BA 111 Goal Assignment Brainstorm 4 goals in your life.  Three of the four should be short-term goals (less than a year) in each of the life plan categorie

BA 111 Goal Assignment Brainstorm 4 goals in your life.  Three of the four should be short-term goals (less than a year) in each of the life plan categories of Personal, Career, and Education.  The last goal should be a long-term goal (more than one year) and can be in any category of the life plan.  A template is attached to assist you in this assignment, but remember to do four goals.
 

 Use this criteria in writing your goals: 

a. Begin each with the word “To…” 

b. Be specific 

c. Quantify the goal if possible 

d. Make it realistic, attainable and within your control 

e. Make it yours 

  3. For each goal written above do the following: 

a. List the steps you will take to accomplish the goal. 

b. Identify the potential barriers you might experience in attaining the goal. 

c. Identify the resources you will need to accomplish these goals. 

d. Sometimes a visual usually makes it “real”, so if you want to include pictures of your goals in your assignment, that is great! 1
Attitude, Goal
Setting, and Life
Management
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FUTURE
DREAMS
HAPPINESS
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After studying these topics, you will benefit by:
• Discovering the influence professionalism and positive human
relations have on personal, academic, and career success
• Knowing how individual personality, attitude, and values affect the
workplace
• Recognizing how self-efficacy and personal branding affect your
confidence
• Developing a strategy to deal with past negative experiences and
other barriers to success
• Examining the impact goal setting has on creating a life plan in
today’s economy
• Choosing priorities to support your goal
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ALL ABOUT YOU
“Mirror words” describe the foundation of
how you view yourself and others, and how you will
most likely perform at work.
Personality and attitude dictate how one responds to
conflict, crisis, and other typical workplace situations.
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ALL ABOUT YOU
• Professionalism: workplace behaviors
that result in positive business relationships
– Healthy relationships at work start with first
understanding your own personality and
attitude
– Personality and attitude dictate how you
respond to positive and negative workplace
situations
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ALL ABOUT YOU
• Human Relations: interactions with and
through people
– Get along with your colleagues, and positive
workplace interactions will result in workplace
productivity
– In order to understand workplace relationships,
you must first understand yourself
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PERSONALITY AND VALUES
• Personality: stable traits that assist in
explaining and predicting behavior
– Behavior is a reflection of personality
• Positive: caring, considerate, organized
• Negative: rude, unfocused, lazy
• A result of influences
– Experiences and influences outside of work
affect one’s professional behavior
• Family, friends, religion, society
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PERSONALITY AND VALUES
• Values: things that are important to you as
an individual
– There are good and bad values
– Based on your personal experiences and
influences
– May include: achievement, family, money, or
security
– Shaped by experiences
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TOPIC SITUATION
Charley’s Values
TOPIC RESPONSE:
If Charley continues to associate with his nonsupportive friends, how could these friendships
influence Charley’s performance at school and
work?
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ATTITUDES
• Attitude: a strong belief about people,
things, and situations
– Related to values and personality
– An individual’s performance influences a
group’s performance, which then impacts the
organization’s performance
– Since you cannot avoid others, be aware of
the impact other individuals have on your life;
choose to surround yourself with positive
people
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THINK ABOUT IT
Identify one friend that you believe is a positive
influence on you and a friend that is a negative
influence. How should you handle these
relationships?
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TALK IT OUT
What cartoon character best reflects your
personality and why?
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SELF-EFFICACY AND ITS INFLUENCES
• Self-concept: how you view yourself
• Self-image: your belief of how others view
you
• Self-efficacy: your belief in your ability to
perform a task
• Projection: the way you feel about yourself
and your environment is reflected in how you
treat others
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SELF-EFFICACY AND ITS INFLUENCES
• Personal Brand: reflects traits you want
others to think of when they think of you
– May include:
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Appearance
Values
Knowledge and skills
Value to others
– Make a commitment to enhance your personal
brand
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DEALING WITH NEGATIVE “BAGGAGE”
• Past experiences impact your personality and
influence behavior
• Negative baggage will affect your performance
– Confront your past
– Practice forgiveness
– Move forward
• Keep in mind that it is sometimes a painful and
long process to reach your goal of becoming
the best individual you can be
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TOPIC SITUATION
Keira’s Past Poor Choices
TOPIC RESPONSE:
What steps should Keira take to help her
achieve her goals?
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LOCUS OF CONTROL
• Locus of control: identifies who you believe
controls your future
– Internal locus of control believes that he or she
controls his or her own future
– External locus of control believes that others
control his or her future
– Extremes on either end are not healthy
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LEARNING STYLES
• Learning Style: the method by which you best
take in information and/or learn new ideas
– Visual learner—learns best by seeing
– Auditory learner—learns best by hearing
– Tactile/kinesthetic learner—learns best by feeling,
touching, and holding
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THE IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL
GOAL SETTING
• Goal: a target
– Think of it as a reward at the top of a ladder;
you must climb the ladder before reaching the
reward
– Goals provide focus; increase self-concept;
and help overcome procrastination, fear, and
failure
– Setting goals will help you become more
successful in your career
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TOPIC SITUATION
Austin’s Goals
TOPIC RESPONSE:
What are specific steps Austin can take to
ensure he reaches his goal of becoming a CPA?
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INFLUENCES OF GOALS
• Goals help to make career plans clearer and
more meaningful
• As a goal is reached, you will experience
motivation and self-confidence
• Set goals in the major areas of your life
including personal, career, financial,
educational, and physical
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Example of Austin’s Goals
Five-year long-term goal: Obtain a bachelor’s
degree in accounting
Three-year long-term goal: Obtain an associate
degree in accounting and secure a job as an
account clerk
