“Emotional Intelligence in Business”

Since psychologist and science journalist Daniel Goleman popularized the concept of emotional intelligence and demonstrated the link between EQ and business success, this topic is still high up on the list of corporate training. Emotional intelligence needs to be developed in order to become more aware of your own emotions, this in turn leads to learning to control them. Believe it or not, this helps to better understand other people and simplifies teamwork. And if our IQ is for the most part given, your EQ level, however, can be increased throughout your life. This can be done by using simple tools and corporate course techniques. And you can save your money instead of going to those Tony Robbins lectures!

“Personal Effectiveness”

You can spend your whole life struggling, trying to discern urgent and important tasks or you can choose to work productively. Imagine your personal effectiveness as a path of a super hero who's on a mission. The hero needs to save the world, the employee needs to solve top priority tasks. On this mission you are facing a bunch of obstacles along the way — routine work, constant flow of letters, numerous questions from your colleagues, procrastination and all sorts of fears. Are you getting the point now? You need a superpower that can help you finish your work and keep a clear head. By enrolling in a course like this you are doomed to achieve this much needed Zen Mastery.

Kasperskys often invites surprise speakers to talk about different things. For instance, astrophysicist Sergey Popov spoke to employees about Dark Matter, popular presenter Adis Mammo talked about humor in public speeches, and Olga Marquez, creator of the school of extreme fitness #sekta, spoke about motivation in sports. You may ask: how is this related to to the company's business? The answer is simple: For inspiration. Finding interest in the world around us is an essential skill that inspires us to do other things.

“Corporate School Facilitation”

Sometimes you just want to get the job done all by yourself, but once you do it the results turn out to be not quite what you expected. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? The outsider effect on human activity was studied in the 1920s, and based on the results of a number of different experiments psychologists came to the same conclusion that working in a group is a force in itself, but once the complexity of any given task increases the group's dynamics start to create problems. This conclusion was backed by the psychologists findings on how cockroaches operate. In the 1960s, Robert B. Zajonc, while studying the success factors of team work, made cockroaches run into a maze that led to a dark box while they were escaping light. He found out that the coackroaches that had an audience of other coackroaches completed the maze more quickly, but as the maze became more complicated they would start having problems. Similar results were found in humans, meaning that in the presence of colleagues, we can start to work better or worse. So facilitation deals with increasing the speed and productivity of a person’s work in a group, and also strengthening the benefits of joint activities and reducing the negative factors of group dynamics. This course at Kaspersky is attended by company coaches, as well as managers who hold regular meetings.

“Public speaking”

Did you know that the fear of public speaking for most people can be compared to the fear of death? It may seem paradoxical, but this can be explained by the reaction of our reticular activating system or reticular formation (also called the “reptilian” part of the brain). Crucial to our survival, this ancient system has three reactions to any danger signal — fight, run or stand still. Though critical in case of real danger, this system in peaceful times can often slows us down even when there's no danger. For example, many become numb or experience panic attacks if they find themselves communicating with a large audience. Special techniques, scenarios and simple exercises can help to outsmart the “reptilian brain”, making it easier to address your audience. This Kaspersky course consists of two parts. First, the employees learn the basics, like preparing for a speech, letting go of fear, choosing their own style, communicating thoughts and ideas to the audience and being expressive. At the second stage of the program they improve their skills. As a result, the employees are able to deliver outstanding speeches, capture and hold peoples attention, make a good impression and answer the toughest questions.