Skills for Success : [electronic book] : Personal Development and Employability /
By: Cottrell, Stella.
Series: Bloomsbury Study Skills Ser: Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021, (2022)Edition: 4th ed.Description: 1 online resource (434 p.).ISBN: 9781352011609.Subject(s): Success in business![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library eBook | 650.1 COT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available Online | Single User |
Published by Red Globe Press in 2021, reprinted by Bloomsbury in 2022.
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Companion site materials -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Introducing Skills for Success -- Getting started -- Skills for Success: the approach -- How to use Skills for Success -- Overview of the chapters -- About the companion site -- Part 1. Self-management -- 1. Taking charge of your future -- Getting started with Personal Development Planning (PDP) -- 'PDP': What is it? -- PDP as a process -- Personal development involves ... -- Why PDP matters for students -- PDP: what students say
PDP: what graduates say -- PDP in employment -- Managing the challenges -- Identify personal benefits of PDP -- Do I need PDP? Self-evaluation -- What are my PDP priorities? -- Priorities whilst a student -- Take a rounded approach to PDP -- Make the commitment to your PDP -- Take and make opportunities -- Review: Taking charge of your future -- 2. The vision: what does success mean to you? -- Defining success -- Values -- Which values? -- Testing our values -- Inspiration -- Clarifying the vision -- The long-term vision -- Achieve the vision: set interim goals
Personal investment: benefits and costs of achieving goals -- Sustaining the motivation to achieve -- Ingredients of success: learning from CEOs -- Ingredients of success -- for goals -- Attributes associated with success -- Attributes needed to achieve your goal -- Congruence and integrity -- Does it all add up? -- Review: The vision -- 3. Know yourself -- Develop your own narrative -- Themes in your tale -- Yourself as Hero -- Identify your personal caricature -- Choices -- Your top forty and significant seven -- Your learning history -- What helps you to learn? -- Responding to setbacks
Drawing on your expertise -- Personal expertise metaphor: examples -- Applying your expertise -- Review: Know yourself -- 4. Improving your personal performance -- Achieving more -- Personal performance and 'SHAPES' -- Changing SHAPES -- Find your SHAPES for academic study -- Rate yourself: habits and attitudes -- Rate yourself: preferences and experience -- Rate yourself: strategies -- Map your SHAPES profile -- Use your SHAPES profile -- Performance Factors 1: Structure -- Performance Factors 2: External direction -- Performance Factors 3: Social -- Performance Factors 4: Sensory stimulus
Performance Factors 5: Global or serial -- Performance Factors 6: Pressure -- Performance Factors 7: Approach -- Performance Factors 8: Sensory mode -- Performance Factors 9: Well-being -- Personal Performance Profile -- Identify significant features -- Personal Performance Formula (PPF) -- Name it! Test it! -- Test your Personal Performance Formula (PPF): Task 1 -- Test your Personal Performance Formula (PPF): Task 2 -- Test what works for you -- Apply your PPF -- Review: Improving your personal performance -- 5. Successful self-management -- Aspects of self-management -- Take the initiative