1. Semester Project – Objectives Develop your process to be successful!
Set your goal(s), which major to chose at UAA, graduating, etc.  HW#1, HW#2
Strengthen your commitment to your goal(s)  HW#1, HW#2
Clarify your goal(s)  HW#1, HW#2
Set‐up a "Road Map", a plan to guide you over the next years to graduation 

2. Semester Project – Objectives Develop your process to be successful!
Be prepared to deal with adversity
Outline what attitudes and behaviors you need to change/add to be successful  all HW, especially 3, 4, 5, 6!
Enhance your self‐awareness and improve your skills to practice academic success strategies  HW#4, HW#5
Build relationships, making effective use of your peers  peer review of journals

3. Semester Project – Objectives Develop your process to be successful!
Manage time and tasks  HW#5
Organize your learning process  HW#3, HW#4
Co‐curricular activities
Navigate the HCC system, resources and academic advising 
add at least 3 additional objectives you perceive are important for your success

4. Semester Project – Objectives Develop your process to be successful!
To develop your process to be successful, evaluate each topic/objective based on:
Where are you currently on implementing these topics/objectives
Where a "world‐class" engineering student would want to be on each of these objectives
What you need to do to move from where you are to where you want to be

5. Personal Growth and Development
Chapter 6
Personal Growth and Development

6. Chapter Overview Personal development—receptiveness to change
Making behavior modification work for you
Understanding yourself
Understanding others/Respecting differences
Assessment of your strengths and areas for improvement
Developing your communication skills
Leadership and Teamwork
Mental and physical wellness
Motivating Yourself

7. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
A Lesson from History…
USA lost #1 position in the world economy after second world war because of the attitude
Japan, Korea, Germany and other countries were striving for continuous improvement and therefore surpassed the USA
In last 30 years the US industry changed its attitude and adopted the continuous improvement paradigm to regain its competitive edge
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

8. Even if it ain’t broke, try to improve it
A major league baseball player has a batting average of and earns $12 million a year
He still works with his coach to increase his average to Why?
The reason that his batting average is is that he wasn’t satisfied when it was 0.295
Successful people realize the need to strive continuously to change, grow, and improve

9. Personal Development Receptiveness to Change
Personal Total Quality Management (TQM)
Strive to change, grow, and improve yourself continuously in every area that impacts your effectiveness
Student Development
Areas in which you need to grow, change, or develop to achieve your goal of receiving your B.S. degree in engineering

10. TQM -Video clip Why YOU should use Total Quality Management!

11. Value Judgments Applied to Our Actions
Productive actions – support the achievement of your goals
Non-productive actions – Interfere with or work against the achievement of your goals

12. Value Judgments Applied to Our Thoughts
Positive thoughts - result in our choosing productive actions
Negative thoughts – result in our choosing non-productive actions

13. Examples I don’t like my life to be scheduled
Waste time by not scheduling it
Negative thought Non-Productive Action
Scheduling tasks will help me achieving my goals
Make a schedule
Positive thought Productive Action

14. Value Judgments Applied to Our Feelings
Positive feelings – produce positive thoughts, which in turn lead to productive actions
Negative feelings – produce negative thoughts, which in turn lead to non-productive actions

15. Examples Hates studying engineering
“I will never graduate in engineering”
Does not graduate in engineering
Negative Feeling Negative Thought Non-Productive Action
Has a positive feeling about studying engineering
“I might enjoy studying engineering”
Becomes an outstanding student and graduates
Positive Feeling Positive Thought Productive Action

16. Models for Change Therapy Behavior modification
Change negative feelings to positive feelings and thoughts and behaviors will follow
Behavior modification
Choose productive behaviors and work to change negative thoughts to positive thoughts and feelings will follow

17. STUDENT SUCCESS MODEL GOAL (B.S. Degree) Productive Actions/Behaviors
Positive
Thoughts/Attitudes
Feelings
Non-Productive
Actions/Behaviors
Negative
Thoughts/Attitudes
Feelings
Change
Change
Change

18. Making Behavior Modification Work for You
Must successfully navigate three steps Step 1. Knowledge – “You know what to do.” Step 2. Commitment – “You want to do it.” Step 3. Implementation – “You do it.”

19. Step 1. Knowledge “You know what to do.”
Devote significant time and energy to studying
Master the material presented in each class period
Study collaboratively with other students
Review notes, read text, attempt problems prior to each lecture
Interact regularly with professors outside of classroom
Immerse yourself in the academic environment of the institution
Participate actively in student organizations
You learned all that knowledge (and more) in Chapters 3, 4, and 5
You know how to be successful!!

20. Step 2. Commitment “You want to do it.”
Knowledge alone is no guarantee
Smoking causes cancer, everybody knows it, but why are some people still smoking?
A commitment to do something is an attitude
Become conscious of your attitudes
Change negative attitudes that obstruct your growth
How can we change our negative attitudes? See next slide

21. Step 3. Implementation “You do it.”
Knowledge and commitment alone are no guarantee
You have to actually do it!
This probably is the most difficult step  actual change is hard, no matter how knowledgeable or committed you are

22. Video clip
Toyota's 8 Step Practical Problem Solving Methodology Overview (10.29 min)

23. 5 Step Process to Analyze Attitudes
Identify key areas in which your attitudes will have a significant impact on your academic success
For each area, identify what attitudes you hold
For each attitude ask: “Is this attitude working for me or against me?” (positive or negative attitude)
For each negative attitude ask: “Why do I hold this attitude?”
For each negative attitude ask: “Can I change this negative attitude to one that will work for me?”

24. Barriers to Choosing Productive Actions
Current behaviors satisfy some need or want that you have
Have difficulty choosing to do things you don’t find easy or enjoyable
Afraid to study because if you do and still fail, it will reflect on your ability
Prefer to blame your failure on people or factors external to yourself

25. Group Discussion Topic Overcome Barriers
In your group, discuss/develop strategies to overcome the below listed barriers.
Current behaviors satisfy some need or want that you have
Have difficulty choosing to do things you don’t find easy or enjoyable
Afraid to study because if you do and still fail, it will reflect on your ability
Prefer to blame your failure on people or factors external to yourself
Appoint a leader to keep the discussion on topic
Group Discussion–Overcome Barriers

26. Assignments Read Chapter 6 sections 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8 of the textbook
Homework #6:
Write at least two pages about today's group discussion: Strategies to overcome barriers to choosing productive actions. Add one additional barrier to choosing productive action and provide a strategy to overcome it.