Workshop Title
The learner is expected to remain to Business Goals with patience and resilience
The learner is expected to remain to Business Goals with patience and resilience
- Duration: 4 hours
The learner is expected to develop an understanding for the importance of pursuing business goals with patience and resilience, and the benefits that come with it.
The learner should be able to:
- Determine the business goals
- Recognise market characteristics
- Identify internal and external policies and practices to enhance resilience
- Adapt positively in the context of significant adversity or risk
- Rebound or bounce back from both negative and positive events and circumstances.
The workshop will provide the participants with a structure of how successful business goals are formulated and what they must include. It will introduce participants to market characteristics and to threats they might face. In addition, internal and external policies that enhance resilience as well as how to adapt positively to significant adversity or risk will be covered. Finally, participants will be made familiar with methods how one can bounce back from negative and positive events and circumstances.
This workshop will provide participants with an introduction to resilience in companies. The first part will be mainly theory where the business goals and market characteristics will be discussed to give students a first overview and introduce them to the business topic at hand.
The second part will deal with the decision-making process and threats that a company might face, this will be explained using a simple SWOT analysis.
An exercise will introduce students to the main part of the presentation which is how important resilience inside a company is and why it should be enhanced.
The third part which is how resilience can be enhanced will built on the work students conducted in the exercise before and give them an overview again of the most important points.
Finally a short summary will be given to participants how it is possible to positively adapt to risk or adversity and then a handout will be distributed.
Challenges may arise if participants do not participate or hesitate to share their opinions and inputs on the topics. For some exercises it is also important that students try to be creative and not using their phones or computers which would significantly limit the learning outcome desired. The concepts included are explained, yet it might not be detailed enough for some students which would require the lecturer to adjust and speak of their own experiences regarding the concerned topics.
Step by step instructions for the preparation and implementation of the workshop
Step 1: Introduction and Learning outcomes on Power Point (PPT).
Step 2: Presentation of Business Goals & Market Characteristics.
Step 3: Presentation of Limitations and Threats (SWOT).
Questions that fit the theory can be included and should facilitate a group discussion about the topics at hand.
Step 1: Students will be put in groups and conduct an exercise where they should create ideas and solutions regarding the issue why they think resilience is important and why it should be enhanced. (PPT)
Step 2: Students can leave classroom and have ~1 hour time to come up with ideas which they should illustrate in a creative way on the flipchart so that it makes sense and has a structure, yet, formality is not important due to the lack of time.
Step 3: Students will come back to the classroom and some groups will have the possibility to present their results (how many groups present depends on time).
Step 4: Presentation of theory why resilience should be enhanced in connection to what students worked on, highlight points that students included and remind them why other points which they probably did not mention are also noteworthy of considering.
Step 5: Examples of how companies responded effectively to COVID-19, facilitate a group discussion regarding companies that students know which performed well and adopted/adjusted to the new environment or situation.
Step 1: Go through the theory of how to positively adapt to risk or adversity
Step 2: How it is possible to bounce back from negative events or how one can stay on their feet and not get over excited during positive events (Trainers are encouraged to explain and share own examples and experiences).
Step 3: Distribute Handout – if there is enough time it is even possible to go over the handout in class together and facilitate a discussion about why asking reflective questions and how they are formulated is so important. If students are willing to share how they reflect on themselves and which approach they use, they are welcome to do so. (Attachment 0.2)
Resources
Training room, pens, paper, flipchart, colorful markers, Laptop with MS office, beamer
