Learned helplessness is the condition of a person who has learned to behave helplessly, failing to respond even though there are opportunities for it to help itself by avoiding unpleasant circumstances or by gaining positive rewards. It results from a perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation, leading to depression in individuals and crippling inaction within an organization. This session/workshop is designed to highlight the stealthy way this condition blunts effectiveness, breaks communication, and strangles productivity, while offering strategies for empowering employees and affecting change in a positive manner.
In this illuminating course we will explore these problems:
- The cost of organizational learned helplessness!
- Controlling the story instead of solving the problem!
- “Kill the messenger” management!
- Lack of cooperation among team members!
- Adolescent behavior and deflecting blame!
- The lost art of conversation!
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, attendees will learn:
- Assessing the state of things in an honest manner!
- The value of empowering individuals!
- The power of across the board accountability!
- Methods for getting from planning to action!
- How to drive employee engagement!
- Overcoming obstacles to a collaborative environment!
Who Should Participate?
Anyone and HR Professionals who want to discover what learned helplessness is, what it costs, and what to do about it. This is also a highly educational course for anyone wanting to put to practice the tools of empowerment and work beyond this often-unacknowledged condition.
Understanding how learned helplessness affects us in every facet of life, and how to move beyond it, will lead to better communication, collaboration, profits and people.
Presenter Anil Saxena is a seasoned leadership and transformation consultant who works with leaders to create, launch, sell, and implement successful transformation initiatives. For 20 years, he has served leaders at privately held, public sector, not-for-profit, and Fortune 300 organizations in most industries, including communications, consumer products, education, manufacturing, medical, pharmaceutical, publishing, and retail. Saxena’s clients include Stihl, BP, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Campbell’s, Underwriters Laboratories, Walgreens, DeVry, Johnson Financial, Hollister, Hospira, Pepsico, Leo Burnett, Safer Foundation, University of Illinois at Chicago, Discover, and many others.
Program Fees:
Members Cost: $25.00
Non-Members Cost: $40.00
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Date: April 13, 2016
Time: 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Location: Medtronic, 2343 West Medtronic Way
