Authentic Social Behavior – Social behavior is the interaction of two or more people.  Authentic social behavior means your actions are directly aligned to your values and beliefs and not easily compromised by pressure from others.  Authentic social behavior increases your value as a team member, colleague, friend, family member, and community citizen and enables you to influence and inspire them.  Examples of authentic social behavior would demonstrate your ability to:  be helpful, be kind, be likeable, be confident, be empathetic, collaborate, learn continuously, build relationships, trust and be trustworthy, be competent, be accountable, be productive, be a great communicator. (back)

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BootCamp – Our BootCamps are live, in-person learning environments designed for people to come together face-to-face to connect and interact with other human beings.  We choose not to use any slide presentations or other digital technology in this human-energized learning environment.  Instead, in our BootCamps, we quickly and effectively stimulate and harness the human energy, to encourage people to move about the space, engage in meaningful dialogue, tackle real challenges, learn and practice new methods and tools, and make them relevant to their own situations. (back)

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Collaboration – Collaboration occurs when two or more people connect and interact to work towards a common goal.  People ask each other open-ended questions; listen to each other with empathy; disagree, debate and dispute ideas with respect; boost creativity; practice clear, concise communications; demonstrate an openness and understood value of the opinions, thoughts and contributions of others; build off each others thoughts and ideas for the best solutions.  (back)

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Core Values – Values stem from a person or organizations beliefs and what they believe is most important in life. Samples of core values:  Trust, integrity, healthy work/life balance, diversity, cooperation, safety, community, learning. (back)

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Critical and Creative Thinking Skills – Creative thinking seeks to generate something new.  Critical thinking seeks to validate something that already exists.  Both creative and critical thinking require process, communication, problem solving, collaboration, listening, evaluating all sides of an argument, ability to disagree and debate with respect. (back)

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Critical Thinkers – Critical thinkers observe and consider new information; seek to understand context; make connections between ideas; make things relevant for their unique situations; can make unbiased, objective decisions; use judgment and intuition to make decisions; and crave continuous learning.

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Dynamic Facilitation – Our dynamic facilitation follows the group energy and passion in a meeting or event, making learning and conversation more relevant to participants while still keeping with the goals and objectives of the original learning activity.  (Back)

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Emotional Intelligence – EI is the self-awareness and self-management of one’s own beliefs, values, mindsets, emotions, attitudes, behaviors and skills. We help people understand and use the power of choice in what they believe, think, say and do and how they respond to others’ choices. Deliberate emotionally intelligent choices and responses make the best of any social situation -- for ones own benefit as well as for the benefit of others.

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Empowering Mindset – Mindset is how you see the world and revolves around the choices you make around your beliefs, emotions, actions and thoughts; your BEAT. Empowering mindsets drive positive outcomes and growth in all aspects of your life. Those with an empowering mindset, for example, choose enabling beliefs, energizing emotions, strategic actions, positive thinking.  (back)

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FRESH – FRESH is an acronym for the Fast, Relevant, Energizing, Social and Human-focused proprietary methodologies, models and tools designed by Need2Be, Inc. These methods and tools include fully adaptable, action-oriented floor and wall models; amazing learning tips and techniques; easy to remember and easy to use visual tools; and the Personal Action Log. All our FRESH methods, techniques and tools are designed to help individuals build and apply core values, positive attitudes, empowering mindsets, authentic social behavior, critical and creative thinking required for leadership in all aspects of life.  In addition to the above, Need2Be Partners also receive Need2Be’s FRESH Facilitator and Coaching guides to optimize the use of these methods and tools in their own practice.  (back)

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Innovating – the process to transform a creative idea into a product, service or method, creating new value for individuals, teams, businesses, schools, start-up ventures or civilization in general.

 

In-the-Moment Coaching – Our coaching occurs spontaneously with individuals and groups in any conversation or situation, to seize a learning opportunity.  (back)

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Leadership - is a phenomenon that occurs when a person uses certain mindsets, behaviors and skills to drive positive results and to thrive in our constantly changing and complex world -- and helps others do the same.  (back)

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Meaningful dialogue – A two-way conversation where both parties respectfully and with trust, exchange their important viewpoints and thoughts about opposing ideas or interests.  The dialogue is meaningful and important, not small-talk or casual banter.  (back)

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Peer interaction - People learn from each other and provide support and advice to each other through fun practice activities, meaningful dialogue, one-on-one feedback and through group consultation.  (back)

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Personal Action Log (PAL) – This is a collection of all the relevant tools, models and learnings from an individual’s learning experiences.  In this PAL, individuals journal about their most valuable learning and create immediate plans to apply new learnings to reach their own individual and collective goals – at work, in schools, at home and in the community.

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Positive Attitude – Attitude is how you interact with the world and how others see you. Positive attitudes include being optimistic no matter what happens – even when facing life’s most difficult challenges. Other positive attitudes: being motivated, cheerful, resilient, sincere, tolerant, responsible, flexible, determined, reliable and humble.  (back)