Positive Psychology
Greater job satisfaction – more energy – commitment

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Participants

This course is for individuals who wish to experience the strength of a joyful, committed and meaningful workday. It gives you the exact leverage you need. Through positive psychology, you will gain knowledge and concrete tools and be given support in getting started on developing personally and experiencing greater job satisfaction.

The facilitation encourages a high degree of personal involvement, as the very purpose of the course is for you to develop personally.

Benefit

The course focuses on how you can develop personally by means of the latest knowledge and tools from research within positive psychology. The focal point is first and foremost yourself, your wishes and your options in terms of doing something about your situation. You will get specific knowledge and simple tools for personal development. The goal is for you to leave the course bursting with new ideas, tools and a positive attitude that will benefit you and your workplace.

You will gain:

• Greater insight into your own emotions and strengths
• Greater job satisfaction, contentment and commitment
• Better use of your own resources
• Stronger ties to others
• Simple tools that you can continue to work with
• The ability to apply what you have learned in your life

Through your participation, your workplace will gain:

• An employee with increased self-knowledge, job satisfaction and commitment
• An employee who knows their own strengths and brings them more into play
• An employee who spreads joy and contributes to good collaboration
• A more efficient employee who takes greater ownership and responsibility
• Bottom-line effect through optimal performance and retention

Course content

Personal development is about getting to know yourself and others better and bringing yourself into play in an optimal way. We work with topics as emotions and commitment, strengths, opinions, work conditions and co-operative relationships. You will learn to assert yourself fully while increasing your job satisfaction.

The course is about

• Job satisfaction – what can you personally do to increase your job satisfaction and that of others? About positive psychology, mental health, prevention, four ways to well-being, the whole person and optimum versus maximum performance

• Positive emotions – how can you have a greater amount of positive emotions? About positive and negative emotions, distribution, gratitude, satisfaction, hope and optimism

• Commitment – how can you assert yourself fully? Flow, strengths and weaknesses, development, compensation and job design

• Meaning – what is the meaning of your life? About purpose, approaches to work and positive communities

• Positive relationships – what is the best way for you to interact with your colleagues and others? About positive relationships, expectations and active, constructive answers

Learning method

The course consists of two days of facilitation and one personal coaching session over the phone.

The facilitation on the course alternates between brief presentations, questions, discussions, reflection, practical exercises and exchange of experience.

After the course, you will have an individual coaching session over the phone for approximately one hour to support you in retaining what you learned and applying it in your life.

Facilitator

Your facilitator is professional psychologist Ebbe Lavendt, who is one of Denmark’s leading experts within positive psychology. Positive psychology is a science about optimal human function – including job satisfaction, strengths, meaning, positive relationships and performance.

The facilitator states

“Job satisfaction can be learned. In particular, it is about the way you relate to yourself, to others and to your job. It is also about how you bring your strengths into play and position yourself in relation to your surroundings so that you can fully assert yourself.”

The price includes

Before the course

• Invitation to a free two-hour meeting on “Good Learning”
• Written assignment

During the course

• 2 days of facilitation
• 1 facilitator All meals during the course
• Max. 16 participants
• Tools by means of tests and interventions
• Sparring on your own challenges
• Personal action plan

After the course

• 1 individual coaching session over the phone

Contact Mannaz

For personal advice or enrolment, please contact Kompetencerådgiver Susanne Hedegaard on telephone 4517 6018 or send an email.

Available dates

Date: 26. november 2012 - 27. november 2012
Price: kr. 12.500 excl. VAT DKK, excl. accommodation

Available spots

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• Positive Psychology
  26. - 27. november 2012, Kursussted - Sjælland.
  First day starts at 09:00, last day ends at 16:30.

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