...Career Plan Activities Reflection Career Plan Activities Reflection As part of the requirement for the completion of University of Phoenix’s Management class (MGT/521), I had to start my career plan by completing the career interest profiler, competencies, work culture preferences, and the reasoning aptitudes assessments (Phoenix Career Services). The next steps I will take to complete my career plan are to list the skills that I desire and seek training, and keep my knowledge up-to-date in my field. As part of the process of achieving my career goals, I have decided to pay special attention to the taking initiative and leading aspects of my career plan. My personality assessment results indicated that I possess an introvert personality (University of Phoenix, 2013). It can sometimes be difficult to express my thoughts to others but taking these steps will help me feel more comfortable with the interaction with others and with the exposure of my recommendations and ideas. It will also help me take the initiative in certain projects, and ultimately be a better leader, which are important qualities that a manager must possess to efficiently lead a group of employees. Based on the results of the competencies survey (University of Phoenix, 2013), to complete successfully the courses that follow I need to focus on organizing and strategizing the required tasks. This will help me manage my time efficiently and will ensure that I complete assignments correctly and on a...
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..."Career Plan Reflection Paper" Shelley Bonner BCOM 275/ Business Communication and Critical Thinking February 26, 2014 Lynda Sohl "Career Plan Reflection Paper" The My Career Plan program and individual assignments were intended to help me develop a strategy for my career goals. The process revealed my career interests, competencies, work culture preferences, and thinking style. It also helped me identify strengths and weaknesses that will be key throughout my career. My interest profiler results were realistic, conventional, and social. Although I did not agree with most of the job titles listed, I definitely identified with the interests. Realistic occupations regularly involve practical activities, hands-on problems, and solutions. Conventional occupations follow set procedures and routines, and social occupations work with, communicate with, and teach people. The BCOM 275 program has provided me with many practical applications I can use to attain my career interest goals. During the career competencies exercise, I received 4 of 5 marks in the areas of adapting to change, writing, and logical thinking. I received only 3 of 5 marks for organizing, strategizing, delivering results. Although the exercise helped me validate traits I “thought I had,” it also made me realize there is much I need to improve. My work culture preference results were ethical, high powered, and supportive. These outcomes revealed my desire to be in a demanding, secure, and fair work...
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...Career Plan Reflection Mabi Verduzco BCOM 275 October 23, 2014 Linda Doyle Career Plan Reflection The career plan building activities proved to be a very useful tool. The work culture preference survey results indicated the type of work culture that I prefer, which is high-powered, competitive, and leadership intensive. The competencies, reasoning aptitude, and career interest profiler surveys provided additional information to consider. The combined results provide an interpretation of the type of work culture that I see as ideal, the most suitable career fields, and the types of work environments I prefer. I am open to new information and ideas and the survey results did not seem to be too far off from what I would consider to be my true career goals and desires. I think the surveys provided insight to aspects of my career I had not given much thought to before this course. This course (BCOM/275) discussed many important aspects of communication verbal and nonverbal, cross-cultural communication, and barriers to effective communication to name a few. One aspect in the forefront of my mind is communication also takes place within different contexts like physical, chronological, and functional, to name a few, but the cultural context (corporate culture) applies directly to the surveys and results discussed earlier. Choosing the proper job that corresponds with my interests and ideal work culture can lead to more personal satisfaction. BCOM/275 provides ideas about proper...
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...Career Plan Reflection Paper B/COMM 275 Oct 6, 2014 Steven Johnson Career Plan Reflection The My Career Plan program and individual assignments were intended to help me develop a strategy for my career goals. The process revealed my career interests, competencies, work culture preferences, and thinking style. It also helped me identify strengths and weaknesses that will be key throughout my career. My interest profiler results were realistic, conventional, and social. Although I did not agree with most of the job titles listed, I definitely identified with the interests. Realistic occupations regularly involve practical activities, hands-on problems, and solutions. Conventional occupations follow set procedures and routines, and social occupations work with, communicate with, and teach people. The BCOM/275 program has provided me with many practical applications I can use to attain my career interest goals. During the career competencies exercise, I received 4 of 5 marks in the areas of adapting to change, writing, and logical thinking. I received only 3 of 5 marks for organizing, strategizing, delivering results. Although the exercise helped me validate traits I “thought I had,” it also made me realize there is much I need to improve. My work culture preference results were ethical, high powered, and supportive. These outcomes revealed my desire to be in a demanding, secure, and fair work environment that promotes personal development and...
