Take control of your executive growth through behavioral science
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Combining your executive skills with effective behavioral skills for excellence
You’re good at your job—but your want to be better. Have better focus, get better results, execute better leadership moves, and just feel more effective. In other words, the stakes for success are high. And so is the stress. Business decisions and actions need to happen even when stress and pressure present barriers to success. What skills do you need to be sure you can consistently execute?
A Different Approach for Engaging with Your Career
Acceptance and Commitment Training or ACTraining is a tool suite that fosters psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility is the ability to persevere or change your behavior to achieve the desired outcomes, even when the action is difficult. You might call it grit or resolve or crisis management. It is the characteristic that allows you to keep going when you want to quit.
Psychological flexibility is not something you have or don’t have--it is something you can learn. And more importantly, it is something that you can get good at, so you don’t have to struggle to stay engaged with your career when there are setbacks.
Key Components of ACT
There are three basic steps in ACT with six integrated components to add to your tool belt for success. Don’t let the steps overwhelm you: it’s an approach that is easy to learn and can be applied to any setting--your job, your home, your relationships, your future goals! Once you know how to think about your role in the world differently, you will interact with your world differently--and better.
3+6=
A- You need to be able to Accept and identify those certain things—like your boss, your coworkers, your corporate environment, the market-- are out of your control, but your ACTIONS are in your control
C- You need to CHOOSE actions that are consistent with your plan of action and COMMIT to engaging in those actions
T-You need to TAKE ACTION, even when it is not comfortable and you want to avoid the engagement.
THE ACT DIFFERENCE:
Based in behavioral science, so the results are predictable
Innovative skillset that applies to every role your will have now and in the future
Cutting edge tools with clear and defined action points
Not another business jargon filled implementation—a behavioral effectiveness plan
ACT your way to your best career
A combination of consulting and coaching with the extra benefit of science in action
ACT presents a tool suite of behavioral power skills that increase your execution effectiveness especially when the stakes and the stress are high. In other words, when it is the hardest to do your job and you need to do it well, ACT kicks in with the tools that let you excel.
ACT gives you the tools to:
Adapt to change quickly and easily
Deal with distractions and setbacks
Reverse and eliminate burnout
Gain a competitive edge
Elevate your leadership effectiveness
Eliminate ineffective effort that makes you feel stuck
Sharpen your power skills to stand out
How Does ACT Work?
Move away from avoidance and towards action
ACTraining represents a change in how you talk to yourself and how you act. It’s a reframing process that frees you to act in the way that you want to meet your values and goals. ACTtraining turns negative emotions on their head and let’s you have more control over how you act. Instead of avoiding engaging you life, you learn to embrace it, negative feelings and all.
How it happens?
1. Evaluating the past strategies
You’ve tried all kinds of ways to address your stress, but it’s still there and impacts your life. The first step is to evaluate the things that you have been avoiding and understand all the triggers that keep your from engaging and cause psychological harm.
2. Identify why it doesn’t work
It’s not your life that’s hopeless, it’s your strategies. The way humans generally address psychological stress makes it worse. The more we avoid negative feelings, the more negative feelings we have about ourselves.
3. Identify your values
Choose a direction that you want your life to go and make a plan to go that way. Connect to your values and understand why you want to act. Gain meaning in what you are doing by purposefully connecting to self-chosen values.
4. Re-establish control of your emotions with new strategies
Learn different ways of addressing your stress and negative feelings. Don’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
5. Separate yourself from your experiences
Learn strategies that let you see identify when your emotions threaten to create stress and anxiety and realign your thinking with your values.
6. Commit to the process
Take your identified values and goals and commit to pursuing them even and especially when it feels hard using the tools you’ve learned to give you control and power in your life.