Motivating yourself for achievement (neteffect series)

Langue : Anglais

Auteurs : Bell Arthur H., Smith Dayle M.

Couverture de l’ouvrage Motivating yourself for achievement (neteffect series)

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For courses in Motivation, Career and Self Explorations, and Freshman Orientation/Student Success.

Written in an interest-grabbing, person-to-person style, this brief, supplemental, unique step-by-step guide/workbook explores both the classic and most recent theories and applications of human motivation, showing students how to come to terms with personal motivators and use them for higher levels of achievement. Hands-on in approach, it combines assessment activities, narrative, and frequent opportunities for students to enter their own thoughts, reactions, and experiences?resulting in an insightful intellectual diary on the nature of one's own personal motivation profile.

1. Motivation: What It Is—and Isn't. 2. Dealing with the Classic Demotivators. 3. Assessing Your Primary Motivators. 4. Motivation from the Inside. 5. Motivation from the Outside. 6. Motivation by Reward. 7. Motivation by What You Expect. 8. Motivation by What's Fair. 9. Overcoming Demotivators and Mapping Your Motivational Goals. Recommended Reading.

A personal motivation assessment tool—A 15-minute fill-out instrument.
- Enables students to reach more objective conclusions and insights about their motivation knowledge, experiences, and attitudes.

“Your Turn” exercises—Prompts students to enter their opinions, insights, comments, questions, objections, feedback, and experiences in journal-like entries right in the book itself.
- Promotes student participation in bringing book concepts to life as skills to try. Exercises and students responses link to form an intellectual diary that students can use to continually evaluate their motivational progress or stumbling blocks.

Detailed treatment of 15 classic demotivators—With tips on how to overcome them.
- Guides students away from common pitfalls and into success.

Focus on the use of personal expectation and the use of fairness (equity) in personal motivation.
- Helps students keep a “real-world” focus on personal motivation.

More than 80 “Insight” call-outs—Emphasize key themes of the book.
- Crystalizes main ideas and aids students in creating a coherent idea map on concepts and applications of personal motivation.

An opportunity to map personal goals and motivators—In the final chapter.
- Helps students tie together all the concepts covered and apply them directly to their personal real-world situation.

Chapter goals and summaries.
- Keeps the intellectual plan of the book clear at all times and sets behavior objectives to be met for each chapter.