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WRK101 Skills for the Future

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This workshop is based on the philosophy of education as presented by Howard Gardner. The principle underlying this course is to highlight the different types of skills, characteristics and values that form the foundation of a good student, citizen and human being in general. The course will include in addition to the 3-hour workshop, a pre- and a post- exercise. The pre-exercise is an icebreaker to engage students to think about their needs whereas the post exercise will be a letter written to their future selves.

WRK102 Your Inquisitive Mind

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The workshop is structured around three sets of activities, each of which will help students engage with an area of critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making. By the end of this workshop, students will have had a taster of some of the most important strategies that can be deployed to manage and develop their naturally inquisitive mind. Students will be encouraged to understand, embrace and celebrate their academic performance; and they will be challenged to be reflective and realistic about their potential and how they can help themselves achieve their best performance.

WRK103 Sneak Peek @ LAU & Beyond

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This workshop allows students to discover academic resources, tips, and strategies to get them started on the right path and to improve their academic achievement. It also helps them understand the different admission requirements for each major. Another goal of this workshop is to help students find an adequate major and clarify how they can benefit from Career Development Services while at LAU and after graduation.

WRK200H Emotional Intelligence I

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An introduction to understanding and applying emotional intelligence Emotional Intelligence is the ability to recognize and effectively manage our emotions as well as the emotions of others. As a result, emotional intelligence increases individual’s capacity to make good decisions, build relationships, and better deal with stress and change. The goal this workshop is to introduce the concept of emotional intelligence as well as give an overview of the components of Emotional Intelligence.

WRK201H Emotional Intelligence II

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An in-depth look into ways to improve emotional intelligence Pre or Co-requisite: Honors Program workshop H1 Emotional intelligence increases individual’s capacity to make good decisions, build relationships, and better deal with stress and change. In order to accomplish more while maintaining a harmonious environment, it is becoming critical not only to perform technical skills and deliver outcomes but to be able to analyze and understand one’s self and others. This workshop aims at going more in depth into the topic so that students can apply theory into practice.

WRK202H Life Balance

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In this millennium of ever-changing environmental factors and expanding opportunities, individuals find themselves overwhelmed and often end up burning out while becoming increasingly demotivated. With the growing professional, global, cultural and personal responsibilities, individuals have to find alternative ways to perform, deliver in multiple areas of their lives while maintaining a healthy overall wellbeing. The workshop will assist students in finding and maintaining excellence both as a student at LAU and as a human being in other areas of life.

WRK203H Skills of Debate

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The workshop will focus on the three elements of debate that help develop and enhance skills like critical thinking, decision-making, teamwork, active listening and leadership. These are 1) argumentation and cross-examination, 2) public speaking and the use of verbal and non-verbal delivery and 3) formal debate structure. Participants will get first-hand experience of the power of logic, structure and delivery in persuasion all within the context of an actual formal debate.

WRK204H Goal Setting and Vision Boarding

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Goal setting is the process of identifying something that the student wants to accomplish, and establishing measurable goals and time frames. Smart goal setting involves the development of an action plan designed to motivate and guide a person to achieve his/her goal on a personal and professional level. Vision boarding is a visual representation of what one wants to create in life; it is a powerful tool for creating a roadmap to success. The vision board is created by using images and words of the set goals and dreams, crafted together on a board. It will help students define their intentions and desires, gain clarity, perspective, focus, and go from imagining to envisioning with purpose.

WRK205H Steer Your Career

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Steer Your Career is a professional learning program which focuses on the work-readiness skills and career perspectives.

The workshop aims to raise the students’ awareness of professional skills and challenges faced as they take their first steps in the professional career path. It will empower and prepare them using modern day tools, methodologies of career development and expert trainings with sessions covering concepts in professionalism and the work place.

WRK206H Steer Your Career

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Steer Your Career is a professional learning program which focuses on the work-readiness skills and career perspectives.

WRK207H Leadership and Change

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This workshop will help students acquire some core skills required to better deal with change and explore new perspectives designed to prepare them for future leadership roles. Students will be able to:

identify different types of change and the way people and organizations may react to them.
explore one change management theory.
explain why people resist change and how resilience could help them overcome their resistance.

WRK208H Comm-U-nicate

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The wisest among us have understood that there is no “one size fits all”, especially when it comes to communication. Think of all those times you had something great to say in class, but then something happen and it just faded away. Or about that time you were talking to your friend (or parent) and they just “didn’t get it”. Or better yet, about that person with the weird accent that seems to be uttering alien words all the time…

Today, more than ever before, we communicate with different types of people all of whom perceive the world in their own way and we often take this for granted. We expected them to understand us, but yet for some reason, we often refrain from attempting to understand them.

