Personal Effectiveness Level 4
What is personal effectiveness?
It cannot be just achieving our goals because we could do so in a very wasteful, time consuming or sloppy way.
How about making the best use of our time and all other personal resources at our disposal? This means achieving our goals efficiently and getting the best possible results.
Personally effective people have two qualities:
They make good use of their resources
They are skilled at achieving their goals
People are personally effective in different ways because everyone has different goals, values and priorities.
What does personal effectiveness mean to you?
Which of these goals mean something to you?
- Getting my work done to a high standard
- Taking care of family and friends
- Influencing people
- Making and keeping new friends
- Earning a lot of money
- Earning the respect of others
People who are personally effective make good use of their skills. They do not squander them. They use them to achieve their goals in an efficient way.
How can you become more personally effective? You can start by:
1)Clarifying your goals, values and priorities
2)Decide what do you want to achieve
3)What skills do you need to achieve this?
4)What is the most efficient way?
5)How can you apply your skills?
6)How can I use my time properly?
Personal effectiveness and self confidence
It is hard to be efficient if we are not confident. Our confidence grows when we play to our strengths and weaknesses.
It is not how we are but how we see ourselves.
To build self confidence it is important to say positive things to yourself. When you hear your- self say negative things to your-self stop and say something positive, like recalling your good points, things you have achieved and done for others. Even if you have not done much good in your life try and do something nice for others. That makes you a better person and something to be proud of.
Building self confidence and personal effectiveness is a gradual process of building on past successes, taking stock of where you are and moving onto bigger things.
Most people want to feel useful in their lives. They want to feel as though they are making a contribution of some kind.
Knowing what you do well, what you can rely on, what qualities you have are essential to maintaining your personal effectiveness.
What two qualities do personally effective people have?
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Explain how you can become more personally effective
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How can you get your confidence to grow?
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Why does building self confidence and effectiveness take a gradual process?
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What is essential to maintain your personal effectiveness?
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What is Self – Assessment of Personal Effectiveness Growth
A part of a job’s requirement often employers will ask employees to perform a self-assessment. One common type of self assessment is that of personal effectiveness growth. It takes account of what the individual employee succeeds at and how they need to improve.
Often completing a self assessment will lead to positive affirmation in your job. It is important to follow up with an employer on self assessment, so that its effectiveness is maximised.
Self assessments are used in various professional settings. During a self assessment an employee evaluates their own performance, strengths, weaknesses and any areas that need improvement.
Personal Effectiveness Growth
This takes into account communication, responsibility, accountability, goals and leadership. In a self-assessment of personal effectiveness growth, an employee will look at their own performance in these specific areas and the ways in which they have grown in those areas.
It is important to be honest yet confident in a self-assessment, allowing the employer to see self-worth and openness to change.
Asking co-workers or friends for feedback is also helpful as a way to gain perspective on your performance.
Rewards
Often, a self-assessment of personal effectiveness growth will lead to promotion or other positive attention for an employer. In addition, it is a process that allows self-reflection and may unveil things about your performance that had gone unnoticed.
Section one Personal Effectiveness Growth
What do you have to evaluate when doing a self assessment?
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Personal effectiveness takes into account certain areas. Name them?
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In personal effectiveness growth name the areas you should personally look at.
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What specific considerations does an employee need to take into account when doing their self- assessment?
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Why is it helpful to ask co-workers or friends for feedback?
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What does the personal effectiveness reflection process allow for?
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Section two Goal Setting
Goal setting is something that less than 3% of the population ever does. Most people have a vague idea of what they want, but never commit to writing it down, much less getting specific.
A goal that is not written down is a wish. Wishes can only be granted by a fairy god mother.
I HAVEN’T SEEN ONE LATELY. HAVE YOU?????????????????
What are goals? Goals are things that you achieve.
Passions are how you live your life.
Goal setting: in the next 30 seconds, write down your three most important goals in your life right now.
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Setting Short Term Goals
Your long term goal
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What steps do you need to achieve this goal?
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What do you need to do this year?
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What do you need to do during the next month?
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What do you need to do this week?
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Setting short term goals
What do you need to do this week?
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What do you need to do today?
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Now make a to do list
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REMEMBER TO USE THE MASTER TECHNIQUE WHEN SETTING YOUR GOALS
Explain the master technique:
GOALS NEED TO BE CHALLENGING BUT STILL REALISTIC
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Section two Self Managed Learning
What is Self Managed Learning?
Self managed learning (SML) is about individuals managing their own learning. This includes people taking responsibility for decisions about:
What they learn
How they learn
When they learn
Where they learn
and most fundamentally
Why they learn
All of this is carried out by using organisational skills.
Although everyone manages their own learning to some extent, by just telling people to take on their own learning would be inefficient as a certain sense of commitment is necessary. As the old saying goes:
“YOU CAN TAKE A HORSE TO WATER BUT YOU CANNOT MAKE IT DRINK”
Managing your own learning has meant that the person has used a wide range of opportunities for learning. These include:
Learning for others around them
Travel
Reading
Being coached/mentored
These are only a few of the experiences people can learn from.
The problem is that unstructured, unplanned learning is very inefficient.
Explain what self managed learning means?
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What decision are they responsible for?
______Why was this old proverb used to explain self managed learning?
” you can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink”
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List some opportunities for learning
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What is wrong with unplanned and unstructured learning/
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Goals
Explain why we should have learning goals?
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Give some reasons for having learning goals
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Why are personal learning goals important?
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Compiled by Lillian Doyle