Principles of Personal Effectiveness

7 Basic Personal Effectiveness Skills

•  Discover the seven fundamental skills essential for personal growth and professional success.

13 Powerful Strategies for Personal Effectiveness

• Personal effectiveness skills you need to master

What is Personal Effectiveness?

• The definition of personal effectiveness, why it is important and what skills you will need to implement it in your own life.

What is Personal Effectiveness? Key Skills Explained

• Similar to the link above; what personal effectiveness means and why it’s so important 

Books

Business Administration (4th edition) by Arlene Douglas

• Not available as an ebook and out of print
• Public Libraries Catalogue Record 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

Work Experience Level 5 (4th edition) by Arlene Douglas and Seamus O'Neill

• Not available as an ebook
• Can be purchased online
• 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

Teamwork

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

Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing: Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development

• In 1965, Bruce Tuckman studied how teams develop, and in his paper ”Developmental sequence in small groups” he proposed a four-step process that captures the key phases in working together effectively. By understanding these stages, you can be more productive in teams

Group Work

• ETBI Digital Library section with advice and tips on working in teams and groups

eBook

Effective Communication by Nicholas Harvey  - see eBooks page

Critical Thinking

What Are Critical Thinking Skills and Why Are They Important?

• Explore critical thinking skills and some strategies to improve your critical thinking ability

Steps in Problem-Solving Process

• Bing search results for videos on this topic

What is Problem-Solving?

• American Society for Quality article

What is Problem-Solving? (Steps, Techniques, Examples)

• Defines problem-solving and states why it's important

Presentations

eBook

Effective Communication by Nicholas Harvey  - see eBooks page

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

Rolfe et al.’s (2001) Reflective Model

• A model of critical reflection originally developed for nursing other and healthcare practitioners but is now very widely used because of its simplicity

Schön’s Model of Reflection

• Article discussing Donald Schön's practitioner self-reflection model, the advantages and disadvantages of his work, as well as some alternatives and some examples of his ideas in practice.

Succeeding in Postgraduate Study - Models of Reflection - Core Concepts for Reflective Thinking

• Reflection section on a free online course from the Open University 

What is GIBBS REFLECTIVE CYCLE and How to Use It (with an Example) yes

• YouTube video