Personal effectiveness
This programme focuses on developing greater awareness of self, personal style and emotional states to enable increased self-management for consistent personal effectiveness.
Level
Programme is appropriate for learners at entry, intermediate and advanced levels.
Objectives
- To understand what we mean by personal effectiveness
- To raise awareness of own strengths, challenges, aspirations and motivators
- To appreciate the importance of self-awareness in personal effectiveness
- To identify personal drivers and how these impact on personal effectiveness
- To develop ways of building effective relationships with others (TA)
- To understand emotions and their impact on our personal effectiveness (EI)
- To appreciate the essential principles in effective time management
- To develop capability in planning and setting priorities
- To understand stress and how to deal with it
Process
Self-Reflection – Review what we mean by self-reflection. Learners to reflect on their strengths, challenges, aspirations and motivators to be personally more effective. Feedback and discussion.
Self-Management – Taking responsibility for personal development. Self-discipline and continuous effort. Overcoming obstacles and celebrating successes. Personal organisation. Developing support networks. Sustaining motivation in practice.
Behaviour Change – Appreciate how we learn and the difficulties associated with changing one’s behaviour to be personally more effective – comfort zones, habit, need for conscious choice through increased self-awareness.
Personal Drivers – Understand the impact of personal drivers on personal effectiveness. TA Drivers – be strong, be perfect, try hard, hurry up, please people. Self-assessment. Implications for personal effectiveness.
Effective Relationships – Recognise the impact of relationships on personal effectiveness. Transactional Analysis (TA) – parent, adult, child. Building productive relationships.
Difficult People – Identify difficult people / situations with the group. Effect on the learner – emotional / inhibits clear thinking. Three-fold response – manage yourself, manage the person, manage the task. Impact of personal style – drivers.
Emotional Intelligence – Impact of emotions on personal effectiveness. Effect of emotions on energy levels. Understand what we mean by emotional intelligence. Develop competencies in emotionally intelligent behaviour.
Time Management – Understanding time management in a business context. Three-step model in effective time management – recording time, managing time and consolidating time. Prioritisation through the importance vs. urgency matrix.
Practice – Apply the three-step time management model to the learners own situation and identify ways to priorities more effectively.
Organisation – Discussion around organising oneself on a day-to-day basis. Use of hard / soft diaries. Procrastination and other time wasters. Effective self-management – TA, EI and Personal Drivers.
Stress Management – Understand what stress is and the effect it has on our personal effectiveness. Stress as both positive and negative. Stress bell curve – alarm, resistance & exhaustion. Identify causes of stress (intrinsic / extrinsic) and related symptoms. Type A and Type B behaviours. The need to address the actual cause to find a long-term solution. Stress management strategies.
Options
Programme is appropriate as 1 day workshop for 8 to 10 learners.