Self-efficacy Scenario
Learners will work with their triads to analyze how prior personal successes influenced belief in ability to achieve goals in this scenario.
Joe has been asked by his manager to facilitate a brainstorming meeting for about 20 staff managers. This will be a high-profile breakout session during the company’s annual strategic planning conference. The goal of the brainstorming session is to generate innovations and solutions that will be incorporated into the company’s short and long-term strategy for continuous growth and improvement.
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Joe is both excited and nervous. He’s had some experience with brainstorming – he has read several books and put the techniques into practice by leading small-group brainstorming activities multiple times. Each time he has led this type of activity he’s gotten positive feedback from participants and the groups have always generated useful ideas. Quite a few of these ideas have already been implemented at his company.
This situation is different from any of the other brainstorming activities Joe’s been involved in before, though. In the past, it’s always been a much more informal setting, usually with peers or his team of direct reports. It’s really important to Joe that he make a good impression on these staff managers. He knows they’ll be judging him and his abilities and any of them could be in a position to make decisions about him that could influence his career in the future. Even more importantly, the work they will be doing can potentially have a significant impact on the company’s future.
When Joe’s manager first talked to him about this, she did make it clear that she selected him specifically because of the valuable outcomes from similar activities that he’s been involved in before. He’s worried, though, that no one will have any good ideas, although he’s never seen that happen. Somehow people always seem to have unique and interesting ideas when he uses his various ideation techniques with them. And while that used to surprise him, he realizes that it doesn’t anymore. Now he typically goes into a brainstorming activity with the expectation that people will come up with great ideas. So why should this be any different?
This situation is different from any of the other brainstorming activities Joe’s been involved in before, though. In the past, it’s always been a much more informal setting, usually with peers or his team of direct reports. It’s really important to Joe that he make a good impression on these staff managers. He knows they’ll be judging him and his abilities and any of them could be in a position to make decisions about him that could influence his career in the future. Even more importantly, the work they will be doing can potentially have a significant impact on the company’s future.
When Joe’s manager first talked to him about this, she did make it clear that she selected him specifically because of the valuable outcomes from similar activities that he’s been involved in before. He’s worried, though, that no one will have any good ideas, although he’s never seen that happen. Somehow people always seem to have unique and interesting ideas when he uses his various ideation techniques with them. And while that used to surprise him, he realizes that it doesn’t anymore. Now he typically goes into a brainstorming activity with the expectation that people will come up with great ideas. So why should this be any different?
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