Skills for Success Personal Development and Employability 4th Edition by Stella Cottrell ISBN 9781352011593 135201159X

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ISBN 10: 135201159X
ISBN 13: 9781352011593
Author: Stella Cottrell

Skills for Success Personal Development and Employability 4th Edition Table of contents:

Part 1 Self-management

1. Taking charge of your future

Getting started with Personal Development Planning (PDP)

‘PDP’: What is it?

PDP as a process

Personal development involves …

Why PDP matters for students

PDP: what students say

PDP: what graduates say

PDP in employment

Managing the challenges

Identify personal benefits of PDP

Do I need PDP? Self-evaluation

What are my PDP priorities?

Priorities whilst a student

Take a rounded approach to PDP

Make the commitment to your PDP

Take and make opportunities

Review: Taking charge of your future

2. The vision: what does success mean to you?

Defining success

Values

Which values?

Testing our values

Inspiration

Clarifying the vision

The long-term vision

Achieve the vision: set interim goals

Personal investment: benefits and costs of achieving goals

Sustaining the motivation to achieve

Ingredients of success: learning from CEOs

Ingredients of success – for goals

Attributes associated with success

Attributes needed to achieve your goal

Congruence and integrity

Does it all add up?

Review: The vision

3. Know yourself

Develop your own narrative

Themes in your tale

Yourself as Hero

Identify your personal caricature

Choices

Your top forty and significant seven

Your learning history

What helps you to learn?

Responding to setbacks

Drawing on your expertise

Personal expertise metaphor: examples

Applying your expertise

Review: Know yourself

4. Improving your personal performance

Achieving more

Personal performance and ‘SHAPES’

Changing SHAPES

Find your SHAPES for academic study

Rate yourself: habits and attitudes

Rate yourself: preferences and experience

Rate yourself: strategies

Map your SHAPES profile

Use your SHAPES profile

Performance Factors 1: Structure

Performance Factors 2: External direction

Performance Factors 3: Social

Performance Factors 4: Sensory stimulus

Performance Factors 5: Global or serial

Performance Factors 6: Pressure

Performance Factors 7: Approach

Performance Factors 8: Sensory mode

Performance Factors 9: Well-being

Personal Performance Profile

Identify significant features

Personal Performance Formula (PPF)

Name it! Test it!

Test your Personal Performance Formula (PPF): Task 1

Test your Personal Performance Formula (PPF): Task 2

Test what works for you

Apply your PPF

Review: Improving your personal performance

5. Successful self-management

Aspects of self-management

Take the initiative

Taking personal responsibility

Getting on with it – or not

Eight levels: motivators and inhibitors

Speech indicators of ‘level’

Managing performance at the right level

Self-belief, hope and optimism

Self-permission

Being positive and ‘solution-focused’

Emotional intelligence

Evaluate your emotional self-management

Emotional self-management

Unexpressed emotions

Managing personal distress

The ABC(D) model for dealing with distress

Managing change, confusion, uncertainty

Uncertainty: wanting ‘right answers’

Holding uncertainty

Coping with change

Understand your time character

Manage time more effectively

Improve your time management

Review: Successful self-management

Part 2 People and task management skills

6. People skills

How good are your people skills now?

People skills

Developing rapport

Skilful, active listening

Developing mutual trust

Finding allies and forming networks

Constructive criticism

Being assertive

Using assertiveness techniques

Dealing with difficult people

Managing difficult situations

Negotiation skills and persuasiveness

Decide your negotiating position

Conduct a persuasive negotiation

Change recurring situations

Monitor your progress

Review: People skills

7. Teamwork

Teamwork as a student

Being part of a great team

Creating a great team

Team functions and Belbin team types

Helping the team to work well

How do I behave in teams/groups?

Understand team dynamics

Involve and include the whole team

Managing team conflict

Confronting team members

What I can contribute

Teamwork when applying for jobs

Review: Teamwork

8. Develop your leadership capacity

Why does this matter for me?

Different kinds of leader

What is leadership? Two models

Leadership styles

Right style for the context?

Key leadership orientations

What do you want in a leader?

