It’s time to tell the truth: most employees today are managers.
Unlike a time when being a manager was a matter of seniority, education, connections, and hierarchy, today in the organizational world the dramatic change is also in the way things are run, and they are run differently!
Each employee is responsible for quite a few tasks and assignments, needs to meet goals, work collaboratively with several other people to lead a project or be a partner in a team. Organizations change according to the rapid fluctuations of the market and needs, people move from here to there – from team member, to team manager and back to team member, the organizational hierarchy is flattened in favor of rapid movement and flexibility, so that over time each of us manages, with responsibility and commitment, for which we are constantly measured and judged and experience pressure.
Therefore, in all the executive development workshops that I lead, the focus is on the concepts, approaches, behaviors, and tools that each of us is required to implement as a manager, as a team member, as a person in the current organizational world. The executive development process creates an approach that sees human partnership, the importance of human connection, as part of a management skill necessary for the success of the organization.
Most participants in the executive development workshop note that one of their biggest challenges is the endless changes and workload. Everyone is aware of the need for flexibility and coping with change, but many still take it upon themselves, feel that they are personally not good enough, hide their concerns, their lack of understanding of how to conduct themselves, and take on difficult feelings of personal failure.
Executive Development Workshop What is the goal?
The goal of the executive development workshop is to open a space for observation of the new processes, their implications for the perception of the role, the “mindset” that will assist and promote, the required skills and tools for good and appropriate work;
What is the connection between the personal and the professional and why is it important? A fast pace of activity and conduct, pressure and intensity lead to the fact that a person is ultimately more exposed to collapse. In a management development workshop, I emphasize the ability of the person – the manager, to bring himself more fully, connected to his desires, aspirations and identity, which allows him to feel more connected and belonging at the end of the day. This is expressed in the feeling that there is a place for who I am, in preventing unnecessary waste of energy resources and the ability to focus on progressive action. In a management development workshop, the separations and worldviews that create a separation between the personal and the professional are explored, and personal expression is curtailed. The opportunity to work on the worldviews that govern us allows for a deep and courageous reflection on the possibility of bringing ourselves more fully and whole, which allows for a stronger and more authentic presence, a sense of competence, authenticity and mental space that affects relationships and actions in the organization.
Understanding the skills in an executive development workshop
Understanding the new skills required can be extremely helpful and beneficial for managers, but it can also be frightening or paralyzing, and is a significant stressor in the workplace. Studies conducted in the US show that over 80% of managers experience stress in the workplace and over 50% experience a sense of burnout.
In executive development workshops , you receive the tools, skills, and a new approach to leadership required to lead teams and people. The executive development workshops that I choose to promote are intended for managers at all levels, because we all manage ourselves and others.
Managerial development workshops allow for deeper internal exploration to understand the perception of conduct and behavior that will allow a person – a manager – to present themselves more authentically, more fully and completely, and work on the significant connection between the personal and professional self-perceptions. Satisfaction increases as there is a greater closeness between the two.
The significance of such a change does not end only with the person themselves, but also permeates additional layers of intra-organizational communication, language, the space of possibilities and the possibility of learning, deep inquiry, curious experimentation, and more.
