Chapter 2 & 3: Managing Learning & Learning Skills PDF

***Chapter 2. Managing your learning.*** - **Mentoring:** is a time-honored practice in which a relatively inexperienced person is helped by a more experienced one. - **A mentor provides at least some of the following:** Sponsorship/Coaching/Protection/Exposure/Challenging work/Role...

***Chapter 2. Managing your learning.*** - **Mentoring:** is a time-honored practice in which a relatively inexperienced person is helped by a more experienced one. - **A mentor provides at least some of the following:** Sponsorship/Coaching/Protection/Exposure/Challenging work/Role modeling/Counseling. - **A mentor should be One person or many who have:** Genuine interest and mutual trust/Not your line manager/Brings out your potential/Ensuring you are noticed and appreciated/Good rapport (relationship)/Willing to commit. - **How to gain the most from being mentored?:** 1. Organize monthly meetings. 2. Plan questions. 3. Share information on your progress. 4. Discuss how you would like to apply this new knowledge and skill to your work. - **Peer Relationships:** the social interactions and relationships that employees have with each other. - Peer relationships can support our development needs, bring some unique advantages, and bring some unique advantages. - **Conventional mentoring offers:** Sponsorship/Coaching/Exposure and visibility/Protection/Challenging work assignments/Acceptance and confirmation/Counseling/Role modeling/Friendship/Complementarily. - **Peer relationships offer:** Information -- sharing/Career strategizing/Job-related feedback/Confirmation/Emotional support/Personal feedback/Friendship/mutuality. - ***Chapter 3. Learning skills.*** - **Effective writing**: is getting our message across to an audience. - To design effective message you need to use: information, inquiries, instructions ,ideas and decisions in a written form. The message should be appropriate to your audience and to your purpose. - Some tools you can use when writing:- 1. Mind mapping: is a brainstorming technique used to visually organize information into a hierarchy. 2. Multiple cause diagram: is a tool that creates a representation of a problem and showing connections between things. - **Purposes of assignments:** Assessment and learning/Understanding and evaluating Ideas/insightful feedback/Extending your intellectual and practical capabilities/Contributes to the way you do your job/Sense of achievement. - **Understanding assignment questions:** avoid the following: answering only a part of the question/giving poor and unrelated answers. - **Common terms found in assignment questions:** Describe/explain/evaluate/discuss/define/compare/criticize/analyze/identify. - **Tackling assignment and reports:** you should 1. gather your thoughts using brainstorming and mind maps. 2. Strengthen your information and think. 3. Pull your thoughts together. 4. Make a draft. 5. Start writing. - **Writing reports:** The purpose is to provide information and make recommendations. - The typical structure is: chronological, statement of problem, analysis, recommendations and a proposal of strengths and weaknesses. - **Features of a report** should be clear and organized, plagiarism should be avoided, and sources should be cited (read pages 14,16).