Management Courses Workout

Description

An in depth look at the skills this test will accomplish:

Paving a Route to your Goals

• Description:Paving a route is a key concept in decision-making. The workout emphasizes the need to identify a critical path and take action to achieve it.
• Leading Game:Blocker.
  Blocker is a two-player strategy game. Players are presented with various dilemmas that require them to make decisions, manage their resources, and decide when to act. The key to winning the game is identifying the critical path and using (limited) resources effectively.
• Practiced Skills: Decision Making, Analysis and Deduction, Calculation, Prioritizing and Forward Planning.

Managerial Patterns Video

• Description: Managerial patterns refers to the typical ways in which managers approach their work, make decisions, communicate with their team, and allocate resources. These patterns can include a range of practices and behaviors, and can be influenced by a variety of factors such as the manager’s experience, leadership style, and organizational culture. The following video explores different management patterns or approaches, and how making small changes to these templates can lead to greater success in terms of professional and obedient behavior from employees or team members.
• Content Type: Video

Dealing with a Change

• Description:In this workout, you will get to know and practice a thinking tool called the Stoplight Method. The method will help us deal with changes. The Stoplight Method is a meta-cognitive method that emphasizes our ability to detect changes ahead of time and adapt ourselves to changing situations.
• Leading Game:Two-Flags.
  Two-Flags is a strategy game for 2 players in which you need to create and execute your strategic plan while overcoming opponent threats. The game is characterized by the need to be agile in your thinking, as well as the ability to adjust to changing conditions. Players must think about the long-term moves in the game, while making short-term decisions that will help them gain an advantage over their opponent.
• Practiced Skills: Planning, Decision Making, Calculation, Strategic Thinking, Flexible Thinking, Analysis and Deduction and Adaptability.

Resilience-The Alpinist Method

• Description: In this workout, we will explore the Alpinist Method – a useful strategy for developing resilience and successfully coping with life’s challenges! The Alpinist Method will teach us about goal setting and making sure we are equipped with different resources to cope with various situations we may encounter.
• Leading Game: ClimbUp.
  ClimbUp is a puzzle game requiring good planning and flexibility. The objective of ClimbUp is to help the alpinist reach the top of the mountain by rearranging the available resources to form a path. The game is characterized by the need for resourcefulness and flexibility from the players. The game levels illustrate that progress toward a goal does not always follow a straight path.
• Practiced Skills:Planning, Efficiency, Calculation, Persistence, Problem Solving, Analysis and Deduction and Following Move Order.

The Crystal Ball for Risk Managment Video

• Description: This amusing video features an employee who presents his boss with a crystal ball to help identify potential risks in their ongoing projects. It emphasizes the importance of a thorough and careful risk management process to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Content Type: Video

Risk Management-Prophylaxis Tool

• Description: The workout introduces a useful tool in the risk management process- Prophylaxis. This is a term in chess that means Preventative Action. In the world of risk management, Prophylaxis or preventative thinking. It is the ability to identify potential problems before they occur so that actions can be planned to reduce, or completely prevent, the negative outcome in case these problems are realized.
• Leading Game:Lockdown.
  Lockdown is a strategy game set in a secret high-tech lab. An advanced robot rebels and tries to escape. In order to block his progress, you must use resources (barriers). The game is characterized by the constant need to manage risk and to adopt a Preventive Thinking state of mind. This is in order to anticipate and avoid any possible escape routes for the robot. This requires the player to think ahead and plan for potential scenario.
• Practiced Skills:Prioritizing, Strategic Thinking, Planning and Calculation.

Following Move Order

• Description:In this workout, we’ll learn to recognize situations where calculating the order of actions is necessary. We’ll also practice the skill of determining the correct sequence of actions using a straightforward and effective thinking model, which consists of three steps:
  Step 1 – Identifying a scenario that requires a sequence of actions.
  Step 2 – Analyzing dependencies between different operations and forming a logical chain.
  Step 3 – Planning and drafting an action plan.
• Leading Game:Maxit is a two-player strategy game played on an 8×8 square board. The board is randomly filled with numbers and a star is placed on one of the squares. One player plays in the rows and the other in the columns. The objective of the game is to collect more points than the opponent by selecting squares that maximize the sum of their numbers. However, players must also anticipate and adapt to a constantly changing board, adding a layer of complexity to the game that requires planning and strategy.
• Practiced Skills: Analytical Thinking, Following Move Order, Analysis and Deduction, Calculation and Strategic Thinking.