Key takeaways from the course
Key takeaways from the course
You have almost reached the end of the course, but not quite! When a journey is coming to an end, it can be useful to look back and notice how far you have come. Hopefully, carrying out the quiz in the previous activity has helped you feel that you’ve learned a lot of new ideas and concepts on this course. You may also feel that there’s more exploring and learning you want to do in the future - food for thought.
We hope this course has given you a chance to get to know yourself and how you behave, a bit better. Let's come back to the big question at the beginning of the course:
What’s really going on in my work team, and what part might I be playing in it?
We wonder what new things you've discovered, since you started the learning. It might also have given you some ideas about what happens to you when you’re in a group - and what happens to others in groups too.
Being curious about all this could help you make better choices and be more effective, when it comes to future group situations. That can be a powerful thing, as it can help you and the teams you are in, work better to achieve your goals.
From start to finish, this course has covered a lot of different ideas and concepts to help you better understand yourself, others and groups. Some of these were:
The Unconscious: all the thoughts, feelings and emotions below-the-surface. The things that might not seem obvious at first, but that can motivate a lot of our behaviours.
Mindfulness: practising being in this moment, being grounded, helping you move towards whole wellbeing.
Identities: all the groups that you belong to, including family, social, work, gender, race, ethnicity, skin colour, social class, age and many more!
Intersectionality: where various identities build up, one upon another, and have a much greater impact on a person’s experience and interactions at work and elsewhere.
Projection: when we have uncomfortable feelings in the unconscious which we then project into someone else, instead of acknowledging them in ourselves.
Influencing: Push and Pull style influencing and how to use both in different situations.
BART – Boundaries, Authority, Role and Task: how thinking about this framework of 4 ideas can help you understand more about what is going on in the workplace.
Authority and taking up personal authority: how authority can be given to you by others, like your boss, your co-workers and support staff; and how to take up your own authority, to become the author of your own story.
Power: how power dynamics exist in every relationship at work, and how power can move and change in a relationship.
Leadership and followership: the role of leaders and followers, how both are as important as each other, and how everyone can, at times, become both a leader and a follower.
Group Dynamics: the forces, pushes and pulls when we are in a group.
Groupishness: the different ways that people can behave when they are in a group, particularly when they are anxious.
GroupThink: how groups can make irrational decisions in an effort to conform and harmonise.
Systems Thinking and Conflict: how we can zoom out to the bigger picture and how our unconscious processes can result in conflict, and our part in that.
Discussion
- Which parts of the course did you most enjoy?
- Which parts of the course did you find more demanding?
- Apart from the ideas listed, what other things have you learned or discovered on this course?
- How are you answering the big question now, towards the end of the course?
Use your journal and/or share any thoughts you have with your co-learners in the comments section below.
Finally, we come to the very last step of the course - about what happens next and continuing the learning...
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