2 9

Years
 Our Agenda,
Roles and Rules
 OUR AGENDA

• Setting The Program Tone

• Understanding and Appreciating the Self
• What is Work Attitude?
• Work: A Means To Reach My Personal
Vision
• Seeing Work As Worthwhile
• Aligning to the Core Values: F.I.T. Spirit
• Personal Action Plan
HOW WILL WE WORK
TOGETHER?
PARTNERSHIP
 6A’s OF LEARNING

•Attendance
•Attitude
•Active Participation
•Aha!
•Application
•Adaptation

LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
 ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT RULES

ENJOY!
“To see ourselves as others see us can
be eye-opening.” (Clifford Geertz)
POSITIVE INNER IMAGE
What Is
Change
 Concentrate on continual
improvement

Each day you can be

a little bit better than
yesterday.
“Progress is impossible without change, and
those who cannot change their minds cannot
change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw

“There is nothing wrong in change if it is in the

right direction. To improve is to change, so to
be perfect is to have changed often.”

Winston Churchill
WHAT ARE THE OLD
HABITS AND
ATTITUDE I NEED TO
LET GO?
 REACTIONS TO CHANGE
NEGATIVE

• Pessimism
• Fear, Complacent
• Resists Change
• Avoid the issue; withdraws
• Ignorance
 REACTIONS TO CHANGE
POSITIVE

• Challenge
• Optimism
• Welcomes Change
• Deals with Change;
• Talks about it
• Acceptance
“What drives you ?”
Money
13 + 15 + 14 + 5 + 25

= 72%
 Talents
20 + 1 +12 + 5 + 14 + 20 + 19

= 91%
 Knowledge
11 + 14 + 15 + 23 + 12 + 5 + 4 + 6 + 5

= 95%
 Attitude
1 + 20 + 20 + 9 + 20 + 21 + 4 + 5

= 100%
Understanding
“Attitudes”
 ATTITUDE

• is a mental disposition
• towards objects
persons
situations
BEHAVIORAL
INDICATORS
 HOW PEOPLE DEVELOP
ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR

Heredity • Socialization &Upbringing

Genes • Experiences
• Immediate Environment
“It’s not what people do to
us that hurts us.

In the most fundamental

sense it is our chosen
response to what they do to
us that hurts us.”

Stephen Covey
YOUR ATTITUDE IS YOUR CHOICE!

Posible pero mahirap Mahirap pero posible

“Nothing can make you feel inferior
without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 WHY THINK POSITIVE?

Your plane’s engine catches a big fire…

which pilot would you want to be with?
Stay calm and buckle We’ll all be killed!
up… We’ll find a way to We’re all gonna die!
land safely…
 WHY THINK POSITIVE?

It doesn’t offer guarantees that things will be okay…

But it’s your BEST CHANCE…
 My Work

My
Teammates
My Company
ME

My My Boss
Customers
 “WHAT IS IN YOUR
CONTROL”
CAN’T CONTROL
(BUT CAN INFLUENCE)

CAN
CONTROL YOURSELF
• OTHER PEOPLE
– Superiors • belief
– Colleagues • attitudes
– Clients • feelings
• TIME • behavior
• SYSTEMS
• STRUCTURE
 ATTITUDE MAKES A
DIFFERENCE!
Can’t Control
Can’t Control
Can Control

Can
“I CAN…” Control

“I CAN’T…”

• Takes charge of one’s life • Waits for things to happen, then react
• Accepts responsibility for one’s action • Blames others for what happens to him
HOW DO WE SOLVE OUR
NEGATIVITY?
1. Change the People Around You?
2. Change the Situation Around You?
3. Change Your Beliefs, Your Attitude!
 SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY

What you believe in,

almost always
happens…
And your belief in it,
MAKES it happen…
“Anytime you think
the problem is out
there, that very
thought is the
problem.”
Stephen Covey
 I am convinced that life
is 10% what happens to me

and 90% how I react to it.

And so it is with you . . .

we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
 ATTITUDE MATHEMATICS
ABILITIES + ATTITUDES = RESULT

6 = 1
Great Talent + Rotten Attitudes = Bad team

3
Great Talent + Bad Attitudes = Average Team

x +
Great Talent + Average Attitudes = Good Team

Great Talent + Good Attitudes = Great Team!

THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDE

When Goliath came up against the

Israelites, the soldiers all thought,
“He’s so big we can never kill him.”

David looked at the same giant and

thought, “He ‘s so big, I can’t miss.”
THE IMPACT OF WORK ON OUR LIVES

• Source of “bread and butter”

• Provides social network
• Expands our knowledge
• Increases self-esteem and sense
of fulfillment
• SHAPES OUR IDENTITY!
DESIRABLE ATTITUDES
• Toward the WORK

 Source of Basic Needs, “My Bread and

Butter”
 Expression of Talent and Independence
 Proof That I Have A Contribution to
the World
 Source of Advancement and Growth
DESIRABLE ATTITUDES
• Toward the COMPANY

 Provides Opportunity to Meet My Needs

 My Second Family, Second Home
 A Community, A School
 Assists me in Reaching My Vision
 Provides Work-Life Balance in My Life
DESIRABLE ATTITUDES
• Toward COLLEAGUES
- Partners in Accomplishing My Work
- Friends and Family
- Walls to Lean On, Shoulders to Cry On
DESIRABLE ATTITUDES
• Toward the SUBORDINATES

- Partners in Accomplishing My Work

- Friends and Family
- My Protégé, My Soldiers
- My Strength
DESIRABLE ATTITUDES
• Toward the BOSS

- My Partner for Growth and Development

- My Mentor and Adviser
- My Guide
- “The Captain of the Ship”
- A Human Being Too!
Work: A Means
To Reach My
Personal Vision
THE POWER OF VISION
 VISION

• Mental Picture
•Image
•Visualization
 THE POWER OF VISION

Vision gives direction and

helps us prioritize
everything we do so that
what we pursue adds value
to our work.
A Journey of a thousand
miles begins with a single
step
Your THOUGHTS in the
PAST have shaped your
PRESENT.

Your THOUGHTS TODAY

will shape your
TOMORROW.

Your THOUGHTS can

make your FUTURE to
happen.

Your FUTURE is in
your hands!
 Vision without Action is Just A
Dream

Action without Vision Just Passes

the Time

Vision with Action Changes the

World.
Why is Work
Important?
#1: Basic Needs
#2: Sense of
Security
#3: Sense of
Belonging
 #4: Desire for
Fulfillment, Self-
Esteem & Recognition
 Is this Reason
Enough to be Truly
Happy at Work?
 Work Should Be
Seen as Worthwhile
 WORTHWHILE
• “Without my
contribution,
the goal will
not be
fulfilled.”
• Focuses on
transforming
lives
WHAT IS YOUR PLACE IN THE
GRAND DESIGN
 My World
My Country
My Community
My Organization
My Department

ME

Mission = WORTHWHILE WORK

True Nature of
Commitment
• Commitment
starts in the
heart.
• Commitment is
tested by action.
• Commitment
opens the door to
achievement.
 Four Types of People When It
Comes to Commitment
• Cop-outs – no goals, no
commitments
• Holdouts – afraid to
commit
• Dropouts – quit when the
going gets tough
• All-outs – pay the price to
reach their
goals
 2 9
Years