Section+2.1

=**Section 2.1 – My “Stuff”**=

**Before you start - THINK!**
This section teaches you personal management skills. These are the simple, practical techniques that have helped the leading people in business, sport and public service reach the pinnacles of their careers. The skills we explain help you become highly effective by showing you how to identify and focus on the activities that give you the greatest returns. Investing in these time management activities will actually save you time, helping you work smarter, not harder. What's more, these same techniques help you beat work overload - a key source of stress.


 * This will help you:**
 * 1) **To Understand ALL ABOUT YOU!**
 * 2) **Here are the questions you should be able to answer after you do the activities in this section. In fact, record your answers now; it may be that by the end of section 1 your ideas will change or perhaps you’ll add new one**
 * What do you like to do?
 * What are you good at?
 * What do you not like to do?
 * What activities do you participate in?
 * What skills are you getting from your activities?
 * Do you have any paid or unpaid work experience?
 * What are your interests and abilities?
 * What do you want to do this year?
 * What do you want to do in the future?
 * What are your career goals?
 * What are your life goals?

Do you know who you are? what you like? what you are good at? This section will help you to be able to reflect on your personality traits and how they will affect your choices in life.

To Describe your personality** Make a list of 10 Adjectives that describe you and write one sentence for each that explains how they apply to you You will need to go on-line for a tool that will help you do this summary: [|www.destination2020.com/destination2020/iam.htm]
 * 3. __Assignment #1__

Examples: Creative: I like to create things. Logical: I am able to think step by step. Optimistic: I look on the bright side of things and always try to find the good side Sincere: When I give compliments, I mean them. I am not a fake.

Don’t be Modest - Be Honest!

4. **To Figure out your interests**

Complete one self assessment inventory Such inventories can help you to recognize personal characteristics, interests, and skills that may link to – or help shape – your future goals. The following links provide examples of such assessment inventories:

Fun Education Website- Click on Free Personality Test on the right side of the page http://www.funeducation.com/ HumanMetrics- complete test then read up on the personality type code that you are given http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

Write down what your interests are, based on what you learned from these inventories.

For now, create a quick chart of your interests and where you use them. Later in your Portfolio you will create a section that showcases your interests.

5. **To Assess your skills** • Use the Employability Skills 2000+ chart to identify two skills you have acquired from each category. • For each skill give a concrete example where you learned or used it. (Sports, completing a group project, or at your work place.) • Attach an example of a project or activity from work, school or volunteering where you have developed the employability skills you have listed above.

Create a chart to make a quick reference list of your skills and activities Leave enough room to be able to add more to this chart later!

Be sure your chart has all of the Employability skills included in it. You may add some of the skills later on.

Follow this link to find [|Employability Skills 2000]

6. **To Organize your information**

__**Assignment** **#2**__ This assignment has been created to help the student look into themselves and create a visual representation of who they, what they like and what they are about.

1. Create images, words, music or ideas that represent you. It must represent yourself and your interests in life, school and careers. 2. You are encouraged to be as creative as possible. Create something that gets your points across and is uniquely you. However, do keep it appropriate to school. 3. This is to represent yourself in 2007/2008 school year and earlier.

The Reflection 1. With your assignment, include reflections on your evidence that tells someone else: • how you know this is an interest or strength • how often you demonstrate these strengths or interests • what your top strength/s and interest/s is/are as they may relate to a future career path, • any outstanding achievements, • what you are really proud of….

Use the chart you did in (4. To figure out your interests) to help you get started.

You could create any of the following for this assignment: • Mind map / Web / Video • Web site • Collection of photos • Photos of activities/artwork/etc • Photos of your support network • A video or website

**REFLECTION**

 * Think** about what you have done, what you want to achieve.
 * Think Positive!** – Feel good about what you have done, and then recognize where you can improve
 * PLAN!** – Learning is a life-long process, you will add skills in everything you do. But stay realistic! While becoming a Pro Athlete or winning the Lottery is a great dream, you need a back-up plan that is more realistic.
 * CAREFUL!** Working through this isn’t easy. Talk to someone you trust if you get troublesome thoughts!
 * //Reflection// //… Is a lifelong process. It is how we learn. You look at what you have done, the results you got, and how you can adjust your actions to get a better result. It’s how you learned to walk, and it will be how you will deal with old age – it is what our human intelligence is based on!//**

Return to Unit Two Overview or go on Unit 2.2