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ASILUM, OCHEA-Develop-Career-and-Life-Decisions
ASILUM, OCHEA-Develop-Career-and-Life-Decisions
Unit of Competency:
Develop Career and Life Decisions
Module Title:
Developing Career and Life Decisions
Self-Check 4.3-1 55
Answer Key 4.3-1 56
Information Sheet 4.3-2 57
Self-Check 4.3-2 61
Answer Key 4.3-2 62
Acknowledgement 63
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this module you must be able to:
1. Manage one’s emotion
2. Develop reflective practice
3. Boost self-confidence and develop self-regulation
Assessment Criteria:
1. Identify self-management strategies.
2. Develop skills to work independently, to be conscientious, and
persevering in the face of setbacks and frustrations.
3. Examine techniques for effectively handling negative emotions and
unpleasant situation in the workplace.
4. Contemplate personal strengths and achievements, based on
selfassessment strategies and teacher feedback.
5. Monitor progress when seeking and responding to feedback from
teachers to assist them in consolidating strengths, addressing
weaknesses and fulfilling their potential.
6. Predict outcomes of personal and academic challenges by reflecting on
previous problem solving and decision making strategies and feedback
from peers and teachers.
7. Demonstrate efforts for continuous self-improvement
8. Eliminate counter-productive tendencies at work.
9. Maintain positive outlook in life.
1. Self-management
2. Techniques in Handling unpleasant situation and negative
emotions
3. Personal and career goals
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
1. Identify self-management strategies.
2. Develop skills to work independently, to be conscientious, and
persevering in the face of setbacks and frustrations.
3. Examine techniques for effectively handling negative emotions and
unpleasant situation in the workplace
CONDITION:
The following are available:
1. EQUIPMENT
● Computer
● Whiteboard
2. LEARNING MATERIALS
● Competency based learning materials ASSESSMENT
METHOD:
● Written test
● Interview
Learning Objectives:
After reading this INFORMATION SHEET, you must be able to:
1. learn how to communicate effectively using the eight parts of speech;
2. Distinguish each of the parts of speech in a sentence.
Self-Management
Self-management - means being
able to manage the daily tasks to live
well with one or more chronic
conditions. It means having the skills
and confidence to take charge of your
medical needs, your everyday roles
and responsibilities, and your
emotions. You are able to live a healthy
live with your chronic health
condition.
Self-Management, which is also referred to as “self-control” or
“selfregulation,” is the ability to regulate one’s emotions, thoughts, and
behaviors effectively in different situations. This includes managing stress,
delaying gratification, motivating oneself, and setting and working toward
personal and academic goals. Students with strong self-management skills arrive
to class prepared, pay attention, follow directions, allow others to speak without
interruption, and work independently with focus
1. Positivity
You can’t fake true positivity.
Well, not for long anyway.
Positivity must come from the
inside in order to be seen on the
outside.
3. Stress Management
Stress has ruined lives. If
you’re the type to make
mountains out of molehills, you’re
on a fast track to an early
coronary and burnout. But, don’t
stress! There’s always a solution.
Implementing effective stress
techniques will allow you to be
proactive in managing the things
that pop up in life, rather than reacting in negative
ways.
The energy that fuels impulsive behavior, such as angry outbursts,
is the same energy that can be harnessed to motivate you to reach
further and higher than ever before. When something stresses you out
or drives you to anger, use that event as motivation.
The key to managing stress effectively is delaying your initial reaction
and thinking about an effective way to deal with a situation. Take the
time to breathe, think and relax. Only then are you in a good state of
mind to make the right choices about how to move forward.
4. Responsibility
Taking responsibility for your
actions is step one towards true
self-management. From a very
young age, school teaches us to
take responsibility for ourselves.
However, many of us never master
this skill.
Prioritize your most important
responsibilities. Take care of
tasks as they come up, and most importantly, accept the mistakes you
make. There is nothing wrong with making a mistake. There is, however,
something wrong with failing to learn from a mistake.
