Course description
Let's Get Started: Building Self-Awareness
This certificate offers an extraordinary opportunity to spend some quality time with yourself to assess your current level of soft skills, clearly define your core self, and build soft skills which are essential to professional, not to mention life, success.
Knowing what you can change and what you cant is invaluable knowledge. Stop investing in trying to change the unchangeable -- your traits -- and learn to work with them. Stop trying to change others traits, too. Learn to work with your strengths, build new skills and perfect existing ones. Then do the same for your team. To start, you must have self-awareness.
Within self-awareness are several dimensions essential for effective leadership::
- emotional intelligence
- personal values
- cognitive style, how you think
- orientation to change
- core personality attributes
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
Prerequisites:
None
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you'll learn
- why great leaders are self-aware
- what you can change and what you cant about yourself and others
- what is self-awareness
- value of self-awareness personally and professionally
- what is your level of self-awareness
- how to improve self-awareness to engage in personal development
- what is your current level of management skills
- what is your decision-making style
- what is the best use of your decision-making style
- value of management skills
- set SMART goals for development of management skills
- set SMART goals for use of strengths in management skills
- where to learn the skills needing further development
Training Course Content
The Key to Making Change: Self-Awareness
- Introduction to Module
- What is Self-Awareness
- Why Does Self-Awareness Matter
- Toolkit for Building Self-Awareness
- The Big Ideas
All about You: Thinking Changing
- Introduction to Module
- Thinking Styles
- Attitude towards Change
- Putting It Together for Best Job Fit
- The Big Ideas
You as a Manager/Leader: What Your Baseline?
- Introduction to Module
- What are Management/Leadership Skills?
- Why Do They Matter?
- What's Your Baseline?
- The Big Ideas
Setting Goals Making Plans
- Introduction to Module
- How Why to Set Goals
- How Why to Set Plans
- Setting Your Goals and Plans
- The Big Ideas
The Big Ideas Segue to Let's Get Personal: Working with Personality Type
- Introduction to Module
- The Big Ideas from Let Get Started: You First
- Your Goals Action Plans: Making It Happen
- The Great Tools from Let Get Started: You First
- The Big Ideas
Course delivery details
This course is offered through The University of Maryland, College Park, a partner institute of EdX.
2-3 hours per week
Expenses
- Verified Track -$199
- Audit Track - Free