Name: The Professional's Guide to Self-Growth
Brand: Pacific Crest Inc
SKU: 13153069
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By choosing this book, you have committed to living life on your terms by developing the characteristics of a professional self-grower. Self-growers take ownership of their lives and their learning. Self-growers develop the characteristics of the strongest professionals and apply them equally well to career, school, and life.

Over the last twenty-five years as college-level educators, we have helped tens of thousands of professionals, both future and current, apply the concepts in this book. We realized we could help more people, faster, by writing a book to help learners build these skills themselves.

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407 pages

Essentials for Risk Factor Reduction and Professional Characteristic Development
Professional Characteristics Development Methodology
Risk Reduction & Characteristic Development Roadmap
Professional Characteristics Development Tracker
What Others Say About the Approach in this Book
PART I — BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY
- Who Benefits From This Book?
- What You Will Learn
- Profile of a Quality Professional Self-Grower
- Profile of a Star Performer
- How to Use This Book
- Learning from Others Who Have Travelled a Path to Success
- Learning to Learn Approaches
- James’s Experience Demonstrates Becoming a Life-Long Learner
- How James Grew His Capacity for Learning
- Develop as a Professional Self-Grower
- How Kathleen Grew Her Capacity as a Professional Self-Grower
- The Change in Kathleen’s Growth-Mindset
PART II — PLAN YOUR DEVELOPMENT
- Assess Your Risk Factors
- Risk Factor: 1. Procrastinates
- Risk Factor: 2. Lacks Time Management
- Risk Factor: 3. Anxious
- Risk Factor: 4. Lacks Discipline
- Risk Factor: 5. No Sense of Self-Efficacy
- Risk Factor: 6. Afraid of Failure
- Risk Factor: 7. Unorganized
- Risk Factor: 8. Uncommitted
- Risk Factor: 9. Fixed Mindset
- Risk Factor: 10. Self-Evaluator
- Risk Factor: 11. No Life Vision
- Risk Factor: 12. Negative Attitude
- Risk Factor: 13. Unmotivated
- Risk Factor: 14. Ineffective Problem Solver
- Risk Factor: 15. Life-Long Learner Not a Priority
- Risk Factor: 16. Lacks Mentors
- Risk Factor: 17. Personal Factors
- Risk Factor: 18. Not Open to Feedback
- Risk Factor: 19. Coasting/Unchallenged
- Risk Factor: 20. Isolated from Others
- Risk Factor: 21. Wings Everything
- Risk Factor: 22. Ineffective Reader
- Risk Factor: 23. Financial Constraints
- Risk Factor: 24. Ineffective Writer
- Risk Factor: 25. Lacks a Support System
- Risk Factor: 26. Non-Team Player
- Risk Factor: 27. Minimal Meta-Cognition
- Risk Factor: 28. Insecure Public Speaker
- Risk Factor: 29. Yes-Person
- Risk Factor: 30. Deferential
- Risk Factor: 31. Needs affirmation
- Risk Factor: 32. Minimalist
- Risk Factor: 33. Self-Limited Thinking
- Risk Factor: 34. Irresponsible
- Risk Factor: 35. Frustrated
- Record Your Risk Factors on your Roadmap
PART III —DEVELOP YOUR PROFESSIONAL CHARACTERISTICS
- CATEGORY 1: LIFE-LONG LEARNER
  - 1. Learner Ownership
  - 2. Think Critically
  - 3. Contextualize
  - 4. Generalize
  - 5. Meta-Cognitive
- CATEGORY 2: LEARNING PROCESSES
  - 6. Information Processor
  - 7. Reader
  - 8. Writer
  - 9. Problem Solver
  - 10. Reflect
- CATEGORY 3: SELF-GROWER MINDSET
  - 11. Open Minded
  - 12. Open to Feedback
  - 13. Self-Assess
  - 14. Positive
  - 15. Self-Efficacy
- CATEGORY 4: PROFESSIONAL MINDSET
  - 16. Inquisitive
  - 17. Clarify Expectations
  - 18. Life Vision
  - 19. Set Goals
  - 20. Use Resources
- CATEGORY 5: PROFESSIONAL STRATEGIES
  - 21. Plan
  - 22. Collaborate
  - 23. Validate
  - 24. Assertive
  - 25. Work Hard
- CATEGORY 6: PRODUCTIVITY
  - 26. Engaged
  - 27. Focused
  - 28. Prepared
  - 29. Organized
  - 30. Manage Time
- CATEGORY 7: OUTSIDE THE COMFORT ZONE
  - 31. Self-Challenge
  - 32. Take Risks
  - 33. Persist
  - 34. Leverage Failure
  - 35. Maintain Balance
- CATEGORY 8: GRIT
  - 36. Committed to Success
  - 37. Manage Frustration
  - 38. Adapt
  - 39. Self-Motivate
  - 40. Ask for Help
- CATEGORY 9: INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
  - 41. Network
  - 42. Seek Diversity
  - 43. Communicate
  - 44. Team Player
  - 45. Speak Publicly
- CATEGORY 10: PROFESSIONALISM
  - 46. Self-Starter
  - 47. Prioritize
  - 48. Disciplined
  - 49. Self-Confident
  - 50. Responsible
PART IV — RESOURCES
- Website and Additional Resources
- Glossary of Terms
- Contributors
- Professional Self-Grower: Holistic Rubric
- Professional Characteristics Assessment Tool
- Toolkit for Self-Growth
- CLS — Classification of Learning Skills for Educational Enrichment and Assessment
- Cognitive Domain
- Social Domain
- Affective Domain
- ECM: Effective Communication Methodology
- IPM: Information Processing Methodology
- LPM: Learning Process Methodology
- MEK: Methodology for Elevating Knowledge
- MGK: Methodology for Generalizing Knowledge
- PDM: Personal Development Methodology
- PPM: Performance Preparation Methodology
- PSM: Problem Solving Methodology
- RLM: Reading to Learn Methodology
- RM: Reflecting Methodology
- SII: Self-Assessment Methodology
- Principles of Assessment
- SII Assessment Form
- TM: Teamwork Methodology
- WM: Writing Methodology

The Professional's Guide to Self-Growth

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