Personal Development
What is personal development in social Work?
Social workers develop their careers through continuing education courses. Comstock/Comstock/Getty Images Your education as a social worker doesn t end once you earn your degree. The practice of social work is a lifelong learning experience that involves a commitment to continuing education, seeking professional advancement opportunities, and networking with other mental health and social services professionals. Social workers who develop their careers maximize their contribution to the profession and to their clients. Continuing Education In many…
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A well-thought-out plan provides your employees with opportunities and clear direction on how to increase their skills and advance their careers. And with a more expanded skill set, they have more tools to help your business forge ahead. It s a win-win for you and your staff. But an employee development plan or program shouldn’t be created off the cuff. Follow these steps to help make sure your employees development plans are on point. Step 1: Consider your business goals Before you set objectives for employees, you should try to align their development…
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Profile by Stacy Cardigan Smith (Creative Communications, 2006) Five years into her nursing career, Stephanie Staples was burned out. “I was trying to be everything for everybody and not asking for help. I had the superwoman cape on, ” she says. After graduating from the one-year Nursing program at Red River College in 1985, Staples worked as a geriatric nurse and opened her own in-home foot care business. As terrible as the burnout was, she made the best of it. “It kind of became a catalyst because I changed my life and people started asking me…
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Chris Brogan: I’m on a kick. I just finished reading Marcus Buckingham’s, NOW, DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS, and found that I agreed with their premise that working on your strengths is much more productive than throwing time and effort at changing your weaknesses. One example given was a school report card. If you have one A, two B’s, one C, and two D’s, parents tend to obsess over the negative grades. (Did you, just now when I mentioned it, think about the D’s differently?). Instead, what would happen if you worked on amping up the good grades? Develop…
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Perhaps you’ve heard of the professional growth tool called the Individual Development Plan (or IDP for short). They often prove handy for many organization seeking to develop employees’ skills (leadership & functional) in preparation for what’s next. In some cases, entire sectors (such as the U.S. government) require the completion of IDPs on an annual or semi-annual basis. Other organizations have a more ad hoc system involving the use of IDPs. So what makes the IDP so special? In this post I’ll explain what an IDP is, why it’s so important…
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Tags: opinion, professional learning, short articles One of the things I believe is most appealing about this book is its relevance across a range of subjects and stages of schooling – it is up to you as the pedagogue to adopt or adapt according to the needs of your students and broader teaching and learning environment. The book invites educators to take pedagogical risks in creating an engaging and empowering classroom for both you as the teacher and your students. I discovered this book via Dave Burgess, an #AussieEd Twitter chat and a related…
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