Personal Development
Nursing personal development
Profile by Stacy Cardigan Smith (Creative Communications, 2006) Five years into her nursing career, Stephanie Staples was burned out. “I was trying to be everything for everybody and not asking for help. I had the superwoman cape on, ” she says. After graduating from the one-year Nursing program at Red River College in 1985, Staples worked as a geriatric nurse and opened her own in-home foot care business. As terrible as the burnout was, she made the best of it. “It kind of became a catalyst because I changed my life and people started asking me…
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Integrated personal development - a modern alternative to traditional training for individuals and organizational development Modern personal development is more than skills training. It offers useful alternative methods compared to coaching and mentoring too. Effective modern personal development now involves various integrated techniques, theories and behavioural concepts, that extend options around traditional ideas. This article provides examples of modern methods of developing people - enabling real personal growth and change - for individuals…
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A day care centre for pensioners. Socvial care workers in Wales now have an organisation to represent their needs. Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images It s long overdue, but social care workers in Wales now have a voice, an organisation to speak up for them. Unlike nurses and social workers, they did not have a professional body to represent their interests – until now. The Academy of Care Practitioners is the first body of its kind to be established in the UK, and I am expecting it to inspire a network of similar organisations in England…
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An employee development plan can be the compass to a successful career. time image by peter Hires Images from Fotolia.com With the support of leadership and a human resources department that assists employees with reaching their professional goals, an employee development plan can improve your employees’ professional expertise and prepare them for the next career move. The training section of a human resources department is usually responsible for employee training and development. However, the employee’s department manager…
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An employee’s perception of internal growth and development opportunities is one of the more important predictors of employee engagement. Understanding this, we were disappointed to discover, through our latest research, that the employee perception of internal opportunities is the lowest it has ever been. When employees were asked to rate their agreement with the following statement: “This company provides attractive opportunities for growth and development, ” only 57% of employee responses were favorable. This is 20% below the overall engagement…
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PERSONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT Your momentum is power. Where your focus goes your energy flows. Making the conscious commitment to empower yourself by directing your thoughts, energy and focus toward what you most want and the goals you need to achieve is the first step towards creating an extraordinary life. This is why we all need a system — a personal development plan to help ensure we’re taking control of our focus, learning new tools, strategies and psychology to create momentum and produce the results we want. That’s why 50 million people…
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To add to the Cycle Diagram frenzy of my last few months, here’s one for the Personal Project. Although the MYP Projects Guide has one that covers the Community and Personal Projects combined, I wanted to make one to focus on PP alone, and which could be used as a process guide for the Project. It needed to be immediately recognizable as a type of Design Cycle and to be in line with the experimental cycle (and other disciplinary cycles). This is a deliberate effort to promote a design-thinking approach through the programme, as well as to visualize…
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