Becoming Your Own Best Boss


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level



Overview/Description
Have you ever thought that you could be the best boss you've ever had? By developing attitudes and skills that empower you, you can manage from within and become your own best boss. Self-empowerment is the process of taking responsibility for your attitudes, behaviors, and actions at work to maximize your effectiveness. As an empowered employee, you will be driven by ownership, initiative, and performance. This course focuses on attitudes and behaviors that promote self-empowerment. It provides strategies for empowering yourself through self-coaching, approaches for developing an entrepreneurial mind-set, and an opportunity to apply a model for self-empowerment to enhance your performance. Applying these approaches will help you become a self-empowered contributor in your organization.

Target Audience
Members of business organizations who want to increase their effectiveness at work while exercising more control over their own day-to-day activities and improving their ability to meet long-term personal career goals

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.5

Lesson Objectives

Becoming Your Own Best Boss

  • recognize examples of negative self-talk
  • recognize methods for replacing self-defeating talk with the language of self-coaching
  • choose statements that reflect an attitude of job ownership
  • recognize actions that demonstrate initiative
  • sequence the steps in the self-empowerment model
  • choose examples of proper use of the self-empowerment model
  • identify questions that help you recognize your professional strengths and areas for development
  • recognize relevant choices for professional development
  • demonstrate initiative and self-empowerment at work
  • Course Number:
    pe_05_a02_bs_enus

    Expertise Level
    Everyone