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Mission Statement

Creating Your Career Success Action Plan – The key to reaching your personal and professional goals is to develop your new skills one step at a time building one upon the other. Having an action plan in place to implement what you have learned into your personal and professional life is essential to making the positive changes last. What are your career goals? Where would you like to see yourself in the next 3 yrs. or 5 yrs.? In this final workshop, we will help you create and implement your Success Action Plan! We will provide you with tools you can use daily to incorporate your new skills effectively, so you can reach your true potential and become the leader you were meant to be!

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Objectives

1. Planning Success: It’s critical to have a plan that will guide you toward success in whatever area of your life that you choose. This will assist you in being more deliberate with your actions and ensuring that you’re constantly advancing toward your objectives. Therefore, take the time to create a solid plan for success and then follow it! In this course manual, you will learn the 9 essential steps to include in your success plan and get some valuable advice from some our greatest leaders of all time.
2. Self-Growth Plan: Self-growth is a natural process that helps you improve and broaden your capabilities. Self-improvement can benefit both your professional and personal life because it enables you to reach your best potential. In this lesson, we dive deep on what self-growth is, why its’ important, what a self-growth plan looks like and we reveal the 8 essential steps in creating your personal self-growth plan.
3. Career Plan: A solid career plan may successfully direct your professional life, from landing your first job to having a fulfilling career. You can examine your professional possibilities and create a solid plan for accomplishing your objectives by carefully planning your career. In this course manual, we go through career planning strategies and how to create a productive professional roadmap.
4. Goal Setting: Success will be determined more than ever before by one’s ability to set goals. Setting goals has been connected to success more than any other method or tactic. People who learn to set goals and take decisive efforts toward achieving them achieve and change the world throughout human history. That is why, in this course manual we will ensure you understand how to create powerful and achievable goals that lead to your success.
5. Take Action: Taking action is necessary to achieve your goals because success is not something that comes naturally. In this next lesson, we will explore 15 factors why action is crucial for success as you develop personally and professionally so that you can realize your aspirations, goals, and dreams.
6. Action Plan: Any project must have a plan for management, organization, as well as a goal-realization strategy before it can begin. Any objective can have a clear route to accomplishment created with an action plan (personal, business, or financial goal). This lesson will teach you how to create an efficient and effective action plan and why any goal or project requires one.
7. Strategic Planning: Strategic planning is the skill of developing detailed business plans, putting them into action, and assessing the outcomes in light of a company’s overarching long-term objectives or goals. In this lesson, we will go over the 3-step process of strategic planning, why strategic planning is necessary in obtaining your organizations objectives and also you will have access to a real-world example of an effective strategic plan.
8. Strategic Implementation: The process of putting your strategic plan into practice is known as strategy implementation. Your plan is just as valuable as how well it is put into practice, whether you are implementing a new marketing strategy to boost sales or introducing work management software to boost productivity. This course manual discusses 6 key strategic implementation steps, the 3 c’s for implementation, as well as implementation difficulties and how to prevent them. Additionally, look into several frameworks related to this process to position yourself for success.
9. Plan Examples: Face the daily grind and make a plan for how you can effectively complete your goals if you want to succeed in life. You can accomplish it with the use of a well-designed action plan. It enables you to assess your needs and set objectives that meet the requirements of what an objective should be. This course manual teaches you by sharing examples of others action plans – how to create action plans, carry them out, and eventually realize your most important life goals.
10. Continuous Improvement: An issue that affects all businesses and organizations is continuous improvement. It’s challenging to survive without it unless you don’t have any customers, staff, or rival businesses. While innovation is essential for developing novel processes, goods, or services, continual improvement is essential for raising standards of performance and quality. In today’s cutthroat marketplace, stagnation is loss. Lack of a continuous improvement plan might be deadly and result in high expenses for corrective efforts. In this lesson, we share valuable insight as to how you can continuously improve the processes within your organization.
11. Productivity Habits: “Productivity is less about what you do with your time and more about how you run your mind,” observed Robin S. Sharma once. In the end, productivity is about using your time as efficiently as possible. In this lesson we will share 16 productivity habits that you can easy implement into your everyday life to help you drastically increase your own productivity.
12. Life Success: What does success mean to you? How can one achieve success in life? Success can be equated with various things by different people, including wealth, power, and having a positive impact on society. They’re all accurate. Success can mean different things to different people. It would mean one thing to you, but a different thing to someone else. In this final course manual, we share some of the greatest quotes from some of the most accomplished people in history along with 22 of the top pieces of advice to follow if you wish to succeed as well as a powerful Formula for Success to live the life of your dreams!

