Kudos to Jasey! Not only did she embrace her relationship reflection for Week 3 by connecting it to her life, she referenced terms and ideas she learned during the week.
Kudos to Jenna! Not only did she embrace her relationship reflection for Week 3 by connecting it to her life, she referenced terms and ideas she learned during the week.
Week 4 begins today and is due Friday, February 17.
Weeks 1 and 2 will not be counted late. For missing work, I will be using zeros as placeholders -- once you turn in the missing Week 1 or Week 2 work, I will replace the zero with your earned grade.
Need reminders of due dates? To help you keep up with deadlines, use your course calendar. Click on View Calendar in the far right column of our homepage. You can also use your checklists. On the second page of each module, you will find a checklist of assignments for that module/week. Another way to keep up is to sign up for Remind texts/emails. To sign up for early calendar (EC) reminders, text @tcdettman to 81010.
Week 4 is focused on time management. To be an effective leader, you must use your time effectively to get effective results. You will explore how to manage your time more effectively by thinking about how you use your time now and applying research-proven time management tools. No better time than the present to get started!
Week 4 Assignment Tips:
Weekly Planner and Reflection -- The first activity asks you to write down and plan out your strategy for getting week 4 activities done on time. The idea is to visualize and plan an objective so you can make it more manageable to accomplish. There is a portion of the assignment that asks you to analyze how well you were able to keep to your plan, what went right, what went wrong, in order to get a better grasp on future planning. Make sure to do this assignment with great intention, or you may not get what you should out of the assignment. This reflection should happen at the end of the week. Don't forget to post your Planner and Reflection -- it tends to be the last thing people submit for Week 4, and sometimes they forget! And don't forget the reflection, that's key!
Covey Quadrant and Analysis -- Take your current ‘to-do’ list and sort all the activities into the appropriate grid. Then, assess the amount of time you have to accomplish the lists and, if necessary, reallocate activities. Quadrant I is for the immediate and important deadlines. Quadrant II is for long-term "strategizing" and development. Quadrant III is for time pressured distractions. They are not really important, but someone wants it now. Quadrant IV is for those activities that yield little is any value. These are activities that are often used for taking a break from time pressured and important activities. Remember that your assignments this week are not just about sending in a planner or this activities quadrant but also to reflect on what you have experienced and learned!
Drive to Completion -- Using your time effectively and having enough focus and determination to finish what you have started -- Week 4 calls it the Drive to Completion. Have you ever started something and never finished it? Perhaps its time to think about ways of focusing your energies on completing what you start! Please answer each part of the questions -- use the PEEL resource as your guide to be sure you are showing you understand the text.
Test of Time Creation -- You are asked to read and analyze how leaders know when to act on a given set of information. Often times, things don’t have deadlines, and there are no specific rules when something takes place. Great leaders have honed their ability to know “when the time is right”. Everyone can work on this and be better at doing the right thing at the right time. Read the article to learn the many ways our use of time is tested -- it goes through the questions you ask yourself to decide if something is worthy of your time. How do you chose which problem to solve first? Create a presentation that shares your understanding of the many tests (paraphrased and not word for word) OR create a video. After posting your presentation for the class to see, reply to at least one of your classmates. "I agree" or "Me, too" replies without explanation will not receive credit.
Procrastination Journal -- Remember to review the requirements for journals. State your ideas, explain them, and offer example(s) to show your understanding. Consider the definition of procrastination: the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before a deadline.
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