Design Your Tomorrow by understanding the concepts of Life, its purpose, strengths and weaknes, success & failure, passion & determination in simple terms for personal and professional sucess.

1. DESIGN YOUR TOMORROW
FOR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS!!!

2. AGENDA
 Level 1: Life Purpose (to Dedicate strength to) :
True Purpose/ Dreams
Success & Failure
 Level 2: Define Strength :
Strength definition, examples, case study
 Level 3: Discover Strengths (Individual):
SWOT Analysis, Just Do It! and Learn (success/failure) from it
 Level 4: Planning to Play strength:

3. AGENDA (Continued…)
 Goal Setting (SMART)
 Roadmap
 Action Plan,
 Reviews,
 Overcoming Procrastination,
 Visualization & Affirmations
 Level 5: Tools to Play strengths:
 Emotional Intelligence
 Challenges (Problems/Issues)
 Patience is the VIRTUE,
 Presentation
 Communication (Assertion, Meeting Skills, Listening, Difficult conversations, Body
Language…)
 Following heart vs Practical path
 Level 6: Go Put Your Strength to Work (Play Your Strength) :
 Relentless Execution

4. Workshop Outline
 Level1 : Life Purpose (to Dedicate strength to) :
 Level2 : Define Strength :
 Level3 : Discover Strengths (Individual):
 Level4 : Planning to Play strength:
 Level5 : Tools to Play strengths:
 Level6 : Go Put Your Strength to Work (Play Your
Strength)

5. Level 1:Life Purpose (Focus
strength ON)
 Life & Its Purpose:
“Life is a symbolic representation of a story, that is
elongated in time frame, filled with diverse emotions,
ethics & values, a movie by & large with defined beginning
& a completely uncertain end with the sole objectives
being happiness & GROWTH”.
“LIFE is the second name for GROWTH; not growth of
money, fame, name or talents alone, but of anything that
you are involved in and you aim to achieve”

6. What is the purpose of our
LIFE?
 Purpose of Life: To know the 5 Ws
 Who you are
 What do you love to do – your passion
 Who you do it for
 Whom you do it, do they really want it or needed it
 What you got out of it and resulted in some change
The Purpose of Life is ‘Growth’ : Grow in all that you do,
give your 100%. Contribute your mind, body and soul to
achieve growth.

7. Success & Failure
 SUCCESS:
Success is the ability to execute and grow with consistent
consistency (in all that you are a part of) with your given
abilities, situations, constraints and requirements.
 FAILURE: It’s an other stepping stone to greatness
“A Failure of execution of one of your targets doesn’t
guarantee that you fail to reach your aspirations, neither
does success of any of your intermediate steps guarantee
your final dreams to be achieved”

8. PASSION AND DETERMINATION
 PASSION:
A strong feeling which develops deep interest in the
activity each time you are involved in it, by default
without much mental efforts of pushing yourself to doing
it.
 DETERMINATION:
Determination is the ability to stick to your decisions with
all your heart and execute what you are doing to your
possible best & fullest, until you achieve what you desire
to.

9. Level 2 : Define Strength
Three benchmarks of strengths
 When thinking about the task, you are excited; you anticipate the activity;
 When doing the task you tend to lose track of time
 Once the task is completed, you have more energy than before.
Mark of Strength
 "Be bold, be perceptive, keep investigating your strengths. The secret of
success is to become more of who you already are.“
 “Your strengths are those activities that make you feel strong when you do
them and also are things that others see as being good in you.”
 “Your strengths provide the greatest opportunity for growth and not your
weaknesses.”
 A Good Team member express their strength and help others to express
theirs to ensure that the team achieves its goals.

10. Characteristics of Strength
SIGN of Strength
 Success – you find success when you use this trait.
 Instinct – you are continually drawn to these activities.
 Growth – you find using this trait easy and doing it helps you to
grow and be happy.
Needs – you find that doing these things fulfils a need in your
life.
 Stop your Weaknesses
 Stop doing some of these activities.
 Team up with people who actually feel strong when doing the
activities that weaken you.
 Offer to use your strengths to help other people and do work in
your organization: that way you are more likely to be judged on
your strengths, rather than weaknesses.
 Perceive your weaknesses from another perspective. See if there
are any creative ways you can apply your strengths to these tasks.
Case Study

11. Level 3: Discover Strengths SWOT Analysis

12. Level 3: SWOT Analysis
(Continued…)
 Strengths: characteristics that give it an
advantages, over others.
 Weaknesses: characteristics offers a
disadvantages, relative to others
 Opportunities: characteristics that exploit to its
advantages
 Threats: characteristics in the environment that
could cause trouble

13. LEVEL 4: PLANNING TO PLAY
STRENGTH
Goal Setting (SMART)
 Prioritization : TIME MANAGEMENT MATRIX
 SEVEN STEPS TO GOAL SETTING
 SEVEN STEPS TO REACH GOALS
 SIX STEPS PROCESS TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS
Roadmap
Action Plan
Reviews
Overcoming Procrastination
Visualization & Affirmations

