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Martha Mylona & Xenia Stefanopoulou
The NLP system for Resilience and Well-being in Business
Wed. 24 May 2023 | 19.15 – 21.00 GR time (CET+1)
Mental resilience is a valuable human skill, which helps us overcome obstacles, ominous and stressful situations, adversities, and crises, so we can enhance our development. Mental resilience is not a personality trait we are born with. It is a process that involves thoughts, behaviors, and actions that a person can learn in order to manage and recover from difficult experiences and circumstances.
Yet, apart from personal experiences, mental resilience finds wide application in the business world (entrepreneurship resilience). The environment the businesses operate in, is often unpredictable and rapidly changing. It shows characteristics of variability, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity and the adaptability of executives is considered essential. The hybrid work model established in businesses since 2020, digital transformation and flexible forms of work are bringing radical changes to the workplace.
It has been observed that resilient employees are better able to handle uncertainty, bounce back quickly and continue to progress, experiencing higher performance and productivity rates and significant levels of job satisfaction. The techniques of Neuro-Linguistic Programming help to maintain and strengthen the work-life balance of the person.
In this presentation, we will focus on how with NLP, we learn to build our resilience, acquiring a secure internal locus of control: we learn that we, not the circumstances, can influence everything we want to achieve. We thus maintain control over our actions, while being less influenced by external factors, resulting in operating more productively and autonomously. It helps us identify the symptoms of work burnout and boost our confidence and self-esteem, and understand how we can face obstacles and not be afraid of changes and challenges.
The internal locus of control in combination with the NLP, aims at adopting a growth mindset, leaving behind fixed mindsets that are accompanied by limiting beliefs, cognitive distortions and difficulties in managing changes at work. In the workplace in particular, a growth mindset or fixed mindset affects everything from the way we lead, how we react to feedback, how we manage challenges, how we create or not growth opportunities for self and colleagues, and generally how we position ourselves towards development and growth. It also promotes and contributes to personal balance and a healthy mindset in coping with diverse situations.
meet Martha Mylona & Xenia Stefanopoulou
Οrganizational Consultant/Executive-Leadership Coach/Mediator in the Workplace
Martha is an experienced human capital strategist and her impact as HR Director has been vital in leading companies to thrive through change while supporting the development of their people. As a consultant, she enjoys partnering with executives to translate organizational strategies into actions that drive business results. As an executive coach, she is passionate about helping clients explore possibilities, build leadership confidence, enhance their performance and realize their full potential.
Her background is multi-faceted: She holds a MSc in Administration Law, a bachelor’s degree in Public Management from Pandion University (Athens-Greece) and a bachelor’s degree in Graphology from the “Institut de Communication Humaine”(Paris – France). She is a coach accredited by the Institute of Human Development (London-UK),NLP University and ICF, a workplace mediator accredited by ADRg ( London –UK) and a systemic consultant accredited by the Athenian Institute of Anthropos (AKMA).
She has extensive HR and Leadership expertise in the Tourism, Insurance, Consumer Goods, Advertising & Communications industries, plus Non-profit Organizations. Until July 2015, she held the position of HR Director Southeastern Europe for 11 years in the DDB Communication Group. From 2018 until June 2022, she was a Senior Principal at Korn Ferry management consultants Greece, covering leadership and executive coaching projects.
For 10 consecutive years, she was elected as Chairman of GPMA (Greek People Management Association) a member of the Board from 2002.She is also a member of the Women in Business (WIB -Amcham), LEAN IN committees, the Advisory Board of the Executive MBA(AUEB) and The Boardroom. Now is operates with her own company as Organizational Consultant/ Executive & Leadership Coach
She is married, mother of two children and has a passion for dance and climbing
Xenia Stefanopoulou is a psychologist and scientific associate of nlpgreece®. She graduated from the American College of Greece-Deree College with a B.Sc. in Psychology and continued her studies in psychology abroad. She acquired a Certificate of Proficiency in the Treatment of Alcohol and other Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders from the British Psychoanalytic Council in London and a Combined Certificate in Counselling Skills and Therapeutic Counselling from Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body in London.
She obtained an M.Sc. in Child Psychology from Universal of Central Lancashire in the UK. She is an NLP Practitioner from NLP University of California Santa Cruz. She is specialized in teen mental health and psychology issues (time and anxiety management, career counseling,
problems with self-awareness and self-esteem, relationship problems, risky behaviors, school and social related issues, sexual orientation, i.e.), family dynamics, addictions, and eating disorders issues, interpersonal relations, emotional and mental trauma management, and she attended and participated in many seminars and conferences.
In collaboration with nlpgreece®, she designed and developed a special NLP protocol for teens, focusing on NLP techniques and practices that help teens cope effectively with the transition period of adolescence. She worked in many companies in the private sector as an HR Generalist, emphasizing on labor issues, employee relations, health and safety issues, personnel training and assessment, empowering resilience, and mindfulness in competitive working
environments, and implementing psychometric assessment.