Organizational skills
lie at the top on the ladder of success. Organized people are successful
people. Disorganized people are unsuccessful people. Students aiming to be at
the top in their academics must master organizational skills.
In the world of work, organizational
skills make a difference between the successful worker and the mediocre. The
key to success is organization. Organization ensures that things are put at
their rightful place and this result in success!
There are 7
organizational skills every student must master to become successful. These
skills will make students successful in their academic and their career life!
1.
Planning
Skill
Planning
is the art of determining what must be done. It requires you come up with a
list of things to be done. Proper planning requires you to think on paper. It
requires you think through what must be done and draft a manner by which things
should be done.
As they say, “Proper
Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance”. Every student seeking to exude
academic excellence must endeavor to plan the term in advance; plan each month
in advance; plan each week in advance and finally plan each school day in
advance.
Planning helps to
manage time wisely and to prepare for daily school activities and exams!
Planning gives you confidence and helps you to be well prepared to face everyday
challenges of school life.
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2.
Prioritizing
Skill
Prioritization
is the organizational skill of determining which of the items on your list is
most important and requires your urgent attention. Once you have planned your
activities, you have to prioritize it in sequence and in order.
Wrong priorities are
one of the cancers that prevent high academic and career performance. John Maxwell
said in his book, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, “Activity is not necessary accomplishment. Busyness is not
equal to productivity”.
Prioritization helps
you to focus on high value tasks. It helps you to focus on doing the things
which will really bring you closer to your academic and career goals. Once your
priorities are right, success will follow like bees follow honeycomb!
3.
Proactive
Skill
The
key to success is being proactive. Being proactive requires you get on the
grind and work on you plans and priorities. It means to be practical; to roll
your sleeves and get the job done at the right time.
Procrastination is a
deadly enemy. Procrastination results in submitting assignments and project
works late. It leads to working under pressure, making terrible mistakes and performing
poorly.
Being proactive is the
key to overcoming procrastination. You must wake up and work on your goals. You’ve
got to stay awake and complete assignments on time. You’ve got to avoid all
forms of laziness and motivate yourself to complete your tasks and assignments.
4.
Productivity
Skill
To
be successful in your academic and career life, you have to be productive. This
doesn’t mean being busy. Being productive simply means focusing on doing those
things that will lead to the accomplishment of your academic and career goals.
Unsuccessful people mismanage
their energy well and successful people manage their energy well. Focus your
energy on your goals. Disturbing in class, being absent from school, not taking
notes in class, watching films in the evening instead of revising your notes
doesn’t lead to academic success!
Refrain from all activities
that will not lead you to success! Invest your time and energy in doing things
that will make you to reach your academic and career goals. Always ask
yourself, “What is the best use of my time and energy right now?”
5.
Progress
Evaluation Skill
In
management, they say, “What you can’t measure you can’t manage.” To reach your
academic and career goals, you must learn to evaluate your progress. Successful
students evaluate their performance and then re-strategize and adopt measures that
will improve their academic performance.
When I was in senior
high school, I realized I was performing badly in French. We were 50 in class
and I was taking the 30th position!
I realized that the reason for
my bad performance was my negative attitude towards French. I changed my
attitude and decided to give time to studying French and become the best in
class.
Two terms later, I was
the 1st in class! Why? I evaluated myself and found out the reason
for my poor performance. Then I adopted new learning strategies, put in more
effort and got assistance from French speaking people. As a result, I came on top!
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6.
Personal
Note-Taking Skill
Note-
taking skill is one of the organizational skills that produce outstanding
success in the classroom and at the workplace. Note- taking requires
concentrating in class and writing the summary of each lesson in your notebook.
Students who take notes
in class always outperform those who take their notes from their friends.
Taking notes in class helps you to pay attention in class, to follow the
teacher and understand the subject under discussion very well.
In your personal study
too, you must take notes out of the notes you have in your notebook. The more
your write it, the more it sticks in your mind and the faster you can remember
it! This is one of the fundamental skills of memorization and academic
excellence!
7.
Preparation
Skill
I said in my book, Start Something: Discovering the Mindset of
Great Achievers to Make Your Dreams a Reality, “Successful people always prepare
for their success and unsuccessful always people prepare for their failure!”
To be a successful student
you must develop the skill of preparation. Prepare effectively for each class.
Prepare effectively for your personal study. Prepare effectively for exams and
tests. Brain Tracy asserted, “Painstaking preparation prevents poor
performance!”
To prevent poor
academic performance, always endeavor to prepare adequately for school, class,
your personal study and exams. Once you prepare effectively, you will gain the
confidence to perform better and be on top!
Once a student learns
and develops these 7 organizational skills, the sky is the limit. Success is habits
and skills! These skills will make the student successful in every level of
education no matter the subject, the school and the teacher teaching the
subject! These skills incorporated into career will produce career success!
The Academic Success Coaching Program
The
Academic Success Coaching Program is a special coaching program designed by the
Living Purpose School to enhance the academic performance of students in
middle, senior high and college.
It involves an academic
coach working with students to set the student’s academic goals, developing a
strategic plan to reach the goals and guiding student’s step-by step to reach
those goals.
The Academic Success
Coaching Program entails the following:
1.
Unlimited
supports via email/text messages or Whats-app chats
2.
Free
Academic Success Planning Session
3.
Online
coaching session via Google Video Hangout/telephone
4.
1
1hr one-on-one coaching session/per week
5.
Templates,
documents and strategic planning for success
6.
Progress
evaluation and accountability from your academic coach
7.
3-months
commitment from the student and the academic coach
8.
Only $19/Per Month and $57 for the
three months coaching program