14. Prioritization: Time
management matrix
URGENT NOT URGENT
IMPORTANT
I. NECESSARY II. EMPOWERMENT
Crises Quality and Leadership
Pressing Problems Preparation
Deadline-driven Prevention
Project Meetings Preparations Values Clarifications
Relationship Building
True Recreation
Education
Certification
III.DESCRIPTION IV.WASTE
Interruptions- Some phone calls Trivia, busy work
Some mails, some reports Some phone calls
NOT Some meetings Time wasters
IMPORTANT Many proximate "Escape" activities
Pressing matters Irrelevant mail
Many popular activities Excessive TV

15. Goal setting….
 SEVEN STEPS TO GOAL SETTING:
 Goals
 Benefits
 Obstacles
 Skills/ Knowledge
 People
 Plan of Action
 Date of Completion

16. GOAL SETTING
 SEVEN STEPS TO REACH GOALS:
 VISUALIZATIONS – CREATE YOUR OWN
VISION BOARD
 AFFIRMATIONS BASED ON 3Ps
 VERBALIZATION – SAY “I AM”
 ACTING THE PART - FAKE IT OR MAKE IT
 FEED YOUR MIND
 ASSOCIATE WITH PEOPLE
 TEACHING OTHERS

17. SIX STEPS PROCESS TO
ACHIEVE SUCCESS
 Connect to Mission
 Review your Roles
 Organize Weekly
 Evaluate
 Habit 3 Challenge
 Design Your Life

18. HOW TO BEAT
PROCRASTINATION…
 Procrastination: “ TO PUT OFF OR POSTPONE UNTIL ANOTHER DAY”.
 Be a doer and not a procrastinator. It is the thief of TIME, PRODUCTIVITY &
 SELF-WORTH. It can derail our plans for achieving our goals. It happens because we
Fear Failure. It’s the GAP between INTENTION & ACTION.
Take these steps to overcome procrastination:
 Recognize you have a problem
 Figure out why you are procrastinating
 Get Organized
 Identify your FROG
 Break tasks into smaller parts
 Eliminate distractions
 Do not expect perfection
 Get a support team & Get started
 Reward Yourself

19. Level 5: Tools to Play
strengths:
Emotional Intelligence
Challenges (Problems/Issues)
Patience is the VIRTUE,
Presentation
Communication (Assertion, Meeting Skills,
Listening, Difficult conversations, Body
Language…)
Following heart vs Practical path

20. Emotional Intelligence
 Definition:
 Emotional intelligence (EI) is the capacity for
recognizing (and appropriately managing) our
feelings and those of others ( in order to thrive and
build valued relationships)“
 EI addresses the emotional, personal, social, and
survival dimension of intelligence.
 EQ is concerned with understanding oneself and
others, relating to people and adopting to and coping
with immediate surrounding.

21. 5 components of Emotional
Intelligence
Definition Hallmarks
Self - Awareness
the ability to recognize and understand your
moods, emotions, and drives, as well as their
effect on others
Self-confidence
Realistic self-assessment
Self-deprecating sense of
humor
Self - Regulation
the ability to control or redirect disruptive
impulses and moods the propensity to suspend
judgement- to think before acting
Trustworthiness and integrity
Comfort with ambiguity
openness to change
Motivation
a passion to work for reasons that go beyond
money or status a propensity to pursue goals with
energy and persistence
Strong drive to achieve
optimism, even in the face of
failure
organizational commitment
Empathy
the ability to understand the emotional makeup of
other people skill in treating people according to
their emotional reactions
expertise in building and
retaining talent
cross-cultural sensitivity
service to clients and
customers
Social Skill
proficiency in managing relationships and building
networks an ability to find common ground and
build rapport
effectiveness in leading
change
persuasiveness
expertise in building and
leading teams

22. Domains of Emotional
Intelligence

23. Choose your Mindset
Put your mindset in to right channel to get a clear
picture
Empathize emotion: don’t analyze it
Don’t trade your smile for frown
Positivity beats equality
Recharge your batter

25.  Also referred to as a ‘ disclosure/feedback model of self
awareness’, and an ‘information processing tool’
 Represents information – feelings, experience, views,
attitudes, skills, intentions, motivation etc within or about a
person/others

31. Challenges (Problems/Issues)
 A Problem is that element of life, which tell you
what you do not have in you to achieve what you
want in life.
 Problems are a mere indicator that your are
growing and moving ahead. They need to be
addressed & not complained about.
 Greatest attention seeking child of life….
 Even a single dream that you are willing to work
for is sufficient to let you know that problems are
a permanent part of life.
 Growth Catalysts and not road blocks

32. PATIENCE IS THE VIRTUE
 Patience is the ability to stay optimistic about the
change you desire, ability to wait For the result you
wish to see, keeping hope for the desired t happen &
continue working towards the goal, having situations
and people respond opposite but still Not forget that
reacting or over-reacting with loss of patience would
cost more than Payoff. Its overall the ability to face
the adversities of any form in the face and throw
Them a smile that convey to them, that you don’t
care about them & they are unable to cause pain
they desire to till adversities actually gets
convinced..
 Powerful Ability To Induce Energy N Continuing
Enthusiasm

