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ADULTS – Health and Health Management Description
Definition of Health
The subject of health focuses on the physical, mental, and social well-being of an individual. Good health is usually associated with the absence of serious injury or illness, disease and pain.
Definition of Health Management
Health Management is the proactive management of an individual’s health at an early age as it relates to the human body, mind, and social well-being. The goal is to try and lead a healthy lifestyle while minimizing the risk of serious injury or illness, disease, and pain whenever possible.
Importance of Health Management
A healthy body, mind, and social well-being is critical for success and happiness at home, at school, and at work. If an individual is healthy, there is more time and energy that can be focused on maintaining positive relationships at home. At school, a healthy individual will tend to be more alert and have the energy and drive to focus on performing well in academic subjects. Also, feeling good may translate into a better mood and ultimately, better behavior at school. If an individual is sick, then the focus is on getting better, not on external relationships, academic performance, or individual behavior. As a child gets older and involved at work, a healthy body, mind, and social well-being is important to have the positive energy and stamina to work hard and the positive mental health and attitude to collaborate well with others for professional success.
Health Management Scope
The scope of this topic at Cognitra includes the following main areas:
- Eating healthy foods such as grains, nuts, fruits and vegetables.
- Trying to maintain a healthy weight appropriate for the height, age, sex, and body size of the individual.
- Losing weight to ensure body weight is within professional recommended weight ranges.
- Maintaining a healthy mental state including the proactive management of stress.
- Avoiding negative impacts on health such as addictions to food, nicotine, drugs and alcohol.
- Avoiding risky behaviors such as unprotected sex, lack of seatbelt use, and more.
- Ensuring body muscles are exercised and strengthened in a safe and consistent manner.
- Ensuring daily body maintenance and hygiene.
- Having many positive relationships in life, while minimizing negative relationships if possible.
- Making regular doctor and dentist appointments based on professional recommendations.
Health Management Learning Goal
The goal is to start out with very simple health management concepts when children are young and get more sophisticated as the age of the student progresses. Each lesson should build on the one before it. If we teach kids how to manage their own health when they are young, over time they should get much better at managing their health, which in turn, should ultimately lead to more personal and professional success and happiness.
ADULTS – Relationship and Relationship Management Description
Definition of a Relationship
A particular type of connection existing between people related to or having dealings with each other. These relationships can have a positive, negative or indifferent impact on the individual depending on the situation.
Types of Relationships
There can be a number of different types of relationships including family relationships, relationships between friends, romantic or intimate relationships, relationships between members on a common team, networking relationships to seek out ways to satisfy needs or opportunities, relationships between children and adults such as a teacher in school or a boss at work, and so on.
Definition of Relationship Management
Relationship management is the proactive management of these relationships to increase the number of positive relationships in life and conversely, minimize the negative relationships.
Importance of Relationship Management
On the professional side, enhanced relationship management skills are becoming ever more important as work gets done through collaborative teams across multiple cultures and time zones. Since work is all about getting things done through people, relationship management skills are critical. On the personal side, it is imperative that students have the relationship management skills to have healthy, long-term relationships with a partner or spouse. In other ways, relationship management skills may be necessary for self-preservation and perhaps even survival when it comes to bullying or domestic violence.
Relationship Management Scope
The scope of this topic at Cognitra includes the following main areas:
- The personality style continuum of Submissive, Assertive, Aggressive
- Introvert versus extrovert
- How to manage conflict, including bullying
- Anger management and self-control
- Diversity of relationships
- Cultural impact on relationships
- Time allocation and focus to maintain positive relationships
- Using technology to manage relationships
- Minimizing negative relationships
Relationship Management Learning Goal
The goal is to start out with very simple relationship management concepts when children are young and get more sophisticated as the age of the student progresses. Each lesson should build on the one before it. If we teach kids how to manage relationships when they are young, over time they should get much better at managing relationships in their personal and professional lifetimes, which in turn, should lead to more success and happiness.
