Soft Skills
Self -Empowerment training needs to go well beneath the surface of behavioural skills alone because self -empowerment is an inside job. This means the traditional event led training in not the answer. We learn at the level of the heart and the head. We learn through self-awareness, authentic reflection, honest feedback, through exploring our boundaries and expanding our limitations. We can’t act it. We have to be it.
These skills are developed through commitment to daily habits, to personal enquiry, through mediation, journaling, vision mapping and goal setting and through feedback with others. The best way to train these is a blend of workshops, month to month goal setting and daily journaling, buddying for feedback through-out the process and mentoring.
It is the inner discipline of committing to an ongoing process – a Kaizen approach of small steps and gradual changes. This is about learning tools and using them – every day. Simply, it works if we put in the work.
When individuals within an organisation are empowered, attitudes change, people start to care more and say what they really think instead of what they think they should say. In this way problems are not suppressed but discussed openly with a view to finding sustainable and honest solutions. This is an ongoing process as it takes time for our brains to restructure and set new pathways yet about three to six months of daily work can build tangible results. Self-empowerment encourages interdependence and reciprocity and engagement which are the foundation stone for any evolved organisation.
Catherine is a consultant facilitator, coach and trainer with over 25 years’ experience of working within organisations, governments, schools and private enterprises.
Catherine is the founder and Director of Empower Your Life Skills Ltd established in 2010. With offices based in Covent Garden, Central London, this niche consultancy delivers bespoke empowerment solutions for individuals and organisations.