5. Productivity
The best path towards higher
productivity is to manage your
downtime. Got a huge load of work
to knock out in a single day?
Ensure you schedule breaks and
enjoy them. If you’ve got a big year
coming up, schedule a weekend
where you can relax and unwind.
It’s impossible to operate at
100% capacity all of the time. Proper planning and time management
are the key to getting the most out of your day.
If you’re losing focus or failing to make progress, switch tasks and
come back later. Don’t bang your head against a wall, it never works
out.
Self-management is an acquired art. You’ll need to learn the skills
required to effectively manage yourself in order to achieve greater things
in life.
Learning Objectives
After reading this Information Sheet, you must be able to:
1. Define what is stress;
2. Identify the effect of stress and negative emotions to people;
3. Find out the ways on how to deal negative emotions;
Find an Outlet
Making changes in your life can cut
down
on
3. Ignoring your emotions may not help you in the long run.
According to research, avoiding your emotions causes more pain in
the long-term than facing them, and accepting them.
If you try to avoid the way you’re feeling and expect yourself to be
“happy” and that is everything is fine, not only are you living a lie, but
those negative emotions fester in the background.
The research suggests that
emotional stress, like that from
blocked emotions, has not only been
linked to mental illness but also to
physical problems like headaches,
heart disease, insomnia, and
autoimmune disorders.
Therefore, it’s much more adaptive for us to recognize the reality that
we’re feeling pain. And by accepting your emotional life, you’re affirming
your full humanity.
By accepting who you are and what you’re experiencing, you don’t
have to waste energy avoiding anything. You can accept the emotion and
then move on with your actions.
8. Accept
You now know the source of
your pain. It’s time to get over it
and accept. Accept that your life
went in a direction that you didn’t expect and you didn’t like.
But time won’t stop for you; the
world isn’t going to go on pause
True or False:
Direction: Read the following statements and tell whether the statement is
correct or not. Write TRUE if the statement correct and FALSE if the statement is
wrong.:
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. True
Learning Objectives
After reading this Information sheet, you must be able to:
1.Define what career goal is;
2.Enumerate the criteria in setting up goals;
3.Find out how to achieve career goals;
4. Realistic
More than anything, an individual’s career goals must be realistic. It
wouldn’t make sense for an individual to set a goal of winning a Grammy
award if they’ve never performed or played an instrument.
On the other hand, the individual setting goals shouldn’t keep things
too simple. A career roadmap should be a challenge, not a walk in the
park. If the individual’s goals don’t make them a little bit uncomfortable,
then they should probably set higher limits.
5. Tie actions to each goal
For each set goal, a person needs to take certain measures to achieve
it.
Listing the different activities that are needed to achieve a goal makes
the whole process easier.
How to Achieve Career Goals?
1. Write them down
It may seem like an old-school technique, but it’s actually very
effective. Based on several studies, individuals who write down their
career goals see a higher likelihood of achieving them compared to those
who don’t.
There are several benefits to writing down one’s goals. For one, an
individual is forced to think critically on how to achieve each goal.
2. Share the plan
Another perk of writing down career goals is that it makes it easy to
share them with friends, colleagues, or even a manager. When an
individual discloses their short and long-term career goals to other
people, they feel more challenged to follow them through to the end.
3. Visualize success
One thing that high achievers do is to visualize their success. Sports
psychologists often ask their top athletes to envision themselves
crossing that finish line or kicking the field goal. It’s the same concept
True or False:
Direction: Read the following statements and tell whether the
statement is correct or not. Write TRUE if the statement correct and FALSE if
the statement is wrong.
1. Setting career goals is important, as it helps propel individuals to
accomplish them.
2. For each set goal, a person needs to take certain measures to achieve
it.
