Time Management
Eisenhower Matrix
- A tool to help decide on and prioritise tasks by urgency and importance
What is Time Management?
- Paywalled article on Time Management - for alternatives, see the other resources page
ETBI Digital Library Pages and Sections
Health and Wellbeing
- Section devoted to health tips and advice
Time Management
- Tips and advice on time management. Two pages recommended in their own right:
Personal Strengths and Challenges
5 Benefits of Journaling for Mental Health
- This article explores the numerous benefits of journaling
9 Free Strengths Assessments & Tests
- Strength-finding tests help individuals identify their unique talents & potential. This article breaks down the science behind strength assessment, evidencing its benefits for you and suggests 9 assessments to try out for yourself.
15 Ways to Beat Procrastination
- A nice infographic with useful tips. Don't put off looking at it!
Personal SWOT analysis worksheet
- Paywalled Mindtools worksheet (available via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine) see the Other Resources page for an alternative
Strengths Exploration Worksheet
- In this worksheet, you will identify your strengths and ways in which you are already using them. Additionally, you will explore new ways to use your strengths to your advantage
Strengths and Qualities Worksheet
- Use this to describe your strengths in several domains, such as special abilities, positive impact on others and values
Self-Awareness
9 Best Self-Awareness Activities & Tools
- Some tried-and-tested, science-based strategies to raise self-awareness
How Self-Awareness Can Help You to Live the Life You Want
- TED Talk on self-awareness
Increase Your Self-Awareness With One Simple Fix
- TED Talk offering a simple solution that will instantly improve your self-awareness
Insight by Tasha Euirch
- Learn how to develop self-awareness and use it to become more fulfilled, confident, and successful
- Not available as an ebook
- Public Libraries Catalogue Records for this title
- If you're a member of a public library service, you can reserve this title from anywhere in Ireland, and it'll be delivered to your local public library
SEL Toolkit: Self-Awareness
- Resources to help promote self-awareness
The Wheel of Awareness
- A mindfulness practice to help you raise your self-awareness
Goal Setting
Downloadable ETBI Digital Library Time Management Resources
- Downloadable planners and schedulers, including a SMART goals template
Goal-Setting Theory
- Five principles of successful goal setting
A Guide to Career Exploration and Setting Goals
- Article on setting goals to help your career objectives
How to Set Smart Goals
- Archived Mindtools article on setting SMART goals
How to Set Smart Goals
- Short Mindtools video on setting SMART goals
Locke’s Goal-Setting Theory of Motivation
- AI-written article on a theory that specific, clear, and challenging goals motivate people more effectively than vague ones
Setting Smart Goals
- Tips and advice from the ETBI Digital Library
S.M.A.R.T Goal Setting
- A worksheet to help you set specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely goals
Communication and Conflict Resolution
Communication Skills
- ETBI Digital Library communications skills section
Communication Skills eBooks
- Some titles available through the digital library
The Dos and Don'ts of Workplace Conflict
- YouTube video with six things to avoid (and six must-haves) to navigate conflict smoothly at work.
How Good Are Your Communication Skills?
- Paywalled Mindtools quiz. See the Other Resources page for alternatives
Restorative Practices Ireland
- Restorative practice is a method of conflict resolution that puts the focus on repairing the harm that has been done. Restorative Practices Ireland promotes and supports the use of restorative approaches spanning all sectors of the community in Ireland locally, regionally and nationally
Restorative Questions
- From the HSE, prompt questions to promote working in a more restorative way
What are Restorative Practices?
- A podcast from Childhood Development Initiative Ireland explaining restorative practice
Effective Teamwork
11 Benefits of Teamwork in the Workplace (With Examples)
- Article with examples throughout to help you better understand just how important teamwork is
Belbin Team Roles
- An effective team utilises the various personality types of its members in order to best fulfil different roles. Meredith Belbin identified nine different team roles defined here
Belbin's Team Roles for Beginners
- YouTube video explaining the Belbin team roles
Belbin Team Roles in a Nutshell
- Summary of the Belbin team roles, providing some background to the work that led to their definition
Group Work
- ETBI Digital Library section with advice and tips on working in teams and groups
Reflection
Gibbs Reflective Cycle
- Describes the popular 6-stage reflective cycle
Kolb’s Learning Styles and Experiential Learning Cycle
- Article on David Kolb's four different learning styles and his Experiential Learning Cycle
Kolb's Reflective Learning Model Worksheet
- Worksheet for reflective practice
Reflective Practice Models
- Short summary from UCD's teaching of a few common models of reflective practice
Model of reflection: The Rolfe et al. model
- A model of critical reflection originally developed for nursing other and healthcare practitioners but is now very widely used because of its simplicity
What is GIBBS REFLECTIVE CYCLE and How to Use It (with an Example)
What? So What? Now What? Critical Reflection Model
- Discusses the “What? So What? Now What?” reflective model that emphasises a cyclical progression of understanding and action.
