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The Power of Being Different

Designed and developed by Joan F. Marques

  • Facilitator in Business and Management
  • Educational Outreach Trainer
  • Doctoral Student in Organizational Leadership
  • Author of business articles with special emphasis on: spirituality, self-improvement, and diversity issues.
  • Welcome!

    Course Layout

    This course is divided into three areas:
      1. The module menu
        a. The module menu gives you an overview of the individual modules and lessons of the course.
        b. Each module of this course is broken down into smaller lessons.
      2. The content display area
        a. The content display area is where all of the information is presented.
      3. The evaluation tools area
        a. The evaluation tool area provides the questionnaires to be filled out by students at 2 stages in the course: before and after.

    Audience:

    This is a web-based course that can be used as a functional instrument of education by individual entrepreneurs, small business owners, as well as all other interested adults who want to improve their personal leadership skills in day-to-day operations.

    Purpose:

    This course discusses the necessity of being different as a powerful tool toward achieving success.

    Coursework focuses on increasing the insight of course participants in the importance of moving away from incrementalism (continuous innovation that guarantees safe but small successes), and getting used to radicalism (innovating in a complete different field: doing what others haven't thought of yet). The course will provide the basics one can maintain to preserve an innovative spirit and assure impulses for constant improvement. These basics will be built upon the following self-analyzing tasks for students:

    ·         Formulating and presenting their self-perceived strengths

    ·         Considering and presenting their mission and vision statement

    ·         Formulating their life goals

    ·         Defining their target group

    ·         Formulating ways to maintain relationships with revolution potential.

    ·         Formulating ways to detach themselves from the status quo

    ·         Formulating a declaration of personal independence

    ·         Formulating their next plan of action.

    The course will also emphasize on the disadvantages of being risk-averse, no matter how comfortable the status quo may be. This will be incorporated in the postings and discussions when working on the formulation of ways to detach oneself from the status quo, in the second week of the course. Issues such as diversity, change of daily rituals, and empathic listening to the self and others, will be conferred. The points of view of several management gurus on revolutionary management will be analyzed. Suggestions on how to maintain revolutionary leadership will be made.

    Note: It is highly recommended, although not required, that you take the lessons in order. Each lesson assumes knowledge of information covered in previous courses.

     

    Course Structure

    This course contains the following modules and lessons:

  • Module 1: Incrementalism
  • Lesson 1: What is incrementalism?

  • Lesson 2: How to eradicate incrementalism from your life.

    This module discusses the problem that most large, established organizations, as well as people are facing once they gained importance: incrementalism.