ADULTS – Money and Money Management Description
Money
According to Wikipedia, money is any object that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts. In the U.S., most currency in use is as follows:
- Coins
- Penny
- Nickel
- Dime
- Quarter
- Fifty Cents (or half dollar)
- Bills
- One Dollar
- Two Dollars (rarely seen now)
- Five Dollars
- Ten Dollars
- Twenty Dollars
- Fifty Dollars
- One Hundred Dollars
Money Management
The act or practice of handling one’s personal finances. Money management involves budgeting, having enough money to pay bills, spending for entertainment, saving money for emergencies, making investments, paying taxes, and other uses of money. People will manage their money differently depending on their age, needs, priorities, size of family, risk taking perspective, knowledge of money management best practices, and more.
Money Management Knowledge Areas
Money management and personal finance are very large topics. In terms of what we are trying to accomplish at Cognitra, we hope to focus on the following main areas briefly described below:
Earning Money
- An allowance
- Bonus money for extra chores
- Gifts
- Jobs
- Business start up
Saving Money
- Goal is to save 30% every week – 10% for emergencies, 10% for short-term goals, 10% for long-term goals
- Stick with a game plan
- Incentives are usually needed for a child to save money
- Limit impulse buying
Sharing Money
- Goal is to share 10% every week
- Sharing money can be allocated for gifts and charity
- Should be considered before spending money
Spending Money
- Don’t confuse needs with wants
- Delaying instant gratification is key
- Managing expectations
Investing Money
- If debt free and money saved, it is time for investing
- All investments have risk – should diversify
- Stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETF’s, and more.
Loaning Money
- If debt free, money saved, and money is available for investing, then loaning money may be appropriate
- The money may never be paid back, so risk of losing entire loan amount must be considered
- Help people learn how to manage their money by loaning them money
Money Management Learning Goal
It’s crazy when you think about it. Kids today learn so little about money and how best to manage it, yet they will need to use money nearly every day of their adult life. And there are more financial choices now than ever before (e.g., debit card) making successful money management even more difficult to understand and master.
In fact, some adults and experts believe that teaching kids money management should be just like any other learning opportunity for kids. If we teach kids how to get dressed, brush their teeth, and comb their hair, why don’t we teach them how to manage money? In reality, money management isn’t really all that different. It is a basic skill that is needed for life. So, parents and other caring adults should be introducing good money habits early on. Teaching teenagers or young adults about money management when they are experiencing financial problems is too late. You owe it to the children in your life – help them learn about personal finance and money management now when they’re young - and when penalties for making mistakes are minor.
References
1. Clark Smart Parents, Clark Smart Kids (Howard, 2005)
2. Kids and Money (Searls, 1996)
3. Money for Teens (Shelly, 2001)
4. Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees (Godfrey, 2006)
5. Raising Money Smart Kids (Bodnar, 2005)
ADULTS – Project and Project Management Description
Definition of a Project
According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), a project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. The temporary nature of projects indicates a definite beginning and end.
Types of Projects
A unique product that is created via a project could be a new mobile application for the iPhone. A unique service delivered as a project could be the service labor involved in landscaping the front yard of a new house. A unique result from a project could be streamlining the business processes for creating and supporting a product in order to reduce costs.
There are many different types of projects but the most important from Cognitra’s perspective includes preparing students for home projects (Ex. Making a new shirt), school projects (Ex. Working with other students to create a team presentation), volunteer projects (Ex. Getting more food for the local food shelf), and work projects (Ex. Figuring out how to spend less time making a good pizza for customers).
Definition of Project Management
Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Project Management Process Groups
There are five (5) major project management process groups (more information will be in another post under Overview):
- Initiating
- Planning
- Executing
- Monitoring and Controlling
- Closing
Project Management Knowledge Areas
There are nine (9) major project management knowledge areas (more information will be in another post under Overview):
- Integration
- Scope
- Time
- Cost
- Quality
- Human Resource
- Communications
- Risk
- Procurement
Project Management and Operations Management
Operations management is different than project management. Operations management activities are permanent endeavors (not temporary) that produce repetitive outputs, with resources assigned to do basically the same set of tasks. An example is manufacturing operations where the same type of product is produced over and over again each day.
Project Manager
The project manager is the person assigned to run the project and achieve the specific project objectives.
Project Management Learning Goal
The goal is to start out with very simple project management concepts when children are young and get more sophisticated as the age of the student progresses. Each lesson should build on the one before it. If we teach kids how to manage projects when they are young, over time they should get much better at managing projects. Attaining these project management skills at an early age should help in school, at home, volunteering, and eventually at work.