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Strategies

1. Discover the 9 steps essential in creating your success action plan.
2. Create your personal self-growth plan in 8 key steps.
3. Learn the 8-step process to prepare a career plan and get access to career planning examples and easy to follow templates.
4. Put into practice the 9 simple steps to setting powerful goals.
5. Identify the 15 factors on why taking action is crucial to your success.
6. Learn the 7 phases to writing an effective and efficient action plan.
7. Access the 3-step process to strategic planning.
8. Learn the 6-step process to implement your strategic plan effectively and efficiently.
9. Discover the top 5 reasons to have an action plan and review real life examples of successful companies action plans.
10. Access a plan for ongoing improvement along with powerful tools and techniques.
11. Discover 16 Top Productivity Habits to adopt.
12. Identify 22 strategies for success along with the Formula for Success.

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Tasks

1. Go through the Study Guide and Distance Learning lessons first and make notes.
2. Identify the key relationships that need to be managed to ensure project success.
3. Schedule a meeting for the participants to meet and discuss the workshop within 30 days.
4. Each participant will identify three personal goals and see how they relate to the rest of the groups goals.
5. Assess where you currently are with your confidence level, so you can make the necessary adjustments moving forward.
6. As a group you’ll go through an exercise to help kick start your career planning process.
7. Get access to your own daily project planner and learn what SWOT analysis is and how to use it during your strategic planning
8. Begin to implement the strategic planning process necessary in obtaining your organizations goals and objectives.
9. Enjoy the walking One to one problem solving exercise.
10. Share your “greatest possible future” ideas.
11. Experience 2 fun interactive exercises with your group to encourage discussions and to learn the values of your group members.
12. Create your bucket list for what you want to accomplish in your life.

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Introduction

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It should go without saying that failing to plan is planning to fail. Everybody who has ever had the opportunity to experience failure may relate to these words.

This is demonstrated by the numerous New Year’s resolutions that, for whatever reason, none of us were able to keep, whether they related to an exercise regimen, a diet modification, or learning a new skill.

“WITHOUT GOALS AND PLANS TO REACH THEM, YOU ARE LIKE A SHIP THAT HAS SET SAIL WITH NO DESTINATION.” — FITZHUGH DODSON

Why is having a success action plan necessary?

Planning may be seen by some as tedious and an “inconvenient” process. Planning can, however, ultimately prove to be quite beneficial for everyone.

Without adequate planning, we experience the typical signs of returning to our regular and routine pace of life.

Planning ahead is essential to help us achieve our goals and to help us break them down into smaller, more manageable goals that will make them much easier to attain.

Although it may not seem like a necessary component of success, planning will prove to be crucial in every aspect of your life once you realize its advantages.

Planning helps us see clearly what has to be done, what goals need to be attained, and how much time will be required to accomplish those goals.

Planning can be strongly related to having effective time management since it encourages the planner to set aside a suitable amount of time for one job before moving on to the next.

These self-imposed deadlines are a healthy type of incentive that both natural procrastinators and those who do not require them greatly.

“PLANNING IS BRINGING THE FUTURE INTO PRESENT SO THAT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT NOW.” — ALAN LAKEIN

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Benefits of Planning

Planning provides a roadmap—more accurately, a timeline—on how to maintain and accomplish the goals we have set for ourselves.

The benefit of this map is that it can be readily customized for each person based on the situation.

In some way or another, all of us are subjected to planning. When we plan our vacations, we typically see the advantages of planning in action.

An itinerary is required to keep track of tasks that must be completed prior to the trip, as well as destinations and activities. Planning is frequently employed when creating a budget.

The amount of stress and frustration that may be saved by planning ahead is enormous. This enables you and your traveling buddies to enjoy the vacation more.

One may be confident that their funds are carefully monitored to avoid overspending, even when it comes to budgeting. This enables proper money management, including spending and saving, as well as the achievement of both long- and short-term financial objectives.

“MAKE TIME FOR PLANNING; WARS ARE WON IN THE GENERAL’S TENT.” — STEPHEN R. COVEY

The Result of Planning:

For the avid planner, planning has turned into a need for daily existence. a natural instinctive reaction to a new work or circumstance.

It has been demonstrated that planning helps the planner experience an increase in productivity and efficiency in their social or professional lives.

Planning enables the planner to filter out distractions from the core plan and maintain concentration on it.

There is little question that changes and unpredictable factors will be taken into account during the planning process.

The good thing about having a plan is that it may take into account such circumstances and lessen any tension the planner may feel in comparison to not having a strategy. The strategy only needs to be quickly changed, and it can be changed with little to no work.

All of these planning benefits must be connected to the nature of planning.

The bare bones of the timetable and the interim goals are placed into writing through planning. It can accept both little and large plans simultaneously and is highly adaptable and configurable to each user. This reality continues to be the primary justification for why businesses and organizations employ both short- and long-term planning to achieve their goals.

This eventually encourages productivity, efficiency, and an aim for the organization to reach its ultimate objective.

“PLAN YOUR WORK FOR TODAY AND EVERY DAY, THEN WORK YOUR PLAN.” — MARGARET THATCHER

Therefore, it can be said that planning has much more advantages than disadvantages.

The key is to take action on your plan!

If both large and small enterprises, use plans to achieve their objectives and enjoy growth…

imagine the miracles that planning along with consistent inspired action can do in your life.