Through “Comm-u-nicate”, you will be able to:

Explain why miscommunication happens using a renowned model, and what you can do to communicate better with others.
Identify the various differences between Hearing and Listening, and explain how the latter is correlated to enhanced communication.
Practice using a questioning technique that helps conversations flow better.

WRK209H Ace your Interview

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With your imminent graduation around the corner, some of you are probably starting to look for great opportunities to enter the workplace. In fact, some of you may already be halfway through a series of interviews, which organizations carefully design to select the best-fit candidates among you. The trouble is, you simply aren’t told what to really expect…and that makes thing more complicated and borderline unfair.

This workshop will offer you insights on how real interviews are conducted, from both sides of the table. After completing this, you will be able to:

Explain the most common types of interviews and why they are used.
Analyze the STAR method is and how you can leverage it to ace your interview.
Apply best practice that will help you leave a lasting impact your interviewers.
Practice nonverbal techniques and tips to impress your interviewers even more.

WRK210H Own the Stage: How to Deliver more Impactful Presentations

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“OtS” is designed as a holistic learning experience that reflects a real challenge students face as they are about to enter the workforce: presentations!

At the mere sight of the word, hearts start beating faster, palms get sweaty and voices start to shake. With that in mind, Own the Stage offers you a safe learning environment where you must simply…practice.

Through a series of constructive iterations, you will be able to attain a more personal touch to your overall style and learn how to deliver more impactful presentations.

Specifically, you will be able to:

Identify the core requirements the make presentations impactful.
Re-align your nonverbal communication with your verbal approach.
Practice delivering to an audience of your peers.

WRK211H Performance Elevated

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Have you ever felt like there just isn’t enough time?

Deadlines creep up on you from out of nowhere.

This other student disappeared on the last week before that final project.

And there still is that trip you need to plan with your family for the summer…

What if there was something you could do about this to better manage your time, and ultimately deliver a better performance both at school and in your personal life?

Performance Elevated is designed to present you with a different paradigm on the concept of time management. Through it, you will be able to

Manage your time in a better way by applying a proven framework.
Set goals in an optimal fashion that will offer the highest chances of success.
Identify a set of strategies to cope with daily interruptions.

WRK212H Stress and Time Management for Effective Decision Making

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We work in a highly competitive environment where stress is part of our life styles. This workshop will provide the participants with the key skills to manage both their stress and their time effectively. It will explore the students to ways of using the positive effects of stress to make adequate decisions and perform better in their lives. Upon the completion of this workshop, students will be able to:

Identify the most common time wasters and how to cope with them.
Distinguish between urgent and non-urgent tasks.
Develop basic skills to manage one’s time at the office, home and throughout one’s life.
Understand the connection between time management and stress, and identify some symptoms of stress on body, mind, emotions and behaviors.
Identify key steps in rational decision-making and understand the constraints in this process.
Pinpoint some “mental locks” that inhibit creativity and categorize elements of creative problem solving.
Appreciate the brainstorming approach in decision-making.

WRK213H Best Tools to Optimize your Digital Marketing Presence

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This course teaches the foundations of search marketing to an audience with or without previous experience in the field. The course includes an overview of the main search strategies currently available online and explains how we can use each to promote brands and businesses on Google, in a cost-effective way. By attending this program, students will acquire what they need to create and implement successful digital search marketing campaigns and promote their websites in order to raise awareness, build brand trust, increase traffic and generate sales and conversions. Upon completion of this workshop participants will be able to:

Understand the basics of search marketing.
Understand the difference between SEM and SEO.
Read and generate reports on Google Analytics.

WRK214H Creating Self-Awareness through Emotional Intelligence

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Emotions highly impact the way we perceive ourselves. Understanding the root causes of our emotions is the first step in developing good self-awareness for better Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Research shows that people who have high EQ are more likely to succeed in the workplace and in their personal lives. Workshop Objectives:

Enhance participants’ knowledge about emotions and how they can hijack their actions and decisions.
Establish the importance of Emotional Self-Awareness as the first step in the development of EQ
Allow participants to practice with tools and exercises so they can increase their emotional self-awareness

WRK215H Identifying “Character Strengths” to Create Self-Awareness

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Discovering and understanding character strengths will have a great impact on people’s work and life. In 2004, psychologists Martin Seligman & Chris Peterson published key findings about Character Strengths, which are a constellation of character traits that make each human distinct or unique. Research reveals that people who know and use their character strengths every day are: more productive, 3 times more likely to report having an excellent quality of life, 6 times more likely to be engaged at work, and 15% less likely to quit their jobs. Workshop Objectives:

1. Participants will be introduced to their personal character strengths (through an assessment).
2. Participants will know how to use their character strengths for greater efficiencies.
3. Participants will know where they are special to help develop their self-esteem.

