Embracing Change with Resilience

During the expert session, Aurelie engages the audience through a Q&A session, live demonstrations of her personal experiences, and using the Mentimeter app for interactive exercises that help participants reflect on their feelings towards change and how they can adapt to it with resilience.

She emphasizes the importance of understanding resistance, building trust, and practicing open communication, while encouraging participants to reflect on the session and apply these concepts in their personal and professional lives.

• Embrace Change with Empathy: Understand that everyone reacts differently to change and show empathy towards those who may be struggling. Adapt your communication style based on resistance types (head, heart, hands, trust).
• Build Resilience: Practice open communication, meditation, exercising, and handle stress effectively to foster a positive mindset and increase resilience during times of change. Reflect on the highlights and ask colleagues about their perspective for valuable insights.
• Understand the Why: To fully embrace change, it's important to understand why it's being made and how it will impact you and your team. Be open-minded about feelings and emotions, showing empathy, and having an open conversation.

In this expert session, Aurelie Litynski explores the emotional journey individuals go through during times of organizational change using the Change Curve model. The Change Curve Model consists of various phases, each bringing forth unique emotions such as shock, reaction, uncertainty, exploration, adoption, and moving forward. Aurelie underscores the importance of acknowledging these feelings to effectively cope with the change process.

 

When facing resistance to change, Aurelie suggests approaches based on heart, head, hands, and trust. Heart-centered techniques involve being mindful of negativity bias, applying positive psychology, and seeking to understand those resisting change. Rational, head-focused strategies call for maintaining an open mindset, accepting others' visions, and communicating clearly about the reasons and implications of the change. Hands-oriented tactics emphasize learning new skills and helping team members develop them. Trust-based methods involve examining the root causes of mistrust and working on building strong relationships to foster a positive team environment.

 

Resilience is another critical aspect Aurelie discusses when coping with challenges at work. To be more resilient, individuals should accept challenging situations, confront emotions, and practice self-awareness to enhance emotional intelligence. Aurelie encourages participants to adapt communication styles based on resistance, build a mental health toolbox through open communication, meditation, exercise, and stress management techniques, understand the reasons behind change, show empathy towards others, and focus on positive outcomes.

 

The session concludes with Aurelie emphasizing the inevitability of change in both personal and professional contexts. She suggests starting small by implementing simple strategies like boosting positive emotions or discovering coping mechanisms. Using the analogy of a tomato and a tennis ball, Aurelie explains her personal approach to managing challenges, visualizing growth and transformation.

 

Aurelie answers participants' questions, addressing topics such as recommended reading materials for further learning and handling resistance within teams. She advocates open communication, empathy, and understanding in these situations. The session concludes with Aurelie reminding participants that their happiness is their responsibility and emphasizing the significance of inspiration and support over attempting to force change on others.
 

Mastering our Stress Level and Boosting Focus at Work

Discover invaluable insights and acquire the necessary tools to reduce stress levels and optimize your concentration. Research has shown that regular overwork and chronic stress can significantly diminish productivity. By increasing awareness and adopting effective strategies, you can enhance your productivity, motivation, and engagement.

 

Prevent, Avoid, and Handle Burnout

This session equips participants with the knowledge and tools to prevent, avoid, and effectively handle burnout, fostering a healthier and more resilient workforce. Discover evidence-based techniques and practices to prevent burnout, including stress management, time management, self-care, and boundary-setting strategies.

 

Building a Healthy Feedback Culture with Positive Psychology

Giving constructive feedback is one of the most challenging skills to master, however, it is a crucial one for all employees. Participants will learn how to make constructive feedback part of the team’s culture and will adopt proven techniques which enhance positive communication during critical and positive feedback.

 

Cultivating Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

Participants will discover the transformative power of emotional intelligence in the workplace and will gain a deep understanding of the core principles and components of emotional intelligence. They will learn how to harness their emotions and those of their team to drive positive change, enhance relationships, and become a more effective and empathetic leader.

 

Leading with Positivity & Authenticity

Studies clearly show that leaders have a huge influence on employees’ well-being and performance.

This interactive session gives leaders the knowledge and hands-on tools they need to support their employees in being happier and more productive. With our new way of working, we need trusting teams more than ever. Being an authentic leader is a crucial skill for constructing powerful and successful teams.

 

How To Boost Happiness At Work

Most of us tend to take care of our happiness in our private lives but that’s not always a priority at work. Maybe because happiness in the workplace is not always seen as a serious topic? Although studies prove differently. To facilitate this 1-hour interactive session, Aurelie Litynski, Happiness at Work expert and TEDx Speaker will exchange and inspire you on how to apply positive psychology in business and create a positive work culture.