In the Action Plan workshop, we will help you create and implement your Success Action Plan! We will provide you with tools you can use daily to incorporate your new skills effectively, so you can reach your true potential and become the leader you were meant to be!

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Executive Summary

Everyone wants to have a successful life. Everyone has opinions about how to spend their lives in a way that will bring them the most success and satisfaction, whether in their personal or professional lives.

Your ideas will only be that if you don’t actually carry out that vision.

To realize your dreams and make them a reality, you must take action at the appropriate time. However, acting haphazardly is a surefire formula for disaster.

You can only proceed with carrying out your vision if you have established a detailed strategy, considered all the advantages and disadvantages, and ready yourself for challenges.

An action plan can help with this. You may achieve your goals and see a clear route to success with the aid of an action plan.

So, what is an action plan?

An action plan is described as a document or checklist that lists the activities or duties that must be carried out in order to accomplish the goals that have been established.

An action plan, which is a component of strategic planning, is essential to project management because it enables teams to work together efficiently, communicate clearly, and complete a project from beginning to end.

An action plan is equally helpful for people pursuing their own goals outside of the business sector.

A good action plan lays out all the steps you must take to accomplish the objective and aids in getting you there quickly. Depending on your requirements, you can develop an action plan for a single target or a number of them.

An action plan makes sure that everything you need is put in writing and in the right location so that you can measure your progress and assign duties.

Why Is an Action Plan Necessary?

By leading you and your team to success, an action plan can cut your effort in half saving you both time and money.

Once formed, action plans take on a life of their own by keeping the team accountable and guiding them through every challenge. Planning ahead gives you the necessary clarity on the direction to go in, the technology to use, the roles to assign, and the challenges to overcome!

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin

There are 12 courses (or focus areas) in the Action Plan Workshop that will assist in acquiring these skills.

Here’s what we’ll be covering:

1. Planning Success: It’s critical to have a plan that will guide you toward success in whatever area of your life that you choose. This will assist you in being more deliberate with your actions and ensuring that you’re constantly advancing toward your objectives. Therefore, take the time to create a solid plan for success and then follow it! In this course manual, you will learn the 9 essential steps to include in your success plan and get some valuable advice from some our greatest leaders of all time.
2. Self-Growth Plan: Self-growth is a natural process that helps you improve and broaden your capabilities. Self-improvement can benefit both your professional and personal life because it enables you to reach your best potential. In this lesson, we dive deep on what self-growth is, why its’ important, what a self-growth plan looks like and we reveal the 8 essential steps in creating your personal self-growth plan.
3. Career Plan: A solid career plan may successfully direct your professional life, from landing your first job to having a fulfilling career. You can examine your professional possibilities and create a solid plan for accomplishing your objectives by carefully planning your career. In this course manual, we go through career planning strategies and how to create a productive professional roadmap.
4. Goal Setting: Success will be determined more than ever before by one’s ability to set goals. Setting goals has been connected to success more than any other method or tactic. People who learn to set goals and take decisive efforts toward achieving them achieve and change the world throughout human history. That is why, in this course manual we will ensure you understand how to create powerful and achievable goals that lead to your success.
5. Take Action: Taking action is necessary to achieve your goals because success is not something that comes naturally. In this next lesson, we will explore 15 factors why action is crucial for success as you develop personally and professionally so that you can realize your aspirations, goals, and dreams.
6. Action Plan: Any project must have a plan for management, organization, as well as a goal-realization strategy before it can begin. Any objective can have a clear route to accomplishment created with an action plan (personal, business, or financial goal). This lesson will teach you how to create an efficient and effective action plan and why any goal or project requires one.
7. Strategic Planning: Strategic planning is the skill of developing detailed business plans, putting them into action, and assessing the outcomes in light of a company’s overarching long-term objectives or goals. In this lesson, we will go over the 3-step process of strategic planning, why strategic planning is necessary in obtaining your organizations objectives and also you will have access to a real-world example of an effective strategic plan.
8. Strategic Implementation: The process of putting your strategic plan into practice is known as strategy implementation. Your plan is just as valuable as how well it is put into practice, whether you are implementing a new marketing strategy to boost sales or introducing work management software to boost productivity. This course manual discusses 6 key strategic implementation steps, the 3 c’s for implementation, as well as implementation difficulties and how to prevent them. Additionally, look into several frameworks related to this process to position yourself for success.
9. Plan Examples: Face the daily grind and make a plan for how you can effectively complete your goals if you want to succeed in life. You can accomplish it with the use of a well-designed action plan. It enables you to assess your needs and set objectives that meet the requirements of what an objective should be. This course manual teaches you by sharing examples of others action plans – how to create action plans, carry them out, and eventually realize your most important life goals.
10. Continuous Improvement: An issue that affects all businesses and organizations is continuous improvement. It’s challenging to survive without it unless you don’t have any customers, staff, or rival businesses. While innovation is essential for developing novel processes, goods, or services, continual improvement is essential for raising standards of performance and quality. In today’s cutthroat marketplace, stagnation is loss. Lack of a continuous improvement plan might be deadly and result in high expenses for corrective efforts. In this lesson, we share valuable insight as to how you can continuously improve the processes within your organization.
11. Productivity Habits: “Productivity is less about what you do with your time and more about how you run your mind,” observed Robin S. Sharma once. In the end, productivity is about using your time as efficiently as possible. In this lesson we will share 16 productivity habits that you can easy implement into your everyday life to help you drastically increase your own productivity.
12. Life Success: What does success mean to you? How can one achieve success in life? Success can be equated with various things by different people, including wealth, power, and having a positive impact on society. They’re all accurate. Success can mean different things to different people. It would mean one thing to you, but a different thing to someone else. In this final course manual, we share some of the greatest quotes from some of the most accomplished people in history along with 22 of the top pieces of advice to follow if you wish to succeed as well as a powerful Formula for Success to live the life of your dreams!

