to acquire it. You either have a talent or you don’t. Like strengths, abilities are acquired. While they may provide you with a sense of competency and allow you to perform adequately in a given role, unless they’re related to one of your signature strengthes, they don’t necessarily bring you satisfaction or joy. You can learn, for example to be a highly competent engineer or accountant or assembly line worker and discover you really don’t like the work at all. Strengths make you feel good when you use them. Because they represent your core values—the things you deeply and authentically care about—they give you a sense of purpose; they feel meaningful and satisfying. They’re inspiring and elevating. And when you put your own best strengths into action, you feel like you’re being “the real you.”
- Once you know your key strengths, you are empowered to find more and more ways to employ them. You can begin to look for opportunities to express them in all the arenas of your life, becoming more and more authentic and heart-centered in all you do. The value-centered life is the good life—as identified across the centuries and across the world’s cultures.