Skills development for business and management students:
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Autor: Gallagher, Kevin
Jahr: 2010
Contents summary
Setting the Scene: Personal, Academic, and Workplace Skills xx
Acknowledgements xxW
1 Developing Skills for Business and
Management Students 1
2 Foundations for Personal Development 19
3 Personal Development in Action 38
4 Communication Skills 55
5 Reading Skills 74
6 Writing Essentials: Preparation,
Layout and Structure 94
7 Presentation Skills 120
8 Quantitative Data Presentation 146
9 Sharpening your Search, Reference,
and Assignment Skills 175
10 Teamwork Skills 200
11 Creativity and Innovation Skills 229
12 Carrying Your Skills Forward 250
References and Bibliography 269
Index 277
Detailed contents
Setting the Scene: Personal, Academic, and Workplace Skills xx
Workplace application of skills xx
Academic skills xxii
Personal skills xxii
Reconciling workplace, academic, and personal skills?a tripartite framework xxii
The importance of feeling xxiii
The importance of context xxiii
Skills development frameworks at degree level xxiv
Online resource centre xxv
Acknowledgements xxv/
i Developing Skills for Business and
Management Students 1
Chapter Guide 1
1.1 Introducing the concept of skills 2
1.1.1 Definition 2
1.1.2 The partnership between skills and knowledge 3
1.1.3 Competence and levels of skill 5
1.2 The learning process occurs when you ... 5
1.3 Skills for business and management students 6
1.4 Transferability of skills 7
1.5 Skills development and multiple intelligence 7
1.6 Skills development and emotional intelligence 10
1.6.1 The concept of emotional intelligence 10
1.6.2 Managing your emotions 13
1.7 Learning to learn 14
Chapter summary 15
End of chapter exercises 15
Further reading 17
2 Foundations for Personal Development 19
Chapter Guide 19
2.1 Introducing personal development plans 20
2.2 The importance of reflection 21
2.3 Experiential learning 21
2.4 Honey and Mumford s Learning Styles 26
XIV DETAILED CONTENTS
2.5 Reflecting?using learning journals 27
2.5.1 Why keep a learning journal? 27
2.5.2 Thoughts on the learning journal format 28
2.6 Albert Bandura: Confidence and self-efficacy 29
2.7 Cognitive apprenticeships 31
2.7.1 Learning from others 31
2.7.2 Levels of learning 31
2.8 Mentors 33
2.8.1 Need for guidance 33
2.8.2 Conscious and unconscious competence 34
Chapter summary 35
End of chapter exercises 36
Further reading 37
3 Personal Development in Action 38
Chapter Guide 38
3.1 Time management 39
3.1.1 Do you need to improve your time management? 39
3.1.2 Plan the semester/term?diaries and schedules 41
3.1.3 Plan the day 41
3.1.4 Don t wait for the mood! 42
3.2 Personal development planning 43
3.2.1 Initial assessment of self 43
3.2.2 Next stage?the plan 44
3.2.3 Goal setting 45
3.2.4 Format of the plan 49
3.3 Important subheadings for the plan 51
Chapter summary 53
End of chapter exercises 54
Further reading 54
4 Communication Skills 55
Chapter Guide 55
4.1 A basic model of communication 56
4.2 Verbal versus non-verbal communication 58
4.3 Communication and its use in persuasion 61
4.3.1 Communication purposes 61
4.3.2 Using logic to persuade 61
4.3.3 Using emotions to persuade 62
4.3.4 Using an ethical approach to persuade 63
DETAILED CONTENTS XV
4.4 Barriers to communication 64
4.4.1 Physical barriers 64
4.4.2 Language and semantic barriers 65
4.4.3 Message ambiguity 66
4.4.4 Barriers: Feelings and emotions 68
4.4.5 Barriers: The impact of culture 69
4.4.6 IT barriers 69
4.4.7 Other barriers to communication 71
Chapter summary 72
End of chapter exercises 72
Further reading 73
5 Reading Skills 74
Chapter Guide 74
5.1 Why read? 76
5.2 Read more 78
5.3 Read smart 79
5.4 Surveying 80
5.4.1 The art of surveying 80
5.4.2 Reading lists and textbooks 81
5.4.3 Abstracts 81
5.4.4 Order of reading 82
5.5 Questioning 83
5.6 Reading 83
5.6.1 Reading techniques 83
5.6.2 Skimming 84
5.6.3 Reading more than once 85
5.7 Recalling 86
5.7.1 Benefits of note-taking 86
5.7.2 Requirements of your note-taking system 87
5.8 Reviewing 88
5.9 Creating ideal conditions 88
Chapter summary 91
End of chapter exercises 91
Further reading 93
6 Writing Essentials: Preparation,
Layout and Structure 94
Chapter Guide 94
6.1 Writing skills 95
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XVI DETAILED CONTENTS
6.1.1 Preparation for writing 96
6.1.2 General layout: Guidelines 100
6.1.3 Organizing your writing 103
6.1.4 Specific structural guidelines for various types of writing 107
6.1.5 Essays
6.1.6 Short reports
6.1.7 Long reports
6.2 Email skills U3
Chapter summary 116
End of chapter exercises 116
Further reading 118
7 Presentation Skills 120
Chapter Guide 120
7.1 Anyone can read the news ... can t they? 121
7.2 Presentation design 122
7.2.1 Words versus images 123
7.2.2 Be clear about your presentation s purpose 124
7.2.3 Capture your audience s interest 124
7.2.4 Think about beginnings and endings 126
