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The two-day Proactive Action course. You put your own working week and your own examples on the table and agree what you will do differently from Monday onwards.
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View the Acting Proactively course All Personal effectiveness courses →There are days when your diary runs you instead of the other way round. The phone rings, a colleague drops in, an email arrives that needs an answer, and at the end of the day the very thing you thought was important is exactly what has been left undone. You have been working hard and yet you feel you have got nowhere. Acting proactively is about reversing that movement: you no longer only react to what comes at you, you also decide for yourself where your energy goes.
This free online course is the starter of our course Acting proactively. In four chapters you will learn the difference between proactive and reactive behaviour and what waiting costs you in the long run, recognise the four characteristics that proactive people have in common and the six routes to developing them yourself, use a funnel to narrow your core values down to a top three that still works under pressure, and turn a vague intention into a goal that depends entirely on your own actions. Each chapter ends with a short knowledge check.
The full training course then continues with the communication model and your frame of reference, the circle of influence, Lowen's character structures, challenging limiting thoughts, Ofman's core quadrant, the influencing model, feedback with the Johari window, listening and asking questions, prioritising with the Eisenhower matrix, acting assertively, team effectiveness and dealing with change. Would you like to practise that with a trainer present and with your own situations on the table? Then have a look at the Acting Proactively course.
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IntroductionHow this free course is structured and what you learn in the four chapters.
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Proactive versus reactiveThe moment of choice between stimulus and response, the three definitions of proactive, the four forms in which reactive behaviour appears and what waiting costs you.
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Increasing proactivityThe four characteristics of proactive people, the price initiative sometimes demands and six routes to get started tomorrow.
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Core values as a compassThe difference between values, goals, rules and traits, the funnel from a long list to your top three, and decision rules for busy moments.
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Setting goals with BE SMARTIEThe nine letters against which you test a goal, the three time horizons from year to week, and rewriting a goal until it is about your own behaviour.
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The communication modelThe sender-receiver model, the difference between observing and interpreting, your frame of reference and the three channels of your message.
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The circle of influenceThe circle of concern versus the circle of influence, reactive attention and letting go of what lies beyond your reach.
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Lowen's character structuresThe five character structures, the pattern you use to protect yourself and how to move from pattern to choice.
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Limiting thoughtsThe ABC model from event to consequence, recognising irrational thoughts, challenging them and replacing them with helpful thoughts.
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The core quadrantOfman's four quadrants, completing your own quadrant, your allergy as a mirror and a personal strengths and weaknesses analysis.
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The influencing modelPush versus pull, the four influencing styles and the style that suits a given situation.
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Feedback using the Johari windowThe four areas of the window, giving and receiving feedback, and asking for feedback as a proactive step.
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Active listening with LSDListening, summarising and asking questions, asking open questions and the pitfalls that bring a conversation to a halt.
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Prioritising with the Eisenhower diagramMapping out how you handle your own time, important versus urgent and working from quadrant two.
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Acting assertively with confidenceSub-assertive, assertive and aggressive behaviour, standing up for yourself while respecting the other person, and showing nerve at work.
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The team effectiveness modelWhy teams get stuck on the bottom layer, your team's mission and improving working relationships.
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Dealing with changeThe emotional phases of change, Graves's value systems and your personal action plan.
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We took the Outlook, Teams and OneNote course with Roy Nieuwenhuijzen. Good content, and a few days before the course he got in touch with me (coordinator of the course, head of the secretariat). Pleasant that you can fill in the day itself as needed. The booklet for reference is rather dated, but apparently there is little up-to-date material to be found.
Inge Brouwers
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