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Preparing
to Succeed - Charting Your Own Self Development
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Attention New York Engineers:
This course cannot be taken to fulfill your
continuing education requirements in the state of New York since the course does
not fall under the category of "Areas of Practice" or "Law/Ethics".
For more information, check the
New
York State Board Requirements.
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Richard "Dick" Grimes, CPT
Overview
The US Army used to have this slogan: “Be All You Can Be” as a recruiting enticement because it knew many young people really did not have an idea of what their future held - or what they wanted it to hold for them.
Many people feel it is the obligation of their employer to help them develop their career. Human Resource professionals know that employers with strong employee development programs have a distinct advantage in recruiting and retaining talent.
However, employers like that are scare. Employees with drive and self-motivation will not have to wait for their employer to act but can use this course to chart their own self-development.
The concepts presented here will get the learner off to a safe start in developing their career while gaining experience regardless if the organization is public, private, or volunteer. We say “safe” as in avoiding errors that can create problems now or in the future. The model for this course is the typical high school drivers’ education program where (in theory) you learn just enough to start driving safely with minimal risk to yourself and others while you gain knowledge and experience.
Think of this course as an experienced mentor to help them understand the workplace from a position of “been there, done that” to guide their development in a logical sequence of looking inward at themselves before looking outward at the world around them.
While we do not pretend it will guarantee career success, we will promise that the learner will address many of key issues that business authors and thinkers have identified as critical for professional growth. There is a suggested reading list at the end of the course for those who want to get more deeply into the topics presented here.
The student will take a multiple choice quiz of
forty (40) questions to earn PDH credit for this course.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Attained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and
skills:
- List three essential
elements of self-development
- Identify their unique
work-related competencies
- Develop a plan for
building alliances with others
- Explain why traditional
networking is not as effective in career development as is building
alliances
- Examine their behavior
to determine if there are “qualifiers” associated with them that may
restrict career development.
- View their performance
through the eyes of their supervisor looking for improvement opportunities.
- List all of the written
expectations of their job in terms of quality, quantity, and time
- Analyze their daily
performance to determine if they are actually productive or just “busy”
- Identify some clues that
they may not be performing as well in reality as they assumed
- List some unwritten job
expectations their supervisor may have of them
- List some unwritten
expectations their coworkers may have of them
- Explain if they connect
authentically with others
- Analyze themselves to
determine the extent of their orientation toward reality
- Analyze their daily
behavior to discover their potential for self-inflicting wounds
- Analyze their internal
dialogues to determine if they have self-imposed any limitations on their
development
- Analyze their behaviors
to determine how effectively they deal with negative or undesirable events
- Rethink their logical
arguments when they encounter faulty conclusions
- Gauge the impact of
their behavior on others
- View their work
performance from the perspective of a customer service position
- Identify and evaluate
‘moments of truth” in their daily encounters with others
- Identify aspects of
their behavior that are critical to effective interaction with others
- Prioritize those
elements of their behavior to ensure the most successful interaction
- Identify their personal
working style to maximize their effectiveness in the workplace
- Identify clues to other
working styles so they can act flexibly for an effective interaction
- Analyze and modify as
necessary their typical emotional reaction to unsettling events
- Explain the value of
managing their reaction to an event when they cannot control the event
itself
- Explain the value in
maintaining a sense of proportion when encountering disappointment so as not
to harm their career plans
- Lose gracefully and
smartly
- List the key elements
necessary for their personal development plan
- Break out of behavioral
patterns that may be limiting their potential for career growth
- Identify and obtain a
mentor if their employer does not have a formal mentoring program
Course
Click on the link below to review the
Power Point Slide prior to taking a quiz for credit.
Preparing
to Succeed
To obtain PDH credits for this course, you will need to take a quiz for
credit. Click on the link below.
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