Level 1 - Real Life Challenges
Alongside being an author, Emad Ahmad has developed profound and appreciable expertise in mentoring and training too. What’s distinguishing about his training programs is his ability to alter the training content to meet the audience’s requirements. Unlike a conventional training session, Emad Ahmad believes in comprehending the audience’s needs and then navigate his training content in accordance with those needs. Real life challenges’ trainings are amongst the basic level trainings offered by him, which seek to give the directions related to people’s careers, relationships, and personal specific matters.
- Entrepreneurship
According to Emad Ahmad, what distinguishes a businessman from an entrepreneur is the motive to work. While a businessman aims to merely make money, an entrepreneur is the one who optimally utilizes his skillset to creatively produce something and has the drive to convert his idea into a tangible reality. The training module of entrepreneurship seeks to instill that drive in people. Through this training program, Emad Ahmad develops the confidence of trainees in their own selves so that they work with a zeal to achieve their goals, instead of just striking monetary profits. - Choosing the right career
One of the fundamental and core purposes of human beings in this world is to make decisions about different arenas of their lives. Career, according to Emad Ahmad, is a complex combination of an individual’s personality, circumstances, interests and inclinations, passions and values, micro and macro environment, and economic, social and cultural foundations. The decision regarding the right career is driven by some or all of such aspects. The goal of career choice training program is to develop a harmonious understanding of the stated factors among the trainees, and guiding them through the intricacies of these factors, so that they are better able to make the right career choices. - Employment opportunities
Once an individual has chosen the right career, the next step is to look for the employment opportunities available in the external environment. After a thorough analysis of an individual’s own self regarding the career decision, employment opportunities training seeks to help them better understand the micro and macro landscape they live in. Under this training program, Emad Ahmad teaches people how they can alter their skill set as per the needs of the employment. In order to succeed in the professional arena, it is essential for people to synchronize their personal preferences, skill sets and the opportunities available in the market. The key is to navigate through the available opportunities, develop one’s own self, and aim to grab the right employment opportunity. - Finding the right job
The next step in building a successful professional career is hunting and grasping the right job. In this training module, Emad Ahmad mentors people the essence of reaching the job that best suits them. He considers the coherence between an individual’s self and his job to be more important than any other thing. Given this belief, he coaches people to not run after what just seemingly appears good but pursue a job that is more aligned with their personality types and preferences. He teaches people that monetary success is not the pinnacle of professional development; instead, the right job is the one that offers individuals an opportunity to grow in an auspicious environment. This training is likely to increase the chances of professional success among the incumbents because those who pursue such a well-aligned job feel more satisfied, which increases their productivity and performance at work. - Career ladder
According to Emad Ahmad, career ladder can be successfully climbed if only an individual completely understands his destiny. He mentors people about how unfortunate it is to climb the career ladder only to realize that the steps are not leading to the right destination. The crux of almost all the career related training modules is the alignment of an individual’s job with his inner self and his personal inclinations. Taking the idea forward, the career ladder is also meaningful only when the employee acknowledges his values and destiny and is confident that the ladder is leading to his intended destiny. Considering all these facts, this training module guides individuals about the essence of career ladder. Keeping in view the employees’ personal and professional goals, a practical career ladder is also designed for them. - Financial management
When planning the finances, multiple macro and micro level indicators come into play. The goal of this training program is to guide people about such key indicators that tend to have a notable impact on their finances. Given the changing realities at large-scale such as pandemic and inflation, Emad Ahmad guides individuals about how they should ideally spend their income while giving due consideration to their needs and utilization of their resources. He helps individuals in designing a 360-degree pie that indicates their income and the division of that income to meet their needs and circumstances. This training assists the incumbents in understanding how to make a practical and concrete budget while ensuring the optimal utilization of their finances. - Communication skills
Emad Ahmad strongly believes that clear and transparent communication is of core essence in any and every arena of life. According to him, communication can be through multirole means, such as through speaking, writing, and body language. In this training, he guides people not only about what to speak but how to speak too so that the message is conveyed and comprehended. This training program asserts the significance of the channels by which a message is conveyed. Apart from words, an individual’s lifestyle, manner of speaking, and expression of what is not said by words communicate a lot about a certain matter. As per this program, communication can be made effective only when an individual masters what to speak and how to speak it, so that it is accurately comprehended by the listening party. - Work stress
According to Emad Ahmad, stress is majorly associated with the things that an individual cares about. This training module helps people understand how work stress can lead to detrimental impacts on mental well-being and thus the evident significance of overcoming it. Emad Ahmad believes that the only way to overcome the work stress is to either absorb or fly from it. While flight is deemed as a rather weaker response, work stress training module teaches people about absorbing the emerging stress at work. This training is highly likely to lead to better individual and collective outcomes because people who fight their stress have a notable probability to perform better on their jobs. - Leadership
Being a leader himself, Emad Ahmad teaches people to master the art of leadership to succeed in their personal as well as professional spheres of life. In his leadership training programs, he mentors people to unleash their inner potential and develop versatile leadership skills. The goal of this training module is to nourish personal leadership style among the incumbents so that they drive their individual performance as well the performance of the group they work with. He takes inspiration from prophets like Muhammad (S.A.W.W) and Musa (A.S) to enlighten the flawless leadership experience. Using them as examples, this training programs indicates the struggles that a leader goes through in order to achieve a higher good.
- Marital conflicts
Marriage is believed to be a life-long commitment between two individuals. Conflicts between the individuals sharing this commitment can have a direct and detrimental impact on the relationship. Marital conflicts’ training, thus, seeks to highlight the significance of compatibility between the two parties. This training module guides individuals to develop a value system of their own, which is independent of both the value system of the society at large as well as that shared by the parents and families of both individuals. A cordial and lasting relationship is sustained when partners nurture their relationships through their own value sets.
