Personal Development
Counselling personal development group
Staring at my shoes – The Power of Personal Development Groups, I am an expert on Doctor Martens shoes, I should be – I spent enough time looking down at them in my first Personal Development group back in 2. Like most students (I Guess), it took me some time to understand what the purpose of a process group was, and more to the point what part I played in it. The first few weeks were quite uncomfortable, I remember asking the tutor what the purpose of this was, only to get the reply “whatever you want it to be”, it felt like I was in a game where…
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What s so useful about charisma? Charisma is closely related to assertiveness, which we all need, if only for defensive reasons. Charisma is not just about showing off. Charisma enables us to influence (and inspire) others, and also to influence our external environment, which from time to time we all need to do - even the introverts among us. Time management, for example, crucially depends on managing our environment and the expectations of others. If you want to build a business, lead a team, be a teacher or a trainer or a speaker, or maybe enter…
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What is Personal Development Planning (PDP)? The four key ingredients for students personal development planning in HE are: planning (individual students setting goals for learning and development); experiences (that are selected to achieve goals); recording (of the thoughts, ideas and experiences that make up learning); reflecting (review and evaluation of the process and products of learning, and revision of goals). In their guidelines for Personal Development Planning, the QAA define PDP as: A structured and supported process undertaken by…
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Director of Programming and Innovation Editor s Note: Today s blogger is Dr Joseph Durlak, lead author of a recent study, The Impact of Enhancing Students Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions,published in the January-February 2011 issue of Child Development. Joe Durlak At a time when pressures on educators to improve students academic achievement seem to have reached a boiling point, one program category, social and emotional learning, has produced academic gains that equal the results of many…
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Aptus Personal Development Consultants provides international financial training. Our training programmes in the UK and overseas include IFRS training, UK GAAP training, effective leadership training and business, personal and management skills training courses. We provide in house bespoke company training and large public event and conference presentations worldwide covering all aspects of IFRS and financial training. IFRS Training We provide highly effective, bespoke IFRS training courses for organisations and conferences in the UK and overseas
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Unite for Youth is a nonprofit agency providing mentoring programs for middle and high school youth in the Greater Claremont area. The program will form partnerships with local school districts and the juvenile court system. Unite for Youth s goal is to foster a commitment to young people that will promote pro-social friendships, strong interpersonal skills, and reassert a sense of hope in the future. Only through personal relationships can a sense of individual responsibility be reestablished that will give youth the commitment to follow through…
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The Framework for a Mentoring Process No doubt you and your mentor spent the majority of your first meeting getting to know each other and developing your Mentoring Partnership Agreement. The form that a mentoring contract or agreement takes is not as important as its contents and its intent. Although a formal contract is not necessary, the very act of putting something in writing can help the partners better understand what the relationship is to accomplish, and agree on the practicalities of how it will actually work. Planning puts our goals into…
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