This seminar for young business graduates examines the elements of brain research, success principles and strategies for maximum happiness, fulfillment and productivity
4. The Day’s Agenda
• Outcomes and structure
• Commitments
• Note taking and materials
• Refreshments and lunch
• Contact information
•Email: ray@raywilliamsassociates.com
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14. Values
Your values are those things to
which you have a strong
emotional commitment and that
which you value above other
things.
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Values:
Are a compass to help us navigate
through life
Can reflect moral and ethical principles
or not
Helps you in making crucial decisions
Can assist you in aligning your beliefs
with your behavior
Can strengthen the body-heart-mindspirit connection
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21. Values Preference Indicator
Step 1: Rank the values from 1, most
important to 21 , least important, to
you in the present time
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22. Values Preference Indicator
Step 2: On page 4 score each value
against the others in each square, with
1 being most important and 5 being
the least important
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23. Values Preference Indicator
Step 3: Transfer scores from page 4 to
page 5 for each value and total score
each square.
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24. Values Preference Indicator
Step 4: On page 7 write down write
down the top 10 values from the lowest
score to the highest (lowest is 5,
highest is 25) from page 5
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25. Values Preference Indicator
Instructions
Step 5: On page 7, make your final list of
values in column 3, based on your review of
columns 1 and 2
STOP and await further instructions
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27. Working with Different People
What are the characteristics of those individuals you
find easiest to work with? Why?
What are the characteristics of those individuals you
find the most difficult to work with? Why?
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28. Personality Development Factors
Bio Physical
Influences
Self Worth
Levels
Personal Style
Preferences
Emotional
Anchors
Environmental
Systems
Social
Teachers
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29. Your Personal Style is your Natural
Predisposition Towards:
Time, People, Tasks and Situations.
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30. Personal Style is the part of your personality
that does not change throughout life.
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31. Personal Style: Main Concepts
Everyone has all 4 personal style dimensions to
varying degrees
Each style has strengths and limitations
Our strongest preferences and needs are often
our biggest blocks to developing ourselves
Personal Style is only one part of your Personality
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32. Personal Style is not related to:
IQ
Morality
Ability
Health
Appearance
Culture
Gender
Family
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34. Personal Style Indicator
Not a test
No right or wrong answers
No better or worse results – just different
There is a right way to complete the assessment
Follow the instructions
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35. Personal Style Indicator
Score 4 as most like you and 1 the least like you
and 2 and 3 appropriately in between.
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36. Transfer scores to pages 6 and 7Graph
B
C
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A
Behavioural
Action
Cognitive
Analysis
Interpersonal
Harmony
Affective
Expression
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37. Style Flexibility
1 Dimension Over 40 =
2 Dimensions Over 40 =
3 Dimensions Over 40 =
4 Dimensions Even
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38. “B” Behavioral - Tendencies
Facial expressions hard to read
Does not show emotions easily or often
Impatient with loss of time, delays
Energy experience: forceful, powerful, aloof
Very active physically, doing many things
Makes decisions quickly, no hesitation
Works hard, long hours - expects the same
Silent type, doesn’t talk much - expects the same
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39. B – Behavioural / Action
Typical Strengths:
Common Difficulties:
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Acts rapidly to get results
Driven to achieve personal goals
High endurance under stress
Confident in positions of authority
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Can be too forceful or impatient
Can often think their way is best/only
way
Can be insensitive to needs of others
Can often under-communicate with
others
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40. Behavioral Action
High Need For:
Challenge
Independence
Power
Responsibility
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41. Behavioural Action
Respond Best To:
Summarized facts
Direct, honest confrontation
Support for their goals
People who are efficient and
effective in getting results
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42. ―C‖ Cognitive - Tendencies
Facial expressions - very obvious, frowning
Shows anger quickly, tends to hold grudges
Values being on time - expects the same
Energy experience - nervous, talks fast
Verbal challengers, critical, opinionated
Mentally active, very perceptive, “thinkers”
Works 9-5 and leaves for home
Loyal employees, good systems builders
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43. C – Cognitive / Analysis
Typical Strengths:
• Acts cautiously to avoid errors
• Masterful at focusing on details
