This is a 2-Day course on Personal Effectiveness and Achievement for all segments of people - corporate and personal.

The Trainer - Ernest Chen is a speaker, trainer, and author. He has more than 15 years of experience in teaching and training.

Methodology

Lecture, group participation, discussion, games, video showing and personality profiling

The workshop will be divided into 4 segments.

1 Personal Effectiveness
2 Group Effectiveness (Team Building)
3 Effective Communication
4 Stress Management

1) Personal Effectiveness

This segment is designed to help participants to be proactive, responsible and empowered. Workers/ employees benefit from training by learning how to live happy, contented lives while achieving personal and professional goals. Companies or organizations will benefit by having motivated, focused, confident employees who know how to bring added value to their work.

    Take Control of Your Life

1. Who are you? Find out something about yourself. What sort of person are you? What motivate you? Understand Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
2. Do you have a dream or goal? What are your aspirations or ambitions? Do you make resolution every year?
3. Do you accept change? Are you comfortable with the current level of life? How to fight fear and embrace change? Self-belief and self-esteem.
4. The 5 qualities of confident, empowered people. Understand how we take control of our lives. Video showing - even eagles need a push.

The Training
This part will cover Motivation, Self Esteem, Goal Setting, Manage Change and Building Confidence.

2)  Group Effectiveness - Team Building

This segment will focus on team spirit. Work and departmental teams are the building blocks of an organization. For a team to be an effective resource in an organization, it has to work closely and collaborate with management to achieve incremental and targeted results.

     Building Successful Teams

1. What makes a team effective?
2. Understanding the 4 stages of Team Development
3. Lessons from the Geese - why do geese fly in formation?
4 Team Games - Minefield, Trust Elevation or Speed Balls.

The Training
The activity will cover experiential learning through teambuilding process. How to improve interpersonal relationships within the group, resolve conflicts and build personal and group commitment to achieve key strategic results. The participants will learn to accept change and embrace openness. Ultimately, every participant will learn to trust one another for the benefit of a team.

3) Effective Communication

Communication is an important skill for all. Now, it is more relevant for everyone - worker or manager to be able to communicate to one or many. Oral communication is also including listening. Without understanding others, you cannot communicate effective to them. This segment will focus on listening and speaking. Though it is easy to listen (as an audience) than speaking in front of an audience. However, this is an important skill for someone who desires to be a leader. Success on the job is often linked to a good communication skill.

     A Good Communicator Can Open the Door

1. Speakers are not born. This is one skill that can be learned. Not many can be extraordinary speakers but many can be good speakers.
2. A good communicator is a better thinker, better listener and better speaker.
3. Communication is about getting the message across and avoids misunderstanding
4. A speaker must be able to speak instantaneously, putting his thoughts in words and structure them in a logical sequence so that audience will understand them.

The Training
This segment will cover listening skills, speaking skills and how to overcome fear of speaking in front of an audience. There will be a lot of exercises and active participation.

4) Stress Management

Oh, Stress! This word reverberates in your head. When you experience them, you feel bad - distressed. Well, not all stress situations are bad, and some are good for us because we need a little stress to spur us on to achieve greater things. We are all different and our body conditions are different. Some are more stressful than others. The good thing about stress is that stress can be contained and controlled. Let this workshop minimize your stress and you can get on with your healthy life.

     Take Charge of Stress and Move On

1. What is good stress and bad stress?
2. What stresses you?
3. First Aids for Stress. Passive and active exercise to fight stress. Visualisation journey.
4. Stress and your relationships.

Stress and your goals in life

The Training
This segment will focus on managing stress, how to identify and cope with stressful situations in work and in life. There will be discussions, games, exercises and group participations