Dr. Waajida Small, Ph.D., CPL, CLC, CPC, CGSC

Leadership, Career, & Strengths Coach

Self-care can sometimes be an elusive concept, however, if we do not take the appropriate steps to take care of ourselves, we cannot be fully present or productive at work. In this session, we will talk about self-care as a tool to support your ability to show up fully present and be productive at work.

Self-care is essential for productivity at work; learn how to use it as a tool to show up fully present in this session.

Self-Care Starts with You

Have you ever thought about hacking your job? In this session, we will be talking about how you can hack your job to find fulfillment and purpose at work.

Learn how to hack your job for fulfillment and purpose in this session.

Finding Fulfillment at Work

We all have biases and blind spots. Some we recognize and others we don't. Whether we recognize them or not, they can impact our ability to be productive. In this session, we will talk about how to identify your blind spots so that you can show up and work to your full potential.

Identifying your blind spots can help you be more productive by recognizing biases that might impact your work.

Know Your Blind Spots

Finding what energizes us is one of many ways that we can look forward to the work that we do, but it is not always easy. In this session, we will be talking about finding what energizes us so that we can stay motivated and productive at work.

Learn how to find what energizes you to stay motivated and productive at work in this session.

Knowing Your Why

We all strive to stand for something greater than ourselves. To have a purpose in life. For some of us, it is easy to identify what that is, for others it can be challenging. In this session, we will be talking about creating a personal mission statement to help guide our life and work.

Learn how to create a personal mission statement to guide your life and work in this session on finding purpose beyond self.

Creating A Personal Mission Statement

In this session, we will be talking about curating your space to maximize productivity. Being in the right environment makes all the difference in whether or not we can be fully present in mind and body. This is true for all spaces we occupy including our workspace.

Learn how to curate your workspace for maximum productivity in this session. Your environment is crucial to being fully present in mind and body.

Curating A Productive Work Space

What is fundamental to each of our abilities to engage in any activity is the motivation that we have based on what we believe to be our likelihood of success in that endeavor. This is our self-efficacy. In this session, we will be talking about how we can build our self-efficacy to invite abundance and success in our lives.

Self-efficacy drives our motivation and success, learn how to build it for abundance in life.

Strengthening Self-Efficacy

Why do we get stuck? Feeling stuck is often associated with the feeling of lacking. Feeling stuck is also associated with comfort and by default fear of moving out of our comfort zones. Fear of failure also keeps us stuck. In this session, we will be talking about how to get unstuck when we are faced with problems or challenges that prevent us from moving forward.

Learn how to overcome feeling stuck due to fear of failure and comfort zones, and move forward through challenges in this helpful session.

Getting Unstuck

Our environment contributes tremendously to how we feel. The energy that flows within and throughout a space impacts the energy that we receive. If our environment puts out negative energy, our bodies will be able to feel this in the forms of stress and anxiety. In this session, we will be talking about removing environmental stressors so that you may find synergy in your life and work.

Environment affects our emotions; negative energy causes stress and anxiety. Learn to remove stressors in this session for a harmonious life and work.

Removing Stressors

In this session, I want to share with you 10 affirmations to help overcome overwhelm at work. We all can get overwhelmed at work. The demands we place on ourselves compounded with those placed on us by our managers and teams can cause stress, anxiety, and overwhelm. When we begin to feel these things, it is important for us to recognize them as soon as possible and take action to prevent them from overpowering our will and capacity to perform.

Learn 10 affirmations to overcome work overwhelm caused by stress and anxiety, and recognize these symptoms early on to prevent them from affecting your performance.

Affirmations to Overcome Overwhelm

In this session, we will be talking about how to get rid of the self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviors that prevent you from reaching the next step in your life and career. The mind is incredible. It is also complicated. It can take us to the most wonderful places. It can also take us to the darkest. The mind is an intricate and complicated system, but possibly the most delicate tool we have as human beings. Our minds control what we think and how we behave.

Learn to overcome self-sabotage and achieve success by understanding the power of your mind in controlling your thoughts and behavior.