• Works to ensure quality control
• Critical observers with insightful
perceptions
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Common Difficulties:
• Can get bogged down in details
• Can be too critical or negative
• Can be too controlling
• Can be unrealistic in expectations of
self/others
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45. Cognitive Analysis
Respond Best To:
Detailed information
Respect for their opinion
Systematic and proven
approaches
Tasks done well and completely
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46. ―I‖ Interpersonal - Tendencies
Facial expressions - small smiles, attentive
Quiet, does not talk often or for long, shy
Very patient with others, forgiving
Energy experience: gentle, kind, calm, placid
Consistent workers, steady not fast
Gets very stressed in conflict situations
Doesn’t talk much but loves to listen to others
Makes decisions slowly, needs time
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47. I – Interpersonal / Harmony
Typical Strengths:
Common Difficulties:
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Promotes harmony and balance
Reliable and consistent workers
Flexible to other’s needs
Compassionate care-givers
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Can be too easy-going and trusting
Can be taken advantage of
Tend to take care of others rather than
self
Can become stubborn if unappreciated
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49. Interpersonal Harmony
Respond Best To:
Appreciation for their efforts
Non-threatening approaches
Thoughtfulness for others
Honesty and trust
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50. ―A‖ Affective - Tendencies
Facial expressions - big smiles, laughing
Very verbal, talks to everyone, often loud
Has trouble keeping time commitments
Energy experience: creative, funny, upbeat
Lots of ideas for changing, improving
Over promises and under delivers
Has trouble focusing on one thing for long
Learns experientially, not auditory (ear)
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52. Affective Expression
Respond Best To:
Admiration for their
achievements
Unstructured environments
Affection and communication
Opportunities to creatively
influence
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53. A – Affective / Expressive
A – Affective / Expression
Typical Strengths:
Accepting of others
Intuitive problem solvers
Creatively influences people
Excel at networking with
others
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Common Difficulties:
• Can easily lose track of time
• Can be unreliable in keeping promises
• Can have a low commitment to detail
• Can have a high need to be the centre
of attention
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54. Read you style type descriptions on pages 7,
9, 11, and 18
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55. Personal Style Exercise
Discuss, as a group, your greatest Personal
style strengths.
Discuss, as a group, your greatest Personal
style challenges.
What do you need to do to improve your
Personal and Business Effectiveness?
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56. Either you control Your Personal Style or
Your Personal Style will control you!
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62. Success: My Definition
Success is being, doing, and having
what makes you happy and fulfilled
without doing harm to yourself or
others. It is the process of aligning
meaning, emotion, spirituality, thought
and action that is at the heart of success
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63. The Success IQ Program: Traits
and Habits of Super Successful
People
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64. What Do Successful People Do Differently?
A Partial List
1. They are clear about what is important to
them (values)
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65. What Do Successful People Do Differently?
2. They know how to amplify their personal
power by:
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Focusing on their strengths not weaknesses
Managing energy not time
Use both intentions and goals effectively
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66. What Do Successful People Do Differently?
3. Take 100% responsibility for their life:
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Banish bad habits
Don’t act like victims
Are resilient
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67. What Do Successful People Do Differently?
4. : Have strong passionate beliefs:
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Inspire themselves
Have a compelling vision
Don’t follow the crowd
Are action oriented
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69. What is Happiness?
Write down your definition of happiness
Recall the happiest time you’ve ever had in
life
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70. Happiness Quiz
•Which of the following would significantly
increase your level of happiness?
1. An intimate
relationship
2. A better job
3. A better house
4. A more attractive
spouse
5. A baby
6. Looking Younger
7. Being better
looking
8. Losing weight
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9. Your child
excelling at school
10. Cure from chronic
illness or disability
11. More money
12 More time to do
the things you
want to do
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73. Characteristics of
Happy People (2)
5. They savor life’s pleasures and live in the
present
6. They are clear about their
values/purpose in
life
7. They are resilient
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74. Resilience
Resilience and the ability to overcome
adversity and obstacles has been
positively correlated with greater
happiness and success.
