Taking Initiative: Know When and How Best

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Want to fast track your career development? Taking initiative and being proactive is a surefire way to move up the ladder. By showing initiative, it reflects you in a positive light to others as well as build your own self-esteem. Take opportunities and run with them, without excuses. Identify what you want and make it happen.

With our course, you’ll understand what it is and the benefits but also when to work smartly – choosing your moments to act and not to act. By enrolling on this course, you’re already taking your first step.

In all our business courses, you get access to around six hours of e-learning that you can watch, listen and read. There are usually 100 questions and at the end of the course you will receive a certificate of completion that you can use against any personal or professional development requirements. As well as the course, you also receive a FREE e-book that you can read on your Kindle or other e-reader. You also get a FREE audiobook of the course so you can listen to the whole course uninterrupted on your device.

Description

Module One: Introduction

  • Welcome
  • Course Objectives
  • How it works

Module Two: What is Initiative?

  • Definition
  • Benefits, Personal and Professional
  • Why People Do Not Take Initiative
  • Make Initiative a Priority
  • Case Study
  • Module Two: Review Questions

Module Three: Know Clients

  • Be Open Minded
  • Be Adaptable
  • Making Decisions
  • Take Responsibility
  • Case Study
  • Module Three: Review Questions

Module Four: Recognize When You Can Step In

  • Know Your Strengths and Skills
  • Go the Extra Mile
  • Listen Carefully
  • Fill in the Gaps
  • Case Study
  • Module Four: Review Questions

Module Five: Recognize When You Can Go Outside the Normal

  • Consider Culture and Values Before Acting
  • Is It in the Scope of Your Authority?
  • Communicate Ideas
  • Act on Solutions
  • Case Study
  • Module Five: Review Questions

Module Six: Weighing the Consequences

  • Ask Questions
  • Risk, Impact, or Cost Analysis
  • Is Authorization Necessary?
  • When Risks Are Too High
  • Case Study
  • Module Six: Review Questions

Module Seven: Good or Bad

  • The Good
  • The Bad
  • Develop Judgment
  • Avoid Acting on Emotion
  • Case Study
  • Module Seven: Review Questions

Module Eight: Confidence

  • Are You Confident?
  • Build Confidence
  • Positive Thinking
  • Visualization
  • Case Study
  • Module Eight: Review Questions

Module Nine: Find Opportunities

  • Internal Opportunities
  • External Opportunities
  • Apply Core Competencies
  • What Problems Exist, and Will They Grow?
  • Case Study
  • Module Nine: Review Questions

Module Ten: Be Persistent

  • Handle Setbacks
  • Manage Change
  • Modify Ideas When Necessary
  • Move Forward
  • Case Study
  • Module Ten: Review Questions

Module Eleven: Balance Initiative and Restraint

  • Consider the Work Involved in an Idea
  • Develop Emotional Intelligence
  • Know the Buy-in of Stakeholders
  • Do Not Push All Ideas Forward
  • Case Study
  • Module Eleven: Review Questions

Module 12 – Wrapping Up

  • Words from the wise
  • Recap
  • Your scores
  • Further reading

Topics Covered

Throughout the course you will develop key skills as you cover the following topics

  • Know in depth what taking initiative is all about
  • Identifying when to use your skills and when to hold back
  • Finding the right opportunities that are a win win
  • Showing balance, initiative and restraint

What You'll Learn

By the end of this course on taking initiative, you will:

  • Have the drive and ambition to decide when to act
  • Have the skills to know when to make the right decision
  • Know when to balance initiative with being an irritant

 

Who's it for?

Prior knowledge

You don’t need any prior experience to benefit from this course, just a thirst for personal development.

As you develop your career, there will be a constant requirement to not only refresh and update existing technical learning but also to develop new skills and ways of thinking and behaving.

Technical Skills

Whether you’re in production, distribution, sales, finance, human resources or management your technical skills will always need to keep up with the latest developments in technology and change. The learning for this will generally come from your peers, industry trends and specialised training.

New skills

However, as you move up in seniority through an organisation or become and entrepreneur, you will be faced with learning a much wider array of skills. You will need to learn how to be a generalist but with the ability to look at the whole of a business and how it all interlocks.

People Skills

Most importantly, you will need to master your own behaviours and character and emotional intelligence in order to influence, inspire and bring people along with your vision.

Your career, personal and professional development should never stop, whether you are learning because of a company or professional body requirement or whether you are just wanting to grow.

ALWAYS BE LEARNING!

We have many more courses for your business or organisation. Get in touch about how to get our courses available to your organisation or fellow learners at [email protected]

 

For Businesses

Are you looking for a comprehensive learning solution for you and your teams? We have a portfolio of over 150 business short courses that are available online and on-demand. These ready to go courses cover all key areas of a business from finance & operations, sales & marketing, human resources to administration and management. As well as hard skills that range from elementary to advanced, there is an array of people and soft skill development.

Our e-learning is comprehensive, up to date and produced by a high quality learning and editorial team. It combines the latest in business thinking with the latest in learning technology. Learning can be delivered wholly online through self-study, with virtual tutor support or in a group & classroom environment by our qualified trainers.

  • All online learning is tracked and courses can be used as part of a personal development plan for staff
  • Learners can study out of hours or in breaks with bite-size learning
  • Get back end management reports on learner progress
  • Cost efficiently solve any compliance, insurance, regulatory, union or staff association requirements
  • Save on staff training and CPD costs
  • Choose and pay for only the courses you need or look at our library models for even greater value
  • No lock-in contracts – pay monthly or get a handsome discount for annual and multi-year deals
  • No big installations necessary – a simple web browser is all you need to get started
  • New courses being added all the time

Get in touch at [email protected]

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