TCU Senior Reorientation

Senior Reorientation

Module 1: Goal Setting• With the right vision, one that reflects a realistic, credible, attractive future,

an individual can accomplish their goals (Nanus)• A vision should describe a set of ideals and priorities, a picture of the

future…a core set of principles that one stands for, and a broad set of compelling criteria that will help define success (Oren Harari)

• (Aubin article)

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Goal Setting• One of the keys to post-graduate success is the ability to plan by

identifying post-graduation needs, resources to address them, and creating relevant action plans.

• 5-year goal setting

• Things to consider:• What are some of your 5-year goals/vision?• What values/attributes did you think about when developing your

5-year goals plan?• How has TCU prepared you for the processes involved in reaching

your goals?• How has TCU not prepared you for the processes involved in

reaching your goals?• What is necessary for you to continue building and/or changing to

achieve your goals?• What is your personal role in the process?

Goal Setting• Vision• Strategic Vision worksheet

The 5 Year Goal Plan

FinancialWhat is it that you want to achieve:_____________________________

Steps to Get There:1. __________________________2. __________________________3. __________________________

Relationship

Steps to Get There:1. __________________________2. ________________________3. _________________________

What is it that you want to achieve:_____________________________


Career


Social

Health Travel Other






Steps to Get There:1. ________________________2. ________________________3. ________________________



Steps to Get There:1. ________________________2. ________________________3. ________________________


Family

Module 1: Closing Questions

• Looking back on time at TCU, would you change anything if you had to start over again as first year student?

• What are you feeling as you prepare for “life after TCU”?• In what way do you see this upcoming transition the same or different as

when you came to TCU/declared a major?

Module 2: Values and Ethics

At the completion of the module, students will demonstrate awareness of their developmental needs as whole human beings by identifying/demonstrating– Insight from reflection upon the significance of their college

experiences by identifying resulting changes in their interests, values, beliefs, and skills.

– Consideration of their future roles as learners, ethical leaders, responsible citizens, and global citizens by identifying possible situations and behaviors through which they can employ their strengths toward those ends

• Life Values (link? Pdf?)• Defining your values sheet

Values and Ethics

– Things to Consider:• Define ethics and values?

– Focus on principles of ethics? What are ethics and values? – What qualities/principles are included in your value system and sense

of ethical leadership?– How are personal values and ethics developed?

Life Values How are results congruent and/or incongruent with your general view of your sense of self?What, if any, congruence, did you notice in the result with regard to personal attributes and sense of priority?

Values and Ethics• Ethical decision making • Ethical leadership


FinancialWhat is it that you want to achieve:_____________________________


__ Relationship




Career


Social Family

Health Travel Other


What is it that you want to achieve:____________________________





Steps to Get There:1. __________________________

2. __________________________

3. __________________________




Goals & Values

Values and Ethics– In what ways do your daily actions and behaviors reflect your stated values?

• At times when decision-making processes cause you to have to decide between two or more sets of values, how do you decide to act? What processes are included in your decision-making?

• How do you determine whose and/or what values are more important than others?

– How do your personal values fit with the values and ethics you’ve witnessed and connected with TCU?

– How have your values and connectedness to the TCU mission been cultivated throughout the course of your collegiate career?

– Why is it important to examine and deconstruct personal value systems and how they are developed?

– What role did your values play in the various components of your 5-year goals plan?

– How might TCU enhance learning and personal connectedness between students, our mission, and the forwarding of graduates who are aware of their personal values and prepared to integrate values of ethical leadership and responsible citizenship into their personal and professional lives?

– What role did/do your values play in the development, assessment, and modifying of your 5-year goals plan?

– Looking at your 5-year goals and values, which goals are most important and least important?

Module 3: Mentors• At the completion of the module, students will demonstrate awareness

of their developmental needs as whole human beings by identifying/demonstrating

– Forethought and planning by identifying post-graduation needs, resources to address them, and creating relevant action plans.

– Consideration of their future roles as learners, ethical leaders, responsible citizens, and global citizens by identifying possible situations and behaviors through which they can employ their strengths toward those ends

• Four stages of mentoring• How to build strong mentoring relationships

Mentors

• Things to consider– Why is having/being a mentor important?– Define mentoring and mentorship

Mentors

• TCU On-Campus Resources• Faculty/Staff• Community Involvement and

Service Learning• Center for Career and Professional

Development• Leadership Center• Campus Life• Community Renewal• Counseling Services• Inclusiveness and Intercultural

Services• Leadership Seminars (Student

Development Services)• Cultural, Community, and

International Services• Religious and Spiritual Life• Alumni Affairs

• Outside TCU• Local Chambers of Commerce• Local Young Professional Networks• Young Professionals Global Network

– http://www.ypgn.org

• Professional Organizations– Higher Education – NASPA– Nursing – American Nurses Association– Journalism - Society for Professional