Getting Rid of Self-Sabotaging Thoughts

In this session, we will be talking about how to recognize your strengths so that you can tap into them to propel you forward. All of us have talents, skills, or strengths that we either don’t recognize or take for granted. Sometimes we may take them for granted because they seem to just be a part of who we are. We’ve always had them, they come easy or they seem common. We tend not to recognize them because we may not have an opportunity to use them frequently enough to even notice that they are there.

Learn to identify and leverage your strengths to achieve success; often taken for granted, these abilities can propel you forward.

Recognizing Your Strengths

What is love? An age-old question that many struggles to answer. Love can be complex, but only if one does not know what love means. In this session we will be talking about how when we love ourselves fully self-care is forethought and not an afterthought.

Session discusses how loving oneself leads to prioritizing self-care.

Self-Care Through Self-Love

Today I offer you a prayer and spiritual reflection on the self and looking inward to find happiness, joy, and abundance. This reflection is from Katha-Upanishad. As a student of spirituality, I reflect on the words of varying religious texts as I find they often share the same messages of belief beyond the ephemeral and connection with the eternal, of higher power and higher-order so that one may reach their highest self.

Explore the Katha-Upanishad for a spiritual reflection on finding inner happiness, abundance, and belief beyond the ephemeral through higher connection.

A Spiritual Reflection On the Self

When there is a will, there is a way. An age-old saying but one that is often used casually without knowing its true meaning. In short, it means when one is determined to do something, they will find a way in spite of the obstacles that may try to prevent them from doing so. It is willpower and the path to achieving any goal you set for yourself. It is hope. In this session, we will talk about hope as a driver of performance.

"When there is a will, there is a way" means determination can overcome obstacles; this session focuses on hope as a driver of performance.

Hope as a Driver of Performance

Reflection, by definition, is serious thought or consideration. Reflection, in the context of leadership, is the ability to look at one’s self and surroundings, assess their current state and identify the resources needed to reach their desired state. What kind of leader do you want to be and what impact do you want to make? In this session, we will be talking about self-reflection as a leadership action.

Learn about self-reflection as a leadership action to assess your current state and identify resources needed to become the leader you want to be.

Self-Reflection as a Leadership Action

Optimism in its simplest definition is the expectation of positive and desirable events in the future. It is looking toward the future through a lens of "can" and "will" rather than "can’t" or "won't". Seeing and expecting outcomes to be favorable impacts how we approach life and the decisions we make. In this session, I share with you a reflection on optimism and the role it plays in our everyday lives and decision-making.

Optimism is the expectation of positive outcomes that impacts our decision-making and approach to life, discussed in this session.

A Reflection on Optimism

There are times when all of us question ourselves. We question our abilities, our successes, our achievements. Even though we have worked hard to get someplace we question whether or not we belong there. This is imposter syndrome. In this session, we will be talking about combating imposter syndrome.

Session aimed at combating imposter syndrome by addressing self-doubt, questioning abilities, and feelings of not belonging despite achievements and hard work.

Combating Imposter Syndrome

Boundaries at work differ from those within our personal space and tend to be more regulated by policies and procedures and organizational culture. While many believe that boundaries are common sense, they are not. Boundaries are taught, and while some people know when they have violated a person’s boundaries, others do not. In this session, we will be talking about setting healthy boundaries in the workplace.

Learn to set healthy boundaries at work - policies and procedures, organizational culture and common sense don't necessarily apply.

Setting Boundaries at Work

Science says that our brains are hardwired to connect. We have neural networks that promote social connections and help us build relationships. Today, I share with you five mantras that can help you create opportunities to build authentic and meaningful relationships in your personal life and in the workplace.

Our brains are wired for social connection. 5 mantras shared to build authentic relationships in personal and work life.

5 Mantras for Relationship Building

Work can become overwhelming, and more often than not, we can be consumed by it and in turn, become demotivated. To help you get past these deterrents, I share with you now five mantras that will keep you motivated at work and create an environment that allows you to be productive and work with purpose and intention.

To stay motivated at work, use these five mantras to create a productive and purposeful environment and avoid becoming overwhelmed.

