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Location: Hitotsubashi University ICS, National Center of Sciences, Jimbocho, Floor 7, Rm. 7B
Hitotsubashi 2-1-2-712, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8439
〒101-8439東京都千代田区一ツ橋2-1-2　
一橋大学大学院国際企業戦略研究科 7階 7B号
Facilitator: Professor Tish Robinson, PhD, Hitotsubashi University

http://www.ics.hit-u.ac.jp/faculty/profiles/tish_robinson.html


Registration: Email Tish Robinson, Hitotsubashi University ICS: probinson@ics.hit-u.ac.jp, with “Pos Psych” in the Subject Line. Tish’s Cell: 090-7424-1159


Dates: Friday evenings, January 15,22,29, 2010; 6:30-9:30pm



Date
Workshop Topic




Friday, 1/15, 6-10pm
ENGAGEMENT IN TEAMS

Friday, 1/22, 6-10pm
INCREASING SELF-EFFICACY & MOTIVATION

Friday, 1/29, 6-10pm
RESILIENCE




Language: These workshops will be led in English, but participants are welcome to speak Japanese.

Donation/ Fee: Free. This workshop series is provided as a community service.

Food: Please bring your own Bento and drink.





WORKSHOP SERIES OVERVIEW



We humans at work are a little like plants: if you set the stage and create the right conditions, often we flourish. So what are those conditions? This workshop series will answer this question by drawing on the latest research in positive psychology on engagement, meaning, and resilience. Positive Psychology focuses on making healthy people and good managers happier, more effective, and better able to overcome adversity and challenge.



In this workshop series, I have joined forces with several positive psychology researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Positive Psychology who work with Professor Martin Seligman, to focus on three skill sets necessary for managers to maximize their own and their employees’ effectiveness and satisfaction: 1) Engagement, 2) Flow and Intrinsic Motivation, and 3) Resilience.



I would like to use this opportunity to explore these ideas with managers before teaching them to Hitotsubashi&39;s MBA students. Much of the material here has been adapted from the University of Pennsylvania&39;s Master&39;s of Applied Positive Psychology Program (MAPP) in cooperation with graduates and representatives of the MAPP program. This workshop series seeks to take this research one step further and apply it in management.



Friday, January 15: Engagement in Teams. Engagement is reported by HR.com to be the Number 1 Challenge facing managers as we recover from the Financial Crisis. Engaging employees in a way that brings about flow is the most cost effective way of raising productivity. Engagement with other colleagues also affects employee satisfaction and productivity. Research done by Barbara Fredrickson and Marcial Losada, shows that the most effective teams (in terms of customer satisfaction, profitability) were engaged with each other in positive ways. Ellen Langer’s research found that employees who were warned at the outset to expect mistakes (and incorporate them into their projects) produced more creative and satisfying work than those instructed simply to do their best. Other studies show that avoiding time pressure and participating in something beforehand that makes employees relaxed and happy can stimulate creativity and engagement.



Friday, January 22: Increasing Self Efficacy, Motivation, and Flow. Activities that create self efficacy and motivation in work needn’t be warm and fuzzy, or even without mistakes. This session will focus on intrinsic motivation and provide experiential exercises to apply the research of Deci and Ryan to our own motivation and self-efficacy. The most engaging activities are neither so difficult that we’re overwhelmed, nor so easy that we can do them without paying much attention. Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi’s research on Flow found that people felt happier, stronger, more creative, and more engaged and satisfied when engaged in activities involving challenge, skill and focus. You may be tired and hungry near the end of a challenging project, but be fully absorbed at the time and look back on the experience with pleasure and satisfaction. Moreover, you can enter the flow of challenging creative endeavors, by expecting and embracing mistakes. This workshop will combine psych research from the lab with experiential exercises to help us maximize "Flow" at work.



