This course provides a broad overview of the fundamental concepts, principles, and practices of mindfulness. With interactive exercises to help students explore their own attitudes, mental habits and behaviors, Foundations of Mindfulness offers a pathway for living with more freedom, authenticity and ease. Featured components of the course include experiential exercises, guided meditations, personal reflection and interactive discussions.
What you'll learn
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Key mindfulness concepts and practices that support the ability to use attention in an enhanced way.
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Concepts and practices that deepen the understanding of the mind/body connection, and highlights ways that the body is a direct portal to presence.
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Guidance for enhancing resilience, with specific regard to opening to and accepting a wide range of emotion.
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How to take the benefits that come from regular meditation and integrate them into daily life, as well as establishing a regular meditation routine.
Developing an understanding of how to recognise and manage our unconscious biases is essential for creating fair, inclusive and discrimination-free workplaces and communities. Unconscious bias is not only related to race and gender. Prejudices exist in relation to age, religion, sexuality, parental status, and people who appear different from the majority. This half day workshop draws on empirical evidence to take participants on a journey of realisation. It is designed to raise awareness of bias from the unconscious to the conscious level and provide methods for positively managing prejudices for improved decision making.
WHAT DOES THE COURSE COVER?
Course content includes:
• what unconscious bias is and where it comes from;
• how unconscious bias affects decision making’ methods to identify and counteract unconscious bias.
Course learning outcomes participants will learn how to:
•Identify the meaning of unconscious bias and the psychological basis for it;
• identify their own unconscious biases and the underpinning drivers;
• identify bias in decision making processes and make necessary changes;
• take practical steps to reduce the impact on unconscious bias in the workplace.
RECOMMENDED FOR: This course is recommended for anyone who wants to better understand their own biases and how they affect day-to-day decision making. I
t is particularly beneficial for HR professionals, and for middle and senior managers who are responsible for decision making in the areas of recruitment, policy and process development, people management and organisational culture.
This course provides a framework for designing an Employee Value Proposition (EVP) that attracts and retains talent. Participants will learn to align EVP with organizational goals and communicate it effectively to employees.
Course Learning Outcome:
Participants will be able to identify EVP that aligns with organizational goals, assess employee needs, identify how to communicate the EVP effectively, and identify how to implement and evaluate the EVP.
Objectives:
Identify key components of Employee Value Proposition (EVP).
Design an EVP that attracts and retains talent.
This course focuses on the purpose and process of performance appraisals, teaching participants effective techniques for providing performance feedback and conducting constructive performance reviews.
Course Learning Outcome:
Participants will identify the purpose of performance appraisals, provide effective feedback, conduct performance reviews, and develop continuous improvement strategies for performance management.
Course Learning Objectives: Identify the processes of performance appraisals.
Learn techniques for providing feedback.
course duration - Three hours