Motivation
Questions for discussion:
- How do you define motivation?
- How are you best motivated?
- What is something a boss can do to motivate his workers?
- Can some people destroy your motivation? What do you do to keep your motivation?
- How do you maintain your motivation when you fail?
- Do you find that motivated people are more successful than unmotivated people?
- What part does motivation plays in effective teaching?
- Under what conditions can motivation be influenced by ambition?
Yoga
Questions for discussion:
- Have you ever practiced yoga? What are your impressions? Do you (will you) practice it?
- Do you believe in reincarnation, sansara and karma? Do you believe in materialism, Marxism, science? Do you believe in Christianity?
- Do you believe that there are no restrictions of human capacities? You have only to develop them day by day, don't you?
- Do you believe that our thoughts can directly influence the circumstances of our lives?
Your Personal Philosophy – Part 2
Questions for discussion:
4) Personal Principles
What principles do you follow in your life? Give us examples. Who or what circumstances made you believe in them? Are they really useful? Have you ever revised some of your basic principles? If yes, what were the causes and the effects of those? If not, what if… you did so.
Who are your role-models: parents, historical personalities, people in everyday life, artistic or invented heroes and heroines? How have you chosen them? In what periods of your lives? Have you wanted to change your heroes?
Your Personal Philosophy – Part 1
Questions for discussion:
1)Information
Do you have your own system of working with any kind of information? Have you ever thought how data ‘penetrates’ into your brain, stores, is recalled and get outside into external world? How can we improve all these processes?
2)Health
The say ‘Your health is the best wealth.’ Do you agree with this thesis?
Do you sleep enough or not? (Why not?) At the same hours? Do you get up with alarm-clock or without it? Why? How?
Negotiations
- What skills and qualities do you think a good negotiator has?
- In what circumstances do you have to negotiates at work (both formally and informally) and in everyday life?
- There is a theory of five styles of negotiations behaviors:
- What is your preferred style of negotiation? Which negotiation styles are likely to reward you with the biggest profit?
- Competing (I win - You lose)
- Accommodating (I Lose - You Win)
- Avoiding (I Lose - You Lose)
- Compromising (I Lose / Win Some - You Lose / Win Some)
- Collaborating (I Win - You Win)
Motivation
Rules:
Participants are divided into two groups: one group asks questions (enquirers), the second one answers to them (respondents). They sit opposite each other at the table.
Each enquirer chooses the only question from the list, announces the choice and consistently discusses it for 2-4 minutes with each respondent.
At the end of the discussion all the inquirers summarize the answers in 3-5 minutes speeches.
After a break the groups are swapped.
Questions for discussion:
- How would you describe motivation?
Goals
Rules:
Participants are divided into two groups: one group asks questions (enquirers), the second one answers to them (respondents). They sit opposite each other at the table.
Each enquirer chooses the only question from the list, announces the choice and consistently discusses it for 2-4 minutes with each respondent.
At the end of the discussion all the inquirers summarize the answers in 3-5 minutes speeches.
After a break the groups are swapped.
Questions for discussion:
Leadership
Questions for discussion:
- Do you want to be a leader? The desire to be a leader, where does it come from?
- Is leadership benefits of position, or is it hardness of work?
- A ram or a thunderbird (storm-petrel)? There is a flock and there is a ram, walking firs in a meadow with very sweet green grass. There is a storm sea and a thunderbird soaring in the wind all alone. Who of them is a leader? Who do you like more and why?
Leadership
Questions for discussion:
- Do you want to be a leader? The desire to be a leader, where does it come from?
- Is leadership benefits of position, or is it hardness of work?
- A ram or a thunderbird (storm-petrel)? There is a flock and there is a ram, walking firs in a meadow with very sweet green grass. There is a storm sea and a thunderbird soaring in the wind all alone. Who of them is a leader? Who do you like more and why?
Self-presentation
Questions for discussion:
- What is your uniqueness? Do you need to be unique? Are you shy or too modest to answer this question?
- What is more important, form or content? Interface or functionality?
- Is modesty a virtue? What about immodesty?
- What is written on your banner?
- Is it necessary to be clever, rich or beautiful, being properly dressed? What is more important for women? What is more important for men?
- Are you a busy person? Do you have free time?

