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RISING STRONG
BY
Dr PRAKASH RAMAKRISHNAN PhD
M Sc( Ag) MBA MA(Psychology)
National trainer
Dept of Personnel and Training
Govt of India
9446331825

RISING STRONG
(Workshop on self Empowerment)
OBJECTIVES
• Create Self awareness
• Develop Empathy
• Sharpen communication skills
• Build and play in teams
• Cope with stress and emotions
• Excel in Leadership
• Ritualize successful habits

WHO AM I ?
STRENGTH WEAKNESS
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS

JOHARI WINDOW
• The Johari window is a technique that helps
people better understand their relationship
with themselves and others. It was created by
psychologists Joseph Luft (1916–2014) and
Harrington Ingham (1916–1995) in 1955, and
is used primarily in self-help groups and
corporate settings as a heuristic exercise

JOHARI WINDOW

Public
Arena
Open
Blind (spot)
Bad Breath
Salad Teeth
Hidden
Avoided
Private
Unknown
Unconscious
When you solicit or receive feedback and
self-disclose:
KNOWN TO ME UNKNOWN TO ME
KNOWN
TO
OTHERS
UNKNO
WN
TO
OTHERS

EMPATHY
• Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel
what another person is experiencing from
within their frame of reference, i.e., the
capacity to place oneself in another's position.

Communication is a series of
experience of
Hearing
Smell
Seeing
Taste
Touch

Communication
Is the way we
interact
with fellow humans
Eyes
Face
Body
Voices
Words

Communication Goals
To get and give
information
To persuade
To ensure understanding
To get action
To change behavior

COMMUNICATION SKILLS
• 7% VERBAL – What you said
• 38% VOCAL – How you said it
• 55% VISUAL – Body language/non verbal

TEAM BUILDING

Understanding Stress
• Stressors - events or environmental stimulus that
cause a person to feel tense or aroused
• Stress - physical, mental, and/or emotional strain
resulting from stressors
• Eustress v. Distress
“ The aim of stress management, then, is not to eliminate stress
entirely but to control it so an optimal level of arousal is present.”
Seyle, 1974

Symptoms of Stress
• Physical Signs
• Emotional Signs
• Behavioral Signs

Tools for Stress Management
• Physical:
– Nutrition
– Exercise
– Sleep
– Biofeedback
– Massage
– Progressive Relaxation

• Cognitive (thoughts):
– Self-talk
– Meditation
– Imagery
– Refocusing Strategies
– Systematic Relaxation

• Behavioral:
– Assertiveness
– Time-management
– Support Groups
– Segmentation
– The Breath

Emotional Intelligence is our. . .
awareness of and effective response to our
emotions
AS
tools/vehicles for achieving our goals and
living fulfilling lives
Emotional Intelligence
Thus…
is central to performance!
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Social
Awareness
Self-Management
Self-Awareness
Relationship
Management
Response-Able
Action
Response-Able
Awareness
InTRA-Personal
Competence
Basic Interactions
‘Response-Able’ – Capable of choosing how we respond
In the Purposeful Context of Our Values and Goals
InTER-Personal
Competence
Achiever’s Orientation

The Best News:
can be enhanced through
attention and development

Self-Management
How do I
purposefully
leverage myself?
Managing and directing our own feeling states, our
impulses and our actions to “achieve our goals”
✓Response-Able for Own Results
Embracing response-ability for our lives,
our results, and our integrity
✓Self-Controlling and Adapting
Responding to our circumstances,
delaying impulse gratification, and
managing our disruptive emotions
✓Goal-Oriented and Initiating
Persisting in initiating action and
earning results
Self-Management
We utilize ourselves as
powerful sets of useful
resources to achieve our
goals!

Social Awareness
Who/How
are they?
Recognizing and remaining aware of other
peoples’ feelings, needs, and interests
✓Sensitively Empathic and Respectful
Sensing peoples’ meanings and respecting
people unconditionally ‘just as they are’
✓Compassionately Understanding
Recognizing how people feel and
why people respond/react as they do
✓Socially Response-Able
Being cooperative, contributing,
productive members of our groups
Social
Awareness
We identify with other
people and recognize our
mutual utilitarian value!

Relationship Management
How do I
purposefully
affect them?
Affecting and prompting desired
responses from others
✓Leading and Influencing
Inspiring/guiding goal-oriented action
and influencing decision-making
✓Collaborating and Team Building
Nurturing instrumental relationships
and group synergy
✓Persona Flexing
adapting authentically and constructively
to the preferred social styles of others
Relationship
Management
We recognize how we can
accomplish
more together!

PRINCIPLES OF SERVICE DELIVERY
• Equity
• People centeredness
• Inclusiveness
• Rationality
• Efficiency
• Transparency
• Accountability
• Responsiveness
• Fairness
• Convergence
• Grievance redressal
• Effectiveness
• Sustainability
• Holistic approach
• Integrity
• Continuous Improvement
• Changing attitudes and
improving skills
• Right to service Delivery

WORKPLACE ORGANIZATION (5S)
• Purpose – Methodology for creating and maintaining an organized, clean,
high performance workplace
• Seiri (Sort) Clearing up: eliminating non needed material
• Seiton (Storage) Organizing: a place for everything
• Seiso (Shine) Cleaning: eliminating dirt/oil, etc
• Seketsu (Standardize) making all spaces and places the same
• Shitsuke (Sustain) Maintaining – Continued compliance automatic

SEVEN EVERY DAY RITUALS
• Get up at 5 am
• Drink lots of water
• Visualize day’s activities
• Walk around
• Exercise
• Meditate
• Journaling

• Dr PRAKASH RAMAKRISHNAN PhD
• M Sc( Ag) MBA MA(Psychology)
• National trainer
• Dept of Personnel and Training
• Govt of India
• 9446331825
• prakasraja@gmail.com

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