Introduction
Nowadays, the importance and benefits of measuring and managing performance within an organization are broadly known and agreed upon. However, seeing beyond organizational limits, performance-related principles and tools can also be useful for improving one’s personal performance, from physical activity to healthy lifestyle, from family life to leisure and from career planning to continuous learning.
This course is designed as a three-day interactive program that will help you understand personal performance. It focuses on explaining the benefits of having a structured approach to life, on clarifying the specific processes and tools, as well as on the implementation of a sound personal performance framework.
5 Benefits
- Obtain better personal and professional results by implementing a clear and integrated approach to personal performance;
- Develop your self-awareness and accountability by designing your own tools to monitor personal performance;
- Get motivated to implement life changes by experiencing the daily life applicability of theoretical concepts;
- Improve your productivity both at work and outside working hours;
- Develop your ability to measure personal performance in a standardized and effective manner.
Learning objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the fundamentals of managing personal performance;
- Use personal performance measurement tools efficiently;
- Define effective goals and measure their attainment with KPIs;
- Practice different techniques to manage information, time and stress;
- Apply different tools and techniques to increase personal productivity and efficiency.
Evaluation
The certification process is finalized when you complete all stages of the learning experience. Nonetheless, you will receive a:
- Certificate of Completion (soft copy): after completing pre-course activities and passing the Certification Exam;
- Certificate of Attendance (hard copy): after participating at the three days of on-site training course;
- Certified Personal Performance Professional diploma (hard copy): after you have successfully completed all of the three stages of the learning experience.
– Understanding Personal Performance
Performance measurement: from organizations to personal life
- Philosophy & principles of personal performance;
- Structured vs unstructured approach to life;
- Terminology, tools and systems/reference points;
- Governance;
- Timing and cycles;
- Location.
The Personal Performance Plan I
- Driving Personal Performance: the Self-Determination Theory of motivation;
- Activity: Identify your motivational factors;
- Presentation of the Personal Performance Plan;
- Envisioning: personal life purpose;
- Activity: Define your personal life purpose;
- Envisioning: personal mission;
- Activity: Define your personal mission;
- Envisioning: personal vision;
- Activity: Define your personal vision;
- Envisioning: personal values;
- Activity: Define your personal values;
- Envisioning: the personal SWOT analysis;
- Activity: Generate your SWOT analysis!
The Personal Performance Plan II
- Personal goals. The Goal Setting Theory;
- Personal KPIs;
- Target setting;
- Activity: Choose the right KPIs for each objective!
- Opportunity analysis and decision making;
- Activity: Improve your decision making process.
– Developing the Personal Performance Plan
Well-being. Physical and social performance
- Well-being essentials;
- Physical performance goals;
- Physical performance measurement;
- Physical performance enablers: gadgets and apps;
- Activity: Generate your Physical Performance Plan;
- Social performance essentials;
- Social goals;
- Social KPIs measurement;
- Activity: Generate your Social Performance Plan.
Emotional and spiritual performance
- Emotional performance essentials;
- Emotional goals;
- Emotional KPIs measurement;
- Emotional performance enablers: apps;
- Activity: Generate your Emotional Performance Plan;
- Spiritual performance essentials;
- Spiritual goals;
- Spiritual KPIs measurement;
- Spiritual performance enablers: apps;
- Activity: Generate your Spiritual Performance Plan.
Professional and financial performance
- Professional performance essentials;
- Professional goals;
- Professional KPIs measurement;
- Professional performance enablers: gadgets and apps;
- Activity: Generate your Professional Performance Plan;
- Financial performance essentials;
- Financial goals;
- Financial KPIs measurement;
- Financial performance enablers: apps
- Activity: Generate your Financial Performance Plan.
Work-life balance
- The Personal Performance Plan development;
- Personal and professional life balance;
- Stress management essentials;
- Activity: coping methods.
– Improving Personal Performance
Time and energy management
- Daily connection with 10 yearly goals;
- Activity: reconnecting with the personal goals;
- Daily intention setting;
- Activity: building the daily intention;
- To do lists;
- Activity: building efficient To do lists;
- Prioritizing by value;
- Activity: Prioritizing the To do lists;
- The top 3 priorities technique;
- The Pomodoro technique;
- Daily evaluation;
- Multitasking;
- Procrastination;
- Activity: Procrastination – reasons and solutions.
Performance and workflow efficiency
- Handling office clutter;
- Inbox 101: how to achieve email mastery;
- Improving your information management skills;
- Activity: Working style case study.
Paving the road to performance with efficient communication
- Principles of efficient communication;
- Assertiveness;
- Conflict resolution;
- Activity: Finding solutions for different conflicts;
- The importance of listening skills;
- Activity: Active listening.
Review and Certification Exam
- Course review;
- Certification Exam.
