...275 Professor Leo Colegrove May 12, 2014 Career Interests Profiler and Competencies activities Discuss the ways in which understanding your personal competencies will help you to improve your critical thinking skills. How can knowing your competencies help you to evaluate arguments? This paper will discuss the results of my career interest profiler and competencies activity. It will also discuss the ways in which understanding your personal competencies will help you improve critical thinking skills, and how can knowing your competencies help you to evaluate arguments. I was asked a series of question during my career interest profiler. The profiler based on those results determined that I am enterprising, conventional and artistic. My results reflect what I have been working towards. My career matches are advertising, marketing manager, fundraising manager, grants manager, and business development executive. I am aiming to go to grad school for my Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing upon completion of my bachelor’s degree, and this information has given me even more confidence that I am on the right path. Many of the strengths listed I already knew about myself, having this confirmed will give me the confidence to trust my instincts about myself and stop holding back. My strengths are delivering results, writing, goal focused, entrepreneurial thinking, organizing and innovating. I have always loved writing and working on projects...
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...Marco A. Solis After completing my personal competencies assignment, it helped me learn and understand my competencies and how to apply them to any situation in life. In the career interest’s profiler it show me some things I already know but it also help me with the list of different careers that would best fit me. By completing the competencies assignment, it has helped me to understand and analyze my results such as adapting to change, take initiative and persuading. Understanding this makes improve my skills and work on them, and helps me see other options to improve my personality. “Critical Thinking” means the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment. So to do that I should take the initiative more to things and be more persuasive. Before making any decisions that would help me to think out of the box and that’s using critical thinking. Another way in applying my results can be in how I evaluate arguments. For example, adapting to change and coping with pressure is the best way to where I can evaluate arguments. Adapting to change it can help to see different point of view of other people and learn from other people. Making me a better a person and taking opinions of other people in consideration. And coping with pressure makes me calm down in an argument because sometime getting out of control and not calming down can take to other scenarios. That’s whys this assessment made me use my critical thinking before making any decision. Thanks...
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...complete the Career interest’s profiler and the competencies part as well. The profiler section stated that I am artistic, enterprising and investigative. I would have to agree with the findings of the test. These traits can be useful in critical thinking. In most situations, being able to investigate all sides of the situation or argument can help come to a resolution to the issue. The artistic trait can help with brainstorming or coming up with ideas towards a solution to a problem. Another reason understanding our personal competencies will help to improve my critical thinking skill is that I can analyze my own skills and which ones will help in the current situation. The profiler also said I’m enterprising. Not sure how my business skills or desire to open a business would help critically thinking unless the situation specifically dealt with that field came up. How can knowing your competencies help you to evaluate arguments? The same goes for critical thinking and arguments when it comes to our competencies. Using our strengths, or at least knowing which ones we excel at, can help us in arguments. We have to analyze what we are trying to have our end result be so we use what traits are going to better help us with that achievement. We can also use our competencies to try to defuse a situation before it crosses into the plane of an argument. There can be many different levels or degree of arguments but using our competencies we can stop it before it becomes a more difficult...
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...Career Plan Building Activity and Competencies and Career Interest Profilers Crystal A. Naquin University of Phoenix BCOM 275 November 6, 2013 Virginia Carter Looking over the completed career interests’ profiler and competencies assessments, it helped me gain a better understanding of my competencies and how I apply them to a business setting. With the career interests’ profiler, it very much already told me what I already knew but more of a deeper understanding. What I do appreciate after taking completing the career interests’ profiler is providing me with a list of the different careers that would be best suited. Completing the competencies assessment, has helped me analyze my results such as adapting to change, delivering results or innovating and how I can apply them to critical thinking. By understanding my personal competencies, what I can do to improve my skills can be using my results to help look outside the box. One result I found very intriguing was innovating. “To innovate” means to show something as if it was the first time or to alter something and I found that intriguing as one of my results. Applying innovation to critical thinking would mean to think outside the box, change my perception on how I see the problem so that the solution may present itself. Another way in applying my results can be in how I evaluate arguments. For example, adapting to change or coping with pressure are great competencies in which can help me evaluating arguments. With adapting...
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...Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies and Career Interests Profiler University of Phoenix MGT/527 1/19/2015 In completing the Career Plan Building Activity and the Career Interests Profiler, I was able to collect interesting and significant information on the career fields that very well can be of interest to me as well as provide information regarding my strengths in where my competencies are applicable. In understanding and having knowledge of my personal competencies, I would be able to improve my critical thinking skills (Geng, 2014). Understanding critical thinking is important when trying to improve your critical thinking skills. Critical thinking deals with reflective reasoning regarding beliefs and actions makes it likely to take a situation, analyze it, gather what is essential in order to form a clear and concise origin of meaning and understand it as needed according to the circumstances. While discovering my strengths and weaknesses in competencies and with the outcome of the Career Interest Profile enable me to take a look into the areas of my expertise (Geng, 2014). The profile showed me having a more conventional occupation which usually involve following usual processes and practices. These careers include working with details and data more frequently than working with ideas. The Career Interest Profiler also included an enterprising occupation that usually includes leading people and making numerous decisions. They sometimes require taking risk...
