Guides: General Education: Projects

eBooks

100 Conversations for Career Success (2012) This book helps job seekers manage their day-to-day search and professional networking in-person and online. Job seekers who need this book know they should reach out to business contacts and connect on social media, but don't know how. Scripts and templates teach what to say when contacting people during job searches and showcase various approaches, including details about how to connect in person and via phone, email, and social media sites.
Communication Toolkit ; 5th edition (2021) Contents: Transitioning to tertiary studies, research skills, academic writing, refining your writing, & face-to-face communication.
Goal Setting (2008) Goal Setting, features worksheets, quizzes, and other practical tools, giving you powerful techniques you can use to set a goal, make a plan, and acquire the resources and power necessary to achieve your objective.
Learn your Way to Success: How to Customize your Professional Learning Plan to Accelerate your Career (2012) Learn Your Way to Success is designed for every employee at every level, from the factory floor to the executive suite, from corporate headquarters to the most remote field location, from every line of business and every functional area. The goal of this book is to help you make your daily learning explicit so that you can consciously use it to improve your current job performance and your career possibilities.
One Perfect Pitch : How to Sell your Idea, your Product, your Business, or Yourself (2016) You always need to be selling yourself, pitching your partners or your clients to work with you, or pitching what makes your new business an exciting and worthwhile investment.
Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision- Making Skills (2014) Train your brain for better decisions, problem solving, and innovation Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills is the comprehensive guide to training your brain to do more for you. Written by a critical thinking trainer and coach, the book presents a pragmatic set of tools to apply critical thinking techniques to everyday business issues. Think Smarter is filled with real world examples that demonstrate how the tools work in action, in addition to dozens of practice exercises applicable across industries and functions, Think Smarter is a versatile resource for individuals, managers, students, and corporate training programs. Thinking is the foundation of everything you do, but we rely largely on automatic thinking to process information, often resulting in misunderstandings and errors. Shifting over to critical thinking means thinking purposefully using a framework and toolset, enabling thought processes that lead to better decisions, faster problem solving, and creative innovation. Think Smarter provides clear, actionable steps toward improving your critical thinking skills, plus exercises that clarify complex concepts by putting theory into practice. Features include: A comprehensive critical thinking framework Over twenty-five "tools" to help you think more critically Critical thinking implementation for functions and activities Examples of the real-world use of each tool Learn what questions to ask, how to uncover the real problem to solve, and mistakes to avoid. Recognize assumptions your can rely on versus those without merit, and train your brain to tick through your mental toolbox to arrive at more innovative solutions. Critical thinking is the top skill on the wish list in the business world, and sharpening your ability can have profound affects throughout all facets of life. Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills provides a roadmap to more effective and productive thought.
What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the way we Approach Goal Setting (2022) "Celebrated speaker, coach, and author Tara McMullin shows you how to transform the way you set and achieve your goals to create a gentler and more fulfilling way to work toward what you truly want." -- taken from description.

Websites

7 Ways to Improve your Self-Management Skills Here are seven ways you can develop your self-management skills: 1.Embrace your strengths 2. Adapt to challenges 3. Nurture your relationships with others 4. Set goals for yourself 5. Understand your emotions 6. Be patient 7. Prioritize your well-being
14 Quick Tips for Effective Communication in the Workplace This website provides you with 14 tips to foster effective communication at the workplace.
Communicating Effectively Effective communication is essential for managing relationships with your staff, customers and stakeholders. Read how to improve your business communication with staff, suppliers and customers.
Taking Part in Academic Discussions If you struggle with academic discussions due to language confidence or the strength of your ideas, here are some tips to help.
Tips for Formatting Messages at Work Organising your messages is an essential skill for work. Since business communication should be clear and brief, it's important to format your messages accordingly.

Streaming Videos

Behavioral Interview Triggers: Selection Interview Skills Series This episode features a variety of behavioral and situational interview scenarios that enable viewers to critique each one and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the interviewers’ approach.
Career Pathways Planning Career planning is an essential part of life development—and it can take place at any stage in one’s professional life. Taking into account the constantly evolving job market and the continual changes occurring in higher education, this program helps viewers develop a career pathway plan that identifies three areas of interest and the ways each of them can be achieved, short-term and long-term. Job seekers of any age will discover helpful methods for career pathway planning. The support that a professional career adviser can bring is discussed, along with the need to update and renew pathway plans at regular intervals.
Doing the Job: Basic Job Skills This video brings those all-too-elusive aspects of job success into focus, exploring professional behaviour, ethics, communication, leadership, teamwork, problem solving, organisation, and information management.
Learning Pathways to Careers The workforce is constantly changing. Career pathways take many twists and turns during the course of an individual's life. Today, most jobs or careers involve a requirement for initial and ongoing learning and training. This program explores learning pathways, including professional careers through university degrees, vocational options and training and post-graduate and ongoing training.
Managing Projects Effectively Key tip: Draw out a map of the project before you start to manage it so that you can follow it.
The Pathways Plan in Action Implement your career plan with a clear set of priorities. Break it down into short term and long term goals. Check your own progress and continue to plan even after you get a job. Set goals for the future.

