By Dr. 桑迪Coyne-Gilbert, MBA DM
MS Organizational Leadership Program Director, 皇冠app
During a time when you can't turn on the TV without tuning in to the COVID-19 crisis, it's hard to look ahead. Stuck indoors, away from groups and gatherings, it's difficult to gather our thoughts on the present, nonetheless focus on the future. 但在这些艰难的时刻，机会来了，这是一个真正的机会，让我们退一步，开始设想和实现我们未来的生活。 一旦社交距离消失，你希望做些什么不同的事情？ 你想在你的领域学习更多或成为领导者吗？ 你想建立持久的关系，而不必担心裁员吗？ Perhaps you're looking for more personal fulfillment and family time. Whatever the goal, consider earning your master's degree to turn the tide on all the “I should have's” and take control of your future.
考虑为你的事业做出更多贡献？ 下面你会发现获得研究生学位的六个显著理由。
1. 拓展你的专业技能
Earning your bachelor's degree proves that you are up to the challenges of a college-level academic program, but you have likely not acquired the expertise in your undergraduate education that you'll need to excel in your career. A minimum of a master's degree is now preferred in many fields that in years past only required a bachelor's.
2. 加强你作为领导者的形象
通过增加你的知识，你发出了一个强有力的信息，那就是你可以管理、激励和影响。 通过对你所在领域的研究做出贡献，你丰富了你的专业社区，并在此过程中获得了领导优势。
3. 向潜在雇主指出自己的优点
Your master's degree makes you more marketable. 通过攻读研究生学位，你可以向潜在的雇主证明你愿意处理和解决棘手的问题。 你超越了简单的答案，在更高的能力水平上创造、分析和比较职业发现。
4. 与你的职业相适应的同侪关系
In cohort models similar to the master's program in Organizational Leadership at 皇冠app, students go to school with the same set of people from their first day of class through to graduation. 像这样的模式可以帮助学生从同一领域的人那里获得观点，并在课堂内外与专业人士建立关系，这些专业人士可以帮助他们建立未来的网络。
5. 高等教育意味着更高的薪水潜力（和更低的失业率）
当你努力接受高等教育时，你也会得到更高的薪水和更大的工作保障。 According to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, those with their master's degrees will earn salaries 35% higher than bachelor's degree holders. 此外，根据美国劳工部的说法，你的教育程度越高，你被解雇的可能性就越小。 With a master's degree, you have the potential not only to earn more money, but also to be valued in your profession as a low-risk, high-reward employee.
6. 在资金支持下实现个人成就
Once you graduate with your master's, your belief in your capabilities and self-esteem will seem to skyrocket. 你的坚持，决心，积累的知识和经验都体现在你自豪地展示的文凭上。 For lifelong learners, a master's degree improves their overall quality of life, as they confidently follow professional career paths and even create more fulfilling personal lives. Master's graduates lead the way in creating connections and contributing to their professions, embodying the type of streamlined self-assurance that leads to success. Students who finish a master's degree often find themselves admitting that their very fears were the tipping point to their professional triumphs. This newfound confidence will fuel your life and your family's life experiences. You can't underestimate the value of finding your own way.
没有一个真正致力于追求高等教育的人是完全一样的。 随着时间的推移，意见、观点和观点成熟、深化和成长。 研究生探索他们感知到的极限，最终发现更多关于自己的东西。 通过提高自我意识，他们对周围人的影响越来越大，因为他们在专业和教育方面的坚持不懈为更大的公民和社会参与提供了一个不断扩大的平台。
现在可以看到更光明的未来，你想完成什么？ By turning your goals into your graduate degree, you tell those you want to work for, and the world at large, that you're ready for anything.
Learn more about earning your Master's in Organizational Leadership at 皇冠app.
桑德拉（桑迪）科因-吉尔伯特是一位在教育和非营利部门都有经验的成功领导者。 科因-吉尔伯特专门与成人学习者合作，并热衷于向她的学生灌输终身学习的热情。 她与高危和边缘群体的合作使她对教育对转型人群的力量有了独特的见解。 除了教育领域，科因-吉尔伯特还拥有市场营销和非营利组织领导方面的经验。 最引人注目的是，她是马萨诸塞州斯普林菲尔德罗纳德麦当劳之家发展背后的推动力量之一。 Coyne-Gilbert looks forward to bringing her experiences to the classroom as program director for the master’s degree in Organizational Leadership at 皇冠app.