Monthly Archives: December 2014

Decision making steps
• Identify the three types of decision making styles

Activity One
• use the “Eight Steps to Decision Making” method
• Discuss your answers and how you achieved them (eight steps)

Activity Two
• Go through the process with the class

Problem solving worksheet

Handouts
1. Eight steps to decision making
2. Problem solving worksheet

Goal setting quiz – do it at home and print out your results!
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/goal-setting-quiz.htm

Today we are doing Goal setting

Goal setting golden rules
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_90.htm

Goal setting mistakes
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/goal-setting-mistakes.htm

Personal goal setting
http://www.mindtools.com/page6.html
• starting to set personal goals
• step 1: setting lifetime goals – choose a goal from each of the following areas: career financial, education, family, artistic attitude, physical, pleasure, public service
• Set lifetime goals in each area, then break them down into smaller segments
• Set five year goal
• Set one-year goal
• Set six-month goal
• Set one-month goal
• Set one-week goal
• step 2: setting smaller goals – prioritized to-do lists

Handouts
1. To-do lists http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_05.htm
2. Wheel of life diagram http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_93.htm

2014-15 Planning 10 – day 24
Careers – co-ops
http://www.youth.gc.ca/eng/blog/2014/coop_benefits.shtml
Co-op programs
Co-op – SFU
http://www.sfu.ca/coop.html

Arts – UBC
http://artscoop.ubc.ca/
Arts co-op student profile:
http://artscoop.ubc.ca/2014/03/17/eva-kwan/

Engineering – UBC
http://www.coop.apsc.ubc.ca/
Co-op at CRA
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/crrs/srch/stdnt-eng.html
Student rates of pay for federal government agencies:
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/lrco-rtor/collective/lru-mnc/student-etudiants-eng.asp

If you feel like you need growth or balance in a certain area, what is the best way to achieve that?
Goal setting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria
https://prezi.com/gu8xsskotd-j/smarties-goal-setting/
http://www.coachingacademyblog.com/goal-setting-with-smartties/
Today we are doing goal setting.
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/goal-setting-quiz.htm http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/goal-setting-mistakes.htm
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_93.htm

Short term Goals- Things you want to do today or this week within a couple of weeks.

Medium term Goals- Things you want to achieve inside a few months.

Long Term Goals- Things you want to achieve later in life. Next year or 10 years.

• For Dec.14 declare a short term goal and either a medium or long term goal.
• Ensure you adhere to the following ideas when arranging your goals.

SMARTIES

Specific- Make specific goals.

Measurable – Make sure you are able to measure whether you reach the goal or the steps.

As if now – Write your goals in the present as though you had already achieved them . (I am financially stable)

Realistic-stretch yourself but don’t set goals that are impossible to reach.

Time bound-Put a time frame on it.

Interesting- Things you like

Emotional- use strong language to build your goals. (go to NY. Epic journey of artistic discovery)

Success oriented- express your goals in a positive and success focused way. (not “I don’t want to be poor” but “I am wealthy)

• Remember to create time specific steps to your plans.

Body language is important:

• before watching, look at the person next to you and note the way they are sitting
• stand up and ask them how their day is going, notice how they are standing
• what do you notice?

After-interview thank-you letters

http://www.career.vt.edu/Interviewing/AfterThanksFollowUp.html

Email etiquette

http://www.career.vt.edu/JobSearchGuide/Email.html

Completed after-interview letters are due next class Dec. 8.