3 hours
Personal Development
Enhance your personal effectiveness, leadership capabilities, and career development strategies.
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
- Complete the 20-question leadership style assessment
- Score yourself across 4 leadership dimensions
- Identify your primary and secondary styles
- Reflect: how does your style show up at work?
- Identify 2 areas for development
Personal Development Roadmap
30 min
Create a 90-day personal development plan with specific goals and milestones.
Instructions
- Identify your top 3 professional development priorities
- Set SMART goals for each priority
- Break each goal into weekly actions
- Identify resources, mentors, and accountability partners
- Schedule your first 3 learning actions this week
Exercises
pair · 25 min
Feedback Practice Lab
Practice giving and receiving constructive feedback using the SBI (Situation-Behaviour-Impact) model.
- Learn the SBI framework: Situation → Behaviour → Impact
- Think of real feedback you need to give someone
- Write your feedback using SBI structure
- Deliver the feedback to your partner (role-play)
- Partner gives meta-feedback on delivery
- 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.
- List your key weekly activities
- Rate each as energy-giving or energy-draining (1-5)
- Map your energy patterns across the week
- Identify your peak performance windows
- 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
