CS113 Academic Strategies for the Business Professional
Unit 10 Writing Assignment
April 6, 2014
Unit 10 Writing Assignment Academic Strategies for the Business Professional was an ideal course to begin my first term taking online courses with Kaplan University. It has been six years since I attended college therefore my skills and strategies as a student were raw and out of practice. Each unit of this course helped to revive my abilities as a student. I was able to reawaken my skills with time management, note taking, and critical thinking. Furthermore I also reacquainted myself with my personal learning style and multiple intelligences. Even though I was able to recall ingrained proficiencies from my previous days …show more content…
One of the first and I feel one of the most important to possess was efficient time management and stress management skills. Effective time management skills can aid in helping to keep stress levels low and performance, work quality, and a positive attitude prominent. Critical thinking skills was another important topic I touched upon. Critical thinking is the ability to use logic and reason to evaluate information effectively. This is a vital ability as it aids with important decision making, goal-setting and problem solving. Lastly I studied a number of problem solving strategies to use in the business world. Effective problem solving can be used as both proactive and reactive resource for business operations. Being well-equipped with resourceful and professional problem solving strategies will prove to help me become a valuable asset to the business community I serve. For myself, I feel all of these concepts have helped to enrich my abilities and prepare me to become a qualified and confident candidate for the business …show more content…
My short-term educational goal is to complete my associate’s degree in accounting and subsequently my long-term educational goal is to complete my bachelor’s degree in accounting. In order for me to be successful in both of these goals, I will need to execute well-organized time and stress management, superb critical thinking, enhanced reading, note taking and writing skills. This will also require a great deal of personal responsibility, self-motivation, self-management and curiosity. For my short-term career goal, I am looking to advance at my current employment to their accounting department. Successively, my long-term career goal is to be in a management position of the accounting department. While similar qualities and abilities from my educational goals will directly apply to my career goals, I will also need to enlist my career networking, problem solving and action planning skills. I will also need to use my interdependence quality in order to be productive with my career networking and to be a positive, creative and constructive leader for the accounting department. I have been currently able to apply all of these skills and qualities to my present career position. I feel with continued application, practice and focus, I will