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86. What can failure teach you?
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You always have choices
Humility
How to survive
How to learn
Accepting the laws of impermanence and
entropy
6. Reframing your thinking of failure as experience
and ―just is.‖
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87. Success, Failure and Motivation
How do they relate to each other?
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88. What does research tell us about motivation?
1. Extrinsic rewards (the carrot) or
punishment (the stick) reduces intrinsic
motivation, doesn’t lead to lasting
behavior, and negatively affects
performance (Kohn)
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89. What does research tell us about motivation?
2. True motivation boils down to three elements:
autonomy (desire to direct our own lives)
mastery (desire to continually improve at
something that matters)
purpose (the desire to do something
larger than ourselves)
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90. What does research tell us about motivation?
3. While another person can inspire or influence
you, they cannot motivate you. Only you can
motivate you.
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93. The elements of influence and persuasion
1. Non-verbal communication and body
language
2. Rapport
3. Verbal and written language
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94. How are these people
demonstrating influence
and persuasion?
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101. Influence and Persuasion:
Research-1
1. Body movements are controlled by
unconscious mind, so non-verbal
messages are not conscious
2. There is no direct correlation between
personality and behaviors of
unconscious and those of conscious
mind unless you have been trained to
be mindful and intentional
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102. Influence and Persuasion:
Research-2
3. The conscious mind is more
influenced by words and the
unconscious by non-verbal
4. Non-verbal communication includes
body language, facial
expressions, movement, touch, distan
ce, eye contact, voice characteristics.
Verbal is spoken and written words
5. Women are more sensitive to body
language than men
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103. Influence and Persuasion:
Research-3
6. Your eyes are your most powerful nonverbal tool
• Dilated pupils seen as more
attractive than contracted
• Increased blinking rate shows
either anxiety/deception or lack of
attention
7. Your face is the best communicator of
emotions: >40 facial muscles for frown
only 14 for smile
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104. Influence and Persuasion:
Research-4
8. Smiling is one of the most powerful
influence techniques. Fake smiles use only
the mouth, real smiles use the eyes. Smiling
is contagious and signals friendship and
warmth, non-threat
8. Arm and hand gestures: Large and slow arm
movements are more influential ; palms up
hands are less threatening
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105. Influence and Persuasion:
Research-4
10. Posture: erect postures are positively
correlated with confidence, but differences
according to visual, auditory, kinesthetic
11. Voice: includes tone, pitch, volume, tempo,
emotion, clarity, vocabulary
12. Space: intimate: body to 18 inches; personal18 inches to 4 feet; social-12 feet and beyond
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106. Influence and Persuasion:
Research-5
13. Handshakes: The worst: wet fish, vise or
bone-crunch, finger tip, pump handle. The
best—be on right side, eye contact pump only
twice, hand on top for dominance
14. Rules for reading body language:
• Read gestures in clusters
• Look for congruence between words and
body language
• Read gestures in context
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107. Influence and Persuasion:
Magic Words
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Because
Now
Imagine
Please and thank you
Any word that persuades the
other person they are in control
• Dangerous
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113. How to make a powerful first
impression
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114. How to make a powerful first
impression
1. Open your attitude (positive mind
space)
2. Open your body language
3. Make eye contact real
4. Make real smile with eyes and
mouth
5. Say hi or hello with pleasant tone
and introduce yourself
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115. How to make a powerful first
impression
6. Point your heart at the other
person
7. Extend handshake first
8. Lean forward
9. Make open body gestures slow
and deliberate
10.Stop talking, listen and watch
other person’s body language
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118. The brain's ability to reorganize itself by
forming new neural connections
throughout life. Neuroplasticity allows the
neurons (nerve cells) to compensate for
injury and disease and to adjust their
activities in response to new situations or
to changes in their environment.
Neuroplasticity allows the brain to learn
new things throughout life up until death.
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127. Fundamental Principles for Living a Healthy and
Happy Life
1. Take responsibility for every thing that
happens in your life: be at cause and not in
effect.
Don’t act like a victim or use victim language.
