Transcript Personal Growth

SWTJC STEM – ENGR 1201
Personal Growth Strategies
• Be receptive to change…
• Don’t accept, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
• Use the Total Quality Management concept,
“Even if it ain’t broke, try to improve it.”
• Don’t stop at good when great is out there.
• Cultivate positive thoughts and take productive
action
• Review chart on page 206
• Choosing positive thoughts will result in better selfesteem
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Personal Growth Strategies
• Making behavior modifications…
• Step 1. Knowledge - “You know what to do.”
• Step 2. Commitment - “You want to do it.”
• Step 3. Implementation - “You do it.”
• Review chart on page 212
• Recognize barriers to productive actions…
• Peer pressure
• Outside constraints - work, family, etc.
• Inadequate preparation for a course
• Others?
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Personal Growth Strategies
“Making change requires you to accept responsibility for
your actions and to begin to view yourself as the creator
of your life.”
• Understanding yourself
• Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
• Review chart on page 218
• Self-esteem consists of
• Self-efficacy - Your sense of competency
• Self-respect - Your sense of personal worth
• Review chart on page 221
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Personal Growth Strategies
• Personality types…
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator…
• Refer to chart on page 225
• Introvert (GP 30% Engr 67%)
• Intuitive (GP 30% Engr 47%)
• Thinker (GP 50% Engr 75%)
• Judging (GP 50% Engr 61%)
• Engineers are action-oriented thinkers
who prefer planned ways of doing things
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Personal Growth Strategies
• Understand others and respect differences…
• Differences in personal style and thinking
preferences
• Ethnic and gender differences
• The more we appreciate our own worth and
importance, the more we are able to
recognize and appreciate the worth and
importance of others.
• Stereotyping is unnecessary and unfair
• Improve cross cultural communication…
• Interact with a diversity of people
• Take a cross-cultural course
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Personal Growth Strategies
• Assess your strengths and weaknesses…
• Student assessment model…
• Time and energy devoted to study
• Time spent on campus
• Participation in student organizations
• Interaction with faculty members
• Interaction with other students
• Rate yourself 0-10 on each then…
• High marks - Keep on doing what you’re
doing
• Low marks - Develop a 4-5 year plan with
goals and annual review
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Personal Growth Strategies
• Communication is critical to personal development…
• Formal education is limited…
• Take extra classes in ENGL & COMM
• Give journalism a try - Work on the
college’s newspaper
• Take and then recopy your class notes
• Prepare for professional communication…
• Review the list on page 235
• Your communication skill reflects on you
• You will be judged professionally on how well
you communicate
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Personal Growth Strategies
• Mental and physical Wellness…
• Eat nutritionally
• Exercise regularly
• Get adequate sleep
• Avoid drugs
• Balance work and play
• Manage stress - Review chart on page 242
• “No strain, no gain” “No deposit, no return”
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Do something!
Personal Growth Strategies
Start today!
Be positive! See the glass as
half full, not half empty?
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