OVERVIEW

Every organisation is driven by its organisational strategy, culture, vision, mission and employee performance. The effectiveness of all organisations depends on the core of all these factors, the PEOPLE.

The question is: –

  • Why are organisations with the best crafted strategies, good culture, vision, mission and performance systems still not performing at the desired or optimum levels?

Some of the biggest challenges within the organisations is that: –

  • Leaders are responsible for the achievement of organisational goals and objectives. However, leaders with the best knowledge, skills, experience and required behavioural competencies still find it difficult achieve the desired results.
  • Organisations with the best designed performance management systems are still unable to get employees to perform at the desired levels.

Until PEOPLE make the choice and decisions to take personal and collective responsibility and accountability for performance, organisations will always struggle to perform to optimum levels.

Choices program is a program designed to empower leaders, managers and employees to make the right choices and decisions in attitude, commitment, responsibility and accountability in the endeavour to achieve organisational and personal goals and objectives. It is a practical program about the quality of the choices and decisions we make in life and in business. It is about choosing our attitude in the workplace and in whatever we do in life. It is about continuously changing our personal and work lives for the better.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM

  • It is a change management program designed to influence the mindset, attitude and behaviour of leaders, managers and employees, both at personal and at organisational level to achieve set goals and objectives;
  • It is a program to empower managers and supervisors to make the right choices in effectively managing people and implementing people practices.
  • It is a program to empower employees to make the right choices and decisions for personal development and performance effectiveness.
  • It is aimed at helping talent management with career choices and succession planning for business sustainability.

PROGRAM OUTLINE

The program includes models, theories, and literature from other subject matter expects and psychologists and includes the following main topics;

  • Values, Beliefs, Perceptions and Attitudes
  • The difference between Making Choices and Decision Making
  • Why do Leaders and Managers make Bad Choices and Decisions?
  • The Psychology of Choice and making effective Decisions and Choices
  • Consequences and impact of Wrong Decisions
  • How to Evaluate and Change Current Situations for effectiveness and better results

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DECISION MAKING AND CHOICE

The difference between choice and decision can be summarized as follows:

 

 
CHOICE
DECISION
DEFINITION
Defines as opportunity, right and power to choose
Defined as reaching a conclusion or resolution after consideration
FACTORS
Influenced by persons values, beliefs and perception about choice
Influenced by the analysis of facts and information
ALTERNATIVES
Choice implies existence of alternatives
Does not imply existence of alternatives
SELECTION
Selection from alternatives. Weigh up option, consider pros and cons. Advantageous option. May be a subjective selection
Analysis of facts, data or information to make a comparison. Mainly objective in nature.
THOUGHT PROCESS
Unconscious mind, intuition, rule of thumb, habit
Factual. Uses previous knowledge and experience

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE

One of the key components of the program is the Leadership Maturity Continuum.

Many leaders are at different levels of the maturity continuum. Each leader has a choice to change, to move to his/her desired level within the continuum.

One of the biggest challenges faced by organisations is dealing with change and resistance to change.

There are three things that people, and leaders in particular should never resist to change:

  • Mindset – The way of thinking and the general outlook of the world
  • Attitude – How we respond and relate to people and situations
  • Behaviour – The way we act or conduct ourselves