Organization

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Organization is an essential tool that can have serious effects on your life now and in the future. Organization involves practice and commitment that you can start working on today. Learn how you can develop essential organizational skills and how these skills can help you on the road to success.

1. Do you consider yourself an organized person? Take a look at your lifestyle as well as where you work, sleep, or play (your room, locker, desk, e.g.). Do these areas reflect someone who is organized? Explain.2. Do you find yourself running out of time? This is a common complaint for many people. It often seems as if there is not enough time in a day to accomplish all that needs to be done. However, many times we are simply not using our time wisely. Time management is an essential skill that will bring you success throughout all aspects of your life. It requires awareness, organization, and commitment. What exactly does it mean to manage your time? How does each of these factors aid in the efficient management of time? Why is time management important to the academic, social, personal, and professional aspects of your life?
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3. There are many different tools that you can use to help improve your organizational skills. Brainstorm different techniques or tools. Which do you feel would be the most useful and beneficial for you? Why? How can you use thesetools currently and once you join the workforce?

4. Consider the personal, social, and academic parts of your life. How can organization improve each of them? What are some specific ways you can think of to organize each of these aspects, limiting the stress and wasted energy that often go along with disorganization?

5. In today’s fast-paced world, multi-tasking is a skill that is essential in the workplace. What does it mean to multi-task? How does organization factor into one’s ability to multi-task? Provide several specific examples of how multi-tasking plays a role in your life and how it might play a role in your future profession.

6. How are study skills related to organizational skills? With your classmates brainstorm a list of the different study skills that work best for each of you. Explain how you use these skills and the effects they have on your performance in school. What are some ways in which these study skills may be utilized in your future profession?