...Personal Academic Goals Terry Cerami GEN/200 April 7, 2014 Joann Iglinski Personal Academic Goals A key component to achieving success, particularly in academics is goal setting. Goal setting is the process of consciously identifying events in which you desire to transpire in the days, weeks and years ahead of you. As I cast off the mooring lines and get my academic journey underway with the University of Phoenix, I first need to establish goals and incorporate a plan to achieve those goals. Therefore, the three main goals that I have set to assist me in the navigation of my voyage are stress management, time management, and personal responsibility. College students are more stressed out than ever before (Szalavitz, 2011), which is why stress management will be at the forefront thought of every endeavor and evolution while I'm at the University of Phoenix. There is a magnitude of factors in pursuing a college education that contribute to unhealthy levels of stress which may include greater academic demands, increased deadlines, new responsibilities, or even finding yourself in a new diverse environment. Managing these factors is paramount, because when stress becomes overwhelming or we maintain a high level of stress over a prolonged period of time, it can impede on our productivity, alter our moods, affect our relationships, interfere with our quality of life, and most importantly cause a decline in our health. As I anticipate assignment deadlines being the main stressor...
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...Personal Responsibility Gen/200 June 26, 2014 na Personal Responsibility Personal Responsibility is applied when I am self-motivated, I have time management and set personal goals. This will insure academic success. Being self-motivated is the force that drives me to do things. It makes me hold myself accountable for academic success and personal success. Being self-motivated pushes me to achieve my academic goals and pushes me to finish a difficult task. It will help me be sharp and not be influenced by the wrong people, and to be open to positive learning. I will set higher goals than normal people because I am self-motivated. Being self-motivated it will give me the ability to do what needs to be done, without the power or influence from other people. It will give me the strength to complete a task, even when challenging without giving up or someone to encourage me. I will motivate myself not to give up on my academic success, and I will graduate from college. I always told myself that I wanted to go back to school and get a diploma, but I never motivated myself to go back to college. I was always working and taking care of my family, so I always found an excuse not to go back to school. Now that I motivated myself to go back to college, I will not look back and receive my diploma. Self-motivation will be an important factor in my academic success. Having time management is the key to having academic success. Without managing my time due to personal, and work life...
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...Goals Essay Outline This essay is part of the Rainier HS portfolio, which is a graduation requirement. This essay will receive both an English class grade (using the 6-traits rubric) and a completion score in Advisory. When you have completed this essay, you will need to share it through your Google drive with both your advisory teacher and myself. Use this outline to guide your essay. #1 Introductory Paragraph *There will be at least 2 sentences in this paragraph. Why is it important for you to set goals? What type of goals will you address in this essay? #2 Academic Goals Paragraph *There will be at least 9 sentences in this paragraph. Short Term Academic Goal: What is your SMART goal? How is the goal achievable? What will the process be to complete this goal? How will you know that you have accomplished this goal? Long Term Academic Goal: What is your SMART goal? How is the goal achievable? What will the process be to complete this goal? How will you know that you have accomplished this goal? Transition: How will your academic goals help you post-high school? #3 Career Goals Paragraph *There will be at least 9 sentences in this paragraph. Short Term Career Goal: What is SMART goal? How is the goal achievable? What will the process be to complete this goal? How will you know that you have accomplished this goal? Long Term Career Goal: What is SMART goal? How is the goal achievable? What will the process be to complete...
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...Personal Responsibility Correlated to Academic Success Eric P. Morris GEN200 01/28/2012 Professor Aaron J. James Abstract This essay defines personal responsibility, as applied to academic students in college, from a personal perspective. The relationship between personal responsibility and academic success is explored through successful and failed outcomes students experienced from personal choices as well as concepts to maximize academic success. A plan of strategies that students, practicing personal responsibility, could implement to ensure successful accomplishments at the collegiate level is also discussed. Personal Responsibility Correlated to Academic Success There are many elements in the formula to be successful at the collegiate level. The most important of these elements is personal responsibility. Personal responsibility is the awareness that oneself is personally in control of all their successes and failures and their personal motivation determines how much success they will achieve. Every decision a person makes has a consequence. The self-evaluation of ourselves will bring the awareness of the consequences associated with our decisions. This awareness will allow us to make decisions where success will be the only outcome. College success requires persistent motivation, and the responsibility to choose, to work hard. Students are more likely to achieve the motivation required for their academics if they...
