Training Managers to Behave - The Future of Work - TIME

Training Managers to Behave - The Future of Work - TIME

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Putting Fear In Its Place

Successful people also feel fear. Yet they don't let it get in the way of anything they want to do--or have to do. They understand that fear is something to be acknowledged, experienced, and taken along for the ride. They have learned, as author Susan Jeffers suggests in her must-read book, to "Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway®."

Fear is more of a signal that we should stay alert and cautious. We can feel fear, but we can still move forward anyway.

Think of fear as a 2-year-old child who doesn't want to go grocery shopping with you. Because you must buy groceries, you'll just have to take the two year old with you. Fear is no different. In other words, acknowledge that fear exists but don't let it keep you from doing important tasks.

Also realize that so many of our fears are self-created. We might frighten ourselves by fantasizing negative outcomes to any activity we might peruse or experience. Luckily, because we are the ones doing the fantasizing, we are also the ones who can stop the fear and bring ourselves into a state of clarity and peace by facing the actual facts, rather than giving in to our imaginations.

If a fear is too great for you to overcome, try breaking it down into smaller challenges.

Try starting out by doing the parts of the project that don't scare you so much. You need to give a speech in front of a large group? Try giving your speech in front of a small group of people who care for you. Work your way up until you are able to feel the fear but still move forward. As you do you will build your confidence and eventually you won't feel fear surrounding those issues because you'll have done them enough to count it as a skill.

As you move toward your goal, don't attach yourself so much to the outcomes.

Keep moving toward your dream doing everything you can to create what you want, then let it go and see what shows up. Sometimes the universe will have a better idea in mind for you and present a better opportunity when you were expecting something completely different. Don't let fear keep you from moving forward. Even if the horrible outcome that you imagined happens, the universe will always provide for you another way to succeed. So be on the look out!

Trust that no matter what occurs, you are smart enough and strong enough to keep looking for, and attracting, opportunities.

If you are willing to try new experiences in spite of your fears, then more new experiences will present themselves for you to try. And the more you try, the more you are likely to succeed!

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Jack Canfield, America's #1 Success Coach, is founder of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul© and a leading authority on Peak Performance and Life Success. If you're ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: www.FreeSuccessStrategies.com

When The Rain Comes . . .

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• Develop your leaders
• Inspire your team
• Weather your life's storms

How will we at SBVC weather the storms . . . ?

Welcome The Rain

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Vitamins for the Mind by Jim Rohn

Concentration

--The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

--When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.

--Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of attention.

--On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.

--Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

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Classified Staff Days!

This is one of many professional development activities planned for the campus. The sessions will focus on technology and career management.


Classified Staff Days!
May 26, 27 and 28, 2009


Tuesday, May 26, 2009
10 a.m. - 12 noon
Overview of Office 2007
HLS 231

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2-4 p.m.
Examining Your Strengths
HLS 231


Wednesday, May 27, 2009
10 a.m. - 12 noon
Examining Your Strengths
HLS 231

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2-4 P.M.
Overview of Office 2007
HLS 231


Thursday, May 28, 2009
10 a.m. - 12 noon
Career Management & Coaching
Managing Your Career in Times of Transition
LA 202

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2:00-3:30 p.m.
4CS Vice President, Russ Hamilton
The Role of Classified Staff and Shared Governance


Thursday, June 4, 2009
Softball Game & BBQ


Please help by encouraging your classified staff to participate in one or more of these activities. The sessions have been staggered to accommodate office staffing.

--Members of the Professional Development Committee

Professional Development Planning Retreat

The Professional Development Committee met on May 8th for its annual planning retreat. There were several group activities, a check-in/check-out breathing tips by Andee Alsip, and a "making connections" activity which revealed the committees strengths, weaknesses plus things in between . . .

Stressed Out? Check out these short video clips to "de-stress at the workplace.

The planning retreat turned out a lot of good ideas to use as we move into the next academic year and how professional development will fit into it all. More upcoming!