In this seminar, I present five activities that will help you explore yourself. Six Hats Thinking Belbin Roles Birthday Challenges - Richard Branson Challenge MBTI - 16 Personalities Test VIA strengths Survey

1. University of East Anglia
Norwich Business School
Management Skills and
Personal Development
NBS-7031X
SEMINAR 7
26 and 29 April 2021
Dr. Fahri Karakas
F.Karakas@uea.ac.uk

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Week Self-Directed
Learning Activity
(i.e. what you did)
Learning/Inspiration/Lesson drawn
1 Listened to
Desert Island
Discs episode
of Dame Zaha
Hadid
I reflected on the critical importance of courage to shake up
traditional practices and concepts of architecture through fluid and
futuristic thinking. Zaha Hadid was one of the most celebrated
architects in the world in a field dominated by men. Her triumph
was to turn the beautiful graphic visions of her sculptural approach
into reality. This is due to her rare courage, conviction, tenacity and
a free creative spirit – all qualities that I find extremely valuable in
my future career. I am inspired to learn more about the unique life
and career of this remarkable woman.
2 Listened to
Desert Island
Discs episode
of Cath Kidston
Known for her floral designs combining the vintage and the
modern, Cath Kidston achieved amazing business success with her
business and brand worth £50 million and 100 shops worldwide.
Japanese are crazy about the brand calling it ‘kawaii’ (cute), a
celebration of cheerfulness. I find it a remarkable success story
based on finding this universal appeal of ‘cheering people up’
through practical design. Listening to her story, including the
obstacles and her vulnerable feelings during growing up her
business, was refreshing and gave me hope. Like her, perhaps I can
nourish my entrepreneurial side one day – all it requires is the
courage and readiness to experiment/fail along with a niche
business idea/solution that makes cheers up people.

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Six Options – choose one of them
1. Personal Logo Table
2. Ten Responses Table: Your Best Year Yet
3. Table of Role Models
4. Table of Potential Firms and Job Positions
5. SWOT Analysis of Yourself and Your Career
6. Create your own Netflix Show

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 Design a hat
 Or design a shoe

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Seminar Activity 6:
Creative Toolkit: Café Exercise
 Respond to questions
◦ Target Profile
◦ Propose concept – borrow from
diverse fields/contexts
◦ Poster and Slogan
◦ Logo and Menu
◦ Layout and Atmosphere
◦ Final Statement: Your Philosophy

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Seminar Activity 7:
Benchmarking Table

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Choose 1 out of 5:
1. Apply Six Hats Thinking To Your Asset Creation
2. Take Belbin Roles Test and Analyse Your Results
3. Create Challenges for Your Upcoming Birthday
4. 16personalities.com – Discover Your Personality
5. VIA Strengths Survey– Discover Your Strengths

11. Option 1
Six Hats Thinking
Application

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Ref: www.usingmindmaps.com

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 Blue hat to discuss how the meeting will be conducted
and to develop the goals and objectives.
 Red hat thinking in order to think about emotions of your
participants (i.e. how will you attract them?)
 Yellow hat to generate opportunities (think of building
your brand, reaching participants etc.)
 Green hat to generate creative ideas and solutions
about the training.
 White hat to think about facts, figures, market research
 Black hat to think about what might go wrong (prepare
contingency plans).

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 Please apply six hats thinking for your own project
 Simply create a table with your application of six
hats thinking
 You can come up with 2-3 bullet point ideas and
create the table.

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Belbin Roles

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 Please complete the Belbin Roles test
 Follow the instructions
 What is your top Belbin role?
 What is your secondary (supporting) Belbin role?
 Respond to these questions in bullet forms (or
write a paragraph of reflection):
◦ Do these roles really represent you?
◦ What do you think about your potential strengths and
weaknesses?
◦ What are the implications if you are working in a team?
◦ How can you build on your strengths?

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 You will attach:
1) Your Belbin results (i.e. your top role and
supporting role)
2) Your brief responses to these questions in bullet
form (or write a paragraph of reflection):
◦ Do these roles really represent you?
◦ What do you think about your potential strengths and
weaknesses?
◦ What are the implications if you are working in a team?
◦ How can you build on your strengths?

24. Option 3
Richard Branson
Challenge

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Instead of doing Belbin or Six Hats, you can also carry out the
BIRTHDAY CHALLENGES project.
How old will you be next year? Let’s say you will be 25.
You will identify and write down 25 creative challenges for yourself.
Richard Branson carried out 65 Creative Challenges on his
65th birthday.
Create your own challenges for your upcoming birthday. Your
list may include adventure, creativity, entrepreneurial actions,
arts, travel, helping others, writing, personal branding etc.

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16 Personalities –
Discover Your Personality

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 Introduction
 Strengths & Weaknesses
 Romantic Relationships
 Friendships
 Parenthood
 Career Paths
 Workplace Habits
 Conclusion
- What did you learn? What are the implications?
- What will you do now?
- To what extent do these descriptions fit you?

31. Option 5
VIA Strengths Survey–
Discover Your Strengths

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 Discover your strengths
 Read and critically evaluate the report
 Think about the implications for career/life
 How will you unleash your strengths?
- What did you learn? What are the implications?
- What will you do now?
- To what extent do these descriptions fit you?
- How will you amplify and build on your strengths?

34.  Finalize your Six Hats Thinking
 Finalize your Belbin Roles
 Finalize your Birthday Challenges Project
 Finalize your 16 Personalities (MBTI) Test
 Finalize your VIA Strengths Survey
 Please choose and attach 1 of these to your
coursework
 Food for thought: How can you disrupt
yourself through continuous learning,
adaptation and innovation?

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Thank you