Journalists– Accounting – National Association of

Accountants

• Professional / Intern Supervisor• Faith-based Assemblies• Internet Search Professional

Mentoring Networks specific to field of interest– i.e. engineering professional

mentoring organizations

Networking and Professional Development

http://www.ypgn.org/


FinancialWhat is it that you want to achieve:_____________________________Qualities looking for in a mentor:1. __________________________2. __________________________

Relationship

Qualities looking for in a mentor:1. __________________________2. __________________________



Career


Social Family

Health Travel Other











Goals & Mentoring

Where might you find mentor/mentee:1. __________________________2. __________________________








Mentors– As a young professional, what do you hope to receive from a mentoring

relationship? As a possible mentor, what do you plan to provide potential mentees?

– How do you initiate a personal mentoring relationship?– In what ways are approaches to seeking out professional and personal mentors

similar and/or different?– What are qualities to consider in an individual/organization when considering

establishing a mentoring relationship?– What role do mentor/mentee relationships play in being, building, and

maintaining responsible citizenship?– How do, and will, you integrate your personal values into mentoring

relationships?– Reflecting on your time at TCU, what mentoring relationships have you had?

How did you establish those relationships? What did you get from, and contribute to the relationship? How will you forward those lessons and learning into future relationships?

– How will you connect mentors with your 5-year goals?– How might the type of mentor, and attributes of potential mentors be similar

and different with the different vectors of your 5-year goals?

Module 4: Global Citizenship

– At the completion of the module, students will demonstrate awareness of their developmental needs as whole human beings by identifying/demonstrating• Insight from reflection upon the significance of their

college experiences by identifying resulting changes in their interests, values, beliefs, and skills.

• Consideration of their future roles as learners, ethical leaders, responsible citizens, and global citizens by identifying possible situations and behaviors through which they can employ their strengths toward those ends

• Defining Global Citizenship• Inclusive Citizenship

Global Citizenship– What are some characteristics of a global citizen? How do your actions and interactions reflect

characteristics of global citizenship?– How do individual rights, privileges, and responsibilities connect with global citizenship?– What does it mean, to you as both an individual and member of greater society, to be a global

citizen?– Why is it important to be, and promote, global citizenship through our words and actions?– As a young professional, how do plan to integrate principles of global citizenship into your work?– How do your values reflect qualities of global citizenship as an individual and professional?– What roles does global citizenship play in the planning, implementation, and success of your 5

year goal plan?– When considering a place of employment and/or mentor, how might principles of global

citizenship influence your decision-making processes?– How is global citizenship linked part of being a responsible, ethical citizen?– Reflecting on your time at TCU, how have courses, teaching, leadership, and relationships

promoted values and experiences that reflect an awareness of, and connections to global citizenship?

– Transitioning beyond your undergraduate experiences at TCU, how will you forward the lessons and learning of global citizenship into future relationships and work?

– When, and how, did principles of global citizenship and inclusiveness fit in with your 5-year goals plan?

– How did/will ideals of global citizenship influence your 5-year goals and assessment of progress?– Looking at your 5-year goals plan, where do you see principles of global citizenship and

inclusiveness?

Module 5: The Big Picture– At the completion of the session, students will demonstrate awareness of their

developmental needs as whole human beings by identifying/demonstrating• Different vectors, dimensions, or areas of growth and wellbeing• Important tasks associated with those vectors, etc.• Forethought and planning by identifying post-graduation needs, resources to address them,

and creating relevant action plans.• Insight from reflection upon the significance of their college experiences by identifying

resulting changes in their interests, values, beliefs, and skills.• Consideration of their future roles as learners, ethical leaders, responsible citizens, and

global citizens by identifying possible situations and behaviors through which they can employ their strengths toward those ends

– Reflecting on your original breakdown of the TCU mission– How has your meaning making remained and/or changed with regard to the meaning and value of the

mission and its principles? – What role did principles of the TCU mission and personal values play in your thoughts when developing

your original 5-year future goals?– What role, if any, will the principles of ethical, responsible, global citizenship play in your revisiting,

updating, and assessing of your 5-year goals plan?– How do you plan on forwarding the principles of the TCU mission through your actions in your personal

and professional networks?– Reflecting on the past 4 sessions, and your 5-year goals plan from Session 1, if you were to write your

goals from the beginning, how would your process be different?» What questions would you consider that you didn’t before?» What topics/attributes would you consider that you didn’t originally?

The Big Picture

– Tell your story» Reflecting on your time at TCU, think about one of the

most memorable experiences as a student that speaks powerfully about how the whole TCU experience has shaped your sense of identity, leadership, and citizenship and how this experience connects with your vision for your future.

» What made those experiences so meaningful? » Looking back on the experiences, what life lessons can be

taken from those experiences? » How do these experiences connect with the mission,

purpose, and values of TCU as well as the TCU experience?