4.3.1 Alignment and Fit

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Del curso dictado por University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Leadership and Influence

17 calificaciones

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Leadership and Influence

17 calificaciones

Curso 3 de 4 en SpecializationProfessional IQ: Preventing and Solving Problems at Work

The only thing you get to change is yourself, and in the prerequisites to this course we’ve given you real tools to do that. Now, use those tools to influence the course of your future, your team's future, and your organization's future. Make a plan for yourself that will help you help others, and learn skills to make it happen. Listening and being sure of your values underpins everything that comes with professional influencer and leadership soft skills. We’ll go on to look at self-assessment and leadership planning, negotiation, addressing and resolving conflict, and successfully identifying and promoting circumstances you want. After this course, you will be able to: - state your own mission and plan with confidence - negotiate and persuade - deal with difficult people - contribute to crafting a working environment you want to work in The prerequisites for this course are Courses One and Two of the Specialization "Professional IQ: Preventing and Solving Problems at Work".

De la lección

Week 4: It’s Your Life - Live it Well

Pull together skills and knowledge from throughout the courses while examining the importance of your alignment and fit in an organization. Reflect on the importance of learning as a leader and plan for what happens next in your professional career.

4.3.1 Alignment and Fit3:09

4.3.2 2MC: Include Late Submissions?0:58

4.3.3 Finding a Fit6:38

4.3.4 How Do You Discover Organizational Culture?6:05

4.3.5 Experts Comment: Alignment5:34

4.3.6 Experts Comment: Include Late Submissions7:03

Conoce a los instructores

C. K. Gunsalus
Director of the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics (NCPRE), Professor Emerita of Business, and Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory

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Why are we talking about alignment and fit?

It's really simple.

Where you end up, the amount of time you spend with the people you work with,

will profoundly influence your life, how happy you are,

how productive you are, and who you turn out to be.

Because the people around us influence who we are,

who we become, and your reputation gets associated with theirs.

One of my former students who's a young professional, a really wise person,

looked around and he said, you know, the kinds of things that happen fall into

patterns for the people who don't really stick here, or who get fired or who leave.

The first one is that people didn't really understand the kind of work

they would be doing, they didn't ask the right questions before they came here.

Another thing that happens to people is that they end up on a team or

a project or something, and they don't really like it, and

they don't have the skills to get it changed effectively.

So, either they don't know how to ask, so they never do, and

they're really unhappy, or they don't ask very well,

they don't have the skills to navigate the environment.

So, they either burn bridges, or ask ineffectively, and

either way end up in a bad situation.

Sometimes, people don't understand how important it is to take responsibility for

your own work and career and ask for expectations and feedback early.

So, because, as we've talked about, it can be really uncomfortable for

managers to give feedback, so they don't always do it or do it well.

Some of these unhappy people were trending along, thinking they were doing just fine,

they never got feedback, and then they turned into

one of those surprised fired people we started Course One talking about.

Sometimes, the people just didn't know themselves very well and

they didn't know what kind of environment it would take for them to be successful,

or to be productive or to be comfortable at work, and it just wasn't a good fit.

Thinking about fit and alignment is what we're going to focus on in this lesson

because your fit and your comfort are all going to be profoundly important for

how successful you can be as a leader and as a professional.

How do you find out whether you'll be in alignment with the values and the culture

of an organization, and how do you determine if that's a good fit for you?

Let's think about those issues together.

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