My NCU Success Guide
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This document provides instructions for a graded assignment to create a personal success guide for graduate study at Northcentral University. Students must submit a 4-6 page paper with an annotated list of program resources, a personal success plan chart rating skills and setting goals, and a motivation touchstone. The assignment aims to help students assemble resources and develop a plan to succeed in their program.
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- 1. Foundations for Graduate Study in Business Activity 8: My Northcentral University Success Guide
- 2. Overview • Purpose – Assemble your own, personal Northcentral University Success Guide, which will serve as your foundation for success • Time Required – 11 to 15 hours • Program Resources (annotated list of resources) • Personal Success Plan (chart of skills, development, goals) • Motivation Touchstone
- 3. Graded Assignment • Write a 4-6 page double-spaced paper containing the following: – Program Resources – Personal Success Plan • Create a Motivation Touchstone • Deadline: 11:59:59 AZ time Sunday – http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
- 4. Graded Assignment - Continued Program Resources • Create an annotated list of resources for success. – Articles – Websites – Links – Skill builders – Tutorials – Any material you gathered through your own searches. • Include the following: – Name the resource – Explain how you plan to use it – Disclose where you can access it • Make sure to include at least one or two key resources from each activity
- 5. Graded Assignment - Continued Personal Success Plan • Prepare a brief chart (download from courseroom: • Lists each skill and rate your success on each skill on a scale of 1 to 3: (1. Beginner; 2. Familiar; 3. Master). • For those skills where you have rated yourself 1 or 2, write immediate and intermediate goals to improve those skills. Note any additional resources/assistance you may need.
- 6. Graded Assignment - Continued • Read the Activity 8 Example Program Resources_Personal Success Plan.doc that I email to you as an attachment
- 7. Graded Assignment - Continued • Read the Activity 8 List of NCU supplied resources.doc that I email to you as an attachment
- 8. Graded Assignment - Continued Motivation Touchstone • Create physical representation of your professional and educational goals to motivate you and keep your eyes on the prize : – Vision video, – PowerPoint, – Audio file, – Collage, – Poem, – Letter to yourself, – Saying or quote,
- 9. Graded Assignment - Continued • Read the Activity 8 Example Motivation Touchstone.doc that I email to you as an attachment
- 10. Tips • Spread the work out and give yourself sufficient time • Submit two files: 1. 4-6 page paper containing: • Program Resources • Personal Success Plan 2. Motivation Touchstone
- 11. Tips - Continued • For the Program Resources include at least 1-2 key resources from each activity • For the Personal Success Plan s kills where you have rated yourself 1 or 2: – Make sure you write immediate and intermediate goals to improve those skills. • Goals should include what, how to measure, and by when. – Include any additional resources or assistance that you meet may need
- 12. Tips - Continued • Read the following examples that I attach in the preactivity email to get an idea of the finished product: – Activity 8 Example Program Resources_Personal Success Plan.doc – Activity 8 List of NCU Supplied Resources.doc – Activity 8 Example Motivation Touchstone.doc
- 13. Grading • Your instructor has 4 days (until Thursday) to grade and give you feedback on your Foundations work.
Editor's Notes
- Hi this is Dave Johnson. In this presentation I'm going to explain Activity 8, My Northcentral University success guide.
- The purpose of this activity is for you to assemble your own personal Northcentral success guide, which is the signature assignment for this course. The time required for this activity can range between 11 to 15 hours. You are going to prepare a program resources, which is an annotated list of resources. You're going to create a personal success plan, which will contain a chart of skills, indication of the development of those skills, and goals to improve those skills. And finally, you’re going to create a motivation touchstone to remind you of your goals throughout your time here at North Central.
- The graded assignment for this activity is a 4-6 page double-spaced paper containing the program resources and personal success plan, which I'll discuss in a moment. You also will create a motivation touchstone, which I'll also discuss in a moment. The deadline for this is midnight Arizona time on Sunday.
