How to succeed with your inner critic - Full Session (Four Part)

Melissa Kidd specialises in helping insurance professionals to communicate more effectively. Her clients include large insurers as well as independent brokers and she has worked with the Chartered Insurance Institute since 2012. Melissa has spoken at a number of HSBC conferences on the subject of successful networking and making yourself memorable. Prior to specialising in the insurance and finance sector, she worked for large corporations such as Coca Cola and Royal Mail.

Melissa will be running a four part of 1 hour sessions designed to help participants develop their self confidence, increase their motivation and build resilience.

Why is this important?

The UK’s picture of mental health alarming. Stress and anxiety are at record levels. And as this can impact performance and productivity, any support for mental health and wellbeing at work is now more important than ever.

Who is it for?

It’s for those who want to develop their confidence, self awareness and achieve better outcomes for clients, customers and colleagues. It’s particularly useful for those who struggle with people pleasing and perfectionist traits and want to achieve success without beating themselves up.

What’s involved?

The sessions will be interactive and include time for questions as well as reflective exercises. Examples will be given which relate to the insurance and financial services industry.

When is it on?

The course spans 4 sessions each via Zoom.

Jun 5, 2023 12:30 PM

Jun 19, 2023 12:30 PM

Jul 3, 2023 12:30 PM

Jul 17, 2023 12:30 PM

Part one: your concept of success

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Discern the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation
• Identify what’s important to you and the goals you are motivated by
• Recognise why beating yourself up doesn’t work as a long-term motivation strategy
• Critique some myths about how self esteem is built
• Examine why many of us are people pleasers and perfectionists

Part 2: Getting to know your critic(s)

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Recognise what the critic is and why we have one
• Develop your awareness as to when and where it shows up
• Identify what it says and how it talks to you
• Reflect on the factors that can cause your critic to be so powerful

Part 3: Tools to help you change your relationship with your critic

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Recognise how to respond to your critic(s) in the midst of an attack
• Develop strategies and skills to effectively relate to feelings of inadequacy
• Develop strategies and skills to manage unhelpful thoughts so that you don’t get so consumed by them
• Recognise ways to respond when there is a grain of truth in what the critic says

Part 4: New ways to motivate yourself without beating yourself up

By the end of the session, you will be able to:

• Recognise 4 key principles that develop your self respect, esteem and confidence
• Motivate yourself to do things that you don’t want to do, but need to
• Handle setbacks and situations that don’t go your way
• Develop healthy habits to strengthen your inner coach not your critic