[IEEE-bhpjobs] WITI meeting May 15 - Positive Core and Strengths for Technical Professionals

[Esther L]

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Subject: 	Positive Core and Strengths for Technical Professionals
Date: 	15 Apr 2008 11:48:27 -0700
From: 	info at corp.witi.com (WITI RTP)
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<ttp://www.witi.com/"> 	*WITI Research Triangle Park Presents:*

*Thursday, May 15, 2008
6:15pm*

Many people are unhappy at work. They feel under-appreciated and
overworked. They do not regularly use their strengths. In fact, many
people don’t really know what their strengths are. They often believe
there is nothing they can do to make things better.

It does not have to be this way. The field of Positive Psychology
suggests simple behavior changes that individuals can use to make the
workplace more engaging. They don’t have to wait for people in power to
make changes. With practice, these changes can become habitual. People
also find them beneficial at home with the family.

Kathryn Britton presents an approach developed with several teams in a
large multi-national information technology corporation. The approach
starts with group discussions of questions such as: What gives life to
your organization at its best? What do you most value about your
organization and about yourself at work? What dreams do you have for its
future vitality? Out of these questions comes a picture of the group’s
positive core.

Starting from this often surprising view of personal and group strength,
a group can figure out how to apply a set of empirically validated
positive interventions, including intentionally increasing positive
emotion, establishing conditions that make it easier for people to
become highly absorbed in their work, increasing resilience to setbacks
through positive reframing, maintaining high-quality connections, and
responding effectively to good outcomes with capitalization and process
praise.

Groups often regain a sense of control by applying these interventions.
Kathryn describes the interventions briefly, illustrating them with
stories from personal experiences helping people in a technical
corporation put them into practice. Come and discover your positive core
and strengths.

*Speaker(s):*
Kathryn Britton

For more details, please visit:
http://www.witi.com/rtp/meeting.php?id!91
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Event Date and Venue
This event will be held from 6:15pm on Thursday, May 15, 2008 at:

       Biaggi's Restorante Italiano
       1060 Darrington Drive
       Cary, North Carolina 27513

Schedule:
6:15-7:10 Registration, Networking and Dinner*
7:15-7:45 Speaker
7:45-8:00- Questions and Answers
8:15-8:30 Session Evaluation and Raffle
8:30 Adjourn

(* Dinner included in registration fee).

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