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As you no doubt know, there's a lot on everyone's plates. This fun and interactive wellness program gives your group tools from the latest science to manage it all while keeping mind, body, and attention in top condition. Employees learn how to keep overwhelm and stress at bay and build mental health, wellbeing, and better balance. 

Health is wealth. When your group has it, there's more focus, less conflict, fewer distractions, fewer medical bills, more job satisfaction and higher engagement. The Work Smarter Live Better program has your team covered, building new skills from mind management to time management, stress management, health management, and home management.

Inspire, energize, and recharge your group with solutions they need to thrive in challenging times. The program shows how to make adjustments to how we think, react, and do our tasks that make us more effective and less subject to stress and frenzy.

Participants learn how to manage pressure, multiple demands, devices, deadlines, and refuel the chief productivity tool: attention. They also learn how to put that attention on life outside work, find balance at home, develop refueling activities after work, increase optimism in their outlook, and build the keys to a gratified life. It’s a work- and life-changing experience that gives them tools they can use for a lifetime. They will be inspired!

Takeaways

• How to manage demands and pressure, instead of having them manage you
• Multiple stress reduction and wellness practices to promote mental health and sustainable wellbeing
• How to control email overload, message apps, and distractions
• How to manage emotions, reactions, worries, and thinking traps
• How to build resilience through the science of optimism and positive emotions
• Top strategies to recharge life, balance, and wellbeing and activate the fullest life

Stress and burnout are at all-time highs, reports Gallup, but when you turn off the danger signal that triggers stress, the stress response stops in three minutes. Knowing how to do that may be the best takeaway your team ever got from a conference. 

Is your dog still barking two months after a stranger dog walked on your sidewalk? No way. That's why your dog is smarter than you are. He drops the incident as soon as it’s over. Humans hang on to the stressful event, and that's what causes our stress. This program shows how to be as savvy as a spaniel, by dropping stress like an old chew toy, reframing, defusing, contesting, and disputing the bogus overreactions of a brain that thinks it’s 100,000 B.C.

Your group learns how to navigate pressure, workload, deadlines, difficult people and conversations, bounce back from negative events, prevent burnout, and build resilience. This is the missing manual we never got on how not to take the bait of stress.

Takeaways

• How to manage stress, pressure, and overwhelm, and prevent burnout

• How not to take the bait of stress by looking at the thought that causes it, not from it 

• How to leave work stress at work through the science of work recovery

• Multiple stress reduction tools to build resilience and manage any challenge

Kick off a very happy new year with an inspiring employee training series crucial to building mental health and wellbeing, driving engagement, and working smarter: The Wellness Toolkit, a series of 12 monthly training programs. Each program in this virtual series brings your group science-based strategies that solve pain points and build skills—from pressure management solutions to the power of Motivation 2.0 to mental toughness, resilience, optimism, attention, grit, and keys to gratification at work and home.

Each month, the series gives your team takeaways they can put to work immediately—and that show your commitment to health, wellness, and development. The programs feature a PowerPoint presentation, interactive discussion, and an exercise workbook. The Wellness Toolkit covers the full range of issues your group faces

• Best Mental Health Tools: Not Taking the Bait of Stress: Your team gets proven practices they can use to quickly shut down stress, from techniques great for situational stress to more complex challenges. The goal is to make sure we are looking at stressful thoughts and not from them. It’s just a thought.