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...Personal Responsibility: Only you can hold yourself accountable for academic success. Even though many students believe that they do not need a plan to achieve academic success, planning and goal setting is critical, without having a plan, and setting goals self-accountability for success is difficult. Maintaining a plan to succeed and to hold yourself accountable for both success and failure is the first step in personal responsibility. Students that plan for and take personal responsibility for their education have drastically improved success rate of achieving their educational goals. Personal responsibility is holding yourself accountable for the actions you choose or chose not to take in your pursuit of success. Students that do not take personal responsibility for their success are doomed to fail. Success is a choice and is attained by not only choosing to be successful but by making the correct choices along the way to ensure you are staying on the path to success. Students that take personal responsibility for their education have drastically improved success rate of achieving their academic goals. As a student, you must develop a plan for success and then be self-accountable to using this plan to ensure success. While there may be some outside influences such as Career Advisors, Financial Advisors, Parents, or Employers holding the student accountable to a certain extent, only the student is truly in control of the decisions they make on a day to day basis and lead...
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...Personal Responsibility Everyday individuals live with everlasting responsibilities. Responsibilities are part of everyday life routine. It can be looked at as a way of life. So it would safe to say a way life is having responsibilities that consist of, but not limited to, personal goals, educational success, and financial stability. Personal goals, educational success, and financial stability will be discussed as the main points of personal responsibilities. As everyone is entitled to their own opinion, responsibilities is defined as being able to act independently and make decisions without having someone authorizing it in particular. Personal responsibility refers to responsibility in a sense that one is personally responsible for achieving long-term and short-term goals, educational success, and financial stability. In this instance, long-term goals are considered a responsibility. It would have to be achieved by the person aiming for that long-term goal. A long-term goal may roughly take anywhere from five to ten years, maybe even up to twenty or thirty. If someone long-term goal is intended to be reached between five, ten, twenty or thirty years, it simply becomes a responsibility to make sure that the specific long-term goal is met. A master’s degree can be looked as a long-term goal. In order to achieve that goal, the person responsible must ensure that degree plan is created and carry out the task outlined in that degree plan. In that degree plan may layout some...
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...Personal Responsiblity Personal Responsibility and Academic Success GEN/200 October 12, 2013 Kalene Parker Personal Responsibility and Academic Success To obtain academic success through personal responsibility individuals must take ownership of his or her goals. Prioritizing tasks, such as time management, identifying purpose and goal setting are essential in one’s path to success. Even though there may be outside influences that may change life’s course, personal responsibility is necessary for academic success because every choice made is one’s own responsibility and every individual can decide how to shape he or her future. Personal responsibility is the privilege to make his or her own choices and obligations in life. One would agree with famous author Stephen Covey’s explanation. “Look at the word responsibility - “response-ability” - the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling” (Covey, 1989. Pg81) Personal responsibility...
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...Personal Responsibility Carroll D. Randall Jr. Gen/200 03/09/2013 Mrs. Tina Shaw Knowing what personal responsibility means, its correlation to academic success, and how to use it to become a successful student. Personal responsibility means holding yourself accountable for you own actions; in the interest of your life and the direction you are headed. Failure to complete an assignment. By accepting the fact that the assignment was not complete because of your own negligence, is an example of self-accountability. Personal responsibility also means discipline, having the intestinal fortitude to do what needs to be done even when you do not feel like it. Staying focused on the tasks at hand and by not being easily distracted by thing of less importance shows discipline. Personal responsibility and college success go hand in hand. How you handle life’s personal responsibilities directly affects how you approach your academic responsibilities. If your academic success is driven by the motivation of family you are less likely to be irresponsible to your academic obligations, for the simple fact that you already deal with a major personal responsibility of taking care of your family. Which in turn makes you more likely to become a successful student and not prone to outside influences. Students with no personal responsibility are more likely to be irresponsible. Student who possess the character trait of perseverance are less likely to participate in activities of...