- The program resources, which is a component of your 4-6 page paper will serve as a personal catalog of success tools you encountered in this course. You will look back over the seven previous activities and create a list of resources that you felt were important for your success. Now, these resources could include articles, websites, links, skill builders, tutorials, or any other material you gathered through your own searches. This list of resources should include the name of the resource, an explanation of how you plan to use it, and a disclosure where you can access it. You don't have to include every resource that you used in the previous seven activities, but you must include at least one or two key resources from each activity.
- The other component of the 4-6 page paper that you going to write is a personal success plan. You are going to fill out a chart that you can download from the course room, and I'm displaying it in the slide here. The chart lists each skill that you’ve learned in this class, and next to each skill you will rate your success on a scale 1 to 3, with 1 as beginner, 2 as familiar, and 3 as master. Now for those skills that you rate yourself a beginner or familiar (a 1 or a 2), you need to write immediate and intermediate goals to improve those skills. Then, you need to note any additional resources or assistance that you may require. This chart can be updated throughout your education at the Northcentral.
- To give you an idea of what the finished product should look like, I have done this assignment for myself but have taken the perspective as a mentor, not a student. Nevertheless, this should give you an idea of how to organize and address the assignment. I will provide this example in a document entitled “Activity 8 Example Program Resources_Personal Success Plan.doc” that I will attach to the pre-activity email I send on the Monday of Activity 8 week. In this document, I have prepared a Program Resources section and a Personal Success Plan section. You also will combine both of these sections into 1 document.
- To help you complete the Program Resources section of the paper, I have compiled a list of resources that we have provided over the eight weeks of this course. I will provide this in a document entitled “Activity 8 List of NCU Supplied Resources.doc” that I will attach to the pre-activity email I send on the Monday of Activity 8 week. You can pick a couple of resources from each activity to write about in your paper. You can also use resources you have personally located to write about too.
- Lastly, your assignment will require you to create what we call a motivation touchstone. This is some physical representation of your professional and educational goals that can remain visible to you, will keep you motivated throughout your education at North Central, and will keep your eyes on your ultimate goal of graduating. Now, this physical representation can be a video that you create, or a PowerPoint that you create, an audio file, a collage, a poem, a letter to yourself, or a saying or quote. It's up to you. You create something that will be meaningful to you and that you can post someplace to remind yourself.
- To give you an idea of what the finished product should look like for the motivation touchstones, I have prepared one for myself. I will provide this in a document entitled “Activity 8 Example Motivation Touchstone.doc” that I will attach to the pre-activity email I send on the Monday of Activity 8 week. I provided several quotes from the Bible. Of course, you can provide something different as I discussed earlier.
- Here are some tips to help you complete this assignment. Number one, make sure you spread out the work and give yourself sufficient time. Then, you're going to need to submit two files for grading. One file is your 4 to 6 page paper that will contain the program resources and personal success plan sections. The second file is the motivation touchstone that you create.
- Now for the program resources, make sure that you include at least one or two key resources from each activity. For the personal success plan where you have rated yourself a 1 or 2, make sure that you write immediate and intermediate goals to improve those skills. Remember that a goal should include what, how to measure, and by when. Also remember to include any additional resources or assistance that you may need for each skill rated a one or two.
- To get an idea of what the finished product should look like for this assignment, read the following examples that I attach in the preactivity email to get an idea of the finished product: Activity 8 Example Program Resources_Personal Success Plan.doc Activity 8 List of NCU Supplied Resources.doc Activity 8 Example Motivation Touchstone.doc
- Member that your instructor has four days until Thursday to grade and give you feedback on your foundations work. Well, I look forward to receiving your assignment for Activity 8 and hope that it is meaningful to you and will be meaningful you to you in the future. In fact, I want to thank you for taking this class and hope that it has prepared you well to pursue your education here at Northcentral University and wish you all the success in reaching your goal of receiving a advanced degree.