“This is the best management book I ever read!”
Silke Lehnhardt, Lufthansa
(commenting on her “Insight Book”, in which participants write during “morning reflections” every day)
THE REFLECTIVE MINDSET
Module 1
Managing Self: The Reflective Mindset
Lancaster University Management School
Lancaster, United Kingdom
The Reflective Mindset module serves two purposes. Firstly, it of course focuses on the first of the five mindsets; but secondly it provides an introduction to the IMPM, and establishes a reflective approach to the whole program.
Finding themselves in a relaxed, low-key setting, participants meet across cultures, nations, functions, industries – and lives. They quickly embark on engaged and sometimes inspired explorations of ideas and experiences through a number of stimulating activities, which also allow them to get to know each other:
- site visits to gain perspective on current business problems by seeing them
in the light of history - field studies and cultural audits
- discussions about managerial work, personal styles, learning organizations, systems, ethics, the meaning of work and the nature of self.
The outcome of this module can be quite extraordinary in terms of the participants’ reactions to others, new experiences and evolution of self-knowledge, which is the prerequisite for all other knowledge, as well as for better management skills.