• The Drive That Makes You Thrive: Motivation 2.0: Studies show that intrinsic motivation is what we need to do our best work, most difficult work, find happiness, and satisfy our core psychological needs. It’s also one of the best ways to increase employee engagement and teamwork.
• Managing Crazy-Busy Work: Time Management Essentials: The constant need to rush whether something is urgent or not is a huge driver of stress, mistakes, conflict, and shredded impulse control. Savvy time management and prioritization can stop the frenzy and improve focus and wellbeing.
• Mental Toughness: Building Resilience to Any Challenge: Negative events, setbacks, and difficulties can knock us back on our heels. The false beliefs and thinking traps they set off create worst-case stories. We learn from the science how to bounce back with the best resilience and grit-building measures.
• Boosting Working Memory & Attention in a Distraction Derby: Working memory, or short-term memory, which is what we use to get anything done, can only hold on to three or four thought chunks for only a few seconds. Interruptions blow up that tenuous hold. We get game-changing strategies here to reclaim focus.
• Unleash the Engine of Success: Optimism: Optimists close more sales, get more promotions, make more money, and live longer. The best company performers have a positive-to-negative emotion ratio of 6 to 1. We learn the strategies at the heart of optimism’s success at work, home, and in life.
• Discover and Deploy Your Top Character Strengths: We all have a hidden reserve of will and skill that we can turn to when demands test us. University of Pennsylvania researchers identified 24 core character strengths. We identify our top strengths and how they support us when the going gets tough.
• Avoiding, Preventing, and Recovering from Burnout: Burnout is the last stage of chronic stress, a three-way shutdown—mind, body, and emotions. The program helps your team identify the signs of burnout, avoid burnout triggers, and rebuild emotional, mental, and physical resources.
• The Refueling Principle: Best Recharging and Refueling Strategies: The brain is not a battering ram. It’s a muscle. Like an exhausted muscle, it needs to be rested and revitalized when it’s spent. We learn how to refuel attention and focus through the best practices from the science of work recovery.
• Get Unburied: Email & Interruption Management: The flood of messaging is growing, thanks to more and more message apps, from Slack to Teams. This critical program shows how we can reduce email overload, manage notifications, and spay and neuter the electronic rabbit of email.
• Happiness and the Skills of Satisfaction: This inspirational program takes us through the latest science of wellbeing to the heart of where happiness lives—and where it doesn’t. We learn where gratification comes from and how to activate it through engagement and intrinsic goals.
• Don’t Miss Your Life: Activating the Fullest Life: This crucial program shows how, through skills such as initiating and sustaining activities, planning, and interactive participation in experiences, which make us happier than material things, we can get life, family, friends, and me-time on the calendar

Studies show that employees who are intrinsically motivated are continuously interested in the work they are doing. That absorption and interest are the engines of employee engagement, which has been shown to triple shareholder return.

Give your organization the tools to unleash the extra effort in every employee. Drive self-initiative, trust, purpose, and results. Employee engagement can't be commanded, only enabled. This program shows how to do that by unleashing the little-known but most potent motivational system, Motivation 2.0, and the power of intrinsic motivation.

Takeaways

• How to use intrinsic motivation to drive optimal experience and full absorption in the moment 

• How to identify the right work goals needed for intrinsic motivation—excellence, service, craft, challenge

• Rationales that promote perceived choice and willing engagement

• Key strategies to unleash self-initiative

Are information overload, interruptions, and distractions driving attention and productivity south? Get tools from this timely program proven to increase focus, manage distractions, and get more done.

Unbounded interruptions and intrusions erode impulse control and focus. The more you check email, the more you have to check it. You lose the ability to regulate impulsivity for not just email-checking, but also for Jim Beam, Sara Lee, or any other habit you don’t want. Control the crazy with strategies from the latest research.

Takeaways

• How interruptions shred your impulse control and discipline, and how to manage them

• Why multitasking thinking tasks is a myth, which we demonstrate in a fun exercise from the University of Michigan's David Meyer

• How rushing fuels stress and mistakes and why we need to be quick but not hurry

• Top time management tools, from the next physical action to base camps to order chaos and your priorities

Scientists have found exactly what makes humans happy, but it isn't what we think. This inspirational program breaks down the skills we need to increase gratification, the long-term version of happiness.

Discover the strategies that create an extraordinary life. Some 60% of our potential happiness we have no control over. It's how we use the other 40% that makes the difference. Lift your audience sky-high with this popular program.

Takeaways

• The 7 key life skills needed for an extraordinary life

• How to satisfy the brain’s chief goals for long-term fulfillment: novelty and challenge

• The 3 Core Needs you have to satisfy to be gratified and the under-the-radar goal structure necessary to make it happen

• Why experiences make you happier than material things