3 hours
Personal Development
Enhance your personal effectiveness, leadership capabilities, and career development strategies.
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Learning Objectives
  • Develop leadership and influence skills
  • Build effective communication abilities
  • Manage time and energy effectively
  • Create a personal development plan
Topics Covered
  • Leadership Styles & Development
  • Communication & Influence
  • Time & Energy Management
  • Career Planning
  • Networking & Personal Branding
  • Continuous Learning Strategies
Hands-On Activities
Leadership Style Self-Assessment 20 mins
Identify your dominant leadership style and understand its strengths and blind spots.
Instructions
  1. Complete the 20-question leadership style assessment
  2. Score yourself across 4 leadership dimensions
  3. Identify your primary and secondary styles
  4. Reflect: how does your style show up at work?
  5. Identify 2 areas for development
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Personal Development Roadmap 30 min
Create a 90-day personal development plan with specific goals and milestones.
Instructions
  1. Identify your top 3 professional development priorities
  2. Set SMART goals for each priority
  3. Break each goal into weekly actions
  4. Identify resources, mentors, and accountability partners
  5. Schedule your first 3 learning actions this week
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Exercises
pair · 25 min
Feedback Practice Lab
Practice giving and receiving constructive feedback using the SBI (Situation-Behaviour-Impact) model.
  1. Learn the SBI framework: Situation → Behaviour → Impact
  2. Think of real feedback you need to give someone
  3. Write your feedback using SBI structure
  4. Deliver the feedback to your partner (role-play)
  5. Partner gives meta-feedback on delivery
  6. Switch roles and repeat
individual · 15 min
Energy Audit
Map your energy patterns throughout the week to optimise when you do your most important work.
  1. List your key weekly activities
  2. Rate each as energy-giving or energy-draining (1-5)
  3. Map your energy patterns across the week
  4. Identify your peak performance windows
  5. Redesign your schedule to match energy to task importance
Practical Examples
Technology
Google's Project Oxygen
Google researched what makes a great manager, studying thousands of performance reviews and employee surveys.
OUTCOME: Identified 8 key behaviours of great managers. Teams with managers trained on these behaviours saw 25% higher performance ratings.
Technology
Microsoft's Growth Mindset Transformation
Satya Nadella made 'growth mindset' central to Microsoft's culture, requiring leaders to shift from 'know-it-all' to 'learn-it-all.'
OUTCOME: Microsoft's market cap grew from $300B to $2.5T+ as the culture shift enabled innovation and collaboration across the company.
Industry Success Stories
Technology
Satya Nadella / Microsoft
Challenge
Microsoft had become bureaucratic and internally competitive under the stack-ranking culture.
Approach
Nadella invested in personal development, modelling vulnerability, empathy, and continuous learning. Required every leader to adopt a growth mindset.
Result
Transformed Microsoft's culture and tripled its market value in 5 years, making it one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Useful Resources
Radical Candor — Kim Scott
BOOK
Harvard Business Review — Leadership
FRAMEWORK
StrengthsFinder 2.0 Assessment
TOOL
The Power of Vulnerability (TED Talk)
VIDEO
Atomic Habits — James Clear
BOOK
Key Takeaways
Enhanced leadership capabilities
Effective communication skills
Personal growth
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