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Seminar 4 Your development
Stage 2 Session 7
Introduction to Management 2
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Overview
• To revisit the past Tools and learning in this module• Use it to help students begin to understand and build a development plan for
themselves
Learning Outcomes of this lecture
• To have a deeper understanding of development and what that means in an organisational context
• To understand learning styles and their own style• How they can be applied in the workplace• Apply that learning to themselves and their own plans
Honey and Mumford revisited
Activists• The here and now• Just do it• Jump in at the deep end• Have a go• Act without thinking it through• Don’t like preparation• Get bored easily
Reflectors• Take time to think it through• Consider all angles and implications• Listen to others• Uncomfortable in unplanned situations• Need information to work on• Dislike deadlines
Theorists• Logical• Rational• Analytical• Objective• Perfectionist• Restricted lateral thinking• Don’t like uncertainty• Don’t like subjectivity
Pragmatists• Does it work in practice?• Like linking the theory to the problem• Like to tackle it straight away• Enjoy coaching and feedback• Don’t like open ended discussions• Need clear guidelines• Need immediate reward
Your own learning styles
• Take the learning styles audit and ensure you have identified your top two styles• Plot them on the prepared flip chart as the next slide indicates
Learning styles and this group
Tom
GerryAlice
Sarah
PeterKwok
Celeste
Inira
Any observations?Any conclusions?Thoughts?
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Development and action learning• ‘A man can no more learn to ‘manage’ via
the classroom, than he can learn to swim. He may pass all the theory exams, but put
him in the pool and he will drown’
Prof Reg Revans, Leading scientists and founder of ‘action learning’
Honey and Mumford:Learning style inventory
McLelland:Motivation
Thomas and Kilman: conflict
Your development – your Toolbox
Organisations are increasingly using Personal Development Plans as a way to form the basis of training and career development of individuals.
We will ask you here to create and work on your own Personal Development Plan.
What is a Personal Development Plan
Where am I now?
Identifying strengths
Identifying weaknesses
Identifying existing skills/qualifications
Key features
Where do I want to go?
Identifying future required skills/qualifications
Identifying long term aims
Setting short-term goals
Setting timeline
How am I going to get there?
Setting long-term goals
• Please use this structure to reflect on yourself in this module
• Spend 15 minutes on you, then share you thoughts with another, discuss and probe each other
• Be ready to share in plenary
SUCCESSFUL EXECUTIVES:• Seek and get more feedback. • Have twice the variety of challenges.• Zigzag careers.• Always develop new ways of thinking. • Obtain or refine more competencies along the
way.• Are learning agile
The secret to a successful career
End of Lecture
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