If you cannot read this properly, please go to this site: http://www.cbsgroup.com.sg/workshops/090115-psychology.htm This email is an advertisement. You are currently subscribed to our mailing list. We sincerely apologize if you find this email an intrusion of your privacy or a source of inconvenience to you. If you no longer wish to receive our email advertisements - please reply "unsubscribe" Thank you. TRAINING WORKSHOPS Contents » Course Outline » Course Objective » Who Should Attend » About the Trainer Course Information Date: 15 Jan 2009, Thursday Time: 9am to 5pm Venue: Concorde Hotel, Orchard Road Fee: S$727.60 (inclusive of GST) Registration is on a 1st come 1st serve basis. Register early to avoid disappointment. Click here for registration form For more information, please contact Sandrina @ 9889 9565 or sandrina@cbsgroup.com.sg   1 Day Problem Solving Workshop - The Power of Social Psychology and its impact on organisational culture and conflict management Social psychology is the study of how people's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of others. One of social psychology's greatest contributions has been the reconition that the immediate social context impacts strongly on people's behaviours. This recognition led to important qualifications of simple personality-based explanations of humnan behaviour. Participants in this one-day workshop will be exposed to some of the major principles and phenomena investigaed within the field of social psychology. Course Outline Understanding Social Psychology The manner in which these expectations, norms and ideologies guide people's behaviours within social situations? How does self-esteem affect the attributions we make for our own successes and failures? What kinds of attibutional biases influence the ways in which we perceive others? Overview if the scientific method and the latest trends & developments Research findings of Social Psychology? How do we use experimentation to understand behaviour? The power of the situation Why do we conform to the beliefs and behaviours of others? What factors encourage and discourage obedience to authority figures? How do others' expectations and perceptions of us affect our own self-perceptions and behaviours? Interpersonal relationships and its impact on organisation culture How do our own feelings of worth impact the way we perceive and behave towards close relationship partners? What factors predict satisfaction and commitment within interpersonal relationships? Course Objective Participants will leave the workshop with a better understanding of how their thoughts, feelings and behaviours are shaped by the people around them. Who Should Attend • Business Directors • HR Managers • Head of Department • Supervisors • Executives • Consultants • Facilitators About the Trainer Professor Kristin Sommer, Ph.D. in Social Psychology Psychology Department, Baruch College, City University of New York Professor Sommer received her Ph.D. in social psychology (with minors in statistics and personality psychology) from the University of Toledo in 1995. After completing a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Case Western Reserve University, she joined the faculty at Baruch College where she is currently an associate professor. Dr. Sommer teaches undergraduate and doctoral courses in research methods and social psychology. She also teaches a class on research design in work organizations as part of Baruch College's Executive Master's Programme in Management of Human Resource and Global Leadership in Taipei, Taiwan. Dr. Sommer´s primary research interests involve the cognitive and behavioral consequences of interpersonal rejection. She and her colleagues are investigating the myriad ways in which self-protection motives following rejection influence perceptions of, and behaviors toward, new (non-rejecting) relationship partners. The theme underlying this work is that people seek to minimize the pain of future rejection by cognitively derogating others and dismissing the importance of relationships, while simultaneously avoiding behaviors that objectively increase the likelihood of rejection. Her studies document how brief experiences with rejection negatively impact broad social expectancies and beliefs about others´ traits and motives. They also explore the extent to which rejected individuals attempt to mask their disliking of others through the active suppression of controlling or critical behaviors. The research she is currently conducting with doctoral students examines how the paradoxical coupling of interpersonal derogation and rejection-avoidance plays out in interactions between supervisors and subordinates in a simulated work context. Specifically, these studies explore how rejected individuals put in a supervisory role negotiate the delicate balance between the need to deliver negative performance feedback to subordinates and their desire to avoid rejection by others