‘Toughening up our soft skills for success’: An introduction to the use and impact of the Reflective Goal Setting Model

If you have ever wanted to:

• Say no when others put pressure on you to do something you didn’t want to do  Feel less stressed
• Become more confident
• Stop comparing yourself to others
• Think more positive thoughts
• Create a more professional impression
• Influence others to do what you want
• Be a genuinely better leader
• Handle conflict more effectively
• Engage with others more empathically etc
• Improve your relationships

Then Reflective Goal Setting could help you turn those desires into achievable goals. Reflective Goal Setting is a theory-driven, practical five-stage approach for enhancing self-awareness and the ideation, development, and implementation of personal development goals underpinned by on-going written reflection on goal activity. Reflective Goal Setting is about behaviour, attitude, and psychological change, and has been used by a multitude of managers and leaders over the last 21 years. This session will introduce you to the framework and show you how to toughen up the hardest skills of all, those that are supposedly ‘soft’ in nature.

This session was run on-site at Imago Venues Burleigh Court.

The audio recording of the day can be heard here and the slides to accompany it can be seen here

Dr Cheryl Travers

Cheryl is Senior Lecturer in the Work and Organisation research group and Director of Alumni Relations and Lifelong Engagement within the Loughborough Business School. Her research interests and publications include occupational stress, management of change, diary methods, and the development of her Reflective Goal Setting model for personal development and the development of soft skills. She has extensive experience with corporate clients spanning over 30 years, and has designed and delivered management, leadership, and team development programmes for all industry sectors, in addition to delivering numerous keynotes and two TED talks. Her Reflective Goal Setting Model features in her recent book with Palgrave Macmillan, Reflective Goal Setting: an applied approach to personal leadership development.

Cheryl’s LinkedIn profile is; https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheryl-travers-989a4126/

Thank you to Imago Venues for hosting this event for us at Burleigh Court.

Thank you to our industry partners for their ongoing support.