YouTube Videos

Goal Setting

Goal Setting "This goal setting training video is an easy to follow and thought-provoking program that will encourage personal growth in the participants, and in turn, your organisation" -- taken from description.
How to Build an Effective Career Plan This video shares how to create an effective career plan by walking through some essential tips. -- taken from description.

Job Searching & Career Pathways

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020 One of the world's most popular job-hunting guides, this manual provides information on cover letters, networking, interviews and salary negotiations.
Write a Winning Job Application: a Practical Guide to Winning a Job in the 2020s How do I write a resume? What is a selection criteria? This book covers all aspects of applying for a job, from resume writing to interviews to a handy list of professional words to use in your application. It is essentially the bible for applying for any job.

Discover Your Gameplan Explore the different courses that are available at North Metropolitan TAFE with this interactive website. Find a course or career that suits your interests.
Explore Your Career "Answer a couple of questions to find study, training or job options that support you current career needs or goals." -- taken from website.
Jobs & Skills WA You can find information on: Jobs in Western Australia, Training pathways to employment, How we can help you get that job, What's happening in my region? Free workshops for jobseekers, Deadly jobs for you and your mob, Finding a job, Applying for a job, Nail that job interview! Top tips for getting that job, and many more..
The Job Seeker: Do you have what it takes? Using the style of a reality TV program, this show explains some of the important steps required to get hired by an employer.
Occupations A to Z Perhaps your dream job is one you have never heard of? Have a look at the Australian Government list of occupations and find out more!

Books in the Library

Communication skills; Rev, ed. (2008) This title covers all the most important aspects of effective communication and assists students inachieving the best grades and career prospects possible. Communication Skills is divided into two main parts: Academic Communication and Professional Communication.
The Project Book (2019) ** Winner AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - BEST GENERAL BUSINESS BOOK 2020 ** Finalist  AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - BEST BOOK 2020 Deliver great projects every time Projects are the lifeblood of organisations, but many projects fall short of expectations because of poor project management and/or poor project sponsorship. In The Project Book, author and 20-year project management and sponsorship veteran Colin D Ellis teaches you the skills and behaviours required to make your projects succeed, every time. The best projects, whether they are delivered in an agile or waterfall way, are a result of the people that lead them and the environment they create. This fail-safe and comprehensive handbook shows you how to develop the mindset and communication skills to create projects that leave a legacy for you, your team and your organisation. Project leaders and senior managers in all business and technical disciplines will benefit from the insightful guidance this book offers and better project outcomes will result. Split into two parts, individually addressing Project Leaders and Project Sponsors, this book guides large project facilitators to understand the importance of people over processes. become a project leader that people trust build a team culture of collaboration, agility and creativity upskill executives so that they're catalysts for transformation develop the organisational discipline needed for successful projects create a mature environment for your projects to thrive Engaging, informative and humorous, The Project Book will help project managers, project sponsors, scrum masters and product owners across all organisations to deliver successful projects in a way that customers will talk about for years.
Rock Your Presentation (2016) Nearly all of us have to pitch or present our ideas, whether in a formal setting after lunch to a hundred jaded salespeople, in a lecture theatre or classroom, putting over our thoughts to a team of colleagues, or even selling a concept one-on-one to your boss. In all these situations we can choose between delivering a message that sounds like muzak, or one that wakes the listener up. Most presentations and pitches could benefit from being 'rocked up' - becoming more dynamic and memorable, in ways that arouse the passion of the audience. By applying the ideas in ROCK YOUR PRESENTATION you can deliver better, livelier and more emotionally engaging talks which leave audiences with the kind of high you get from being in a crowd at a great concert. Barlow applies the rock'n'roll metaphor throughout the book, turning what, to many, is a stressful subject into an exciting and fun exercise you can't wait to try out. So take the Van Halen approach to planning your presentation, deliver it like a hit song with a chorus and a bridge, play a few well-rehearsed power chords and set your audience ablaze.