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...A++PAPER;http://www.homeworkproviders.com/shop/mgt-521-week-3/ MGT 521 WEEK 3 MGT 521 Week 3 MGT 521 Week 3,MGT 521 Week 3 Career Plan Building Activity Reasoning Aptitude,MGT 521 week 3 organizational planning,Week 3 Quiz, Reflection A++ GRADED!!! Navigate to the My Career Plan in Phoenix Career Services through the My Career Plan link. Complete the Career Plan Building Activity: Reasoning Aptitude. Review the Reasoning Aptitude results page. Add tips to your career plan by selecting the opportunities tab and click the “tips” next to the competency you want to add to your career plan. Click the “my career plan” tab on top of your page to view your populated career plan. Write a paper of no more than 350 words discussing the results of your Career Plan Building Activity: Reasoning Aptitude. What do your results tell you about your individual thinking style or your thought process range? How does knowing this information and your Competencies and Work culture Preferences help you to understand how work is done in teams? What adjustments can you make to your own teamwork style based on your Career Plan Building Activities? Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. 2- Review the example SWOT Analyses located in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings to see the types of information companies include. Complete the following tasks in the University of Phoenix Material: Organizational Planning Worksheet. Cite your resources...
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...Career Plan Reflection BCOM/275 3 November 2014 Bruce McEwan, Ph.D. Career Plan Reflection I found the Career Plan Building Activity to be both helpful and trivial. There were 4 segments in this survey tool and I noticed dead accurate results on the first two but the remaining two seemed illogical and contradictory. The Career Interests Profiler segment results showed I would excel in any technical field to include engineering, law and technical sales. I could definitely understand the results and the questions in the survey seemed to be logical and presented in a way to which I wasn’t forced to contradict myself as I would see in a later segment. The Competencies segment was also logical and I would agree with the findings. It showed strengths in the areas of taking initiative, coping with pressure, applying expertise, writing, researching and presenting. I do hold myself to a high standard in all of those categories and already consider those some of my strengths. Under the Work Culture Preference section I found the questions to be trivial and the restrictions on how the answers were to be submitted forced me to directly contradict previous answers. There were a great number of questions repeated but due to the compound questions and the format in which they were presented I found myself frustrated and unable to accurately answer. An example is similar to having the user choose their single favorite and single least favorite among three choices: dogs, leadership...
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...MGT 521 WEEK 3 To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/mgt-521-week-3/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM MGT 521 WEEK 3 MGT 521 Week 3 Career Plan Building Activity Reasoning Aptitude,MGT 521 week 3 organizational planning,Week 3 Quiz, Reflection A++ GRADED!!! Navigate to the My Career Plan in Phoenix Career Services through the My Career Plan link. Complete the Career Plan Building Activity: Reasoning Aptitude. Review the Reasoning Aptitude results page. Add tips to your career plan by selecting the opportunities tab and click the “tips” next to the competency you want to add to your career plan. Click the “my career plan” tab on top of your page to view your populated career plan. Write a paper of no more than 350 words discussing the results of your Career Plan Building Activity: Reasoning Aptitude. What do your results tell you about your individual thinking style or your thought process range? How does knowing this information and your Competencies and Work culture Preferences help you to understand how work is done in teams? What adjustments can you make to your own teamwork style based on your Career Plan Building Activities? Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. 2- Review the example SWOT Analyses located in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings to see the types of information companies include. Complete the following tasks in the University of Phoenix Material: Organizational Planning...