7.2.5 Create maximum impact with your slides 128
7.2.6 To use or not: Dress, props, handouts, and humour 132
7.2.7 Get useful feedback 134
7.2.8 Equipment and room layout 134
7.3 Delivering your presentation 135
7.3.1 Practice 136
7.3.2 Voice tips 136
7.3.3 Body language 136
7.4 Building confidence in presentations 137
7.4.1 Anxiety in presentations?unhelpful behaviour 137
7.4.2 Anxiety in presentations?helpful behaviour 139
Chapter summary 144
End of chapter exercises 144
Further reading/work 145
8 Quantitative Data Presentation 146
Chapter Guide 146
8.1 Key stages in presenting data 150
8.2 Collecting the data 153
8.2.1 Sources 153
DETAILED CONTENTS XVII
8.2.2 Types of data 153
8.2.3 Averages 156
8.3 The basic tools for presenting data 160
8.4 Examples of data presentation?the good, the bad, and the ugly 163
Chapter summary 172
End of chapter exercises 173
Further reading 174
Sharpening your Search, Reference,
and Assignment Skills 175
Chapter Guide 175
9.1 Search smart 177
9.1.1 Before you do anything, make
sure you fully understand your assignment brief 177
9.1.2 Initial, readily available information 177
9.1.3 Library sources of information 179
9.1.4 Electronic databases as sources of information 181
9.2 Search techniques 183
9.3 Further pointers to the credibility of source information 186
9.4 Referencing your information sources 188
9.4.1 Introduction 188
9.4.2 In-text citations 188
9.4.3 Reference list 188
9.4.4 Following the same principles 189
9.4.5 Examples of referencing 189
9.4.6 When do I need to reference page numbers in my in-text citations? 190
9.4.7 Articles accessed from Internet sites, journals published online,
and books available online 191
9.5 Plagiarism 192
9.5.1 What is plagiarism? 192
9.5.2 Tips to help you avoid plagiarism 193
9.6 Assignment improvement and support 194
9.6.1 Feedback from tutors 194
9.6.2 The critical writing approach 196
Chapter summary 198
End of chapter exercises 198
XVIII DETAILED CONTENTS
10 Teamwork Skills 200
Chapter Guide 200
10.1 What is a team? Why work in teams at university? 202
10.2 Team skills development 203
10.3 Group assignments: Developing subject knowledge and skills 205
10.4 Developing social skills in teams 212
10.4.1 Tackling problem areas 212
10.4.2 Learning as a Community of Practice 215
10.5 Developing self-concept through teams 215
10.6 Developing coping skills through teams 218
10.7 Conflict resolution 220
10.7.1 Why consider conflict? 220
10.7.2 What do we mean by conflict in teams? 220
10.7.3 Is conflict always destructive? 221
10.7.4 Conflict resolution styles: Win-win, compromise, and win-lose 221
10.7.5 Other strategies?agreeing to disagree, giving ground, arbitration 222
10.7.6 Individual conflict competences to develop in teams 222
10.7.7 Team behaviours to adopt 223
10.8 Cultural issues 224
10.8.1 Working with others 224
10.8.2 The teacher is always right? 225
10.8.3 Attitude towards time 226
10.8.4 Group versus individual 226
10.8.5 Level of risk taking 227
Chapter summary 227
End of chapter exercises 227
Further reading 228
u Creativity and Innovation Skills 229
Chapter Guide 229
11.1 Student, university and employer viewpoints on creativity 231
11.1.1 How can developing creativity skills benefit you as a student? 231
11.1.2 University lecturers perspectives on creativity 231
11.1.3 Employers perspectives, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs 232
11.2 Creativity, a more detailed understanding 235
11.2.1 Personality, product, process, usefulness 235
11.2.2 The influence of context 235
11.2.3 A more precise definition of creativity 235
11.3 Improving your personal creativity 236
11.3.1 Four techniques 236
11.3.2 Brain storming 236
DETAILED CONTENTS XIX
11.3.3 Mind mapping 237
11.3.4 Use of metaphors 239
11.3.5 Attribute listing 240
11.3.6 General ways to improve your creativity 242
11.4 Creativity context?organizational barriers and helpers 243
11.4.1 The climate for creativity 244
11.4.2 Using critical incidents for developing your own creativity 246
Chapter summary 248
End of chapter exercises 248
Further reading 249
12 Carrying Your Skills Forward 250
Chapter Guide 250
12.1 Graduates employability skills 251
12.2 Developing skills in your first job after university 254
12.3 Carrying personal development skills forward 255
12.3.1 Induction training 255
12.3.2 Planned development versus self-directed learning in the workplace 257
12.3.3 Ongoing appraisals and personal development 259
12.4 Carrying communication skills forward: Networking 259
12.5 Carrying reading skills forward 260
12.6 Carrying writing skills forward 261
12.7 Carrying presentational skills forward 263
12.8 Carrying critical research skills forward 263
12.9 Carrying quantitative skills forward 263
12.10 Carrying team skills forward 264
12.11 Carrying creativity skills forward 266
Chapter summary 267
Further reading 268
References and Bibliography 269
Index 277
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