Perfectionism to Productivity: Empowering Women in Business

Is your inner critic getting the better of you? Does a need for perfection drive you to overthink tasks, spend excessive amounts of time rechecking work or doubt your own capabilities? Explore the unique challenges of women who are overburdened by a need to be “perfect” in their professional and personal lives and discover strategies for overcoming fear of failure and gaining a more realistic, positive and less perfection-driven perspective.

Based on the book, The Productive Perfectionist: A Woman’s Guide to Smashing the Shackles of Perfectionism, this course offers you practical strategies for shifting your focus from pursuing and obsessing over perfection to achieving excellence, emphasizing efficiency, effectiveness and overall well-being.

• Transform your inner critic into an inner coach
• Recognize, create and celebrate "situational wins" for yourself and your team
• Gain increased comfort in seeking help, obtaining feedback and expanding your network
• Learn to manage challenging perfectionist types and demanding work environments
• Recognize and overcome imposter syndrome
• Release self-imposed standards of perfection
• Become a more innovative leader who can make faster, more informed decisions

• Distinguishing productive perfectionism from unproductive perfectionism
• Learning the five essential actions for boosting productivity
• Identifying and fostering three core positive emotions for heightened productivity
• Shifting from pursuing perfection to striving for excellence
• Identifying and expanding your comfort with risk-taking
• Applying strategies to work with demanding bosses, challenging colleagues and clients
• Navigating unfriendly or hostile work environments
• Identifying and reframing self-limiting standards of perfection or “shoulds”
• Reviewing common leadership challenges and applying decision-making acceleration techniques