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Strategic Self-Awareness
Enhance LeadershipStrategic Self-Awareness Workshop
Strategic self-awareness is the first step towards success. Knowing self is wisdom.
Incorporating well-researched concepts and scientifically-validated data from our global assessment publisher partners, and supported by Optimal’s insights from more than twenty years of leadership assessments and development experience, this workshop will enable individuals to build their personalised roadmap to success.
Features
Self-reflection and scenario – application exercises to enhance internalisation.
Adapted according to participants’ work contexts and organisation cultures.
Serves as an impetus for participants to take charge of their own development journey.
Can be combined with any assessments and profiling tools administered by Optimal.
Optimal’s Strategic Self-Awareness Workshop is designed to help participants:
- Understand their strengths and opportunities for change and growth;
- Understand how their strengths and challenges relate to those of others;
- Understand how to adapt their behaviour to increase effectiveness
The workshop complements the profiling tools we carry from Hogan Assessments, SMG and our own multi-rater tool, optimal360. Participants have to complete the selected profiling tool prior to the workshop.
Here are the six workshops using the various assessment tools:
- Using Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI)
- Using Hogan Development Survey (HDS)
- Using Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI)
- Using Hogan Assessments (HPI, HDS, MVPI)
- Using Sales Potential Tools POP / SPI / SPI+ / RSPI
- Using optimal360
Six Types of Strategic Self-Awareness Workshops
01
Hogan Personality Inventory
(HPI)
Workshop duration: Half day
This workshop helps participants enhance their occupational success through:
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- An understanding of the difference between identity and reputation;
- Discovering how one’s natural tendencies can impact one’s emotions, career aspirations, interpersonal relationships, working style, problem-solving style and preferred learning styles.
Workshop take-away:
Participants will develop an awareness of at least one important and impactful behaviour that they can work on to improve their occupational success.
02
Hogan Development Survey
(HDS)
Workshop duration: Half day
This workshop helps participants develop an awareness of their derailers at work through:
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- An understanding of when these derailers can be triggered;
- Having insights into how these derailers may impact one’s relationships and work effectiveness.
Workshop take-away:
Participants will identify up to three individual derailers with Development Tips. Additionally, participants will be more aware of how these derailers, if not managed, will affect their work effectiveness.
03
Motives, Values,
Preferences Inventory (MVPI)
Workshop duration: Half day
This workshop helps participants enhance their occupational success and job satisfaction through:
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- An understanding of one’s engagement and disengagement factors and how these may play out in our work lives;
- Raising awareness of how one’s unconscious biases may impact one’s decisions and preferences.
Workshop take-away:
Participants will develop an awareness of their individual motivators and how these impact their respective priorities in life and at work.
04
Hogan Assessments (HPI, HDS &
MVPI)
Workshop duration: One day
This workshop provides participants with a holistic view of the following:
- Enhancing one’s occupational success;
- Being more aware of one’s derailers; and
- Understanding how to achieve better job satisfaction for sustainable occupational success
Workshop take-away:
Participants will identify and develop an awareness of the following:
- At least one important and impactful behaviour that they can work on to improve their occupational success;
- At least two derailers with Development Tips and be more aware of how these derailers, if not managed, will affect their work effectiveness;
- At least two individual motivators motivators and how these impact their respective priorities in life and at work.
05
Sales Potential Tools (POP / SPI / SPI+
/ RSPI)
Workshop duration: Half day
This workshop helps participants enhance their occupational success in sales or business development related careers through an understanding of how their natural tendencies and work attitudes may impact their success in prospecting, closing, as well as maintaining sustainable sales relationships.
Workshop take-away:
Participants will identify the behaviours they need to work on, together with related Development Tips, in order to be successful in sales or business development related careers.
06
optimal360
Workshop duration: One day
This workshop helps participants enhance their work effectiveness through:
- An understanding of the difference between identity and reputation and why it matters;
- Raising awareness of how one’s work behaviours impact others, as well as one’s work effectiveness;
- Exploring possible development interventions.
Workshop take-away:
Participants will identify the behaviours they need to work on, together with related Development Tips, and be more aware of how these behaviours, if not managed, will affect their work effectiveness.
Get a copy of the Strategic
Self-Awareness Workshop brochure.