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Curriculum

Women Empowerment – Workshop 12 – Action Plan

1. Planning Success
2. Self-Growth Plan
3. Career Plan
4. Goal Setting
5. Take Action
6. Action Plan
7. Strategic Planning
8. Implementation Strategy
9. Plan Examples
10. Continuous Improvement
11. Productivity Habits
12. Life Success

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Distance Learning

Introduction

Welcome to Appleton Greene and thank you for enrolling on the Women Empowerment corporate training program. You will be learning through our unique facilitation via distance-learning method, which will enable you to practically implement everything that you learn academically. The methods and materials used in your program have been designed and developed to ensure that you derive the maximum benefits and enjoyment possible. We hope that you find the program challenging and fun to do. However, if you have never been a distance-learner before, you may be experiencing some trepidation at the task before you. So we will get you started by giving you some basic information and guidance on how you can make the best use of the modules, how you should manage the materials and what you should be doing as you work through them. This guide is designed to point you in the right direction and help you to become an effective distance-learner. Take a few hours or so to study this guide and your guide to tutorial support for students, while making notes, before you start to study in earnest.

Study environment

You will need to locate a quiet and private place to study, preferably a room where you can easily be isolated from external disturbances or distractions. Make sure the room is well-lit and incorporates a relaxed, pleasant feel. If you can spoil yourself within your study environment, you will have much more of a chance to ensure that you are always in the right frame of mind when you do devote time to study. For example, a nice fire, the ability to play soft soothing background music, soft but effective lighting, perhaps a nice view if possible and a good size desk with a comfortable chair. Make sure that your family know when you are studying and understand your study rules. Your study environment is very important. The ideal situation, if at all possible, is to have a separate study, which can be devoted to you. If this is not possible then you will need to pay a lot more attention to developing and managing your study schedule, because it will affect other people as well as yourself. The better your study environment, the more productive you will be.

Study tools & rules

Try and make sure that your study tools are sufficient and in good working order. You will need to have access to a computer, scanner and printer, with access to the internet. You will need a very comfortable chair, which supports your lower back, and you will need a good filing system. It can be very frustrating if you are spending valuable study time trying to fix study tools that are unreliable, or unsuitable for the task. Make sure that your study tools are up to date. You will also need to consider some study rules. Some of these rules will apply to you and will be intended to help you to be more disciplined about when and how you study. This distance-learning guide will help you and after you have read it you can put some thought into what your study rules should be. You will also need to negotiate some study rules for your family, friends or anyone who lives with you. They too will need to be disciplined in order to ensure that they can support you while you study. It is important to ensure that your family and friends are an integral part of your study team. Having their support and encouragement can prove to be a crucial contribution to your successful completion of the program. Involve them in as much as you can.

Successful distance-learning

Distance-learners are freed from the necessity of attending regular classes or workshops, since they can study in their own way, at their own pace and for their own purposes. But unlike traditional internal training courses, it is the student’s responsibility, with a distance-learning program, to ensure that they manage their own study contribution. This requires strong self-discipline and self-motivation skills and there must be a clear will to succeed. Those students who are used to managing themselves, are good at managing others and who enjoy working in isolation, are more likely to be good distance-learners. It is also important to be aware of the main reasons why you are studying and of the main objectives that you are hoping to achieve as a result. You will need to remind yourself of these objectives at times when you need to motivate yourself. Never lose sight of your long-term goals and your short-term objectives. There is nobody available here to pamper you, or to look after you, or to spoon-feed you with information, so you will need to find ways to encourage and appreciate yourself while you are studying. Make sure that you chart your study progress, so that you can be sure of your achievements and re-evaluate your goals and objectives regularly.

Self-assessment

Appleton Greene training programs are in all cases post-graduate programs. Consequently, you should already have obtained a business-related degree and be an experienced learner. You should therefore already be aware of your study strengths and weaknesses. For example, which time of the day are you at your most productive? Are you a lark or an owl? What study methods do you respond to the most? Are you a consistent learner? How do you discipline yourself? How do you ensure that you enjoy yourself while studying? It is important to understand yourself as a learner and so some self-assessment early on will be necessary if you are to apply yourself correctly. Perform a SWOT analysis on yourself as a student. List your internal strengths and weaknesses as a student and your external opportunities and threats. This will help you later on when you are creating a study plan. You can then incorporate features within your study plan that can ensure that you are playing to your strengths, while compensating for your weaknesses. You can also ensure that you make the most of your opportunities, while avoiding the potential threats to your success.