3. Setting career goals is an incredibly hard process.
4. Setting realistic goals can lead to disappointment.
5. A goal should be grounded within a defined time period, both for clarity
and to give your action urgency.
2. Answer Self-Check 4.2-1 Compare your answer with the answer key
4.2-1. If you got 100% correct answer in this
self-check, you can now move to the next
information sheet. If not review the
information sheet and go over the selfcheck
again.
3. Read Information Sheet 4.2-
2 on Gibb’s Reflective If you have some problems on Information
cycle/mode Sheet 4.2-2, don’t hesitate to approach your
facilitator. If you feel you are knowledgeable
on the content of Information Sheet 4.2-2,
you can now answer Self-Check 4.2-2.
4. Answer Self-Check 4.2-2 Compare your answer with the answer key
4.2-2. If you got 100% correct answer in this
self-check, you can now move to the
next information sheet. If not review the
information sheet and go over the selfcheck
again.
Learning Objectives:
After reading this Information Sheet, you must be able to:
1. Identify the meaning of SWOT.
2. Find out where SWOT Analysis can be used.
SWOT analysis
SWOT analysis (or SWOT matrix) is a
strategic planning technique used to help a
person or organization identify strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
related to business competition or project
planning. It is intended to specify the
objectives of the business venture or project
and identify the internal and external factors
that are favorable and unfavorable to
achieving those objectives.
Users of a SWOT analysis often ask and
answer questions to generate meaningful
information for each category to make the tool useful and identify their
competitive advantage. SWOT has been described as the tried-and-true tool of
strategic analysis, but has also been criticized for its limitations.
Strengths and weakness are frequently internally-related, while
opportunities and threats commonly focus on the external environment. The
name is an acronym for the four parameters the technique examines:
● Strengths: characteristics of the business or project that give it an
advantage over others.
● Weaknesses: characteristics of the business that place the business or
project at a disadvantage relative to others.
● Opportunities: elements in the environment that the business or
project could exploit to its advantage.
● Threats: elements in the environment that could cause trouble for the
business or project.
Identification of SWOTs is important because they can inform later steps
in planning to achieve the objective. First, decision-makers should consider
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Limitations of SWOT
SWOT is intended as a starting point for discussion and cannot, in itself,
show how to achieve a competitive advantage.
Another limitation includes the development of a SWOT analysis simply to
defend previously decided goals and objectives. This misuse leads to limitations
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True or False
Learning Objectives:
After reading this Information sheet, you must be able to:
1. Identify the importance of Gibb’s Reflective cycle.
2. Enumerate the cycles in Gibb’s Reflective cycle.
Description
During this step, you describe the situation, event or activity in detail,
without drawing any conclusions right away. The most common questions that
can help create an objective description are:
What happened?
When did it happen? Where
did it happen?
Who were involved?
What did you do yourself? What
did other people do?
What was the result of these actions?
Step 2: Feelings
This phase is about the feelings that the event triggered, as well as what
someone’s thoughts were during the event, activity or situation described in step
1. The intention is not to discuss the feeling in detail or comment on it directly.
Emotions don’t need to be evaluated or judged. Awareness is the most important
goal of this phase. Helpful questions that are often used:
What did you feel leading up to the event?
What did you feel during the event?
What did you feel after the event?
How do you look back on the situation?
How do you think others feel about the event now?
Because people often have difficulty talking about their feelings, it helps
that they’re encouraged by the questions or someone asking these questions. This
also demonstrates that the Gibbs Reflective Cycle can be used in an individual
setting, or even in a coaching or counseling setting. The final two questions also
allow one to see the event from other peoples’ perspectives.
Step 3: Evaluation
In this step, you ask yourself whether the experience of the event in step 1
was good or bad. Which approach worked well and in what way? Which approach
didn’t work as well? It can be difficult for people to be objective about the
situation. In order to still conduct a proper evaluation, the following questions
may be helpful:
What went well during the event or activity?
Why was that?
