Passion. Purpose. Persistence.
Maximise your full potential with performance coaching that elevates you from good to exceptional!
Do you identify with the following? • Lack of Confidence • Lack of Self-worth • Feeling Intimidated • Doubting Your Abilities • Feeling Clueless and Out of Place • Excluded From Groups • Feeling Socially Awkward
I will help you with: • Confidence • Resilience • Living Purposefully • Mastering Soft Skills • Being More Content • Becoming a Well-adjusted and Rounded Individual • Having the Edge Over Peers • Positive Mindset • Better Relationships • Lasting First Impressions • Effective Communication • Belonging and Connection • Amiability
Personal Development That Brings About Real Change
What is holding you back from reaching your goals, living your purpose and fulfilling your true potential?
Do you sometimes feel socially awkward? Is navigating networking events uncomfortable? Do you find it difficult to make yourself heard in a meeting? Does your lack of dining manners, social graces, elegant dressing and grooming and likability intimidate you?
Get the guidance to become instantly more polished and graceful, grow in confidence and maximise your professional impact with the necessary social skills. In life you often only get one chance to make a first impression, make yours memorable with a positive impact!
Personal development, social norms, soft skills and etiquette knowledge are essential in today’s competitive world. The way you present and conduct yourself can open doors and have a great impact on how people respond to you.
Personal Development
As life progresses, we are guaranteed to face a variety of circumstances, changing environments, and new roles that require us to adapt to them. To handle and manage the pressures that come with continuous changes and challenges, personal development techniques will equip an individual to excel in all areas of life.
Personal development is an ongoing process of self-improvement either in education, career, personal life, or in all these areas and may occur over the course of a person’s entire lifespan. It is about setting goals for yourself, improving skills, building or renewing identity, improving self-awareness and applying methods to reach those goals. It consists of activities that develop a person’s capabilities and potential, build human capital, facilitate employability, and enhance quality of life and the realisation of dreams and aspirations.
Self-actualization is the aspiration to become a better version of oneself, to become everything one is capable of being. With globalisation, the responsibility for development shifted from the organisation or labour market to the individual.
Social Norms
In the words of William Shakespeare: “All the worlds a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”
We play many roles e.g. son, daughter, sister, brother, parent, students, employee, employer, colleague, friend. Each social role has certain expected behaviours called norms.
People are expected to behave in certain ways in particular situations. Each social situation entails its own particular set of expectations about the “correct” way to behave. Such expectations can also vary between different groups.
Social norms are the unwritten rules of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours that are considered acceptable behaviour of members of society. Norms provide us with an expected idea of how to behave, and function to provide order and predictability within certain groups or cultures.
Norms provide order in society. Human beings need norms to make sense of and provide understanding of each other’s actions.
Social Norms
In the words of William Shakespeare: “All the worlds a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”
We play many roles e.g. son, daughter, sister, brother, parent, students, employee, employer, colleague, friend. Each social role has certain expected behaviours called norms.
People are expected to behave in certain ways in particular situations. Each social situation entails its own particular set of expectations about the “correct” way to behave. Such expectations can also vary between different groups.
Social norms are the unwritten rules of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours that are considered acceptable behaviour of members of society. Norms provide us with an expected idea of how to behave, and function to provide order and predictability within certain groups or cultures.
Norms provide order in society. Human beings need norms to make sense of and provide understanding of each other’s actions.
Soft Skills
How well we interact and treat others is crucial in human connection, acceptance by others and for career success. Trust develops through positive interactions and relationships, and productivity increases in environments where soft skills flourish.
Soft skills are character traits and interpersonal skills that characterise a person’s relationships with other people. In the workplace, soft skills are considered to be a complement to hard skills, which refer to a person’s knowledge and occupational skills. Sociologists may use the term soft skills to describe a person’s emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) as opposed to intelligence quotient (IQ).
Soft skills have more to do with who a person is, rather than what they know. It includes the character traits that decide how well one interacts with others and usually are a definite part of an individual’s personality. In a competitive labour market, employees who demonstrate they have a good combination of hard and soft skills often see a greater demand for their services.
Etiquette
Etiquette is not about being perfect, it is not about your social class, profession or how rich or well educated you are.
Proper etiquette communicates what kind of person we are to other people. It promotes kindness, consideration and civility. Etiquette makes people comfortable and at ease and it shows that we value and respect others. It’s hard to miss it when someone is courteous and uses good manners. Our behaviour reflects what kind of character we have, and people take notice of it.
There is more to etiquette than knowing the correct way to sit at a formal function or which knife or fork to use. It really comes down to relationships between people. Etiquette helps you build strong relationships.
Etiquette
Etiquette is not about being perfect, it is not about your social class, profession or how rich or well educated you are.
Proper etiquette communicates what kind of person we are to other people. It promotes kindness, consideration and civility. Etiquette makes people comfortable and at ease and it shows that we value and respect others. It’s hard to miss it when someone is courteous and uses good manners. Our behaviour reflects what kind of character we have, and people take notice of it.
There is more to etiquette than knowing the correct way to sit at a formal function or which knife or fork to use. It really comes down to relationships between people. Etiquette helps you build strong relationships.
Passion. Purpose. Persistence.
About Maryna Stevenson
Maryna’s passion for personal development, growth and assisting clients to become well-rounded individuals stems from a background of low self-esteem, feeling clueless, excluded from groups, not knowing what the proper way was to conduct herself in different situations as a child and young adult. For years Maryna dismissed compliments about good posture, remarkable manners and neat appearance.
To her this was the norm and according to her, just the way one should behave and present yourself. It was only at a later stage of her life when she was involved in selection and recruitment of personnel that she realised that there was more to a person than education, background and the choice of outfit, that “good manners will open doors that the best education cannot” and that style and poise were not for sale. Most importantly, Maryna realised that we are all unique and we owe this world our authenticity – we should make our mark in our own special way and discover our own personal X-factor. That is what will make us stand out, how we will elevate ourselves and become the preferred choice when we apply for a position.
Maryna has had the privilege to work with young students, individuals, primary and tertiary institutions, and corporate organisations. Maryna has set out on a mission to empower anyone who wants to excel and differentiate themselves from the rest to develop into more successful, confident, smart and well-equipped people with the knowledge, skills and vision to become the very best version of themselves to achieve the most in life.
Coaching is one of the most common and effective methods for improving soft skills. Hard skills can be learned and perfected over time, but soft skills are more difficult to acquire and change. The coaching, guidance and mentorship that Maryna offers can lead the way to a better life for you wherein your dreams and aspirations become reality.