Accepting responsibility as a student

Training programs invariably require a significant investment, both in terms of what they cost and in the time that you need to contribute to study and the responsibility for successful completion of training programs rests entirely with the student. This is never more apparent than when a student is learning via distance-learning. Accepting responsibility as a student is an important step towards ensuring that you can successfully complete your training program. It is easy to instantly blame other people or factors when things go wrong. But the fact of the matter is that if a failure is your failure, then you have the power to do something about it, it is entirely in your own hands. If it is always someone else’s failure, then you are powerless to do anything about it. All students study in entirely different ways, this is because we are all individuals and what is right for one student, is not necessarily right for another. In order to succeed, you will have to accept personal responsibility for finding a way to plan, implement and manage a personal study plan that works for you. If you do not succeed, you only have yourself to blame.

Planning

By far the most critical contribution to stress, is the feeling of not being in control. In the absence of planning we tend to be reactive and can stumble from pillar to post in the hope that things will turn out fine in the end. Invariably they don’t! In order to be in control, we need to have firm ideas about how and when we want to do things. We also need to consider as many possible eventualities as we can, so that we are prepared for them when they happen. Prescriptive Change, is far easier to manage and control, than Emergent Change. The same is true with distance-learning. It is much easier and much more enjoyable, if you feel that you are in control and that things are going to plan. Even when things do go wrong, you are prepared for them and can act accordingly without any unnecessary stress. It is important therefore that you do take time to plan your studies properly.

Management

Once you have developed a clear study plan, it is of equal importance to ensure that you manage the implementation of it. Most of us usually enjoy planning, but it is usually during implementation when things go wrong. Targets are not met and we do not understand why. Sometimes we do not even know if targets are being met. It is not enough for us to conclude that the study plan just failed. If it is failing, you will need to understand what you can do about it. Similarly if your study plan is succeeding, it is still important to understand why, so that you can improve upon your success. You therefore need to have guidelines for self-assessment so that you can be consistent with performance improvement throughout the program. If you manage things correctly, then your performance should constantly improve throughout the program.

Study objectives & tasks

The first place to start is developing your program objectives. These should feature your reasons for undertaking the training program in order of priority. Keep them succinct and to the point in order to avoid confusion. Do not just write the first things that come into your head because they are likely to be too similar to each other. Make a list of possible departmental headings, such as: Customer Service; E-business; Finance; Globalization; Human Resources; Technology; Legal; Management; Marketing and Production. Then brainstorm for ideas by listing as many things that you want to achieve under each heading and later re-arrange these things in order of priority. Finally, select the top item from each department heading and choose these as your program objectives. Try and restrict yourself to five because it will enable you to focus clearly. It is likely that the other things that you listed will be achieved if each of the top objectives are achieved. If this does not prove to be the case, then simply work through the process again.

Study forecast

As a guide, the Appleton Greene Women Empowerment corporate training program should take 12-18 months to complete, depending upon your availability and current commitments. The reason why there is such a variance in time estimates is because every student is an individual, with differing productivity levels and different commitments. These differentiations are then exaggerated by the fact that this is a distance-learning program, which incorporates the practical integration of academic theory as an as a part of the training program. Consequently all of the project studies are real, which means that important decisions and compromises need to be made. You will want to get things right and will need to be patient with your expectations in order to ensure that they are. We would always recommend that you are prudent with your own task and time forecasts, but you still need to develop them and have a clear indication of what are realistic expectations in your case. With reference to your time planning: consider the time that you can realistically dedicate towards study with the program every week; calculate how long it should take you to complete the program, using the guidelines featured here; then break the program down into logical modules and allocate a suitable proportion of time to each of them, these will be your milestones; you can create a time plan by using a spreadsheet on your computer, or a personal organizer such as MS Outlook, you could also use a financial forecasting software; break your time forecasts down into manageable chunks of time, the more specific you can be, the more productive and accurate your time management will be; finally, use formulas where possible to do your time calculations for you, because this will help later on when your forecasts need to change in line with actual performance. With reference to your task planning: refer to your list of tasks that need to be undertaken in order to achieve your program objectives; with reference to your time plan, calculate when each task should be implemented; remember that you are not estimating when your objectives will be achieved, but when you will need to focus upon implementing the corresponding tasks; you also need to ensure that each task is implemented in conjunction with the associated training modules which are relevant; then break each single task down into a list of specific to do’s, say approximately ten to do’s for each task and enter these into your study plan; once again you could use MS Outlook to incorporate both your time and task planning and this could constitute your study plan; you could also use a project management software like MS Project. You should now have a clear and realistic forecast detailing when you can expect to be able to do something about undertaking the tasks to achieve your program objectives.