Cultural differences in leadership

Seeing yourself as a ‘leader’

Your leadership style preferences

Preparing for leadership

Step up to responsibility

Being an effective leader

Get the basics right

Review: Develop your leadership capacity

9. Managing tasks and projects

Rate your task-management capability

Make the task manageable

OPAL strategy for task management

OPAL strategy: planning and action

OPAL strategy: learning from the task

Task-management techniques

Conduct SWOT and TOWS analyses

Use SMART-F target setting

Planning project time: action plans

Schedules and project diary

Being a ‘good self-starter’

… and keeping going

Be a ‘completer-finisher’

Characteristics of projects

Successful project management

Evaluate your task/project performance

Communicating about tasks/projects

Review: Managing tasks and projects

Part 3 Extending your thinking

10. Thinking creatively and productively

Being open to enhanced brain power

Evaluate your creative thinking skills

Interpret your creative thinking score

A dozen really useful things to know about your brain

Stimulate your brain

Help your brain find patterns

Let your brain be playful

Help your brain find answers for you

Give it food, water, exercise

Put your brain in the right mood

Calm the mind and clear mental clutter

Opening up to creativity

Take ‘light touch’ approaches

Synthesis – the heart of creativity

Form creative habits

Creating thought ‘networks’

Network: creative thinking

Lateral thinking

Working with raw material

Creativity and risk-taking

Boost your creativity

Review: Thinking creatively and productively

11. Practical problem-solving

Potential barriers to problem-solving

Getting started: use your resources

Defining the problem

Write a problem statement

Working towards a problem solution

Draw on familiar approaches

Structure the problem

Draw on analogous (similar) problems

The ‘multiple solution’ approach

Evaluating multiple solutions

Deciding on a solution using criteria

Problem-solving using action sets

Review: Practical problem-solving

12. The art of reflection

Why engage in reflection?

What is ‘reflection’?

The relevance of reflection to me

Reflective practice

Nine steps for improving self-reflection

Question-based reflection

Open reflection: generating ideas

Open reflection: multiple routes

Open reflection: free-writing

Synthetic reflection

Developmental reflection

Reflecting on transferable skills

Reflecting on academic development

Reflecting on professional development

Evaluative reflection: critical events

Using feedback

Models of reflection 1

Models of reflection 2

Models of reflection 3

The Core Model for Reflection

Devise your own model for reflection

Presenting your reflection to others

Selective reflective portfolios

Reflective essays

Personal statement

Position papers

Review: The art of reflection

Part 4 Employability: enhancing your career prospects

13. What do employers really want?

What is ‘employability’?

Put yourself in employers’ shoes

What employers want: large employers and SMEs

What employers want: work-readiness

What employers want: specialists or generalists?

What employers want: how does this change?

What employers value

Translating academic skills for the workplace

Writing skills for the workplace

Communication skills for the workplace

Oral communication skills for the workplace

People skills for the workplace

Task-management skills for the workplace

Self-management skills for the workplace

Employer case studies: skill sets in the workplace

Being your own employer: pros and cons

Being your own employer: eight essentials

Review: What do employers really want

14. Getting the job you want

What students and graduates say

Career planning: Aspire, Act, Apply, Achieve

Career planning journey: Aspire, Act, Apply, Achieve

Models of career development

Responsive career planning

Which careers and jobs would suit me?

Gaining experience of work

Work placements and internships: the benefits

Effective use of your experience of work

What do you want from a ‘graduate’ job?

Activity: What do I want from the job?

Choosing a job

What do you want from an employer?

Plan ahead

Finding a job

Making a job application

Covering letter

Write a personal statement

Curriculum vitae (CV)

CV: example

Using your CV

Prepare for assessment centres

Referring to disabilities

Preparing for the interview

In the interview

Questions to prepare

Other typical questions

Closing the interview

After the interview

Review: Getting the job you want

15. Building a professional identity: reputation, personal profile and records

Cultivate your professional identity

Stand out – for the right reasons

Shape your online profile

Keep yourself organised

Portfolios; Progress files; HEAR

Contents list: portfolios/personal records

Records to support applications

Current skills and personal qualities

Records of competences

Recording your competence

Records of reflection

Reflective material

Review: Building a professional identity

Appendices 1. Applications for success

Appendices 2. Useful websites

ResourcesEvaluate whether your PDP goalsare SMART-F

Personal Action Plan for PDP

Evaluate your targets as SMART-F

Action Plan: Version 1

Action Plan: Version 2

References and Bibliography

Index

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