MGMT 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Self-Control, Critical Path Method
22 May 2018
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I. Each stage of the self-management process, including tips and mistakes
a. Stage 1: Self-Assesment and Planning
i. Knowing yourself
ii. Know strengths, and know what they want to be
iii. weaknesses
iv. Who am I now, and who do I want to be?
v. What am I doing now? What I want to be doing?
vi. Where am I now? Where do I want to go?
vii. Common mistakes:
1. Not having any standards
2. Ignoring important parts of our identities
a. Realize what our flaws are, and manage those
viii. Personal mission statement (Franklin Covey)
b. Stage 2: Goal Setting
i. Where do you want to be in the future, who do I want to be?
ii. What do I need to do in order to get where I want to go?
iii. Set Smart goals
1. S=specific, M=measureable, A=attainable, R=realistic/relevant,
T=timely(needs to put a date to it)
iv. Common mistakes:
1. Failing to set goals- hope ad ish
2. “ettig ague goal do you est
3. Failing to follow through with goals
c. Stage 3: Self- and environmental- control
i. Set self up for success, not failure.
ii. Surround yourself with people who will support you, and who have
similar goals to you.
iii. Self control:
1. Knowing what is important is urgent
a. Important: produces a desired result
b. Urgent: demands immediate attention
c. Common mistake: allowing negative emotions or habits to
derail us
d. Matrix of (urgent and not urgent on top) and (important
and unimportant) on left
iv. Environmental control
1. Be smart with who we are with
2. Do’t disiss goals to please you fieds
3. Common mistake: allowing others to control your time
v. Emotional control
1. Count your blessings
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2. Dr. Seligman
a. Writes book entitled count your blessings
b. Control group wrote down what happened
i. Experimental group writes down 3 blessings every
night
c. Findings: people who counted their blessings were much
happie. Did’t dell o thigs.
i. Happiness is an internal thing
ii. Change reality by changing your lens that you view
it
iii. Change brain to be positive (which will then help
you be more successful)
iv. “uessfuless does’t ake us happie
vi. Time management tops
1. Assign to-do tasks to a home in your schedule
2. Not enough time to do all of the tasks?
a. Delete-things that ae’t ipotat
b. Delay-can it wait?
c. Diminish-do you have to be a perfectionist?
d. Delegate-do’t hae to do eeythig youself, pass thigs
off.
d. Stage 4: evaluating and rewarding process
i. Evaluate whether you succeeded.
ii. Deteie hat you’e aoplished and reward yourself accordingly
iii. Celebrate your successes
iv. Common mistakes:
1. Rewarding yourself too early, too late, or too much
2. Punishing yourself if you fail
II. FakliCoey’s uestios fid at .faklioey.o/s; hat they ae ad
why we ask them
a. Questions:
i. Pefoae: I a at y est he…… I a at y ost he……..
ii. Passion: What do I really love to do at work?.....What do I really love to
do in my personal life?
iii. Talents: My natural talents and gifts are?.....
iv. Imagination: If I had unlimited time and resources, and I could not fail, I
ould hoose to:…..
v. Vision: Imagine your life as an epic jourey with you as the hero of the
story. What do you imageine your journey to be about? Complete the
following statement by describing what you are doing, who is it for, why
you ae doig it, ad hat the jouey’s esults ae. My life’s jouey is….
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