Bobbi Stedman, a Business and Leadership major, recently completed her Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio, earning 35 credits for knowledge that she gained through her professional and personal experiences. She wrote for the following courses: Team Building: Managing Work Groups Great Meetings! Planning and Facilitating Difficult Group Discussion Leadership Communication Managing Transitions Conflict Management Negotiation Legal [...]
Archive for the ‘Time Management’ Category
Time Management, Planning, And Proofreading Result In 35 credits!
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, PLA, Time Management, Writing, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, PLA, time, Writing on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What About Jeans On Mondays?
Posted in Adult Learners, Goals, Life, Sleep, Time Management, Work on February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Why have I not written in PrattleNog lately? Um, work-life balance. (Alas, I’ve written about *that* before.) Why am I posting now? Because TED posted a video with Nigel March about work-life balance that I want to share. Marsh’s main message is comprised of these key points: Achieving work-life balance is up to each of [...]
Repeat After Me: Be Cool. Be Helpful. Be Cool. Be Helpful.
Posted in Students, Teaching, Time Management, tagged Students, Teaching, time on November 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I never get to say this to anyone — and I would NEVER say it to my students in so many words — but let me say it here, now. Just this once. Because if I don’t say it here, now, just this once, my head might explode and I might actually say it out [...]
An Innovator For The Next Generation
Posted in Adult Learners, Assessment, Higher Education, PLA, Professional Development, Time Management, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, Marylhurst, PLA on April 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Angela Pernisco, a Psychology major, just completed her PLA portfolio for 15 credits, all in Communications topics: CCM 320 Public Presentations CCM 323 Effective Listening CCM 324 Nonverbal Communication CCM 346 Conflict Management (with the grade of “A”!) CCM 356 Intercultural Communication Angela wrote this in her final Reflection Essay: When I began the PLA [...]
Prioritizing Your Priorities
Posted in Adult Learners, Blogs, Life, Time Management, tagged adultlearners, blog, Life, time on February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Time management and the need for constant prioritization and re-prioritization seem to be perennial challenges for adult learners and instructors alike! In another nifty post, my colleague and friend Harriet Schwartz from The Encouragement Lounge shares some fabulous strategies for what you can do when you’re so overwhelmed you don’t even know where to begin: [...]
Preparing Yet Another To Do List
Posted in Time Management, tagged time on February 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I had just finished creating yet another to-do list with a million and one items on it (all to be done by yesterday), and then a colleague shared this quote in a meeting today: Time is the only thing that is preventing us from getting everything done right away. I have no idea who originally [...]