What didn’t go so well?
Why was that?
What was your contribution?
What contribution did other people make?
It is also worth evaluating bad experiences, because the subsequent steps
in the Gibbs Reflective Cycle help people learn from it.
Step 5: Conclusion
This is the step where you take a step back and look at yourself from a
distance and ask what else you could have done in this situation. The information
gathered earlier is very valuable in this step and can encourage you to come to a
good and useful conclusion. The following questions may be helpful:
To what positive experience did the event, situation or activity lead?
To what negative experience did the event, situation or activity lead?
What will you do differently if the event, situation or activity were to happen
again in the future?
Which skills do you need to develop yourself in a similar event, situation or
activity?
Experiences
Thinking about one’s own experience can help to perform better or do
things differently in the future. As the above shows, these experiences don’t have
to be positive; negative experiences are also useful. Next time a similar situation
presents itself, you’ll know it’s better to approach the situation in a different way.
It stimulates you to think long and hard about how to do things better next time.
This is what Gibbs Reflective Cycle is all about. People don’t just learn to
understand certain situations better, but also learn to judge how the same
situation can be handled in different ways in the future.
PROVIDERS MULTI –
PURPOSE COOPERATIVE TRAINING CENTER
LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Learning Activities Special Instructions
1. Read Information Sheet If you have some problems on Information
4.3-1 on Self- Sheet 4.3-1, don’t hesitate to approach your
improvement facilitator. If you feel you are knowledgeable
on the content of Information Sheet 4.3-1,
you can now answer Self-Check 4.3-1.
Learning Objectives:
After reading this Information Sheet, you must be able to:
1. Define what self-improvement is;
2. Enumerate the common aspects of self-improvement;
3. Identify the ten commandments of self-improvement;
Self-improvement:
Self-improvement is not
something that can be learned and
absorbed overnight. In my mind, it is
a never-ending process. Our lives are
always changing, and thus there are
always new and better ways for us to
think and act. There is always
progress to be made if we are open to
it.
Anyone can be interested in self-improvement ––– but not everyone is. For
some people, it’s easier to blame the world for their problems than to take
responsibility over themselves and their future. The choice is yours.
Learning Objectives:
After reading this information sheet, you must be able to:
1. Find out the importance of SRT.
2. Identify where SRT can be applied to.
3. Define what SRT is.
Self-regulation theory
Self-regulation theory (SRT) is a
system of conscious personal management
that involves the process of guiding one's
own thoughts, behaviors, and feelings to
reach goals. Self-regulation consists of
several stages, and individuals must
function as contributors to their own
motivation, behavior, and development
within a network of reciprocally interacting
influences.
The term self-regulation refers to a complex and dynamic set of processes
involved in setting and pursuing goals. It is commonly used to refer to a broad
set of theories that seek to describe, explain, and predict these goal-directed
processes. Although many theories of self-regulation exist, each proposing some
unique characteristics, researchers generally agree on several fundamental
features of self-regulation.
Goals and Goal Setting
The most fundamental aspect of
selfregulation theory is the idea that much of
human behavior is directed toward
accomplishing goals. Indeed, it is the pursuit
of goals that forms the focus of much of
selfregulation theory. The term goal takes on
a fairly broad meaning in this context,
referring to desired future states that
individuals wish to attain.
Direction: Read the following statements and tell whether the statement is
correct or not. Write TRUE if the statement correct and FALSE if the statement is
wrong.
1. One of the most consistent findings is that difficult, specific goals often
result in high levels of performance.
2. The self-regulated learning is the process of taking control and
evaluating one's own learning and behavior.
3. Self-regulation theory (SRT) is a system of conscious personal
management that involves the process of guiding one's own thoughts,
behaviors, and feelings to reach goals.
4. People with high impulse control are prone to acting on immediate
desires.
5. The term self-regulation refers to a complex and dynamic set of
processes involved in setting and pursuing goals.