Performance management

It is one thing to develop your study forecast, it is quite another to monitor your progress. Ultimately it is less important whether you achieve your original study forecast and more important that you update it so that it constantly remains realistic in line with your performance. As you begin to work through the program, you will begin to have more of an idea about your own personal performance and productivity levels as a distance-learner. Once you have completed your first study module, you should re-evaluate your study forecast for both time and tasks, so that they reflect your actual performance level achieved. In order to achieve this you must first time yourself while training by using an alarm clock. Set the alarm for hourly intervals and make a note of how far you have come within that time. You can then make a note of your actual performance on your study plan and then compare your performance against your forecast. Then consider the reasons that have contributed towards your performance level, whether they are positive or negative and make a considered adjustment to your future forecasts as a result. Given time, you should start achieving your forecasts regularly.

With reference to time management: time yourself while you are studying and make a note of the actual time taken in your study plan; consider your successes with time-efficiency and the reasons for the success in each case and take this into consideration when reviewing future time planning; consider your failures with time-efficiency and the reasons for the failures in each case and take this into consideration when reviewing future time planning; re-evaluate your study forecast in relation to time planning for the remainder of your training program to ensure that you continue to be realistic about your time expectations. You need to be consistent with your time management, otherwise you will never complete your studies. This will either be because you are not contributing enough time to your studies, or you will become less efficient with the time that you do allocate to your studies. Remember, if you are not in control of your studies, they can just become yet another cause of stress for you.

With reference to your task management: time yourself while you are studying and make a note of the actual tasks that you have undertaken in your study plan; consider your successes with task-efficiency and the reasons for the success in each case; take this into consideration when reviewing future task planning; consider your failures with task-efficiency and the reasons for the failures in each case and take this into consideration when reviewing future task planning; re-evaluate your study forecast in relation to task planning for the remainder of your training program to ensure that you continue to be realistic about your task expectations. You need to be consistent with your task management, otherwise you will never know whether you are achieving your program objectives or not.

Keeping in touch

You will have access to qualified and experienced professors and tutors who are responsible for providing tutorial support for your particular training program. So don’t be shy about letting them know how you are getting on. We keep electronic records of all tutorial support emails so that professors and tutors can review previous correspondence before considering an individual response. It also means that there is a record of all communications between you and your professors and tutors and this helps to avoid any unnecessary duplication, misunderstanding, or misinterpretation. If you have a problem relating to the program, share it with them via email. It is likely that they have come across the same problem before and are usually able to make helpful suggestions and steer you in the right direction. To learn more about when and how to use tutorial support, please refer to the Tutorial Support section of this student information guide. This will help you to ensure that you are making the most of tutorial support that is available to you and will ultimately contribute towards your success and enjoyment with your training program.

Work colleagues and family

You should certainly discuss your program study progress with your colleagues, friends and your family. Appleton Greene training programs are very practical. They require you to seek information from other people, to plan, develop and implement processes with other people and to achieve feedback from other people in relation to viability and productivity. You will therefore have plenty of opportunities to test your ideas and enlist the views of others. People tend to be sympathetic towards distance-learners, so don’t bottle it all up in yourself. Get out there and share it! It is also likely that your family and colleagues are going to benefit from your labors with the program, so they are likely to be much more interested in being involved than you might think. Be bold about delegating work to those who might benefit themselves. This is a great way to achieve understanding and commitment from people who you may later rely upon for process implementation. Share your experiences with your friends and family.

Making it relevant

The key to successful learning is to make it relevant to your own individual circumstances. At all times you should be trying to make bridges between the content of the program and your own situation. Whether you achieve this through quiet reflection or through interactive discussion with your colleagues, client partners or your family, remember that it is the most important and rewarding aspect of translating your studies into real self-improvement. You should be clear about how you want the program to benefit you. This involves setting clear study objectives in relation to the content of the course in terms of understanding, concepts, completing research or reviewing activities and relating the content of the modules to your own situation. Your objectives may understandably change as you work through the program, in which case you should enter the revised objectives on your study plan so that you have a permanent reminder of what you are trying to achieve, when and why.

Distance-learning check-list

Prepare your study environment, your study tools and rules.
Undertake detailed self-assessment in terms of your ability as a learner.
Create a format for your study plan.
Consider your study objectives and tasks.
Create a study forecast.
Assess your study performance.
Re-evaluate your study forecast.
Be consistent when managing your study plan.
Use your Appleton Greene Certified Learning Provider (CLP) for tutorial support.
Make sure you keep in touch with those around you.

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Tutorial Support

Programs

Appleton Greene uses standard and bespoke corporate training programs as vessels to transfer business process improvement knowledge into the heart of our clients’ organizations. Each individual program focuses upon the implementation of a specific business process, which enables clients to easily quantify their return on investment. There are hundreds of established Appleton Greene corporate training products now available to clients within customer services, e-business, finance, globalization, human resources, information technology, legal, management, marketing and production. It does not matter whether a client’s employees are located within one office, or an unlimited number of international offices, we can still bring them together to learn and implement specific business processes collectively. Our approach to global localization enables us to provide clients with a truly international service with that all important personal touch. Appleton Greene corporate training programs can be provided virtually or locally and they are all unique in that they individually focus upon a specific business function. They are implemented over a sustainable period of time and professional support is consistently provided by qualified learning providers and specialist consultants.

