Learning from Successes: a Virtual, Experiential Workshop

Learning from Successes: a Virtual, Experiential Workshop

Recognizing and celebrating our accomplishments has positive effects on our well-being, self-confidence, and motivation … not to mention our salaries, promotions, and job prospects.

But many people (especially women) have been taught not to “brag” on themselves. Girls were taught “modesty norms” while boys were taught they cannot succeed without celebrating and telling everyone what they’ve accomplished. If you fall into an intersectional category including other marginalized identities, you are at even more of a disadvantage compared to the dominant majority in business.

But it’s not bragging if we’re sharing facts. And contrary to what we were told, our accomplishments do not speak for themselves. “If you build it, they will come” is only true – maybe – in fiction.

Join Luci Englert McKean, Culture and Collaboration Consultant, for a structured conversation in which every participant will bring a success to share in breakout with two other people. (No big public speaking required: you will speak with two other people in a breakout, but only a few volunteers will speak in the full room.)

You might want to share:

  • Something as prominent as having spearheaded a major initiative at work (be sure to pick something in which you had considerable agency, not something your whole organization did and you were just a participant)
  • Something as flashy as having given a TEDTalk or TEDxTalk which allows you to have a larger reach beyond your daily life
  • Something as quiet as FINALLY figuring out how to use Google Sheets to automate some important data collection (i.e., something that took a lot of effort to reach success with high impact on your work-life, but nobody sees it but you)
  • A situation in which colleagues were in conflict and couldn’t find a path through on their own, but which you mediated successfully so everyone could “play well together” moving forward
  • A situation with an unhappy client who considered departing but you managed to make them happy and stay on
  • Or many many other possibilities! 

LIMIT TO 30 PARTICIPANTS PER SESSION (so we have time to share out effectively, as desired). These events will not be recorded (most of the action takes place in breakout rooms, anyway).

Intrigued? Questions about joining an existing group or booking this for your own organization? I’d love to talk with you! Email luci@lucimckean.com