Owning Your IT

Course Description

Type: One week/five consecutive eight-hour days When conversations stall or tension takes over, it’s rarely about the topic. It’s about the habits behind it. Owning Your IT helps you uncover the behavioral patterns that silently drive your reactions, relationships, and results—especially when emotions run high. Through interactive exercises, self-reflection, and visual “bookmarks,” you’ll learn to spot your triggers, shift your mindset in real time, and communicate with clarity and composure. This experiential workshop blends humor, honesty, and hands-on practice to take the next step from self-awareness to confident, compassionate communication. You’ll leave with practical tools to improve how you lead, listen, and respond—in your work, your relationships, and your daily life. Expect less lecture, more doing—and immediate, lasting impact. Day 1 – Awareness: Understanding Your Habits Explore how mindset shapes communication and behavior. Identify your default reactions under pressure—like stonewalling—and develop awareness of the patterns that influence your tone, timing, and decisions. Day 2 – Recognition: Naming What You Notice Learn to identify emotional triggers and motivations—your own and others’. Practice labeling what’s really happening beneath the surface to improve clarity and composure in difficult moments—like when a colleague rejects your idea. Day 3 – Agency: Regaining Control and Choice Build skills to pause, reframe, and redirect conversations before they derail. Strengthen emotional intelligence and mindset agility through guided practice and real-world scenarios—like when someone minimizes your feelings. Day 4 – Application: Communicating with Intention Use structured tools to stay clear, curious, and collaborative under stress. Practice language shifts—from being defensive to instituting strategic silence— that encourage problem-solving and reduce defensiveness. Day 5 – Integration: Owning Your IT Bring all concepts together through experiential exercises. Apply your custom communication “toolbelt” to real situations you bring to class and leave with strategies for sustaining growth and composure long after class ends.