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Support available

You will have a designated Certified Learning Provider (CLP) and an Accredited Consultant and we encourage you to communicate with them as much as possible. In all cases tutorial support is provided online because we can then keep a record of all communications to ensure that tutorial support remains consistent. You would also be forwarding your work to the tutorial support unit for evaluation and assessment. You will receive individual feedback on all of the work that you undertake on a one-to-one basis, together with specific recommendations for anything that may need to be changed in order to achieve a pass with merit or a pass with distinction and you then have as many opportunities as you may need to re-submit project studies until they meet with the required standard. Consequently the only reason that you should really fail (CLP) is if you do not do the work. It makes no difference to us whether a student takes 12 months or 18 months to complete the program, what matters is that in all cases the same quality standard will have been achieved.

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Support Process

Please forward all of your future emails to the designated (CLP) Tutorial Support Unit email address that has been provided and please do not duplicate or copy your emails to other AGC email accounts as this will just cause unnecessary administration. Please note that emails are always answered as quickly as possible but you will need to allow a period of up to 20 business days for responses to general tutorial support emails during busy periods, because emails are answered strictly within the order in which they are received. You will also need to allow a period of up to 30 business days for the evaluation and assessment of project studies. This does not include weekends or public holidays. Please therefore kindly allow for this within your time planning. All communications are managed online via email because it enables tutorial service support managers to review other communications which have been received before responding and it ensures that there is a copy of all communications retained on file for future reference. All communications will be stored within your personal (CLP) study file here at Appleton Greene throughout your designated study period. If you need any assistance or clarification at any time, please do not hesitate to contact us by forwarding an email and remember that we are here to help. If you have any questions, please list and number your questions succinctly and you can then be sure of receiving specific answers to each and every query.

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Time Management

It takes approximately 1 Year to complete the Women Empowerment corporate training program, incorporating 12 x 6-hour monthly workshops. Each student will also need to contribute approximately 4 hours per week over 1 Year of their personal time. Students can study from home or work at their own pace and are responsible for managing their own study plan. There are no formal examinations and students are evaluated and assessed based upon their project study submissions, together with the quality of their internal analysis and supporting documents. They can contribute more time towards study when they have the time to do so and can contribute less time when they are busy. All students tend to be in full time employment while studying and the Women Empowerment program is purposely designed to accommodate this, so there is plenty of flexibility in terms of time management. It makes no difference to us at Appleton Greene, whether individuals take 12-18 months to complete this program. What matters is that in all cases the same standard of quality will have been achieved with the standard and bespoke programs that have been developed.

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Distance Learning Guide

The distance learning guide should be your first port of call when starting your training program. It will help you when you are planning how and when to study, how to create the right environment and how to establish the right frame of mind. If you can lay the foundations properly during the planning stage, then it will contribute to your enjoyment and productivity while training later. The guide helps to change your lifestyle in order to accommodate time for study and to cultivate good study habits. It helps you to chart your progress so that you can measure your performance and achieve your goals. It explains the tools that you will need for study and how to make them work. It also explains how to translate academic theory into practical reality. Spend some time now working through your distance learning guide and make sure that you have firm foundations in place so that you can make the most of your distance learning program. There is no requirement for you to attend training workshops or classes at Appleton Greene offices. The entire program is undertaken online, program course manuals and project studies are administered via the Appleton Greene web site and via email, so you are able to study at your own pace and in the comfort of your own home or office as long as you have a computer and access to the internet.

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How To Study

The how to study guide provides students with a clear understanding of the Appleton Greene facilitation via distance learning training methods and enables students to obtain a clear overview of the training program content. It enables students to understand the step-by-step training methods used by Appleton Greene and how course manuals are integrated with project studies. It explains the research and development that is required and the need to provide evidence and references to support your statements. It also enables students to understand precisely what will be required of them in order to achieve a pass with merit and a pass with distinction for individual project studies and provides useful guidance on how to be innovative and creative when developing your Unique Program Proposition (UPP).