One-year short-term goal: Successfully pass the
appropriate courses toward the associate degree
and identify an internship
Now: Apply for school and find a part-time job to
obtain work experience
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TALK IT OUT
Share one goal you have set for this class.
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HOW TO SET GOALS
• Achieving short-term and long-term
goals is like climbing a ladder
• Goals need to be put into writing
– Set long-term goals
– Set short-term goals for reaching longterm goals
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HOW TO SET GOALS
Long-Term Goals
• Long-term goals: reached within a time
frame of 5 to 10 years
– Setting long-term goals starts with thinking of what
you want to accomplish in your life
– From your list of accomplishments, choose items
you most value
– Keep goals realistic, attainable, measurable, and
important (have a reason for the goal)
• Remember Austin’s goal to be a CPA? He believes
becoming a CPA represents success. It is
important to him, and it is a realistic goal that can
be reached.
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HOW TO SET GOALS
Short-Term Goals
• Short-term goals: goals that can be
reached within a year’s time
– Referred to as objectives in businesses
– Set to help reach long-term goals
– Keep them realistic, achievable,
measurable, and important to you
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HOW TO SET GOALS
SMART Method
Specific
Identify what you want to accomplish or quantify
Measurable
Identify how you know when you have achieved it
Achievable
Challenging, yet attainable and realistic
Relevant
Make it meaningful to you
Time-based
Attach a specific time to reach the goal
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HOW TO SET GOALS
Goal Aspects
• Own the goal
– Each goal must belong to you
– YOU need to decide what your goals will be
• Control the goal
– Know what resources and constraints are
involved
– Be flexible and maintain realistic control
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CREATING A LIFE-PLAN
A life-plan includes:
Education and career
Social and spiritual
Financial
Activities
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CREATING A LIFE-PLAN
• Education and career
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Degrees/certificates
Time frame
Financial resources
Support network
• Education is the key to achieving your life
plan
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CREATING A LIFE-PLAN
Career
• Why is your selected career important?
• How will you know if you achieve success?
• What resources are needed?
• Choosing the right career is important
– Different reasons include
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earning power
status
intellect
self-satisfaction
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CREATING A LIFE-PLAN
• Social and spiritual
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Marriage
Family
Friends
Religion
• What types of people do you want to be a
part of your life in the future?
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CREATING A LIFE-PLAN
• Financial
– Home
– Car
– Ownership
• Where do you want to be financially?
What amount of money will you be
comfortable with?
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CREATING A LIFE-PLAN
• Activities
– Hobbies
– Travel
– Life experiences
• What do you want to be able to do in the
future?
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CREATING A LIFE-PLAN
Writing Life Goals
• Consider degrees/certificates, time frame,
financial resources, and support network
required for educational success.
• When planning your career, consider:
– Why your target career is important to you
– What resources are needed to achieve it
– How you will know you have achieved success
• Consider the type of personal relationships you
want in the future
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CREATING A LIFE-PLAN
• Intrinsic (self-satisfaction)
– Rewards that come from within you
• Extrinsic (money, praise)
– Rewards that come from external sources
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TALK IT OUT
Share common rewards that are important to
you and identify those rewards as intrinsic or
extrinsic
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PRIORITIES
• Priorities: determine what needs to be done
and in what order
– You may need to adjust your priorities to reach
your goals
• Trade-off: giving up one thing to do
something else
• Be prepared to be flexible in all areas of your
life-plan
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TALK IT OUT
Identify priorities and trade-offs for successfully
completing this course
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YOUR PERSONAL HANDBOOK
• Personality and attitude affect your
performance, both personally and
professionally
• Use the text as a handbook to guide you in
both personal and career plans
• Begin developing a positive attitude and
believe in yourself and your abilities
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SMART Goal Worksheet
Today’s Date: ______________________ Target Date: ____________ Start Date: __________
Date Achieved: _________________________
Goal: _________________________________________________________________________
Confirm that you’re using the SMART Method
Specific: What exactly do you want to accomplish? Follow the steps from your textbook.
Measurable: How will you know you have accomplished your goal?
Achievable: Is the accomplishment of this goal worth what you will need to do to achieve it?
What resources do you have to accomplish it? How will you obtain the resources you do not
currently have?
Relevant: Why is accomplishing this goal important to your life?
Timely: When will this goal be completed?
Why is this goal important?
How will you benefit from accomplishing this goal? Who else will be affected?
What might stop you from accomplishing your goal – what obstacles stand in your way?
What are possible solutions to those obstacles?
Possible Obstacles
Possible Solutions/Resources
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What other resources (people, organization, or other) could you ask for assistance, either to
accomplish your goal or to help overcome obstacles?
What needs to be done to accomplish your goal? When does it need to be completed?
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Date_______
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Draw a timeline of your goal – when will it begin, what are the milestones, when will it be
done?
Brainstorm 4 goals in your life. Three of the four should be short-term
goals (less than a year) in each of the life plan categories of Personal,
Career, and Education. The last goal should be a long-term goal (more
than one year) and can be in any category of the life plan. A template is
attached to assist you in this assignment, but remember to do four goals.
Use this criteria in writing your goals:
a. Begin each with the word “To…”
b. Be specific
c. Quantify the goal if possible
d. Make it realistic, attainable and within your control
e. Make it yours
3. For each goal written above do the following:
a. List the steps you will take to accomplish the goal.
b. Identify the potential barriers you might experience in attaining the goal.
c. Identify the resources you will need to accomplish these goals.
d. Sometimes a visual usually makes it “real”, so if you want to include
pictures of your goals in your assignment, that is great!
This assignment is worth 50 points.

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