33. PRESENTATION NIGHTMARE – WAKE UP FROM
IT Presentation is not the power point, you are the presentation.
Its all about the Audience. Your audience should feel
captivated.
 Techniques for Overcoming fear of presenting – Managing
Nerves, “This is my Space’
 Identify Key Presentations skills – Plant, Move, Pause and Hold,
Eye Contact, Scan, Gesture, Loud, soft, What Questions Do you
have??
 Rule of 3 – Stand Up, Drink Water, Thank for the question, throw
the questions to audience, Parking Lot and connect
 5C – Context, Concepts, Complete, Communicate, Convey
Rehearse, Rehearse, Rehearse

34. COMMUNICATION SKILLS
 PREPARATION + INTERACTION + FOLLOW-THROUGH
 “Nothing is more essential to success in any area of
your life than the ability to communicate well”.
 Its simply a two way process of exchanging ideas
and information or transmitting verbal and nor-verbal
messages.
 Effective Communication = Productive Relationship
 We communicate to get information, to greet, to
praise, to sell, to get feedback
 Barrier to communication – poor listening skills,
ignoring information, generalizing, assumptions,
emotions, noise, selective listening
 7Cs of communication – Considerate, Concrete,
Concise, Courteous, Clear, Complete, Correct

35. Communication Skills
 Listening Skills:
 Maintain Eye contact with the speaker
 Focus on content than the way it is said
 Avoid selective listening
 Avoid distractions
 Ask questions to stay active and interested
 Face the speaker
 Respond appropriately – say Yes, Nod etc
 Don’t be with pre-occupied thoughts

36. Influencing SKILL
 HOW TO INFLUENCE PEOPLE: Influence is the central competency that all the soft
skills have in common. Changing the attitude and behavior of other people
without using any force or show of power.
 Influence Components : Framework, Information & Technical / subject matter
expertise
 Don’t criticize or condemn or complaint, avoid arguments, show respect
 Give honest and sincere appreciation
 Arouse in other person an eager want
 Become genuinely interested in other people
 Smile, address the people with their names
 Be a good listener, make other person important, let other talk
 The Socrates Law : A path of Yesses will lead to success

37. EFFECTIVE MEETING SKILLS
 EFFECTIVE MEETING SKILLS:
 Don’t Meet
 Set objectives for the meeting
 Agenda – When, What, Who, How, Where, Which
 Assign Meeting Preparation
 Assign Action Items and Follow-ups
 Examine Your Meeting Process
 Organizer – Send reminders to ensure punctuality
 Attendee – Review the Agenda and be 10 minutes early at
the meeting room
 Attendance, Promptness, Participation, Responsibility

38. DIFFICULT CONVERSATION
 DIFFICULT CONVERSATION- Not all conversation will be
pleasant, if you come across with a difficult dialogue – its
talking to a stone wall
 Keep the Conversation private
 Be in control of the conversation
 Listen and paraphrase
 Use the words ‘I” & “and” instead of “You” or “But”
 Be direct and never judgemental
 Be prepared for negative reactions
 Involve the person in solution
 Say Thank You

39. PERSUASION SKILLS
 PERSUASION SKILLS: Bring your audience to BELIEVE as
you do OR Influence your audience to take action.
Refined form of Influence
 7 Golden Principles of Persuasion:
 Always focus on the end result
 Relate to your audience
 Sweet talking (weave your intention)
 Use technical words wherever necessary
 Try to elaborate on what you said earlier
 Remain relaxed at all times
 Take advantage of influence

40. ASSERTIVE SKILLS
 ASSERTIVE SKILLS : Persistently Postive OR Confident – Politely Persistent
 Use “I” messages and “Feeling “ verbs
 Disucss your goals and accomplishments
 Show an interest in others
 Match your delivery to your message
 Know how to respond to compliments
 Disagree mildly, but more emphatically when you need to get
your point across
 Ask for clarification when you are confused
 Don’t be afraid to ask “Why”
 Speak up for yourself, Be persistent, and always justify your
feelings & opinions

41. BODY LANGUAGE
 Body Language is a non-verbal form of
communication - it is 55% more effective when
compared to Verbal – 38% and Words – 7%.
 Postures & Gestures
 Eye Contact
 Orientation
 Proximity
 Looks
 Expression

42. Do I follow my heart or continue my Present Career Path?
 The responsibilities at times bind you and the uncertainties that
following your heart
 Brings along stop you from making your decisions. But to make life
more meaningful
 Doesn’t mean leaving your present job / career path or quitting it and
then following
 Your heart, it simply means keep your hear functional while your other
organs are
 Doing their job respectively.
 When once the timing is right let all other organs follow the heart!
But till then let the
 Heart beat at least!!! Don’t kill hope! KEEP PATIENCE! Fake it if
needed.

43. Level 6: Execution (Playing
strengths)
 Knowledge is not power! Application of
Knowledge to transformation life to grow
and be successful is the real power.

44. Q&A
What Questions do you have?

45. Contacts
 Trainers Contact Details
 Manjula Srikanth
 Manjula@transfuture.co
 Manjugv.123@gmail.com
Transfuture LLP
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