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...Personal Responsibility is Essential for Success John Smith Gen 200 January 25, 2014 Professor Charles Shapiro Lack of personal responsibility will keep some people from achieving goals and dreams. Personal responsibility creates the foundation for success, successful behaviors, and not being dependent on others for success. Some people will blame other individuals or circumstances that may arise instead of their deficient level of personal responsibility for their lack of success. Three main components of personal responsibility that are the core to achieving academic success are time management, stress management, and health. Without following these few key points academics can be more of a challenge than it should be. Taking responsibility for one’s actions is the first step towards building a solid foundation for one’s success. It is likely that one will make some wrong choices, but it is in making wrong decisions that create opportunities to learn valuable lessons. When one admits to being wrong, it creates a vulnerability that is needed to grow in decision-making. Being honest is what will set one free to be able to learn more about one’s self and to become better. Ellis (2011) found “ The principle of telling the truth is applied universally by people who want to turn their lives around” (p. 25). All of these self-evaluation practices will be ineffective without taking action. It is like having a combination to a lock and never using the combination to open that...
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...FDA Business and Human Resource Management Learning and Development in Practice Personal Development Plan Marc Richardson 30084655 Contents Introduction 3 Assessment of Self 3 Skills Audit 3 Swot Analysis 4 Areas of Skill Development 4 Long and Short Term Goals 5 Conclusion 5 Appendix 6 Introduction This is my personal development report and within the content of this I will show how I have identified weaknesses that I need to work on and how I can monitor the progression of improvement within these chosen areas. I will also look at how I can implement changes to my personal, academic & personal skills to help me develop them too. Assessment of Self At the start of my journey of personal development I undertook a simple ‘Assessment of Self’ task to briefly establish what and why I wanted to improve my skills. This was in the way of a few questions…..Goals, Barriers etc. (Appendix 1). I then moved on to a more in depth way of assessment through a skills audit which helped me to identify my strengths and weaknesses and what I could improve on. Skills Audit The skills audit (Appendix 2) was a process of questions around different communication...
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...Academic and Personal Success is our own Responsibility GEN/200 17 June 2012 Teresa Sanders Academic and Personal Success is our own Responsibility Personal responsibility is taking liability for actions, accepting the penalties that come from those actions and accepting that what he or she do influences those around. Societal, individual, and academic triumph is all-dependent on accommodating responsibility. Personal responsibility also entails the ability of a person wisely responding to the numerous challenges and situations of life. How well we manage time, stress, and the commitment to the main goal will affect the outcome of any situation. As a first step in taking accountability for actions is to manage your time successfully. Time management is an important tool when completing goals that have time limits and constraints. Realistic goals should be set when managing the time it will take to complete each task. An example is; when you are a working and going to school full-time. You must take into consideration your work schedule, studying, assignments due, and making sure, you have time to rest so that you can remain focused. Victory in college is about superior time management. Good time management is a tricky skill to learn. Many students have not had the chance to apply time management in secondary education. During their high school years, many students have not needed to handle their time vigilantly – it has to be prepared for them. Coursework in...
