To help shed some light on the different PATHS Modules, and what they do, we will be posting the different Module descriptions in here so that you can share your experiences and ask any questions you may have about the Module. We look forward to your responses!

Effective Communication in the Workplace
Understanding Co-Workers & Being Understood

This module is designed to aid you in communicating productively in the work place. It is significantly different from the Effective Communication at Home module as its instructions are intended for work place communication only.

This module will increase your desire and ability to be patient and listen to people you work with, as well as produce an increased ability to communicate your ideas clearly. This is achieved by helping you to alter dysfunctional communication patterns of the past. By simultaneously providing you with new communication tools, your ability to communicate your ideas to your team members in an effective way is also dramatically increased.

It also assists in easing tensions by boosting your sense of humor and feelings of relaxation and serenity.

Addressed:


- Desire to work in harmony with people

- Desire to be courteous

- Increased patience

- Increased sense of humor

- Increased feelings of peace

- Increased ability to be expressive in communication

- Stimulate perception

- Increased ability to communicate ideas clearly

- Increased feelings of joy and satisfaction after listening and reacting with respect and understanding


Recommended Supplement:

- Spirulina for necessary Amino Acids


Recommended Duration of Use:

Effective Communication helps you develop new habits and behaviors that can often be internalized after only 60-90 days, providing long-lasting benefits and lifestyle changes.

I just switched out one module for this one. My work situation over the last year has been tumultuous. The week before Christmas, my new boss told me she didn't see a use for me, gave me that extra week to look for new work (lol. It's not easy to set up appts/interviews when everyone is in Christmas mode!!!) and told me we'd discuss my termination after the New Year. So, I went back to work in January, set up my termination meeting and just two days before I was suppose to be fired, my boss changed her mind. She offered me a job - the exact one I was already doing. lol. Anyway, all this was before Paths.

Since then, I've been focusing on being filled with gratitude for my job and its income, but it has been a rocky road. There's been a lot of trust and a relationship to be built between my boss and I. It hasn't been easy.

Grace recommended the communication module for me for work, and so I switched it out after having completed 2 or 3 months on the self-confidence module. The next day, my boss called me into a meeting because she was concerned about me and my workload - in that I have too big a workload. A 180 degree reversal from where we were 6 months ago.

I've also noticed that my colleagues and I are getting along great: there's more mutual respect, more humor, a congeniality. I am also noticing that I understand people's frustrations, concerns, demands better than before. I can read between the lines of what they are saying to what they are trying to convey.

It's early days yet, but so far I have found this module to be very helpful!

Thank you for posting about this, Jamie! I'm on a workplace-type module too (Increased Business and Productivity) since only a few weeks ago, and today for the very first time I had the clear sense that it is working! I feel really positive about my work situation now. I can hardly wait to see what everything will be like in a few months time. I'll be sure to post all about it in the appropriate thread. Please keep updating!

Out of the blue today, I got a raise. It's not my review time. It's not an anniversary date or anything. Just a random "Hey I'm impressed so you get a raise" from my boss who almost fired me in January.

This module is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!

That is awesome! Then again, once your boss got to know you, she'd probably give you a raise anyway! But still, with as much time as you spend on the forum at work!!

CONGRATS!!

WOW!!!! Is all I have to say! That's great news, Jamie!

That is wonderful Jamie!!!!!! You have turned it around to your advantage. Do tell more about the details of this module and what you are noticing. I have not tried that module myself and am not super familiar with how it would assist someone. Although I will add what you have shared here so far is very helpful.
i personally am self employed and if my boss tries to fire me I might slap her
Aloha
Keoi

I am so positively thrilled for you

And Keoi, you made me laugh out loud!!!

Hi everyone,

Let's see....I'm experiencing a lot of changes in association with this module. Sometimes it's hard to solidify which is this particular module or if it's the module working in conjunction with other modules I'm on....but let me try.

I've always had a more difficult time in "corporate" world - I haven't always known how to play the corporate game and found myself getting frustrated quickly with office politics. This module has definitely given me a distance from the Me Jamie and the work that Jamie the employee does. I've found myself being very peaceful and in an observer role regarding work. Not apathetic, but certainly more objective (and in the emotional creative world I work in, that is a FEAT!). Hmmmm- is this the secret to playing the corporate game??? I have no idea. lol.

My relationships with collegues and my boss have most definitely improved. My humor with them is bigger & better, I certainly respond to them more respectfully and kindly than before and they do to me as well. Oh, and this new-found objectivity has allowed me to read between lines and different situations much more clearly than ever before.

I see it also affecting my free-lance work. (I was free-lance for 5 years before taking this job and still continue some free-lance gigs.) A lot of what I do for people free-lance is keep track of schedules, budgets, solve problems, put out fires, and stay in constant communication between the artistic people and the left-brain business people. This has been easy, effortless and without stress, even though the projects I'm currently doing have crazy deadlines and time-frames.

Hehe. For me, maybe this should be called the "no frustration" module!