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...people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking. Conventional Occupations frequently involve following set of procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear of line of authority to follow. Social Occupations frequently involve working with communicating with and teaching people. Often involve helping or providing services to others. Suggesting the following Career and Education Matches Options for me: Careers: Supervisor of; office and administrative support, Personal Care and Services workers, Sales manager, Operations manager, General Manager and CEO. Education: Associate or Bachelor of Art with concentration in Accounting, Finance, Business Foundations, Marketing, Services Sector, Management, Global Management, HR Management, etc. Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies, My results were: Adhering to values: Upholds ethics and values; demonstrates integrity; promotes and defends equal opportunities, builds diverse teams; encourages organizational and individual responsibility. Delivering Results: Focus on customer needs and satisfaction, sets high standards for quality and quantity, works in a systematic and methodical way; consistently achieves project goals. Organizing: Sets clearly defined objectives, identifies and organizes resources needed to accomplish tasks. Strategizing: Works strategically to realize organizational goals, sets...
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...SYLLABUS BCOM/275 Business Communications and Critical Thinking Copyright ©2014 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces students to the foundations of communication in a business setting. Students will develop skills in critical thinking and decision making through the forms of written communication, including memos, emails, business letters, and reports. Other topics include communication ethics and cross-cultural communications, personal communication styles, solving organizational problems, and the evaluation of an organizations strategic direction. Course Dates Jul 29, 2014 - Sep 01, 2014 Faculty Information Name : Email Address : Alternate Email Address Phone Number : SHARLA WALKER (PRIMARY) sharmarie@email.phoenix.edu (510) 481-8992 Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents (both located on your student website): • Academic Policies • Instructor Policies University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Get Ready for Class • Familiarize yourself with the textbooks used in this course. Course Materials All electronic materials are available on your student...
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...Personal Responsibility Essay Hiba Sohaib GEN/201 July 14, 2014 Efren Ordaz Personal Responsibility Essay Personal Responsibility is when a person takes full responsibly of their own actions. In more detail, “Personal responsibility is the willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards.” (Haskins, July 2009, The Sequence of Personal Responsibility). Even though you can sometimes step back or neglect personal responsibilities, they are important in order for one to succeed as a student because it gives you an idea of how to go further in life by setting realistic life and career goals for yourself as well as giving you the opportunity to make ethical decisions. I believe personal responsibility is important in order to succeed as a student. When a person accepts their personal responsibilities, they cannot blame anyone but themselves for any failures they may face. Any action I take, not only in my academic life but also my personal life, reflects directly on me and the person I am. As a student I try to study hard and learn as much as I can from all my courses, especially the ones that challenge me. I put in extra effort to help myself understand or solve a problem, as this will help me achieve good grades and evolve and grow as a person. If I fail in any way, I set myself goals to do better and achieve better, and when I reach those goals, I make...
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...about how much I would like to do it. Now, I am taking a second look at my life goals and career path. My lifetime goal is to build and own my own personal care home for the elderly people. I love helping and providing care for anybody. I have work in nursing homes and private sitting. I love giving back and showing love to others. I have a strong passion for research and problem solving. But I also want be a part of a project research team. I don’t know exactly what I would like to research, but want to say I help came up with that solution. I would never know how much I really liked research until I did this activity. One of my personal competencies was conventional occupations. These occupations likes to be frequently involve in following set procedures and routines. Many included working with data and details more than with ideas. It also said I like social occupations because I can work with, communicating with, and teaching people. And I agree with this because I love helping or providing services to others. I enjoy investigative occupations because I like working with ideas, and it requires an extensive amount of thinking. My strengths were following instructions, organizing, strategizing, and innovating, researching and delivering results. If a person has some strong competencies, it can attribute that they can perform a job effectively. Understanding what my strengths are, will allow me to improve my weak competencies. I can evaluate a problem using critical thinking...
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...PERSONAL ACADEMIC GOALS What are your weak points in the academic world? As a struggling teen, I was always challenged by three haunting skill sets. For example, I had difficulties elaborating and explaining my viewpoints to others. I constantly remember repeating myself and trying to find ways in which to articulate what I wanted to say in front of the class for a group presentation. I was also challenged in putting my thoughts in a clear and precise manner in which others could understand. I found it difficult to get my point across during my presentations and would always have to rely on my classmates probing for more answers to clarify my thought process. To make matters worse, researching a paper proved to be an obstacle time after time. It was difficult for me to find the necessary data that would best support my point of view. I would spend a great deal of time just to gather information that I would end up excluding from my final draft. In this paper, I will be talking about my strategies in achieving my goals to strengthen my critical thinking, oral communication, and information utilization/research. One of my goals involves critical thinking, in which I would like to enhance my problem-solving and decision-making skills. I believe these improvements are important in the business world and are highly looked upon by employers. This also validates my competency in real life decision-making situations. According to Paul and Elder, “Development in thinking requires...
