Workshop on Effective Self-Management

Program Overview:

Self-management skills are those abilities that allow an individual to feel more productive when doing daily routine regardless of the working environment. Well-developed self-management skills will help you efficiently communicate with co-workers, management and customers, make right decisions, plan your working time, and keep your body healthy. This program is designed to help participants evaluate and monitor their energy, attitude and priority in relation to their personal and organizational visions and goals. It will help them to be a more effective and equip them with the knowledge and skills needed to optimize their performances which are essential for personal success and corporate accomplishment.

Effective self-management will enable individuals to develop the needed disciplines that help bridge the gaps between goals and accomplishment.

For whom:

This program is designed for managers, executives and others who desire to optimize the fulfillment of their goals to achieve greater sense of accomplishment and to those who desires to cultivate and incorporate best values in their work and family commitments. Also, this course is appropriate for those who wish to employ holistic approach in enhancing self-management for both work accomplishment and satisfaction.

Learning objectives:

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• develop a greater sense of integrity and strength to accomplish goals;
• build a healthier self-concept to manage issues and events;
• develop strategy towards greater time-task productivity;
• manage stress more effectively and efficiently; and
• cultivate greater flexibility by contributing toward an effective self-managed team.

Course outline:

Day One: The Essentials of Self-Integrity

• Gaining self-awareness
• The mind-body connection
• Managing your physical energy
• The brain-heart-gut connection
• Cultivating good personal habits
• Understand your learning style

Day Two: Towards a Better Self-Concept

• Understand the life stages of human development
• Understand and manage our behaviours
• Passive, aggressive, and assertive behaviour
• Filters of experience
• Basic principles of life
• How to revitalize yourself from within

Day Three: Increasing Your Time-Task Productivity

• Setting priorities
• Time management techniques
• Improving decision making
• Overcoming decision fatigue
• Values-based motivations
• Building an internal locus of control

Day Four: Leading with Ease and Competency

• Developing empathic attunement
• Building trust and a culture of safety
• Managing stress in the workplace
• Stress defusing techniques
• Getting people behind your ideas

Day Five: Achieving Cohesiveness in Self-Management

• Highly motivated self-managed team
• Achieving high performance with cultural agility
• Resolving conflicts effectively
• Making impact with appropriate leadership styles

Training Methodology

Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, audio-visual aids will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods.

Moroof Ajiroba - AMCIPM, ACA, MBA, - A versatile manager, with considerable experience in the field of Finance and Human Resource Management. He has worked as head of finance and admin in many companies that cut across Service Finance and Manufacturing sectors. He has lead team of season professionals to establish Job evaluation and Personnel Policy for companies at various levels. As a consultant he has equally written as well as supervises review of Employee Hand Book for company’s parastatals and agencies. He is a faculty member of Human Capital Associates Global Consult Ltd; he will join others to bring their experiences to bear on this program.

E. N. Fofah - M.Sc (Ind./Per. Mgt.)., MNIM MCIPM - An experienced human resource manager with over two decades of post-graduation experience.  Mr. Fofah is a specialist in Human Resource Management, Employees Motivation, Performance Improvement strategies, Personal Effectiveness and People Management skills. He garnered his work experience working with Cadbury Nig. Plc, Centre for management development (CMD) and Alan Dick West Africa Ltd.  He will join others to share their experiences on our programs.