MG84
Course Contents
Module 1 - What is Self-Management?
We are all the living repository of our own futures, shaped by it, influenced through it and part creator of it. What we have done, been and learned so far will be our launching pad for a better future.
Key Topics
- Understand how self-management works
- The psychology of self-management and the importance of our attitude
- The connection of perception and its impact on our behaviour
- Challenging assumptions and understanding my future needs
- Positive self-management: an introduction
Module 2 - Implementing Self-Management
On day two the course covers how to practice self-management.
Key Topics
- Being aware of our filter’s presence and influence: three conscious processes
- How to ‘observe ourselves’ and get in the right mindset
- The self-managing individual: whole brain thinking
- Understanding change and self-control
- Minimizing resistance to change n
- Recognizing mental blocks
- Productive conflict & negotiation
Module 3 -Our Personal Paradigms
On day three the course covers personal paradigms and how to use and benefit from these (rather than let them hold you back).
Key Topics
- Understanding personal paradigms and principles
- Achievement orientation and the principles of personal goal setting
- Decision Making – the principles of personal decision making and deciding and managing personal priorities
- Setting action goals and time planning
Module 4 - The Results from Self-Management
On day four the course covers how to practice self-management through personal self-control.
Key Topics
- Practicing self-control: three processes and their application
- Using these processes daily
- Innovative self-management and being an IDEAL problem solver and solution thinker
- Managing how we judge ourselves
Module 5 -Self-Management and Self-Renewal
On day five the course covers the relationship between creative self-management and how a positive attitude or psychology can be of enormous advantage.
Key Topics
- Self-management versus self-development
- Interpersonal effectiveness and thinking ‘win-win’ results for everyone (and not just myself)
- Empathic personal and interpersonal communication and the principles of creative cooperation
- The self-awareness required and the principles of self-renewal
- Course review and summary
- Action planning and transfer of knowledge and skills to work
Module 6 -What is Transformational Change?
Leaders and managers must focus on business level outcomes rather than individual level inputs and the number one priority to solve business problems.
Key Topics
- Is there a compelling ’case for change’ that the organisation will buy in to?
- Leaders and managers as the owners and sponsors of this change and how to actively promote the change and apply pressure as needed?
- Who is involved (leaders, project participants, sub-contractors, end-users, departmental managers, employees, suppliers, customers etc.) and influencing their attitude. Will they resist the change? How can we encourage them to act in a way which will support the change objectives?
- What style of engagement will work best and how can we communicate these messages?
Module 7 - Implementing Transformational Change
On day seven the course covers how to design and implement a transformational change project plan.
Key Topics
- Organisational structure and how to know if the current structure really works in meeting business objectives?
- If organisational culture is competitive advantage what are the three principles for a managerial culture?
- How to make the culture explicit and integrate it with corporate strategies
- Change responsibilities to stakeholders: what not to forget
Module 8 -Transformational Change Behaviours
On day three the course covers the behaviours required to deliver transformational change
Key Topics
- Understanding behaviour and its power in delivering change
- The role of behaviour, attitude, culture and ethics in delivering transformational change
- The battle of managing perceptions to the change and its impact on behaviour
- Bringing it all together using case studies
Module 9 -Transformational Change Competencies
On day nine the course covers the strategic competencies required by leaders and managers to deliver change successfully (and swiftly)
Key Topics
- The strategic competencies required and why they are more important than functional competencies
- Understanding value creation and the ability to understand the (human capital/operational process and system) dimensions of each of the organisation’s key business change priorities
- How to communicate that solving these issues (the change) will directly affect performance
Module 10 - Transformational Change Process Redesign and Systems Integration
On day ten the course covers how to align the change strategy with organisational processes, systems and behaviours with the change requirements to ensure all fit together seamlessly
Key Topics
- Processes and systems must be integral to the organisation’s change requirements – but how?
- The five steps to ensure the change strategy fits with processes, practices and behaviours
- Integrating performance objectives to check progress AND deliver the change to make the organisation more effective
- Course review and summary
- Action planning and transfer of knowledge and skills to work
