Class 029:
MCOE Culinary Essentials

• Understanding your Skills, Interest, Personalities & Values/Self-Awareness
• Defining your career objectives (6m 53s)
• Self-reflecting on your strengths, motivators, and more  (13m 52s)
  
  • Evaluating Your Current Career (Assignment)

• Adaptability
  
  • Quiz

Attitude Overview

Learn how to work best on a team. Explore the key characteristics of exemplary team members and find out how you can adopt these behaviors to become a more valuable collaborator.

Instructions

*Must be logged into LinkedIn Learning Account

1. Watch Individual LinkedIn Learning Videos

• Anchor your workplace attitude (2m 40s)
  • Attitude Anchors Handout

• Choose your attitude (3m 7s)

• Essentials in an employee: The Right Attitude (2m 10s)

• The impact of your attitude and interactions (4m 21s) 

• Ideal teammates have a positive attitude (3m 24s) 

Assignment

1. What are some of your “Maintenance Anchors”? These are things in your daily life that can help you maintain a positive mood.

2. What are some of your “Repair Anchors”? These are things that can help you repair a bad mood.

3. Identify your “Why”. Write down 3 non-negotiable goals (personal or work related), with 3 specific action items that will help you meet your goals.

4. Tell me about a time when your attitude affected a relationship, your approach, or your ability to complete a task for work and/or school and what changed your approach to get the task completed?

SUBMIT ASSIGNMENT HERE

• • Attitude Assignment

Initiative Overview

What is initiative? When individuals show initiative, they do things without being told. They find out what they need to know, identify and take advantage of opportunities that others let pass by. They act, instead of react.

Instructions

1. Watch: What is Initiative (2m 22s)

2. Watch Individual LinkedIn Learning Videos

*Must be logged into LinkedIn Learning Account

• Start by taking initiative (3m 42s)

3. Watch: Success at Work – TAKING THE INITIATIVE AT WORK (3m 58s) 

Assignments

1. Give an example when you took the initiative at school and/or work. What was the situation and the setting? Were you in a group or did you move forward as an individual? What were the outcomes or results?

2. What are consequences if individuals are passive and/or reactive in the workforce?

3. What are potential rewards you may benefit when you take the initiative at work?

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• Initiative Assignment

• Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
  • Quiz

• Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Watch Big Interview Video: Analyzing Job Descriptions (11m 18s) 

  • Job Description (Discussion)
• Taco Bell:
  • Careers Page (Merced)
  • Taco Bell Information and Interview
• McDonald’s:
  • Careers Page
  • Careers in Merced
  • McDonald’s Information and Interview

• Mock Interviews