你将学到什么
How beliefs, thoughts, and emotions influence behavior and experience
Ways to assess your own mental models and attitudes and recognize how they have shaped your experiences so far
Practical tools to leverage your own mental models and emotions to craft your future work experience
课程概况
This course draws upon positive psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and philosophy to guide participants in proactively crafting their own work experience. It weaves inputs from these various fields into a series of lectures and experiential exercises.
This course is for anyone who wants to reinvent the way they currently approach and experience their work and their career. It takes an inside-out approach to create change. The focus is on working on one’s own mental models and beliefs with regard to work, career, success, failure, and identity.
Participants will benefit on three levels.
At an intellectual level, they will learn how the brain functions, the way emotions influence the functioning of the brain, and the way the brain receives, processes and makes sense of information. Participants will understand how sensemaking in the brain directly and indirectly translates into behavior; thereby influencing a person’s subjective as well as objective experience at work.
At an experiential level, participants will get to participate in reflective exercises that will allow them to gain a richer and deeper awareness of their own past experiences. They will be able to see and understand the role that their own choices, attitudes and beliefs played in the way their life has unfolded so far. They will also be able to realize the role that other people and society have played in the shaping of their beliefs and attitudes.
At a practical level, participants will learn tried and tested tools that will help them create the change they desire and craft their own future work experience with greater levels of confidence and effectiveness. These include emotional tools from the field of positive psychology, psychological tools that are used in coaching, and established behavioral tools from the field of organizational behavior.
The course is practical, engaging, and potent in its design with a unique mix of lectures, stories, and reflective exercises. These reflective exercises have been shown to create deep and lasting change for the participants. They have been derived over a span of eight years from the instructor’s own experiences teaching this material to MBA students and corporate executives.
课程大纲
Week 1: Crafting Realities
How we make sense of the world around us and our experience in it?
The role of our mental models in the way we process information from the world
Distinguishing between objective and subjective reality
Understanding how confirmation bias can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy
Week 2: Demystifying Success
How we define success for ourselves?
The role played by society in shaping our definition of success
Creating an awareness of our personal values to help us navigate this complexity
Decoupling our own dreams from the expectations of other stakeholders in our lives
Week 3: Accepting Failure
Understanding the label of failure and the effects it has on us
Exploring the attributes of perfectionism and how to overcome them
Understanding resilience and tools to help us become more resilient
Cultivating a healthy and realistic attitude to failure
Week 4: Redefining Work
Nature and utility of work in everyday life
Introduction to the flow state and its benefits
Crafting a more empowering inner definition of work
Consciously cultivating meaning and purpose in work
Week 5: Leveraging Emotions
The connection between happiness and productivity
Overcoming our innate bias towards the negative and dealing with negative emotions
Shifting our happiness baseline and choosing to play to our strengths
Cultivating emotional intelligence and using mirror neurons to our advantage
Week 6: Continuing the Journey
Creating and sustaining change
Cultivating an innovation mindset and avoiding generalized conclusions
Digging deeper with Integrative thinking
Savoring the journey and managing personal energy
预备知识
No previous experience required. However participants will benefit more if they have a willingness to challenge their existing beliefs and habits in order to create change in their own lives.