Product Description

Skills for Success enables students to think creatively and constructively about personal, academic and career goals. Individuals are encouraged to identify what success really means to them and to plan an effective path towards achieving their aims. The book is rich in structured, reflective and practical activities that develop essential skills and qualities. There are also excellent materials for recording achievement and preparing for job applications. An essential text for students and for lecturers delivering Personal Development Planning in Higher Education.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6123 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

About the Author
STELLA COTTRELL is Director for Lifelong Learning at the
University of Leeds, UK. She is author of the best-selling The Study Skills
Handbook, as well as The Exam Skills Handbook, Critical Thinking Skills and
Skills for Success, a key text on personal development planning.

Customer Reviews

Good workbook and planner
This is a good book for mapping out all of your plans and goals in life - it has motivation, inspiration and also some tools for achoieving what you want. It doesn't leave out the spiritual part of life either which is rather nice - a different appraoch to personal development I have to say. A good planner to go along with this is the VISION `Life Diary 2009', it's a very good inspirational planner for the year ahead. The two of these together would kick the year off right!

Lot's of detail, too much, not inspiring
i was dissapointed when i bought my copy of this book. it is set out very much as an academic text and not very user friendly. i was surprised by the style of book the author chose to do. mostly forms and questionaires to fill in, followed by some short paragraphs. it is very much the typical type of offering from an hr department when they are encouraging time management, or reflective practice. not inspiring or motivational at all. the content is ok, but reminded me very much of the type of exercise they gave us for professinal development courses at university. i did not get a lot from them either. thorough but left me dissapointed.

Don't expect to learn much
This is very typical of self-help books. Full of self-assessment exercises, quotes taken from The Oxford Book of Quotations or similar. The text is cobbled together from popular psychology and management theory. Some of the questionnaires would seem to belong in a women's magazine, rather than an academic book. Anyone who has done PD/PSE or a motivation course will have a good idea what to expect. It is amazing that this is set as essential reading on many university courses now.