Slide content from today's class

Here are some items that were not included in the session 13 review slides:

Session Overview   
Some review topics
       Time management
       Career life cycles and career planning
       Alternative work arrangements
       Stress and stress management
…from our session on “Managing Yourself”


Co-creation is the process of working on new product and service ideas together with the customers who are going (you hope) to buy them.
Crowdsourcing is the outsourcing of tasks to a distributed group of people, usually to an undefined public rather than a specific body, such as your own customers or paid employees.

Insights from Goal-Setting Research
1. Difficult goals lead to higher performance
2. Specific, difficult goals lead to higher performance for simple rather complex tasks
3. Goal specificity – quantifiability of a goal
4. Feedback enhances the effect of specific, difficult goals
5. Participative goals, assigned goals, and self-set goals are equally effective
6. Goal commitment and monetary incentives affect goal-setting outcomes
7. Goal commitment – extent to which an individual is personally committed to achieving a goal

Golden Rules of Goal-Setting
…from the reading
Set goals that motivate you.
Set SMART goals
Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time bound
Set goals in writing.
Make an action plan.
Stick with it!