Achieving Personal Success
ID: 401 | Video: High | Audio: None | Animation: None
Equivalent to FETAC: Level 5 | Equivalent to QCF (UK): Level 3
Learn how to achieve success in your personal and professional life.
Tom Kelley is the highly respected general manager of IDEO, a firm that helps its clients create innovative products, services and environments. He is also the author of best-selling books on creativity. In this free online course he starts by explaining how achieving personal success depends on implementing good, healthy mental habits. The course explains how you should treat life as an experiment, how you should be willing to fail and learn from your mistakes. He advises that you should have confidence in what you know well, but realise that you have a lot more to learn and that you must keep yourself learning at all times. You will also learn about using your whole brain and how you should make the most of opportunities to use the right side of the brain. This course will appeal to all working professionals in businesses and organisations, and students who want to gain greater knowledge and understanding about achieving personal success.
Modules in Achieving Personal Success
Learning outcomes - Why you should resist the forces that chip away at creative energy and make an effort toward innovation to remain young at heart; - Why it is ok to be an artist, an innovator and a design thinker; - Explain why fostering lifelong creativity depends on instituting good, healthy mental habits; - How it is important to field observations with fresh eyes in order to spot new opportunities; - Why you should treat life as an experiment, take risks and be prepared for ideas not to work out; - How you can cultivate an attitude of wisdom and keep learning more at all times; - Examine a case study in which Best Buy were overly confident in their knowledge of the market and failed to spot Napster; - Why you should use your whole brain and the importance of using your tortoise mind; - Why you should follow you passionate career path and do what you love;
Joan Bolina - Philippines
2013-05-17 11:05:31
Course Module: Module 1: Achieving Personal SuccessCourse Topic: Innovation Made PersonalComment: This is a good start, a mind booster that will test my perseverance and enhance my skills.
Joan Bolina - Philippines
2013-05-17 11:05:54
Course Module: Module 1: Achieving Personal SuccessCourse Topic: Do What You LoveComment: What makes me comfortable at and what brings me happiness are the two bases i considered to keep me going. So, DO
WHAT YOU LOVE is never a regretful thing to me, yet it is a fulfilling one that you can be proud of.
Webster Chabe - Zambia
2013-05-15 16:05:36
Course Module: Module 1: Achieving Personal SuccessCourse Topic: Innovation Made PersonalComment: What an excellent start to this course on personal growth! It really grip my attention.
Ananta Maharjan - Nepal
2013-05-10 08:05:26
Course Module: Module 1: Achieving Personal SuccessCourse Topic: Innovation Made PersonalComment: non of any person born with special skills and creativity. all skills and creativity born on person by practicing and by learning.
Trevor Gonsalvez - India
2013-05-09 08:05:59
Course Module: Module 1: Achieving Personal SuccessCourse Topic: Case Study: Best Buy's Failure to See NapsterComment: We won't get over confident in our knowledge and we won't overlook data about trends that exist within our own team." I guess this is where we end up missing the great opportunities in our lives.