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Quick Facts

Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Course Overview

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore collaborates with edX to offer a certificate program called Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and Meaning. This course is formulated in a way that helps in crafting the candidate’s work experiences. It connects the information obtained from several areas into a lecture series and practical exercises.

This course is designed for any professional who wishes to create change through an inside-out approach and the focus of this course will be to work on the individual’s models of thinking and beliefs in regards to what they consider as work, success, identity, failure, and career. Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and Meaning certification course benefits the candidate in three levels namely the intellectual, the practical, and the experiential.

The learners can take the programme in two different tracks; the paid and free track. In the free audit track, the candidates will be given access only for a limited time period.

The Highlights

7 weeks of course duration programme
English mode of instruction
100% e-learning course
2 to 4-hour candidate attendance per week
Self-paced learning course type
Free enrolment for a course audit
Verified certificate provided by edX and IIM
Course instructed by IIM-B Faculty, Ramya Ranganathan

Programme Offerings

E-learning video sessions
Video transcripts
assessments
MCQs

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees Informations	Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
INR 12365	yes	IIM Bangalore

Candidates are required to make a fee payment of Rs. 12,365 to enrol in the course.

Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and Meaning

Fee Details	Amount in Rs.
Total fee	Rs. 12,365

Note: If the aspirant is not able to enrol for the course owing to lack of funds, he or she can avail the option to audit this course for free.

Eligibility Criteria

Work experience

Note: Candidates who engaged as an employee in some organization and wish to reinvent their approach to work life.

Education

This certificate Is open to people from all professions and educational backgrounds who have good writing and reading skills in English.

Certification qualifying details

The Online certificate is awarded to those candidates who take part in the assessment or assignments in the form of MCQs and must secure at least 60% in the overall assessment of the candidate in order to be awarded the verified certificate from edX.

What you will learn

Managerial skill

In this Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and Meaning, the candidates will learn the following:

Candidates will learn about crafting reality and the role our mental models play in processing information from the world around us.
The candidate will be able to distinguish between objective and subjective reality.
The candidate will demystify the meaning of success and understand the roles played by society in shaping the definition of success.
The candidate will explore the values that are important for success.
Candidates will learn about the term called “failure”, its effects, perfectionism, the art of resilience, and the tools required to adopt them in order to create a realistic attitude about failure.
Candidates will learn the nature of work and redefine it with purpose.
Candidates learn to leverage emotions and emotional intelligence to see the balance between productivity and happiness. Candidates learn to process negative emotions.
Candidates will learn to create sustainable change with an innovative mindset and integrative thinking.

Who it is for

Human Resource ManagerTeacherLecturerProject ManagerOperations ManagerScrum MasterProduct Manager

Admission Details

The Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and Meaning admission steps are:

Step 1: Visit the link https://courses.edx.org/register

Step 2: Create an account with your name, e-mail, and residence details.

Step 3: After registration, click on the “Enroll: button.

Step 4: There will be two options provided, one for Audit and another for Verified Track,

Step 5: Selected the “Verified” track to pursue the certificate.

Step 6: You will be redirected to the purchase page with the course added to the cart at the following link: https://payment.edx.org/

Step 7: Select the payment method for the programme either through Credit card or Paypal and click on “Place Order” to complete the payment.

The Syllabus

How we make sense of the world around us and our experience in it?
The role of our mental models in the way we process information from the world
Distinguishing between objective and subjective reality
Understanding how confirmation bias can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy

How we define success for ourselves?
The role played by society in shaping our definition of success
Creating an awareness of our personal values to help us navigate this complexity
Decoupling our own dreams from the expectations of other stakeholders in our lives

Understanding the label of failure and the effects it has on us
Exploring the attributes of perfectionism and how to overcome them
Understanding resilience and tools to help us become more resilient
Cultivating a healthy and realistic attitude to failure

Nature and utility of work in everyday life
Introduction to the flow state and its benefits
Crafting a more empowering inner definition of work
Consciously cultivating meaning and purpose in work

The connection between happiness and productivity
Overcoming our innate bias towards the negative and dealing with negative emotions
Shifting our happiness baseline and choosing to play to our strengths
Cultivating emotional intelligence and using mirror neurons to our advantage

Creating and sustaining change
Cultivating an innovation mindset and avoiding generalized conclusions
Digging deeper with Integrative thinking
Savoring the journey and managing personal energy

Instructors

IIM Bangalore Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

1: What is unique about this course?

Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and the Meaning course is self-paced by nature and candidates do not have a rush for a specific time during the day to attend the lectures.

2: Can the student pursue this course certificate for free?

Yes. The candidates can pursue this course for free as an audit free of cost

3: What are the demerits of auditing the course?

Students who audit the course do not get access to work on graded assignments. Candidates should have a good working knowledge of at least one programming language and computer.

4: How much effort does the student need to put for successful course completion?

The course requires the student to dedicate 2 to 4 hours per week for successful progression of the Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and Meaning course from one week to another.

5: What is the certificate required for the candidate?

The participant must have scored at least 60% or more in all the graded assessments in the course.

6: What is the grading policy of the instructor in the course?

Each week’s syllabus has a certain percentage of the total score awarded for the student. Each student must attend all MCQ based assessments to secure a given percentage in a week.

7: Does the candidate need any technical skills for this course?

No. The Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness, and the Meaning course doesn’t require any technical skills and only requires the candidate to have good proficiency in reading and writing the English language.