Acceptance and change

general courses

1. The aim of the course is to provide the students with tools and ways of overcoming the changes in their lives, works and organisations. A flexible attitude towards changes in lives is an effect of the learning.

2. Content: Changes that we come under require various attitudes and strategies. Key moments and the kind of changes that we deal with: the changes that occur and come against our will are very important.

3. Method: Discussion session and classes

4. Full-time students / OGUN

5. Conditions for receiving a credit: writing a paper using acquired skills and recommended readings.

The aim of the lecture is to be familiar with:

• The economy of the change

• Various kinds of changes

• The kinds of prompted changes

• Seven principles of making changes in an effective way

•Subtle way of making a change

• Key moments of the change

• Positive differences of changes

• Creating habits

• Steps of creating a habit

• Forming the habits

• Using needed skills in the life

• Acceptance of sudden changes

• Ways of handling a failure

• Moderate effects of stress and pressure

• Presupposition of the failure and criticism

• Necessity of changing the emotional state in a moment of crisis

The rated total number of hours a student is required to spend in order to achieve the expected learning outcomes defined for the course: 30 + 25

Requiered readings

• Bridges W., Zarządzanie zmianami (Managing Transitions), Wyd. UJ Kraków 2008

• Kotter J. P., Sedno zmian (The Heart of Change Field Guide), Helion, Gliwice 2008

• Duhigg Charles, Siła nawyku (The Power of Habit), Warszawa 2013

Suggested readings

• Berndt Ch., Tajemnice odporności psychicznej (Resilienz: Das Geheimnis der psychischen Widerstandskraft) , Wyd. UJ Kraków 2015

• Day L., Kryzys. Pozytywne skutki negatywnych zmian (Welcome To Your Crisis: How to Use the Power of Crisis to Create the Life You Want), Sensus, Gliwice 2007

• Rogers J., Coaching, GWP, Gdańsk 2010

• Tracy B., Osobowość lidera (Personal Leadership), Studio Emka, Warszawa 2010

Upon the course completion a student will be able to:

• Form his own attitude favourable for a change

• Create courses of action aimed at controlling effective changes

• Define courses of needed changes

• Prepare the action plan

• Connect various ways of attitudes when it comes to changes into a single entity

• Be trained in habits that program changes

• Use the principles of effective changes

• Understand the key moments of the change

• Define a programme of changes made in the surroundings

• Create ways of handling failure

• Moderate effects of stress and pressure

• Use criticism to develop

• Apply cycle of changes according to his needs

KW01, KW02, KW03, KU01, KU02, KU03, KK01, KK02, KK03

Constant mark - 50%

Term paper – 50%