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THE VALUE OF A PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY

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Having a larger philosophy helps you in three important ways. First, it can serve as a problem solving compass, allowing you to make everyday decisions more quickly. This makes you more agile, enables you to take initiative, and improves productivity and results. Second, a personal philosophy helps define what is important to you and what is not. This enables you to set better goals and make progress toward them. Third, it helps you act with intention. When you act with intention instead of relying on habit, you can stay agile, changing approaches that work against your best interests.

When you’re able to step outside your personal experience to form a more general philosophy, you can better connect with others. You see how their experiences, society, and beliefs shape their behaviors, and you notice your own instinctive responses to them, which can give you a feel for how you might respond to other behaviors as well.

Think back to a time you fought with a friend. If your first thought was to blame yourself, you might also focus on blaming yourself when you do not understand an assignment. If your strategy often involves trying to figure out a difficult assignment on your own, you might apply a similar strategy to the conflict with your friend and try to smooth over the argument by simply not talking about it.

By applying critical thinking to your problem solving framework, you can learn to react to, frame, and manage each new problem in the way that has worked best for you in the past. And as new issues crop up over time, your agility skill will help you to tweak your approach accordingly.

RESPONSE BOARD

1. Name one value or goal that you’d like to help guide your personal philosophy and explain why it is important to you.

YOUR RESPONSE

Before you begin your response, it may be helpful to think about some of the personal examples you might include in the webtext activities over the next few pages. What are examples of recent or past changes you have worked through? You can think of the change as a problem and how you managed the change as the solution. Here are some possible areas of change to consider:

 living arrangements, like moving to a new location or place

 a new job, promotion, or change in employment

 gaining or losing loved ones

 relationships (friends, partners, pets)

 academics

 your daily routine

In the note-taking template that follows, describe your thoughts, feelings, and actions associated with the change you select.

2. Use the space below to write about how you react to change: describe your thoughts, feelings, and initial reactions to change. Be sure to include personal examples.

3. Use the space below to write about how you frame change: describe the steps you took to understand the change and how you described the change to others. Be sure to include personal examples.

4. Use the space below to write about how you manage change: describe the boundaries you had to work within, how your feelings toward change evolved, and what you learned from the situation. Be sure to include personal examples.

Week 7 Assignment – Creating Your Personal Philosophy of Change

Due: Week 7

Points: 125

Skill(s) Being Assessed: Problem Solving

Criteria for Success: In this assignment, you will:

Develop a Reacting to Change section that includes reflective thought, is detailed, and is supported by a relevant source.

Develop a Framing Change section that includes reflective thought, is detailed, and is supported by a relevant source.

Develop a Managing Change section that includes reflective thought, is detailed, and is supported by a relevant source.

Explain the connection of relevant sources to the philosophy of change.

Create a visual component that conveys the personal philosophy of change.

Include writing and sources that are appropriately formatted using the Strayer Writing Standards.

What to submit/deliverables: 1) An overview of your personal philosophy of change and 2) a visual collage or combination of phrases, images, or other elements that represents your personal philosophy of change.

What is the value of doing this assignment?

Major change is an inevitable part of personal and professional lives—both changes that aren’t desired and those that we actively make. For example, you may unexpectedly find yourself apartment shopping because your landlord has, once again, raised your rent. Or perhaps you have decided to find a new job that will help you develop the skills needed for a promotion.

When we have our lives ordered and planned, change can seem like a problem. And like any problem, dealing with change requires a solution. An important part of coming to a solution is understanding your personal philosophy of change. A philosophy of change is how you react to, frame, and manage change. In this assignment, you’ll examine how you personally deal with large changes in your life.

You will use your problem solving skill to analyze how you frame the problems associated with change and find evidence-based solutions to manage them. You will apply this philosophy to your experience with the 10 Skills in your next and final assignment. Additionally, this assignment gives you the opportunity to think deeply about your agility skill and how you can practice agility effectively in different contexts. It will also allow you to practice your innovation skill in exploring new ways of thinking and integrating different ideas and experiences to think about how you approach change.

Your goal for this assignment is to: Use your problem solving skill to create a personal philosophy of change that you could apply to managing change in your personal and professional life.

What you need to complete this assignment:

A minimum of three quality sources to support your final philosophy of change overview.

Steps to complete:

STEP 1: Begin to understand how you manage change by thinking of a recent or past change and how you dealt with it. Complete the Chapter 7 web text exercises before attempting the assignment.

STEP 2: Use the information from your web text exercises to write your ideal personal philosophy of change overview.

Include the following sections:

Reacting to Change

Framing Change

Managing Change

Each section should be 1–2 paragraphs long and must be supported by at least one source of your choice, for a minimum of three sources total. You must also detail why you chose the source and its relevance to the information you have included in your overview.

Some examples of resources include a work of art, quotations, an online article or written work with an identifiable author, and the philosophy of another person, group, or organization. Feel free to explore different resources, but ask your instructor if you have any questions.

STEP 3: One way to keep your strategies for problem solving on your mind is to keep reminders around you in daily life. For this step, use your philosophy of change overview to create a visual component you can refer to every day. The ideal format is a final version that could fit on a single framed piece of paper or picture that could be posted somewhere you will see it every day (think office wall, desk at work, the bathroom mirror, or the refrigerator). This component can include inspirational phrases, images, or whatever elements you choose to include to reinforce your philosophy of change.

Example 1

Example 2

STEP 4: Format your work according to the Strayer Writing Standards. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.

STEP 5: Upload both components of the assignment to Blackboard in Week 7.

Grading for this assignment will be based on the Week 7 Assignment rubric.