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...Personal Development Planning Report Academic Skills for Business BUSN07020 B00235825 Tutor: Heather Anderson Word count: 2038 Table of Content 1. Introduction 2 2. Personal Development Planning 3 2.1. Benefits of Personal Development Planning 3 2.2. What is Personal Development Planning? 3 3. Personal Goals 4 3.1. What are SMART-Goals? 4 3.2. Goals which I set for myself 5 4. Developing Learning, Academic and Business Skills 5 4.1. Active Learning 6 4.2. Learning Styles 6 4.3. My strengths and weaknesses in learning 6 5. Personal Development Plan and completion of e-portfolio 7 5.1. My evidence so far 7 5.2. Employability 7 6. Conclusion 7 7. References 8 Introduction This report is going to highlight how important Personal Development Planning in an academic and professional environment is and the affects it will have on me during my university degree. Throughout this report I will be looking at the background knowledge I have of PDP and how I have developed my business and academic skills in my first trimester. PDP is extremely helpful in aiding you in developing skills you already possess or require when it becomes obligatory to be responsible for your own learning, your personal development and your advancement into the world of work. “The kind of jobs that most graduates want to enter requires a range of qualities and skills that take time, support and good planning to develop” (Cottrell, 2003) which is...
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... Date March 1, 2013 Academic Advisors and Undergraduate Personal Development Coaching After you have watched the videos, answer the questions below: Academic Advisors 1. The video on Academic Advising lists six topics that you might discuss with your advisor. What are these six topics? • Goal development • Personal education plans • Course selection • Registration • Policies and procedures • Locating information on financial aid, tutoring, and other student services 2. Make a list of questions you may have for your advisor related to at least three of the topics you listed in question 1. (Though not part of this assignment, you ought to consider making an appointment to speak to your advisor about these questions or any others you may have). • I want to teach ESOL eventually, will I need another English course in addition to COMM 150, which I will take next semester? • I have been charged for the PF 121 course, but I understood this would be free as I work at CSCC; how can I adjust my account? • Will I ever have to attend Franklin even though I am an online student? • What recreational facilities does Franklin University provide for students? Undergraduate Personal Development Coaching 1. In your own words, how would you describe a coach’s primary function? The primary function of a coach is to assist the student in consolidating their academic goal(s) through the development of self-responsibility...
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...University of Phoenix Material Academic Success Answer each question below in at least 75 words per question, reflecting on your current abilities, and identify resources to strengthen your skills. Refer to the videos, readings, and other weekly assignments to help you compose your answers. |Question |Your reflection | |How would you define academic |I would describe academic readiness as all of the the steps it takes to be ready for your | |readiness? |academic classes. Success requires smart goals this means you can't get to where you want to be| | |unless you know where you are going. Time management is also a step that you need for academic | | |readiness. Managing your time and setting a goal for how long it needs to take to reach your | | |goal. Last but not least putting fourth the effort to make it happen. It might get hard | | |sometimes but you got to keep working towards your goal. | |What concerns, if any, do you have |I really don't have a problem with academic reading or writing , because I need the writing | |with academic writing and reading? |skills to help me learn the the right techniques...
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...PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING REPORT BUSN07020 ACADEMIC SKILLS FOR BUSINESS DIANNE LYLE - B00259359 BRENDA HUGHES WORD COUNT: 2170 30 NOVEMBER 2013 TABLE OF CONTENT 1. Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 2. Personal Development Planning ………………………………………………………………………………… 4 3. SWOT Analysis ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5 4. The Benefits of Personal Development Planning …………………………………………………………. 6 4.1 Benefits of PDP to Academic Performance ……………………………………………………….. 6 4.2 Benefits of PDP to Professional Life …………………………………………………………………. 6 4.3 Benefits of PDP to Personal Life ………………………………………………………………………. 6 5. Personal SMART Goals ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 7 6. Developing Learning, Academic & Business Skills ………………………………………………………… 8 6.1 Learning Styles ………………………………………………………………..……………………………. 8 6.2 Active Learning ……………………………..………………………………………………………………. 8 6.3 Effective Business Skills ……………………………..…………………………………………………… 9 7. Conclusion ………………………………….………………………….…………………………………………….. 10 References ………………………………….…………………………………………………………………………………. 11 Appendix ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 12 1. INTRODUCTION This report on Personal Development Planning (PDP) is being written to outline how important PDP is in both an academic and professional environment and also how it affects University students during their time at University and also as they progress into their future careers. Within the...
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