Personal Development
Personal development and Lifelong learning
The Center for Professional Development offers non-academic credit courses for professional and personal development. The Center sponsors workshops, seminars, institutes, and conferences. The Center awards credit in the form of Continuing Education Units (CEUs), Certificates of Completion, and Certificates of Attendance. In collaboration with other units and agencies, the Center offers Social Work Units to licensed social workers, School Executive Management Institute (SEMI) credits to school administrators, and other non-academic credit units sponsored…
read moreGood personal development objectives
Once you have collected your 360 degree feedback or run your performance review, it s time to define new objectives and start working towards them. While you re at it, share your objectives to inspire others, and check out other people s objectives to learn from them! By the time the next performance review comes around you ll have a neat collection of your objectives, your notes and your progress available. Setting up your own objectives Just click the Objectives menu item on the left. You will see all the objectives for the current quarter (or…
read moreBooks on personal development Planning
What is a Strategic Plan and Why Do you Need One? The joy of a life well lived - our work well done, our cherished ones well loved, our potential realized. Isn’t that what we’re all after? You don’t need to leave your dreams to chance. However, achieving this most fundamental and often elusive goal doesn’t just happen. It requires a strategy. To create a meaningful plan, you need a structured approach that guides you, step by step, through the process of defining your most important goals and what you can do to achieve them. The Joy of Strategy…
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Play to Win We all begin each new year with good intentions, but you know what they say about the road to hell. Most lawyers will have some marketing and business development goals and objectives in mind. However, such goals often tend to be aspirational and lacking in specificity — things like “make partner, ” “generate more referrals” or “increase my visibility.” So, to give you a leg up in the New Year, I have outlined what would be excellent goals for any lawyer, along with some specific ideas to help you make progress against them. Aspirations…
read moreCounselling training personal development
For weekend and Saturday workshops please go to the Workshops & Groups page or contact Jill Reynolds (BAT trainer). You can also join BAT on Facebook. Download details of the Advanced Certificate and Diploma in Adlerian Counselling courses run by BAT. Further information can be found at Bucks Adlerian Training s website. Cambridge Adlerian Training (Cambridgeshire) • Introduction to Counselling This course runs termly, introducing counselling skills and some personal development. This course, or one similar, is a pre-requisite to enter the…
read moreWhat is personal development and Leadership?
This is part one of a two-part series. Look for the second installment on January 27, 2015. Introduction: Leadership in its simplest form is defined as the ability to influence, but what one influences depends on the level one occupies in an organization. As a person moves up the leadership hierarchy, it is vital to work on transformation in mindset and cognitive power. This change has a high probability of bringing behavioral change. On the contrary, if someone has already reached the position of enterprise leadership and needs a behavioral intervention…
read morePersonal development Word search
When I was younger, I wanted to be a teacher. I loved learning and being in a place where others wanted to learn. I went to college to be a teacher, but quickly realized that while I loved kids and the idea of teaching, there were other career avenues that interested me more. That’s why I love working in higher education so much—it’s the best of both worlds. Last week, I had the chance to teach as I co-hosted St. Lawrence University’s #SaintsGoSocial Digital Identity Education Week, along with Chris Wells, the head coach of our women’s ice hockey…
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