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VI.  Attachment: Possible Personal Professional Goals

  • Learn to develop productive work relationships with clients.
  • Improve ability to collaborate with a partner.
  • Learn to accept constructive criticism.
  • Learn to give constructive criticism.
  • Improve time management skills to gain control over work and to enhance ability to work under time pressure.
  • Learn to make decisions more deliberately by broadening the range of options considered and selecting rationally among them.
  • Learn to evaluate your work relationships with others through greater sensitivity to emotions.
  • Learn how to experiment and to play roles without embarrassment.
  • Improve your sense of humor to enhance enjoyment of and effectiveness at work.
  • Learn to get angry at, or to confront conflicts with, advisors, coworkers or clients in a manner that produces desired results.
  • Learn how to relate to authority figures and how your feelings about authority affect your work.
  • Become more sensitive to ethical issues.
  • Learn to compete more effectively.
  • Learn to cooperate more effectively.
  • Learn to rely less on advisors to work effectively.
  • Improve ability to work with people of differing age, sex, race, sexual preference, economic status, etc.
  • Become more assertive.
  • Become less assertive.
  • Increase confidence about professional abilities, to improve productivity or to overcome feeling intimidated by lawyers, courts, or bosses.
  • Study the social system within which you work (i.e., INS) and integrate your new knowledge into action within that system.
  • Learn to shoulder responsibility better.
  • Learn how to approach work in a more creative manner.
  • Become more aware of and sensitive to non-verbal communications.
  • Become more introspective.
  • Have more fun than you've been having in law school.
  • Learn to be a better leader.
  • Learn to be a better follower.
  • Become better able to evaluate risks inherent in particular courses of action, and increase ability to accept risks.
  • Learn to use inexperience or lack of knowledge to your own advantage.
  • Learn how to make better use of resources available to you.
  • Learn to inspire others' confidence in you or to be better liked.
  • Learn to delegate tasks.
  • Improve ability to say no to unwanted responsibilities.
  • Examine what it means as a lawyer to work in the public interest.

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Revised June 25, 2003 (ML)