5 Mantras for Workplace Motivation

It is not often that we consider resilience as a cornerstone for productivity and success in the workplace, however, research has shown that resilience has profound implications for promoting competence and human capital in individuals and society. In this session, we will be talking about how to bounce back from adversity and face challenges in the workplace.

Resilience is key to productivity and success at work; learn how to bounce back and face challenges in this session.

Being Resilient at Work

Change can be scary. It can even be traumatic if it is unexpected. However, change is ever constant. It is the one thing we can count on to always occur, and it is the one thing we can almost guarantee will have an impact on us. In this session, we will be talking about how to step into the new as prepared as we can and manage ourselves through change.

Change is inevitable and can be traumatic, but we can learn to manage ourselves through it.

Managing Yourself Through Change

Sometimes it can feel like all of the hard work we do goes unnoticed. We get into the office early, we work late, we willingly accept assignments beyond our regular work, and we make extra efforts to show that we bring value to our teams and the organization. In this session, we will be discussing the value of affirmations in the workplace.

Learn the importance of affirmations in the workplace to acknowledge the hard work we do, bring value to our teams and boost employee morale.

The Value of Affirmations at Work

Receiving feedback can be challenging, especially when it relates to your performance. These challenges can be brought on by the givers inability to deliver the feedback appropriately. The time and place in which the feedback is being given, or even the receptivity of the receiver to hear the feedback among others. However when we think of the importance of our development as individuals and professions, receiving feedback is important for our growth. I offer you 5 mantras that will help open you to receiving feedback.

Receiving feedback is challenging but important for growth; here are 5 mantras to help open yourself up to feedback.

5 Mantras For Receiving Feedback

Science says that When you inhale (breath in), air enters your lungs, and oxygen from that air moves to your blood. At the same time, carbon dioxide, a waste gas, moves from your blood to the lungs and is exhaled (breathed out). This process, called gas exchange, is essential to life. But sometimes we inhale, but fail to exhale. In this session we will be talking about how holding our breath can hold us back.

Breathing is essential to life as it facilitates gas exchange, and holding our breath can hinder our progress.

Breathing and Removing Barriers

What is flow? Related to concepts like happiness and optimal experience, flow according to some of the founders of the positive psychology movement is a state that is attained when someone has both high skills and is undergoing significant challenges. In this session, we will be talking about the importance of flow on our ability to be and stay productive.

Flow is an optimal state of happiness achieved through high skills and significant challenges, which is important for productivity.

Achieving Flow

Psychosocial well-being is a concept that includes emotional or psychological well-being, as well as social and collective well-being. Psychosocial wellbeing is often looked at like “quality of life” because it involves emotional, social and physical components. In this session we will be talking about creating a quality life through the development of our psychosocial wellbeing.

Developing psychosocial well-being leads to a high-quality life, including emotional, social, and physical components.

Creating a Quality Life

When we think about balance, what comes to mind is equality. The same amount of weight is distributed on both sides of the scale. Life and work. In this session, we will be talking about work-life and shifting from trying to find a balance between the two, but synergy among them.

This session focuses on shifting from work-life balance to work-life synergy and finding ways to integrate both aspects.

Work-Life Synergy

In this session, we will be talking about the impact of flow on work performance. In a previous session I talked about how to achieve flow now we will dive a little deeper and discover how flow can impact work performance.

Exploring how flow impacts work performance in this session by delving deeper into achieving flow.

The Impact of Flow on Performance

What is power? It is usually defined as the capacity to influence people and events. However, from a conceptual perspective, it is much more flexible and can be used in many different ways. In this session, we will discuss the seven types of power and how to use them to lead effectively.

Power defined as capacity to influence people & events, has 7 types & can be used in different ways for effective leadership.

Using Power To Lead Effectively

Leading through values is as equally important, if not more so than leading with a vision. Having values, especially shared values among followers, is foundational for effective leadership. In this session, we will be exploring leading through values and the three things leaders must do to implement their values effectively.

Leadership through values is foundational for effective leadership; shared values among followers are equally important as having a vision.

Leading Through Values

There are two key leadership principles. Leading through vision and leading through values. In this session, we will be exploring leading through vision and the core principles that guide it.

"Explore leading through vision & core principles in leadership at this session; values are also key to leadership."

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