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Creating Happy and Meaningful career

By Dr. Ramya Ranganathan   |   Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)
Learners enrolled: 3681
This course draws upon positive psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and philosophy to guide participants in proactively crafting their own work experience. It weaves inputs from these various fields into a series of lectures and experiential exercises. 

This course is for anyone who wants to reinvent the way they currently approach and experience their work and their career. It takes an inside-out approach to create change. The focus is on working on one’s own mental models and beliefs with regard to work, career, success, failure, and identity. 

Participants will benefit on three levels. 

  • At an intellectual level, they will learn how the brain functions, the way emotions influence the functioning of the brain, and the way the brain receives, processes and makes sense of information. Participants will understand how sensemaking in the brain directly and indirectly translates into behavior; thereby influencing a person’s subjective as well as objective experience at work.  

  • At an experiential level, participants will get to participate in reflective exercises that will allow them to gain a richer and deeper awareness of their own past experiences. They will be able to see and understand the role that their own choices, attitudes and beliefs played in the way their life has unfolded so far. They will also be able to realize the role that other people and society have played in the shaping of their beliefs and attitudes.

  • At a practical level, participants will learn tried and tested tools that will help them create the change they desire and craft their own future work experience with greater levels of confidence and effectiveness. These include emotional tools from the field of positive psychology, psychological tools that are used in coaching, and established behavioral tools from the field of organizational behavior.

The course is practical, engaging, and potent in its design with a unique mix of lectures, stories, and reflective exercises. These reflective exercises have been shown to create deep and lasting change for the participants. They have been derived over a span of eight years from the instructor’s own experiences teaching this material to MBA students and corporate executives

What you'll learn

  • How beliefs, thoughts, and emotions influence behavior and experience
  • Ways to assess your own mental models and attitudes and recognize how they have shaped your experiences so far
  • Practical tools to leverage your own mental models and emotions to craft your future work experience

Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Core
Duration : 6 weeks
Category :
  • Management Studies
Credit Points : 2
Level : Postgraduate
Start Date : 31 Jan 2020
End Date : 30 Apr 2020
Enrollment Ends : 08 Mar 2020
Exam Date : 10 May 2020 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week 1: Crafting Realities 
  • How we make sense of the world around us and our experience in it?
  • The role of our mental models in the way we process information from the world
  • Distinguishing between objective and subjective reality
  • Understanding how confirmation bias can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy
Week 2: Demystifying Success 
  • How we define success for ourselves?
  • The role played by society in shaping our definition of success
  • Creating an awareness of our personal values to help us navigate this complexity
  • Decoupling our own dreams from the expectations of other stakeholders in our lives
Week 3: Accepting Failure 
  • Understanding the label of failure and the effects it has on us
  • Exploring the attributes of perfectionism and how to overcome them
  • Understanding resilience and tools to help us become more resilient
  • Cultivating a healthy and realistic attitude to failure
Week 4: Redefining Work 
  • Nature and utility of work in everyday life
  • Introduction to the flow state and its benefits
  • Crafting a more empowering inner definition of work
  • Consciously cultivating meaning and purpose in work
Week 5: Leveraging Emotions 
  • The connection between happiness and productivity
  • Overcoming our innate bias towards the negative and dealing with negative emotions
  • Shifting our happiness baseline and choosing to play to our strengths
  • Cultivating emotional intelligence and using mirror neurons to our advantage
Week 6: Continuing the Journey 
  • Creating and sustaining change
  • Cultivating an innovation mindset and avoiding generalized conclusions
  • Digging deeper with Integrative thinking
  • Savoring the journey and managing personal energy

Instructor bio

Dr. Ramya Ranganathan

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)
Dr. Ramya Ranganathan is currently a visiting faculty at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. She is an Electrical, Electronics, and Communications engineer from IIT Madras and holds a PGDM (MBA) from IIM Ahmedabad. Ramya worked in the corporate world with blue chip companies like ICICI, Infosys and Citibank, before she embarked on a quest to learn how she could help people (and herself) flourish better at work. As part of understanding the person-work relationship, Ramya studied organizational behavior at London Business School and she has a Masters of Research as well as a Doctorate in Management from London Business School. Ramya has dedicated her life to helping people find joy and meaning through their work and has touched over 10,000 participants through various programmes and courses over the past eight years. Her style of teaching is unique in effortlessly blending intellectual left brained logic with intuitive right brained reflection.

Areas of Expertise:
  • Organizational behavior
  • Positive psychology
  • Nurturing Creativity and Excellence
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Cultivating an Innovation Mindset
  • Career Crafting

Course certificate

Type of exam: Computer based exam

You will have to appear at the allotted exam centre and produce your Hall ticket and Government Photo Identification Card (Example: Driving License, Passport, PAN card, Voter ID, Aadhaar-ID with your Name, date of birth, photograph and signature) for verification and take the exam in person. You can find the final allotted exam centre details in the hall ticket.

The questions will be on the computer and the answers will have to be entered on the computer; type of questions may include multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks etc.

FINAL CERTIFICATE:

Weightage: 100% weightage for final exam.

Passing Marks: You will be Eligible for Certificate Only if you score minimum 40% in Final Exam. If you score less than 40% in in final exam, you will not receive the certificate.

The final score will determine if you will/will not receive a certificate.

1. Final score < 40%: NO certificate.

2. Final score between 40% -49.99%: Grade D.

3. Final score between 50% -59.99%: Grade C.

4. Final score between 60% -84.99%: Grade B

5. Final score of 85% and above: Grade A



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