Friday, January 29: Resilience. The final session of this series focuses on Resilience and managing challenge. Resilience is the ability to survive difficulty and somehow come out stronger for it. Dean Becker, in his Harvard Business Review article in May 2002, noted “More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails. That’s true in the cancer ward, it’s true in the Olympics, and it’s true in the boardroom.” Salvatore Maddi and Deborah Khoshaba, in a 12-year study of 450 managers at Illinois Bell Telephone undergoing downsizing and organizational upheaval, found that even while 50% of the employees studied lost their jobs and others experienced enormous upheaval, roughly one in three employees not only survived the stress and constant change, they actually appeared to thrive. Key to thriving were: 1) connection and engagement with other people, 2) taking control of some part of their job, and 3) the ability to reframe adversity into a meaningful opportunity for growth and utilize one’s natural strengths in a new way. This module draws on exercises developed at the Positive Psychology Center at University of Pennsylvania, and by Penn researchers, Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatte at Adaptiv Learning. Research has found that these resilience exercises halve the rate of depression of participants and can be taught to managers and employees.



LEARNING OUTCOMES

Each workshop stands alone and addresses a single topic. Together, these skill sets equip you as managers to:

l Develop resilience in yourselves and in your subordinates

l Increase engagement in your subordinates

l Increase positive attitudes like commitment, control, and challenge, while decreasing those of isolation, powerlessness, and threat.


LEARNING APPROACH
This workshop series combines theory and practice to put research into practice through simulations and other skills-based experiential exercises. The series will be a mixture of lecture, discussion, and individual and group exercises. My hope in sharing these ideas with you is to spark us to collectively think about how we can apply these psychological findings to enhance management skills at work.



DIRECTIONS TO HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY ICS KANDA CAMPUS IN JIMBOCHO

Chiyoda-ku, Hitotsubashi 2-1-2 http://www.ics.hit-u.ac.jp/visitor.htm



Nearest Subway Stations: Takebashi (Tozai Line), Jimbocho (Hanzomon, Toei Shinjuku, and Toei Mita Lines), both 2 minutes walk from the National Center of Sciences.



FROM JIMBOCHO STATION, on the Honzomon, Toei Shinjuku, or Toei Mita Subway Lines.

l Exit Jimbocho Station from Exit A8.

l As you reach the top of the stairs exiting the station onto the street, you will see Royal Host across the street and JTB Japan Travel Bureau on your left. The big street running between JTB and Royal Host in front of you is Hakusan Doori. Turn right as you face Royal Host, and walk one block along Hakusan Doori toward the Toyo Tire Sign and the Imperial Palace. You will pass Kyoritsu Women`s University and Schools on your right just before you reach us.

l Just a block down, at the next intersection labeled 一ツ橋, across the street and to your right on the corner, the National Center of Sciences学術総合センター will be the 22-story granite and glass building set back from the corner with a circular entrance. At night, it will have small red lights on it. Go to Floor 7, Room 7B.



FROM TAKEBASHI SUBWAY STATION on the Tozai Line

l Exit Takebashi Subway Station through the GLASS DOORS TO THE RIGHT OF EXIT 1B into Palace Side Building (DO NOT EXIT THROUGH EXIT 1B, instead you want to enter Palace Side Building!). Go into Palaceside Building through the glass doors to the right of Exit 1B and up the short stairs/escalator. Turn right at the top of the stairs and walk the length of Palace Side Building to Hakusan Doori, down the main hall past "Numbers", Doutours and "Aso Barber" and up the short set of steps and out onto the street. When you reach Hakusan Doori, you will see a river and overhead expressway on your left and the Imperial Palace grounds where Hakusan Doori dead-ends on your right.

l Exiting Palaceside Building onto Hakusan Doori, turn left along Hakusan Doori and head away from the Imperial Palace. (If you accidentally exit Palaceside Building facing the greenery surrounding the Imperial Palace, turn left until you reach the corner with the Street Ligh, then left again so that you are on Hakusan Doori).

l Walk less than two short blocks along Hakusan Doori, crossing Hitotsubashi Bridge under the freeways, passing Josui Kaikan, the orange building on the corner to your left.

l The National Center of Sciences will be the 22-story granite and glass building just past Josui Kaikan, on your left. Tell the security guard in the lobby you are here to see Professor Tish Robinson. Go to Floor 7, Room 7B. Look for Pos Psych sign.



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Patricia (Tish) Robinson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
101-8439東京都千代田区一ツ橋2-1-2-712
一橋大学大学院国際企業戦略研究科712
Mobile Tel. +(81) 90-7424-1159
http://www.ics.hit-u.ac.jp/faculty/profiles/tish_robinson.html