10106100Mindset for Success
Course Information
Description
Designed to foster the attitudes and skills that can inspire and empower you throughout your career regardless of your chosen path. Develop and improve skills in creativity, ambition, critical thinking, innovation, opportunistic thinking, and teamwork through experiential and problem-solving approaches. Become an engaged workplace contributor and develop a workforce-ready mindset.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
  1. Explore our initial understanding of Mindset
    Assessment Strategies
    Written Product
    Criteria
    Explore course community through self and peer introductions
    Explain your current mindset
    Demonstrate Mindset and Random Acts of Kindness

  2. Evaluate our decisions, make CHOICES, and respond to challenges in support of our long-term goals and vision
    Assessment Strategies
    Written Product
    Criteria
    Identify your vision
    Recognize an internal locus of control
    Distinguish a reaction from a response
    Develop a productivity goal

  3. Evaluate OPPORTUNITIES through a process of interaction and observation, experimentation, and adaption
    Criteria
    Examine problems as opportunities
    Explain empathy
    Create value for others
    Discover self-efficacy
    Examine accountability
    Investigate a fixed vs growth mindset
    Examine positive outcomes of failure

  4. Analyze the significance of putting ideas into ACTION and discover how to overcome inertia
    Criteria
    Examine problems vs solutions
    Compare and contrast sources of motivation
    Demonstrate flow in action
    Examine engagement
    Examine overcoming barriers
    Explore rejection and failure
    Examine ways to put ideas into action
    Explore experimentation

  5. Examine how we find and use information in order to obtain the KNOWLEDGE necessary to accomplish our goals
    Criteria
    Identify how we gain knowledge
    Explore the power of knowledge combined with effort
    Explore methods of learning
    Discover the  meaning of lifelong learning and the significance of valuing knowledge as a tool for personal growth

  6. Examine the value of RESOURCEFULNESS and delayed gratification as well as methods for leveraging time, people, and money as an investment towards advancing our goals
    Criteria
    Explore how to solve problems with the resources we already have available
    Examine the importance of patience when waiting for the results of our investments of time, energy and money
    Examine how time is a resource that we can invest towards achieving our goals
    Discover that the people and organizations in our network can provide valuable support and knowledge as we seek to achieve our goals and vision

  7. Examine how building a reputation for RELIABILITY can expose opportunities within everyday life
    Criteria
    Explore our personal brands through our words and actions
    Analyze reliability as the cornerstone for providing value to self and others
    Explore the impact of different methods of communication
    Investigate how social media may influence our personal branding

  8. Examine the importance of creating an intentional COMMUNITY of positive influence, critical guidance, and support
    Criteria
    Examine the power of social influence through our relationships with others
    Explore how conformity impacts our relationships
    Create an intentional community of people resources to help you achieve your vision
    Describe experiences asking for help to achieve our visions
    Evaluate the concept of success as it relates to your own goals and people who inspire you

  9. Examine the power of PERSISTENCE and how to harness adversity as an advantage to help us accomplish our goals
    Criteria
    Explain the power of persistence as it pertains to a mindset for success
    Discuss learned optimism
    Explain the power of personal grit
    Evaluate your course and self-accomplishments to date

  10. Apply the 8 life lessons to real-world experiences.
    Assessment Strategies
    Capstone Project

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