Personal Action Plan for Success
Personal Action Plan
Kyle Lanfrankie
Cardinal Stritch University
When I did an assessment on my learning styles and what works best with for me to help me retain information, I discovered that I learned best by watching, then doing. This makes sense because it is the only way I have ever been shown how to do something. When I worked on helicopters in the Army, I spent a year of just looking over someone else’s shoulder, just watching with very repetitive information. And, that’s after I finished my schooling for it. But, it wasn’t until I actually did the maintenance work myself until I actually grasped the concept. I wouldn’t have completely understood why I fixed the things I fixed until I did. The shadowing work I did taught me the principles and methods so I would have a good foundation, and the hands on helped me to see for myself how the aircraft worked. I’ve tried many times to just be a hands on learner, but it ends up talking me twice as long to accomplish the task because, I was show first. Even simple directions don’t completely help me understand.
My time management is my biggest area of weakness. I try to fit too many
different tasks into a single time period, and more often than not, some things are not completed. With working over 60 hours a week, a second job working 15 hours a week, full time school (which is over an hour from my house), constant visits to the VA hospital in Milwaukee, raising a child, and trying to fit in some personal time to relax, things can often get hectic in my life. I tend to do very well if I have a specific schedule I can follow, but they often become useless after other things come up. My biggest problem is trying to find time for homework for school. The best way I have found to rectify the situation of accomplishing my homework, is to do it in the mornings before work while I have some solitude and by taking my laptop with me everywhere so I can do homework at every spare minute I come across. My
Kyle Lanfrankie
Cardinal Stritch University
When I did an assessment on my learning styles and what works best with for me to help me retain information, I discovered that I learned best by watching, then doing. This makes sense because it is the only way I have ever been shown how to do something. When I worked on helicopters in the Army, I spent a year of just looking over someone else’s shoulder, just watching with very repetitive information. And, that’s after I finished my schooling for it. But, it wasn’t until I actually did the maintenance work myself until I actually grasped the concept. I wouldn’t have completely understood why I fixed the things I fixed until I did. The shadowing work I did taught me the principles and methods so I would have a good foundation, and the hands on helped me to see for myself how the aircraft worked. I’ve tried many times to just be a hands on learner, but it ends up talking me twice as long to accomplish the task because, I was show first. Even simple directions don’t completely help me understand.
My time management is my biggest area of weakness. I try to fit too many
different tasks into a single time period, and more often than not, some things are not completed. With working over 60 hours a week, a second job working 15 hours a week, full time school (which is over an hour from my house), constant visits to the VA hospital in Milwaukee, raising a child, and trying to fit in some personal time to relax, things can often get hectic in my life. I tend to do very well if I have a specific schedule I can follow, but they often become useless after other things come up. My biggest problem is trying to find time for homework for school. The best way I have found to rectify the situation of accomplishing my homework, is to do it in the mornings before work while I have some solitude and by taking my laptop with me everywhere so I can do homework at every spare minute I come across. My