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...My chosen career is to become a Social Worker dealing with kids and their families. I have so much love for kids that I just want to see smiles on their faces. I want to start as a Social Worker and work my way up to become a Child Protective Specialist. Becoming a CPS would mean a lot to me because it will make me help kids get out of harm that is caused by parents or guardians. It also will make me feel better knowing that some kids are going to sleep safe at night and trying to live a normal life. The strengths that I bring to this career are a strong and open mind, work efficient, and can work under pressure. Having these strengths makes me more valuable because my supervisor would be able to see the kind of person that I am and will value my work. They would see that I can be able to handle cases on my own and hopefully get promoted to a higher position. The opportunities that I would make for myself improvement to allow me to be more valuable in the workplace would be to sometimes think outside the box and understand my clients with a better and clearer understanding. The opportunities that I look forward to is getting to help kids and hopefully landing a supervisor position with New York City ACS Agency. The result of my Ethical Lens Inventory was that my personal preferred Lens was None – periscope and Paralysis. This means that I see the gifts and weaknesses of each lens and I am able to move smoothly among them to adopt the right tools to each situation to get the best...
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...|[pic] |Syllabus | | |College of Humanities | | |US/101 Version 7 | | |Introduction to University Studies | Copyright © 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description The essential information, skills, tools, and techniques necessary for academic success and personal effectiveness at University of Phoenix are introduced in this course. The course develops and applies practical knowledge and skills immediately relevant to first-year university students. Course topics include goal setting and working with personal motivation, understanding and using university resources, developing efficient study habits, making the most of personal learning styles, and how best to manage time and reduce personal stress levels. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view...
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...Ethical Lens Inventory Reflection Regina Howard US/101 May 26, 2013 Ruthann Vaughan Ethical Lens Inventory Reflection The results of my Ethical Lens Inventory Reflection said that I can see the values and weaknesses of each lens. I am able to move through each lens fluidly and adapt the right tools to each situation to get the best outcome. According to my Core Values of Autonomy and Equality, I understand the value of protecting individual rights. I also understand the well-being of a community working together. I know how to combine the two in order to get the best outcome. The Core Values of Rationality and Sensibility allows me to see the uniqueness of each situation. I know that sometimes there are exceptions to the rules or guidelines. I use my reasoning and sensibility skills to determine the greatest good for everyone. The Ethical Lens Inventory Reflection went on to describe that I do not make assumptions on how or why a person may act the way they do or how things need to be done. It stated that I define an ethical person as one who does the right thing. I hold a high standard for myself, but do not judge others who fall short as long as their intentions were honorable. I am comfortable using my critical thinking skills to come up with a solution. In knowing the results of my Ethical Lens Inventory Reflection, I can draw from my strengths academically and professionally. Academically, it shows what type of learning is best suited for me. Professionally...
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...Career Exploration Reflection Paper Patricia Rolin BCOM/275 July 20, 2015 Randall Savely Career Exploration Reflection Paper I have learned a good deal about my communication skills throughout this course and by completing the Career Plan Building Activities. My career goal is to be in upper management, preferably in a field that deals with animals, such as an animal hospital manager, veterinary office manager; etcetera. I know I will use what I have learned in this course at some point in my career. Processing excellent communication skills will be vital to my success. The Career Plan Building Activities made me realize I have strengths in the areas of coping with pressure, delivering result, following instructions, and adapting to change. These strengths will help me to be an excellent leader and encourage employees to do their best to deliver positive results for the company. I will be able to handle any circumstance and make beneficial and effective decisions. I will have to make sure I am thinking critically when evaluating arguments. I know how to recognize fallacies and can judge the validity and credibility of the source. The activities also help me realize my strengths and weaknesses when it comes to communicating. Communication is the key to any successful business. I know how vital it is to have a clear understanding when communicating. When sending messages, I have to make sure they are able to be decoded and seek feedback to ensure both I, and my receiver...