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...Personal Competencies Paper The results of my personal competencies activity is that I possess qualities such as leading, writing, innovating, networking, persuading, and cooperating. In critical thinking, it is important to remember how basic concepts like talking and writing are perhaps the two most important ways individuals prove or disapprove claims. (Moore, Parker, 2009 Pg. 114) Good or bad I have always taken away a lesson learned by someone else as a positive experience. In a team setting, it is so important to understand how important motivation is because it is the best way to get the job done by utilizing everyone’s full potential. This is an important factor I will carry with me in future work settings. Writing is another competency important to possess because it gives one the ability to send everyone a clear message that is logically sound by containing a clear premise. Employees appreciate information that is straight forward and less complicated because it is understood easier and is visually less stressful to the reader. By being aware of the verbal messages I am sending fellow employees in the future, I will prepare myself for writing non-verbal messages as well. Innovation is a competency that keeps things exciting in the work place by using new and inventive ways to get the job done. One way to be innovative is to think outside the box instead of being completely traditional and boring. Making activities interesting for employees makes...
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...DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE Thomas N. Barnes Center for Enlisted Education (AETC) Maxwell AFB, AL 36118 NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER ACADEMY STUDENT GUIDE PART I COVER SHEET LESSON TITLE: CF01, SUCCESSFUL LEARNING TIME: 4 Hours METHOD: Informal Lecture, Guided Discussion LESSON REFERENCES: 1 Apr 12 Air Force Manual (AFMAN) 36-2236. Guidebook for Air Force Instructors, 12 November 2003. Bloom, Benjamin S., Max D. Englehart, Edward J. Furst, Walker H. Hill, and David R. Krathwohl. The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, The Classification of Educational Goals, Handbook I: Cognitive Domain. New York: McKay, 1956. Halpern, Diane F. Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996. Hopson, Barrie, and Mike Scally. Time Management: Conquering the Clock. California: Pfeiffer & Company, 1993. Krathwohl, David R., Benjamin S. Bloom, and Bertram B. Masia. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, The Classification of Educational Goals, Handbook II: Affective Domain. New York: McKay, 1964. Mayer, Jeffrey J. If You Haven’t Got The Time To Do It Right, When Will You Find The Time To Do It Over? New York: Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1990. Mayer, Jeffrey J. Time Management for Dummies. California: IDG Books, 1995. McGee-Cooper, Ann and Duane Trammel. Time Management for Unmanageable People. New York: Bantam Books, 1994. University of Northwestern Ohio, Virtual College. Learning Styles Evaluation, 14 December 2000. STUDENT PREPARATION: Read...
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...How the IOM Report will Impact Nursing Education and Nursing Practice. Lisa Arroyo Grand Canyon University Professional Dynamics NRS-430V Professor Varnell Hudson August 28, 2013 How the IOM Report will Impact Nursing Education and Nursing Practice. The focus of the report is to show a need for more education for the graduate level nurse and a continued education plan for nurses already in the field. The IOM cited many reports that touched on the need for diversity amongst nursing graduates to meet the need to function as leaders and the dimensions of health professionals to deliver safe and excellent patient care (Johnson, 2010). The transformation of clinical practice key message was changing a nurse’s role (Johnson, 2010). This would require changing the old nurse roll to a more involved role using critical thinking, clinical judgment and nursing process (Creasia, 2011). The focus on other topics beyond the provision the NCLEX-RN would need to alter the test to encompass a more diverse multitude of questions that would be considered critical thinking (Johnson, 2010). The impact of the IOM report on transforming education is to incorporate more consistent competencies among nursing schools (Johnson, 2010). By providing nursing facilities with strategies to integrate quality and safety content into their curricula, with an interactive course work focused on a six core Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN), competencies. Using a Train the Trainer...
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... |Foundations for General Education and | | |Professional Success | | | | | . All rights reserved. Course Description This general education course is designed to introduce the intentional learner to communication, collaboration, information utilization, critical thinking, problem solving, and professional competence and values. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach for the learner to develop personal academic strategies in order to reach desired goals and achieve academic success. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read...
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...The essential skills and abilities associated with students’ personal learning styles are many of the capabilities hiring managers look for when reviewing applications. University of Phoenix learning goals represent another set of core competencies that can help you become recognized as an exceptional candidate or employee. Part A Complete the Personality Spectrum on pp. 66–67 in Ch. 3 of Keys to Success. Based on the results, respond to the following: • What is your primary strength? • How does this strength make you a strong candidate or employee? • What is one area of improvement? • How can you improve in this area to become a stronger candidate or employee? What is your primary strength? My primary strengths are that I am a THINKER and an ORGANZER. How does this strength make you a strong candidate or employee? I am good at solving problems and I am responsible and reliable. What is one area of improvement?Being a giver is an area that I need improvement in. How can you improve in this area to become a stronger candidate or employee?I can improve by being more sensitive to others feelings and needs. Part B Read the University of Phoenix Material: University of Phoenix Learning Goals, included in the materials for this assignment. Fill in the following matrix with summaries of how each university learning goal can help you with career preparedness. University Learning Goal How can each goal prepare you for success in the workplace? Professional...
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