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Tutorial Support

Tutorial support for the Appleton Greene Women Empowerment corporate training program is provided online either through the Appleton Greene Client Support Portal (CSP), or via email. All tutorial support requests are facilitated by a designated Program Administration Manager (PAM). They are responsible for deciding which professor or tutor is the most appropriate option relating to the support required and then the tutorial support request is forwarded onto them. Once the professor or tutor has completed the tutorial support request and answered any questions that have been asked, this communication is then returned to the student via email by the designated Program Administration Manager (PAM). This enables all tutorial support, between students, professors and tutors, to be facilitated by the designated Program Administration Manager (PAM) efficiently and securely through the email account. You will therefore need to allow a period of up to 20 business days for responses to general support queries and up to 30 business days for the evaluation and assessment of project studies, because all tutorial support requests are answered strictly within the order in which they are received. This does not include weekends or public holidays. Consequently you need to put some thought into the management of your tutorial support procedure in order to ensure that your study plan is feasible and to obtain the maximum possible benefit from tutorial support during your period of study. Please retain copies of your tutorial support emails for future reference. Please ensure that ALL of your tutorial support emails are set out using the format as suggested within your guide to tutorial support. Your tutorial support emails need to be referenced clearly to the specific part of the course manual or project study which you are working on at any given time. You also need to list and number any questions that you would like to ask, up to a maximum of five questions within each tutorial support email. Remember the more specific you can be with your questions the more specific your answers will be too and this will help you to avoid any unnecessary misunderstanding, misinterpretation, or duplication. The guide to tutorial support is intended to help you to understand how and when to use support in order to ensure that you get the most out of your training program. Appleton Greene training programs are designed to enable you to do things for yourself. They provide you with a structure or a framework and we use tutorial support to facilitate students while they practically implement what they learn. In other words, we are enabling students to do things for themselves. The benefits of distance learning via facilitation are considerable and are much more sustainable in the long-term than traditional short-term knowledge sharing programs. Consequently you should learn how and when to use tutorial support so that you can maximize the benefits from your learning experience with Appleton Greene. This guide describes the purpose of each training function and how to use them and how to use tutorial support in relation to each aspect of the training program. It also provides useful tips and guidance with regard to best practice.

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Tutorial Support Tips

Students are often unsure about how and when to use tutorial support with Appleton Greene. This Tip List will help you to understand more about how to achieve the most from using tutorial support. Refer to it regularly to ensure that you are continuing to use the service properly. Tutorial support is critical to the success of your training experience, but it is important to understand when and how to use it in order to maximize the benefit that you receive. It is no coincidence that those students who succeed are those that learn how to be positive, proactive and productive when using tutorial support.

Be positive and friendly with your tutorial support emails

Remember that if you forward an email to the tutorial support unit, you are dealing with real people. “Do unto others as you would expect others to do unto you”. If you are positive, complimentary and generally friendly in your emails, you will generate a similar response in return. This will be more enjoyable, productive and rewarding for you in the long-term.

Think about the impression that you want to create

Every time that you communicate, you create an impression, which can be either positive or negative, so put some thought into the impression that you want to create. Remember that copies of all tutorial support emails are stored electronically and tutors will always refer to prior correspondence before responding to any current emails. Over a period of time, a general opinion will be arrived at in relation to your character, attitude and ability. Try to manage your own frustrations, mood swings and temperament professionally, without involving the tutorial support team. Demonstrating frustration or a lack of patience is a weakness and will be interpreted as such. The good thing about communicating in writing, is that you will have the time to consider your content carefully, you can review it and proof-read it before sending your email to Appleton Greene and this should help you to communicate more professionally, consistently and to avoid any unnecessary knee-jerk reactions to individual situations as and when they may arise. Please also remember that the CLP Tutorial Support Unit will not just be responsible for evaluating and assessing the quality of your work, they will also be responsible for providing recommendations to other learning providers and to client contacts within the Appleton Greene global client network, so do be in control of your own emotions and try to create a good impression.

Remember that quality is preferred to quantity

Please remember that when you send an email to the tutorial support team, you are not using Twitter or Text Messaging. Try not to forward an email every time that you have a thought. This will not prove to be productive either for you or for the tutorial support team. Take time to prepare your communications properly, as if you were writing a professional letter to a business colleague and make a list of queries that you are likely to have and then incorporate them within one email, say once every month, so that the tutorial support team can understand more about context, application and your methodology for study. Get yourself into a consistent routine with your tutorial support requests and use the tutorial support template provided with ALL of your emails. The (CLP) Tutorial Support Unit will not spoon-feed you with information. They need to be able to evaluate and assess your tutorial support requests carefully and professionally.

Be specific about your questions in order to receive specific answers

Try not to write essays by thinking as you are writing tutorial support emails. The tutorial support unit can be unclear about what in fact you are asking, or what you are looking to achieve. Be specific about asking questions that you want answers to. Number your questions. You will then receive specific answers to each and every question. This is the main purpose of tutorial support via email.

Keep a record of your tutorial support emails

It is important that you keep a record of all tutorial support emails that are forwarded to you. You can then refer to them when necessary and it avoids any unnecessary duplication, misunderstanding, or misinterpretation.

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Individual training workshops or telephone support

Please be advised that Appleton Greene does not provide separate or individual tutorial support meetings, workshops, or provide telephone support for individual students. Appleton Greene is an equal opportunities learning and service provider and we are therefore understandably bound to treat all students equally. We cannot therefore broker special financial or study arrangements with individual students regardless of the circumstances. All tutorial support is provided online and this enables Appleton Greene to keep a record of all communications between students, professors and tutors on file for future reference, in accordanc