OBJECTIVE: 
People who are perfectionistic have unrealistically high expectations for their own work. They take little joy in their accomplishments thinking their results are never quite good enough. This means that they might avoid taking on certain tasks as they fear that they can’t do them perfectly.

High achievers enjoy the “flow” of marshalling their strongest skills and stretching towards a challenge. They do the best they can with the time and energy they have now. But perfectionists struggle towards a perfect goal and find the hard work and long hours exhausting and the results imperfect.

The course will decrease your stress and increase your joy in your work and your life.

WHO WILL BENEFIT: 
Managers, team leaders, or professionals who suspect they might have perfectionistic tendencies and would like to know how to overcome those tendencies will learn how to evolve into healthy, happy high achievers. Anyone who wants to work and/or live more happily with a perfectionistic boss, co-worker, spouse, or adolescent.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Participants of the course will learn how to:

• identify perfectionistic tendencies in yourself or others,
• do a cost-benefit analysis of perfectionism,
• set challenging but realistic goals within achievable timelines,
• analyze mistakes and constructive feedback for the lessons learned,
• learn several strategies for coping with perfectionistic tendencies,
• see the painful cost of perfectionism on your work, health, relationships, and family,
• recognize why productive employees may leave a perfectionistic manager,
• adapt to working with a perfectionistic boss or co-worker, and
• live happily with a perfectionistic spouse or adolescent.

COURSE LEADER: EILEEN PEASE, M.Ed., CHRP, CSP