- Parenting
The contribution of micro and macro environment in the grooming of children needs no explanation. Elements of micro environment (such as inter-family relationships and practices), as well as macro environment (such as economic unrest and global issues), tend to significantly impact the children of growing age. The training sessions on parenting mentor parents regarding their role as a buffer between their children and the elements of micro and macro environment. These training sessions teach people that their children should be the by-product of the parenting given to them, instead of the elements like familial relationships, marital conflicts, and other factors residing in the domestic and societal environment.
- Education of young adults
The education of young adults is also one of the important areas of real-life challenges’ trainings. It is a two-fold program wherein trainings are given to parents regarding the education of their children, as well as young adults regarding their nurturing bond with their parents. According to this module, the education of young adults should be planned in accordance with what has been taught by Islam. This training module guides parents about building emotional bondage with their children until they reach the age of 7. During these years of life, children should be treated in a way that a life-long emotional connection is developed between them and their parents. In the next 7 years, parents shall closely oversee their children and stimulate their training and grooming. When entered into their teens, children shall be fraternized by their parents in a way that they feel comfortable in opening up regarding any and every matter with their parents. The development of an amicable and friendly bond till this age cultivates confidence among children to lead their lives. When educated and trained in accordance with this model, children possess an elevated tendency to become optimally cultured and rather deferential humans.
- Combined family system and issues
Resolving the fundamental life challenges helps people grow and embrace a refined mind-set. The trainings on combined family system and issues also give people an insight into facing such circumstances with wisdom and the ability to perceive things the right way. A family lives happily if its value system incorporates the values and interests of immediate family members (the micro unit) and is not influenced by the values of the joint family. What this training guides is that values and decisions should be a function of an individual’s micro unit. Nonetheless, the micro unit shall also be aligned and fairly connected with the extended familial setup.
- Dealing with extended family
Another important personal life challenge is dealing effectively with the extended family. This training module guides people about identifying the exact role of the extended family in an individual’s life. Given the familial traditions prevalent in the society, the key is to identify the degree of interference of the combined and extended family in an individual’s life so in order to effectively deal with them. This training module guides that decisions at a personal level shall be made by an individual himself. There are certain matters and decisions for which the extended family and society is allowed to intervene. Nonetheless, the key is to keep the influence minimal so that personal decisions are taken by an individual’s own free will, not the combined or extended family.
- Handling societal and peer pressure
Among other things, relationships are considerably influenced by societal and peer pressure. This training module guides people about the significance of building their own family system that is not shaped by societal values and dogmas. This training distinctively guides about building a family mission statement in the light of family values and preferences. When a family’s value system is developed by the family members themselves, chances of handling societal and peer pressure increase. Individual decisions, such as those relating to education, career, food choices, and buying behavior, are a function of an individual’s own principles and morals and shall not be influenced by societal and peer pressure.
- Managing your time
In order to excel in life, the focus on personal growth and development needs no explanation. This is also why personal specific trainings are known to be notably important ones in the first level training sessions. However, in the time management trainings, people are mentored about managing their own selves, which is the only way to manage time effectively. Time management is deemed to be a mere illusion and thus people shall not think in terms of the clock. This training teaches people about the problems emerging as a result of secularization of time. Time is different for everyone and this is why this training is dedicated to teaching the management of self instead of the management of time.
- Handling depression and anxiety
Using his insightful understanding of end times, Emad Ahmad emphasizes the evolving significance of depression and anxiety in this era. The struggles facing the West to cope with the massive spread of mental diseases has lately been gaining attention. Knowing this, this training trains people about effectively handling these syndromes through multiple ways, such as cognitive help, emotional help and spiritual help. Spiritual help, however, is of core essence in handling depression and anxiety. A fine harmony between ‘nature outside’ and ‘nature inside’ is what helps in managing depression. An individual’s inner self shall be in accordance with nature’s laws in the outside environment. This training mentors people to interact more with the natural environment instead of an artificial one, so that an individual’s inner self remains at peace.
- Decision making
Decision making is primarily facilitated by the data collected by five senses. However, five senses can certainly be deceptive at times. In order to make the right decisions, the key is to perceive the events the way they are, instead of how they appear to the external eye. This training module helps to develop a fine balance between mind and heart so that wrong decisions can be avoided. This training module teaches people that apart from the five senses, another factor that plays an important part in making decisions is a person’s intuition. The purpose of this module is to help people understand the deceptiveness of five senses and the significance of sixth sense, which can guide people in decision making. When the right data is collected from all the senses, analysed with a rational mid-set and reflected upon by a sound heart, the chances for the right decision making accelerate to a notable extent.
- Problem solving
In view of the significance of plausible problem-solving skills among individuals, a discrete module of problem solving training has been devised. This module emphasizes on monitoring an individual’s locus of control. This training revolves around the circles of control and influence and teaches people that the key to proactively solve problems is to expand the area of influence and reduce the area of concern. Since the area of concern is not controllable by an individual, what can be controlled is the area of influence, which can help cope with the negative energy associated with the area of concern. Besides this, this training module guides people about developing harmony with their own-selves and identifying the problems so that effective solutions can be devised.
- Self confidence
In order to excel in life, personal growth is deemed to be of core essence. According to Emad Ahmad, self confidence comes with conviction about a certain matter. In this training module, people are guided about being confident of the activities and things when their belief is firm. If an individual is not confident about a handling particular task, he is not meant for it. This training module mentors people about developing a belief in their own-selves and their abilities, so that an optimal level of self confidence can be attained.