WRK216H Developing Stronger Relationships through Emotional Intelligence

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Recent research from Armour (2007) showed that employees who had better relationships at work demonstrated higher job satisfaction, higher involvement/commitment and were less likely to leave their job. Emotions impact our relationships in different ways. Having the right Emotional Intelligence (EQ) skills can help people develop trustworthy intimate relationships that are an essential component of strong leaders today. Workshop Objectives:

Thoroughly understand how emotions impact relationships.
Understand why relationships are an important part of Leadership.
Understand the components of Building Trusting Relationships.
Apply this learning through tools and exercises

WRK217H Using Emotional Intelligence for managing Decisions and Procrastination

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An important part of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is understanding how emotions are impacting our decisions and throwing us into procrastination. Making sound and timely decisions is key for good leadership. Workshop Objectives:

Understand the proper decision-making process
Understand the role of emotions in decision making
Practice sound decision making through tools and exercise

WRK218H Identifying the Stressors and Learning Approaches for Stress Management

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For our ancestors, stress was a survival skill during life threatening situations. In today’s world, people are constantly bombarded by stressors of different kinds: work deadlines, traffic, and family obligations. The over-activation of our stress hormones have been linked to high blood pressure, heart attacks, lower immunity, depression, anxiety, and more. Workshop Objectives:

Understand Stress and its impact on our success in Life
Take a Look at our Life and Identify the main stressors
Learn different Approaches to help participants manage their Stress

WRK219H Pitching in Public

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In this time and age of social media and start-ups, we stand witness to a total transformation in career success/failure. Public exposure and visibility have become the new normal. No doubt about it, we’re living in the age of public speaking and public engagement! The power to communicate our ideas is our only way to success, or more truly, to survival. This workshop on Pitching in Public is a hands-on training opportunity into the art of pitching. It introduces participants to pitch drafting (ideas generation and categorization) and pitch delivery (public speaking and voice coaching). Most importantly, the workshop offers a real platform for participants to pitch their ideas/projects.

WRK220H Building Resilience

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Resilience is the ability to bounce back after hardship or challenge. People with low resilience are more prone to mental health issues likes anxiety and depression. This workshop will teach students:

How to develop strategies to face challenges
How to protect themselves from overwhelming situations
How to keep balance in their life

WRK221H Rewiring your Brain by shifting from Negative Thinking to a more Positive Outlook

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Negative thinking can be detrimental to us as humans. It increases the likelihood of developing anxiety and it blocks us from moving forward and achieving our goals. In this workshop, students will:

Understand the origin of Negative thoughts
Understand the Impact of Negative thoughts
Learn Strategies to address Negative thinking & Worrying

WRK222H Learning Agility

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Learning agility, sometimes described as “knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do” is not necessarily an academic skill. It rather encapsulates a person’s ability and passion to study and deal with a new problem by his/her own learning process to get a clear understanding before making the correct decision. The general objective of the session is to revolve around preparing the attendees for the so-called real world highlighting at a more realistic perspective of what to expect from the job market these days, while increasing their employability.

WRK223H Understanding and Accepting Emotions in Challenging Times

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The unpredictable and challenging times that we are going through can be overwhelming and detrimental to our mental health. Although we cannot predict the future, we can equip ourselves with skills that allow us to better adapt to our environment. Understanding and accepting emotions are key elements of emotional intelligence that help develop resilience in the face of adversity. The workshop objectives are:

1. Assessing emotion identification skills
2. Learning how to identify emotions in ourselves and others
3. Understanding the role of our emotions
4. Accepting emotions to better adapt in challenging times

WRK224H Assessing and Regulating Emotions in Challenging Times

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Our emotional states are often an interaction between ourselves and our environment, and as our current environment is uncertain and unpredictable, this can hinder our well-being. The ability to regulate our emotions is key to better navigate our circumstances and maintain our internal emotional stability. The workshop objectives are:

1. Assessing emotion regulation skills
2. Learning strategies to manage emotions in ourselves
3. Learning strategies to manage emotions in others
4. Applying emotion regulation strategies in the face of adversity

WRK225H Meaning and Purpose Discovery

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Life Is Never Made Unbearable By Circumstances But Only By Lack Of Meaning And Purpose”. Viktor Frankl. Many times, you stop and wonder about the Meaning and Purpose of your life. Understanding the core of discovery is crucial for a clear path. Meaning and Purpose questions are always awaiting you to be discovered, answered, lived and actualized. And if not discovered and acted upon, it will have an undesirable effect on your wellbeing and life processing. In this workshop we will be:

Exploring the means of Meaning and Purpose Discovery through Logotherapy, an approach developed by Dr. Viktor Frankl, the author of Man’s Search For Meaning
Correcting the insights about Meaning, Purpose, Values and Goals.
Evaluating what are the main elements for finding Meaning and Purpose.
Discussing the importance of Values in the discovery process.
Exploring values types and how to reach Meaning authentically
Evaluating if the process of Meaning and Purpose discovery ends.
Assessing your current purpose status

WRK226H Meaning, Purpose and Well Being

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“The Quest For Meaning Is The Key To Mental Health And Human Flourishing” Viktor Frankl. It is proven that Meaning is positively related to happiness, wellbeing, life satisfaction, resilience, coping skills, hope, gratitude, health, self-esteem and empowerment. A random living exempt from Meaning leads to Existential Vacuum that will affect your overall wellbeing. Happiness and pleasure are only a side effect of Meaning fulfillment and not the mere end. Finding and living your unique Meaning and Purpose is essential to your Life, to your Mental Health and to your Well Being! During the workshop we will be exploring:

The mandatory role of Meaning in Life
The Existential Vacuum
The danger of a life exempt from Meaning
Happiness, Pleasure and Balance and their relation to wellbeing
The “Healthy Tension”
The Meaning in challenges
The discovery of Meaning
The Assessment of your current Purpose status

WRK227H Finding Optimism In Challenging Times

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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor Frankl. During your journey of living, and as you encounter beautiful uplifting moments, you are not exempt from reality! You are not exempt from a certain kind of challenge that will be part of your life at some point, be it on personal level or collective level. Finding optimism in said situations is a challenge by itself. You being prepared to deal with it and develop it are crucial for your life process. During the workshop, you will be subject to:

Assessing if there is optimism in challenges, and if yes, how can you reach it and live by it
Exploring if you are chained when a challenge arise or you are free
Discovering the main element that plays the “Game Changer” role in overcoming challenges
Finding optimism in challenging times
Exploring if the handling is the same for everyone or is it unique for each person

WRK228H Guideposts To Choice And Conscious Decision Making

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A Human Being Is A Deciding Being. Viktor Frankl. When you become aware of the fact that you are whom you decide to be, then the choices you adopt are a key element and a game changer in each moment of your life. Choices tell us that we as human beings have lots of power. It is you by the choices you adopt and the decisions you take that you will steer your life. And what is most important is that Choices plays a major role in your Meaning and Purpose Discovery. In this workshop, we will be exploring the below:

Choice: A blessing or a curse?
Key elements to responsible choices
Why do we have conflict of choices and how to deal with it?
Role of values in decision making
Do we have a choice in unavoidable circumstances?

WRK229H How To Undergo A Meaningful Fulfilled Life

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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure or a quest for power but a quest for meaning. Viktor Frankl. We all want happiness in our life; we love to enjoy, have balance, we want security, we like to accomplish, we appreciate relationships… They are all beautiful and rightful for each person. BUT is this what life is all about? Are they the core of a meaningful life or an authentic fulfillment? You can consider your life to be just a mere coincidence, or you can choose to be aware that you were born for a purpose, that there is a Meaning behind your existence, and this Meaning is the true path for a fulfilled life.

In this workshop, we will be exploring the below:

The core elements of a meaningful fulfilled life
The Pursuit of Pleasure, Power and Meaning
The “Healthy Tension”
The life circumstances even the most challenging ones
The Fast/Forward Experience

WRK230H The Values Workshop

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Values cannot be taught, Values must be lived. Viktor Frankl. To live a life that is satisfying to you, you must live up to your value system. Your value system constitutes your Unique Authentic Identity. It is your pathway to Meaning and Purpose Discovery. Not knowing the values that matter to you and that you ought to live by and actualize will lead to misdirection in many areas of your life and also will affect tremendously your search for Meaning and Purpose. In this workshop, students will be:

Identifying the values that are mostly important to you and that constitutes your unique personal identity
Setting up hierarchy of values
Identifying the source of values
Relating values to Meaning and Purpose discovery
Identifying the importance of values in choices and in decision making

WRK231H Building Life Resilience Through Meaning

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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Viktor Frank. During your journey of living, you are not exempt from different kind of challenges. Being aware of this fact and being prepared to deal with it is resilience. Meaning is a crucial element in fostering resilience. Without Meaning, your life would be so fragile. It is what allows you to deal with the Tragic Triad or what we call reality and to find optimism in challenging times and turn these challenges into triumphs.

During the workshop, you will be exploring:

The crucial role of Meaning in life and its relationship to resilience
The Tragic Triad and its elements
The Means of Meaning Discovery
Optimism in challenges
Practical exercises on fostering resilience through Meaning