CRJ 1071 - Personal Development

Clock Hours: 57

Course Description:
The personal development block on instruction will introduce the student to life skills needed in the workplace. These skills include, but are not inclusive of, time management, soft skills, fitness and nutrition, professionalism, and managing stress.

Student Learning Outcomes:
Course Competencies:

Students will understand the dynamics of effect time management and its relationship to success.
Students will understand the importance of professionalism in the workplace and ways to exhibit professionalism.
Students will understand the importance of proper nutrition and fitness.
Students will understand how proper nutrition and physical fitness can help to reduce stress.
The students will discuss soft skills for correctional officers such as empathy, compassion, and active listening and how they will assist them in the workplace.
Students will recognize the effects and components of stress, the definition of a crisis, and the prolonged effects of stress. Students will be introduced to the components of a critical incident and how to manage critical stress.