About this companion site
This companion website for Skills for Success provides a bank of resources for your personal use. You can use these to:
- record and collate key personal information, evaluations and reflections
- set personal priorities
- create detailed action plans for tasks or for professional development
- track and monitor progress on tasks
- track and monitor your progress towards personal and professional goals
- prepare for job interviews
- follow up recommended links to further reading, information, podcasts, talks, videos, practice materials, activities and other resources.
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 14 | Chapter 15
Chapter 1 - Taking charge of your future
1. Do I need personal development planning? Self-evaluation
2. What are my PDP priorities?
3. Priorities whilst a student. What do I want to gain from my time at university/ college?
Chapter 2 - The Vision: What does ‘success’ mean to you?
4. The long-term vision
5. Evaluate whether your PDP goals are SMART-F
6. Personal Action plan for PDP
7. Benefits and costs of achieving your goal
8. Attributes needed to achieve your goal
9. Does it all add up?
Chapter 3 - Know yourself
10. Top 40 strong points
11. 7 significant changes
12. Using your personal expertise
13 & 14. The impact of choices: The road walked and the road unwalked
Chapter 4 - Improving your personal performance
15 & 16. Find your SHAPES for academic study: Snap profile, and Rate yourself for skills, habits, attitudes, preferences, experience and strategies
17. Map your SHAPES profile
18. Your Personal Performance Profile
19. Identify significant features of your Personal Performance Formula (PPF)
20. Your Personal Performance Formula (PPF)
21. Your Personal Performance Formula (PPF) for Task 1
22. Your Personal Performance Formula (PPF) for Task 2
Chapter 5 - Successful Self-management
23. Learning from mistakes
24. Attitude to challenge
25. Identifying your sources of support
26. Student day planner
Chapter 6 - People skills
27. Balloon game
28. Changing a recurring situation
29. Monitoring my effectiveness in improving my people skills
Chapter 7 - Teamwork
30. What I can contribute
Chapter 8 - Develop your leadership capacity
31. Step up to responsibility
32. In the role of leader
Chapter 13 - What do employers really want?
See Competence Sheets on:
- Written communication
- Oral communication
- Leadership
- Persuading others
- Negotiating a compromise
- Commercial awareness
- Managing a difficult situation
- Working independently
- Exercising responsibility
- Problem-solving
- Project or task management
- Working under pressure or to tight deadlines
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