Tired of exhausted under motivated employees that hate to come to work? Tired of a workplace where people are stressed out silently cursing their boss and avoiding work, hurting profitability? Then Goal Enhanced Gain is for you. It is designed to enhance profitability by enhancing employees’ motivation and energy towards assigned task. It’s simple and easy to grasp. Composed of five tools to improve employees’ self image allowing them to identify their innate motivations and passions and giving them a means to water them during work. Progress requires ritually doing four activities, for three weeks, to form five habits for success. During this process employees master mental and physical health enhancing tools, allowing more energy for work. This makes for happier more productive employees. The program’s core elements are:
- Flexibility and Strength
- Cardiovascular Health
- Personal Goal Link Assessment
- Basic Nutrition
- Visualization (Mental Exercise)
By committing to this program you will gain:
- Improved moral and communication
- Improved thinking/ mental capacity
- Enhanced energy, and competitive zest
- Improved work product
- Enhanced productivity
- Greater profitability
Program Rationale:
This course introduces techniques that when practiced daily will help to maximize productivity. Benefits can include: enhanced enthusiasm, team work, promptness, focus and concentration, innovation, and diminished employee burn-out.
Further employees gain a greater sense of happiness and well being by providing the ability to identify the intersection between their daily tasks and their personal gifts, personalizing their connection to work an care and passion for caring it out. Additionally, they obtain stress management skills.
The course work includes relaxation and visualization technique, general nutrition guidelines, and thought tracking for developing self-talk that is consistent to overcoming negative thought and countering depression.
Why focusing on your mind rather than merely your body is essential to your success
Today in our lives, stress levels are extremely high due to a number of factors. We therefore experience burnout, a product of too much stress for too long. Because of this burnout we become fatigued and we tend to be less productive both in our relationships and in our work. Many work spaces have focused on wellness programs focusing on physical fitness, but mental fitness often plays a major role in our success in life and the workplace. In this course we will focus on the mental advantage attainable through practicing a suite of daily tasks designed to enhance efficiency, productively, enabling best work product improving an organization’s profitability.
In this course you will learn to do a form of self-monitoring; what a psychologist named, Daniel J. Siegel calls “mindsight.” In The Social Animal, by David Brooks, the process you will undergo is described as: ‘triggering an inner self that can dominate your behavior.’ All you will have to do is to focus your attention on that inner self. He writes, “Those who have habits and strategies to control their attention can control their lives.” (Brooks, pg.131) Being successful in life is about managing your thoughts, focusing your attention and being able to take the right action at the right time.
According to George Mumford, a meditation teacher who has worked with several athletic teams like Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers, “meditation increases an athlete’s chances of being in the zone, or playing at the highest level possible. This is because meditation heightens your mindfulness, or awareness, which permits you to immerse yourself to a greater degree in your surroundings and see what must be done at any given time.” How does Meditation Help Athletes?, Jen Morel, 2011. This is also true of anyone in the game of life.
In the article How She Did It: Oprah’s Success Factors, it states: “Oprah’s single-minded focus allowed her to concentrate all of her time and energy into achieving the life of her dreams.” In 7 Steps to Making Better Decisions, it states: “Decision making is intrinsically linked to our emotions, so much so that when a person suffers damage to her orbital frontal cortex—a part of the brain just behind the eyes that’s strongly involved in processing emotions—she can lose her decision-making ability entirely.” In Mental Advantage you learn to control your emotions and the speech that accompanies them, to move you closer to you and organization achievement goals.
Dr. Oz and most health professionals have identified the connection between good nutrition and a healthy mind. In Mental Advantage you will receive general nutrition guidelines that will assist you in sharpening your mind’s focus to achieve goals.
For this course to be effective you must first do the exercises diligently, consistently, and fully. Your attitude and perseverance will determine your level of success. This course is not the end of the process of gaining control over your mind. It is the beginning. Upon graduating you will have the tools needed to succeed. However, you must continue to hone them by practicing the exercises to challenge and grow your mastery of the skills.
Course Objectives:
- Participants will master specific relaxation and visualization techniques that allow them to focus their mind effectively in a single task. This will give them a mental advantage leading to success in reaching goals.
- Participants will use some basic nutritional guidelines to enhance the effects of the techniques learned and improve physical health.
- Participants will learn to recognize positive self-talk that is consistent with goals and control negative self-talk that takes them away from reaching goals.
- Employee gaining the ability to see what their gifts are and how they relate to the tasks they do, making all tasks, even menial ones, meaningful. Promotes motivation by training mental association of tasks to personal talents/ passions.
Course Requirements:
- Minimum One Year Commitment- Practice must be consistent during the year to reach your potential and achieve success. You will gain the mental tools necessary to give you a “mental advantage”in further understanding yourself and how to energize your person for enthusiastic performance. This will enable you to optimize contribution and work achievement.
- Course is a 52 week course. Weeks 1 -3 will be gaining introduction to relaxation, visualization and thought tracking techniques. During the first week you will also be introduced to the nutrition guidelines that you will need to keep in mind throughout the course. In the subsequent weeks you will have daily practice using the techniques described and practiced in the first three weeks.
- During the entire course, you are required to keep three journals: One for logging daily food intake, one for a daily log of your thoughts, and the last journal logs how many minutes you spend mediating and visualizing your goal.
- Additional opportunities to enrich your experience will be offered such as readings, activities, and specific web sites that enhance your mental advantage.
Personalizing the Program Structure
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You may structure Mental Advantage to be completed by each of your employees individually, as partners, or in small groups of four, depending on the culture of your organization. Working in small groups or as partners has the added benefit of establishing support systems to view the videos and discuss progress. This tends to build upon the social structure already existing in the organizations and natural leaders emerge to keep employees on schedule and energized about the program. When done as individuals, consistent reminders of course assignments for the week included in newsletters and bulletins can accomplish the same result, so that employees feel a team spirit throughout the program.