Why is it important to choose the right lunch and learn topic?
With the right lunch and learn topics, you can be rest assured your colleagues are eager to attend and walk away with valuable insights.
Deciding on the wrong lunch and learn topics can be a common problem which could result to a common sentiment when your colleagues or even you have an adverse reaction to the term “lunch and learn”.
The truth is, many lunch and learn topics are held for the wrong reasons – this leads to your colleagues and employees wasting their precious time from their workday when they could have been doing something else.
To plan a good lunch and learn programme for your colleagues and employees, it must be engaging and outcome-oriented to give the attendees real value in exchange for their time.
You may catch up on our recent post to find out more on what is our lunch and learn programmes all about.
Read on more below to plan an incredible and memorable lunch and learn programmes with our compiled list of top 5 communications and soft-skills topics which your team will love!
Time Management (Lunch and learn topic)
Effective time management skills will increase your focus and productivity as an individual and a team player at the workplace. Having a good time management skill will reduce potential distractions and procrastination, which allows you to take control of your time and gets more of your important work done simply and easily. Additionally, it helps you to avoid stress and have ample rest when you need to. This brings a powerful effect on the quality of the decisions you make which affects almost every aspect of your life – career progression, relationships, friendships, and social life.
With this topic, you can takeaway these few benefits for just not yourself but your team as well:
- Define what work-life balance is for you
- Knowing your priorities
- Be aware of the resources you can use
- Master when and how to delegate for maximum productivity
- Learn quick yet powerful time management strategies
- Gain lasting skills to tackle procrastination
Project Management (Lunch and learn topic)
Effective project management skills help you provide leadership, balance priorities, oversee resources, and track progress towards your goals. In today’s environment, one can hardly find themselves in a situation where you only do your job as you are hired to do so. In most instances, you are required from time to time to take on project responsibilities.
This is good, as it provides you the opportunity to learn, grow, handle people, deadlines, slim budgets, and any additional tasks in a way that will help your career growth and thus, the organization. This refers to a continuous improvement for your organization. Since success or failure depends largely on how you handle yourself and others, with the right technical skills and planning tools, you can learn areas relating to the two spectra on project management and project achievements.
With this topic, you can takeaway these few benefits for just not yourself but your team as well:
- Assess and determine the project environment, manpower, and vital skills required
- Set realistic and measurable project goals and deliver measurable results
- Establish project tasks, schedule, and resources for an effective implementation
- Pre-empt common pitfalls with immediate implementable solutions
- Learn project management techniques and tools for better monitoring and control
Conflict Resolution (Lunch and learn topic)
With a highly diversified multi-generational workplace, conflicts have increasingly become a key challenge for any organizations. Conflicts can easily destroy productivity and derail projects – additionally, paralyze your team, department, or the entire organization. Effective conflict resolution skills will help you and your team reduce the friction that damages working relationships. By resolving conflicts in a more professional and respectful manner, you and your team can collaborate better with one another and build a stronger relationship at the workplace, at the same time removes the toxic effects of gossips and aggressive behavior.
With this topic, you can takeaway these few benefits for just not yourself but your team as well:
- Diagnose conflicts on your team and instill collaborative problem solving within the team
- Understand how to deal with workplace bullying and harassment
- Skillful attention to rising undercurrents, and handle the daily onslaught of frustration without losing the momentum
- Identify workplace conflict predictors with warning signs and symptoms
- Learn tips on how to avoid conflicts and cynicism that drains energy and hurt relationships at the workplace
- Use transformational mediation to overcome the interpersonal challenges holding your team back
- Converting adversarial behaviors to collaborative and transformational
- Effective tips on how to quickly calm agitated colleagues and customers
Mindfulness and Mental Wellness (Lunch and learn topic)
Work-related stress is an all-too-common part of modern life. The rise of digital media and instant messaging means that many of us never really “switched off” from work and the culture of presenteeism causes us to spend more time at work than ever before.
Many of us spend too much time overthinking situations that happened or worrying over things that might happen in the future, that often we forget to appreciate or enjoy the moment. Mindfulness is an effective method for helping anyone of us to focus on the present, bringing our attention back to experience life as it happens and unfolds.
Mindfulness is a scientifically proven technique and positive practice that helps us cope with our daily challenges and difficult times in life – it has also proven to be highly beneficial for our physical and mental wellbeing. Anxiety, stress, depression, and irritability have been found to decrease with regular mindfulness practice and techniques. Improvements in memory as well as mental and physical stamina have also been found. Mindfulness can reduce pain dramatically and regulate emotions, with additional improvements in emotional intelligence, working memory, creativity, and attention span.
With this topic, you can takeaway these few benefits for just not yourself but your team as well:
- Better manage your stress
- Learn how to become more productive
- How to improve your decision-making skills
- Learn how to enjoy better relationships with your team
- How to work more creativity in life and at the workplace
- How to develop your leadership skills
- Learn how to enjoy your present
Social Intelligence and Empathetic Thinking (Lunch and learn topic)
Social intelligence helps individuals build relationships. It is important to numerous aspects of an individual’s life as it allows them to form friendships and alliances, it also assists a person against being taken advantage of.
Empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of one another. Lack of empathy in the workplace can cause us a sense of belonging, humanity, dignity, and motivation that drains away talent and energy from the organization.
In recent years, there has been a lot of emphasis placed about Empathy, and why is it so important?
Empathy basically affects much more than the bottom line. Organizations thrive when employees feel valued, the environment is automatically energized, and high productivity and innovation are the norm. This requires a new kind of leader who fosters a culture of connection within the organization.
With this topic, you can takeaway these few benefits for just not yourself but your team as well:
- Explore the thinking behind empathy to incorporate it into your regular thoughts, habits, and routines
- Learn step-by-step guide on how to develop a capacity for empathy and compassion into organizational structures and practices
- Equip the right-thinking patterns and practices needed to deeply understand the needs of your team, either in a professional setting or personal lives
- Learn how to truly put “People First” in your daily practice and not just as a lip service
What are you waiting for?
Lunch and learn programmes do not have to be boring or cringeworthy. On the contrary, with the right topics, this lunch and learn programmes can be an engaging and enjoyable experience for not just for yourself, but the entire team as well.
You can read up on the benefits of organizing lunch and learn programmes here.
Have you used any these lunch and learn topics before? Are there any interesting topics that you feel we might have missed out above and want to know more? If so, let us know – we’ll be happy to hear from you!
Starting at a nominal fee of SGD2,000 per session for up to 300 participants, be it face-to-face classroom training or virtual LIVE stream, Aventis offers the best corporate lunch and learn programmes with over a hundred exciting topics for you to choose from.
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