This course is part of the Adapting: Career Development Specialization

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Adapting: Career Development SpecializationMacquarie University

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The world of work is characterised by rapid ongoing change. In this dynamic environment, one of the most critical skills for leaders is their capacity to learn and to adapt; to engage in the continuous development of their skills in managing and leading others. This course will assist you in the ongoing development of your skills and abilities by focusing on the nature of the self-development process. You will reflect on and develop self-awareness of your current leadership style to understand the strengths you need to develop and which challenges you will face as a leader. The course also examines the change process, and explores the processes of self-regulation that underpin personal skill development.

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Critically evaluate the nature of the self-development process
Apply skills of self-reflection to enhance self-awareness of development insights about your leadership styles
Apply skills of self-reflection to enhance self-awareness of development insights about your abilities and challenges as leaders
Apply the self-development process to an area of a personal leadership skill challenge

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Course 4 of 4 in the

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Associate Professor Paul Nesbit

Department of Management

Macquarie Business School

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Self-directed learning

Rapidly changing environments by their nature means that people must be continually thinking about their skills and adapting them in order to carry out their work. In this lesson you will look at the big picture of influences that are compelling us to be continuously updating skills. In particular, you will explore the importance of self-directed learning as an approach to your development and review a model to guide you in taking responsibility to adapt yourself always.

3 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 30 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes

Week2

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Self-awareness

The first step in any process of change is self-awareness. You have to understand what you do now and be aware of its consequences for your goals and behaviour for the future. You would think we should be good at self-awareness, but there are challenges to the process. This week you will explore those challenges and look at ways to deal with them. One aspect, in particular, is managing the emotions that arise with self-awareness and how you can reduce their influence during the self-awareness process.

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 26 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Week3

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Self-reflection

An important aspect of self-awareness, and an important process in self-understanding, is the action of self-reflection. You will examine its nature and how to encourage it in your self-development. This week you will examine the various tools of reflection and the steps to increase effective self-reflection. The aim of self-understanding is to appreciate your leadership style and the skill and development needs you may need to address. You do not have to make changes as a result of this process, but you do have to accept the consequences of your decisions about what you do with these insights.

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 28 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Self-change problems

This week you will look at the process of self-change. Psychologists refer to this as self-regulation: taking control of improving your performance by learning new skills and knowledge. However, this process is not as easy as we would like. This week you will examine the self-change process in more detail to support efforts to adapt yourself always. You will explore the nature of why it is hard to change, the impact of habits on your behaviour and the role of willpower in the process of development, and begin to look at the practices you can apply to increase the likelihood of successful change.

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 29 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: IMPROVE YOURSELF, ALWAYS

by BSNov 2, 2020

This course will surely help me to understand and

continuously develop my work style & skills and it will help me to improve myself in my daily life.

by MKAug 22, 2020

The course content, assignments and test questions are structured in such a way that one can understand and familiarize on the concepts.

I really enjoyed the learning.

Thank you.

by ANJun 9, 2022

Learned a lot of things in this course about self development, positive approch towards work, Keep learning new things if we have to survive in corporate etc

by RRMay 11, 2020

The course explored the various methods of self development. It also highlighted the importance of continuous self development.

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About the Adapting: Career Development Specialization

Organisations are undergoing enormous changes in their structures and processes as they seek to take advantage of innovations in technology, remain competitive in Globalising markets, and deal with the increasing diversity of their staff, customers, and supply chains. The four subjects in this specialisation will examine the personal implications of the changing organisational environment - the need to continuously adapt and learn, to manage your career, to build up resilience against stress, and to take your place as a global citizen.

The aim is to enable you to thrive in working in contemporary organsations. 'Improve yourself Always' addresses the need for you to continuously develop and seeks to improve your capacity to learn and adapt. 'Build Personal Resilience' helps you enhance your resilience in the face of the pressures you will experience in working in contemporary organisations. 'Your Career Your Life' guides you in taking more responsibility for mapping out and engaging in your career. 'Become a Global Citizen' discusses the need to see yourself as a citizen of the increasingly global world of work and provides insight into the strategies to deal with cultural diversity.

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