Personal Development
Youth exchange programs promote personal development
The TOMODACHI U.S.-Japan Youth Exchange Program is a two-way exchange program promoting cultural awareness and sensitivity among Japanese and American high school students by focusing on service learning and social entrepreneurship. The program participants brings together six Washington, D.C. public high school students with six Japanese high school students from Keio Shonan Fujisawa High School located in Kanagawa, Japan. A unique feature of this program is that it seeks to expose participants to civic engagement and social entrepreneurship through…
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Assessing Career Options If you re considering a gap year, it helps to ask yourself what sort of advantage a gap year could have on your personal development - and also whether it might improve your CV at the end of it. Any employer will be impressed with a CV that manages to show experiences gained and opportunities taken. When you haven t yet had much time to gain professional experience, it could be the thing that marks you out from all the other candidates. You may know exactly what sort you want to take, but whether you do or you don t, it…
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Performance appraisal or personal development plan - which is it to be? What is it called at your place? I ve lost count of the terms that are out there - Performance management, performance appraisal, Performance development review, performance development plan, personal development plan and that s before we get into the three letter acronyms - PMP; PDR etc. However, are they the same and more importantly which is a priority for your organisation? Well, we recommend that you need to focus on both performance and development if you are to get the…
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A personal development plan provides direction for employee objectives. Jupiterimages/liquidlibrary/Getty Images In many small businesses, just one person handles the human resources function, and sometimes it is the owner of the company. Empowering employees to take responsibility for their own professional development is therefore a priority. A personal development plan is a document an employee creates to outline the objectives, activities, resources and targets that relate to his overall development as a professional and as an individual. Set…
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The Framework for a Mentoring Process No doubt you and your mentor spent the majority of your first meeting getting to know each other and developing your Mentoring Partnership Agreement. The form that a mentoring contract or agreement takes is not as important as its contents and its intent. Although a formal contract is not necessary, the very act of putting something in writing can help the partners better understand what the relationship is to accomplish, and agree on the practicalities of how it will actually work
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Ronald Becker, MSSW, LCSW, CEAP – Director Ronald Becker has over 25 years experience in the field of mental health. Prior to joining Saint Peter’s University, he was the Director of Behavioral Health Services for Christ Hospital’s Behavioral Health Center in Jersey City. He has provided and supervised psychotherapy and counseling services to individuals, couples, families, and groups, throughout his professional career.Ron received his Master’s degree in clinical social work from Columbia University and his undergraduate degree from Saint Peter’s…
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We recently launched our new course . To coincide with the launch, we’ve compiled a huge list of the blog topics suggested by all of you for our Million Dollar Blog Project. We used one of these to create our new blog Expert Enough, but there are tons of great ideas left on the list. There are websites about nearly everything imaginable, but that doesn’t mean that they are all good. At Think Traffic, we believe that anyone that puts in the right amount of focused effort can build an audience online, even if it is about an obscure topic
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