In today's world it is important to teach employees more than the technical components of their jobs.
Successful companies take steps to build the individual and the work teams confidence.
When designing a program for your employees and management, experiential exercises like the one which follows ususally drives your point home and gets the best results for your effort. I often use this exercise in my courses to demonstrate how we have all been inadvertently programmed to underestimate ourselves. I ask a person, let's call him Jim, to put on a belt to which are attached four long yellow ropes. Jim is then instructed that his task is to find and pick up the money as fast as possible. I explain that the four people holding his yellow ropes want him to succeed.