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...1.0 Introduction In accordance with the Personal Development Planning (PDP) Plan I have made in the first assignment, there are three goals I have established in this PDP Plan, which are Goal 1- Academic development, Goal 2 – Personal development and Goal 3 – Career development. In order to set these goals achievable, I have pre-determined some measurement methods named “how will I measure goal success?” in the form of PDP Plan. Indispensible, I have also planned some activities to assist and ensure the achievement of these goals. After two months development in practice, I would like to express my goals achievement in this reflection essay. By doing so, I will add-on unplanned activities which I have performed into my PDP, and then make comments to all activities either planned or unplanned. In further, I will also state reflections on goal attainment. By the end of this reflection essay, I will expand these three goals into a further step, which for me to achieve in future. 2.0 Personal Development Planning 3.1 Explanation of PDP I am all the way talking about PDP, I feel it’s necessary to explain what is PDP based on my own understanding. PDP (Personal development Planning) is a supported and structured progress which undertaken by individual (me) to reflect upon my own performance or achievement in the elements of academic, personal, and career development. The progress of PDP embraces many approaches to learning that connect planning (establish the goal or...
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...Reflection BCOM/275 Reflection Based on the career plan building activities that I have done throughout this course, I am heading in the right path. My ultimate goal is to become a manager or supervisor in the near future either in nutrition or information technology department. To be able to apply to any of those positions, I must acquire a bachelor’s degree or currently attending an accredited school. The results from the reasoning exercise, I can set an example for others at what I do best, which are delivering results, adapting to change, following instructions, organizing, and leading (University of Phoenix, 2011). Areas where I can expand and hone in on are persuading, networking, presenting, writing, researching, innovating, and applying expertise (University of Phoenix, 2011). The career interests profiler and competencies practice has shown me areas in which my skills will prevail. Being able to work and help others is what I love to do. It has always been centered on customer service. The process of breaking things down to where it is understandable and to apply critical thinking skills will create a better work environment. The work culture exercise has helped me define the career roles that I am more likely suited for. In one of the readings during this class mentioned, “homophily may cause leaders to focus on a few cues when making key decisions and to discount dissenting opinions. Without an incentive to challenge one another, the company’s top leaders are...
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...MGT 3302 Interactive Skills Workshop for Business – S02 Name: LIU Ling Chun SID: 52572903 Action Plan 1. Self-awareness First of all, I would like to increase my self-awareness. In order to achieve this, I plan to actively participate in more extra-curricular activities. I expect myself to join at least five activities before my graduation from university. Meanwhile, I would like to nurture a new habit which is writing self-reflection after participating in each activity. The content of the self-reflection will focus on my performance during the activity, such as whether I did well and if there were any rooms that I could improve. An action plan for each reflection will also be developed so that I can make improvement immediately. Also, I will take the initiative to ask different people to provide feedback after the activity. It is important to get feedback from others because it enables me to know where I am in terms of quality performance. Besides, I will try to have self-disclosure to the people that I trust. I will start with my best friends first by chatting with them during social gathering. In the meanwhile, I plan to spend more time with my friend from the university before my graduation. At least I will stay with them when I am in the campus. Therefore, our relationship should be enhanced and I can know more about myself from them. Most importantly, I can use the self-disclosure with them later on. 2. Listening skills By becoming a better listener, it...
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...Ethical Lens Inventory Reflection Introduction to University Studies/101 September 08, 2013 Angie Dorrell Ethical Lens Inventory Reflection The results in the Ethical Lens Inventory and Career Plan Building Activity: Reasoning Aptitude both worked in concert to give me an overall view of my moral and ethical outlook in an academic and professional capacity. I utilized these two test to aid in fortifying my strengths and recognizing and building on my weakness. The Ethical Lens Inventory (ELI) determined my preferred lens as Rights and Responsibilities and my Core Values as Autonomy and Rationality/Sensibility. Combined these results state the truth of the range of my moral capacity. ELI summarizes my definition of ethical behavior as one who fulfills their duties as an individual and responsible adult who makes responsible choices that benefit the community. I am an individual first and part of the community second, but in all things I seek truth, justice, fairness, and equality. The Your Gift section of the Inventory best describes my view of what everybody should bring to any situation, Self-Knowledge and Free Will. I use my resources and skills to gather and verify information and truth for myself and use it in accordance with what is right and true. Every coin has two sides. The Inventory’s negative traits state I’m can become greedy or judgmental and in my quest to my “Responsible Self” I could face failure, exhaustion, and a lack of satisfaction in the goals...
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