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128. The language of responsibility
Indicate R (Responsible) or V (Victim)
1. I’m depressed because I got laid off/fired.
2. My relationship with my partner ended because
he/she didn’t respect me
3. I was late because I lost track of time and had too
many things to do
4. I did poorly on the exam because the professor is a
bad teacher
5. I didn’t get the job because the employer wanted
someone with more experience
6. I’m not good at ________ because I wasn’t born with
those abilities
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130. Fundamental Principles for Living a Healthy and
Happy Life
2. The map is not the territory—everyone has a
different perception of reality
We really don’t know what reality is, we only
know our own reality
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132. Fundamental Principles for Living a Healthy and
Happy Life
3. Perception is projection--the behavior of
people that we react strongly (negatively
and positively) are usually a projection of
something inside ourselves
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134. Fundamental Principles for Living a Healthy and
Happy Life
4. Emotions are the key driver to choices
and decisions in life, not logic and facts
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136. Fundamental Principles for Living a Healthy and
Happy Life
5. More analysis of past problems without
access to intuition does not lead to
better decisions
Focusing on desired outcomes and
behaviors is more effective than
ruminating over past mistakes or
problems
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137. Fundamental Principles for Living a Healthy and
Happy Life
6. The unconscious mind is a more
powerful force than the conscious mind
unless you know how to access and
control both
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138. Fundamental Principles for Living a Healthy and
Happy Life
7. The meaning of communication is what
you get back
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142. Are You Mindful?
1. I break or spill things, or bump into things
2. I run on automatic without being aware of what
I’m doing
3. I rush through things
4. I get so focused on what I need to do next, I lose
touch with what I’m doing now
5. I listen to someone with one ear, doing
something else at the same time
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143. Are You Mindful?
6. I often think about the past or future
7. I eat without being conscious of what I’m eating
8. I often get lost in my thoughts or feelings
9. My mind wanders off and I’m easily distracted
10. I drive my car on automatic pilot without paying
attention to where I am
11. I daydream or think of others things when doing
my chores or routine life activities
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144. Definitions of Mindfulness?
“Paying attention in a particular way, on
purpose, in the present moment and nonjudgmentally”
“Bringing one’s complete attention to the
present experience on a moment-to-moment
basis with a quality of compassion, acceptance
and loving kindness”
“Being aware of your internal thinking,
emotional and spiritual state while you are
involved in external events”
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145. Two Kinds of Interrelated Mindfulness
1. Formal mindfulness through
meditation
2. Informal everyday mindfulness during
all activities
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146. Key Elements of Mindfulness
1. Paying attention—focusing 100% of your
attention on what you are doing in that moment
2. Being in the present moment—being aware of
how things are in present time, not in the past or
thinking about the future
3. Being non-reactive—not reacting without
considered reflection to events or people, but
rather choosing how to respond
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147. Key Elements of Mindfulness
4. Beginner’s mind--observing the world, events
and people as if it were the first time you have
done so. This creates openness and curiosity
5. Acceptance—completely accepting the
thoughts, feelings, sensations and beliefs that
you have and understanding that they are those
things only, they are not necessarily you
(acceptance does not mean approval)
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148. Key Elements of Mindfulness
6. Non-attachment—avoiding attaching meaning
to your thoughts and feelings, or connecting a
specific thought to a feeling. Instead, let a
thought or feeling come in and pass without
connecting it anything, observing them as they
are. Non attachment also means not being
attached to your expectations which can result in
unhappiness and suffering
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149. Key Elements of Mindfulness
7. Non-striving—the state of not doing anything,
but simply accepting that things are happening
in the moment as they are regardless of what you
do. It just “is what it is.
8. Trust—having trust in your abilities, your
intuition, your capacity to survive anything
9. Patience—cultivating the belief that all things
develop in their own time, and nothing lasts
forever (principle of impermanence)
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150. Key Elements of Mindfulness
10. Open-heartedness and compassion—bringing
a quality of kindness, compassion, to our
experiences, and not slipping into
judgment and criticism
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153. The Power of Meditation
Since 2002: Increased cognitive function, stress
reduction, creative thinking, increased compassion
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