career development discussion

Joe Cimbak

Contact at (219) 689-3570

jcimbak@yahoo.com

Career

Development for

People Well Along In

Their Careers

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This is a DISCUSSION not a Presentation

About this .ppt Deck

• Generally, career development discussions seem to be associated with people who have limited experience.

• This .ppt deck is intended to form a discussion for a workshop where people who are “well along in their careers” can participate.

• Many of the stories used are quite personal. It may not make sense to you just to “read the slides”. If you want help interpreting this please call me, my contact info is on the front slide.

• If you wish to discuss having me run this workshop for you then please contact me. I can make this fit a 4-hour time frame. I could skinny it down to perhaps 2 hours.

• The second to last slide talks about a career development template. Find that on my LinkedIn account also.

NOTE: It helps to run this .ppt as a presentation on your computer to

properly view it for full impact

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Marlin Knight – VP HR – United Technologies c.1985

Do you have a career plan?

“Everyone has a career development plan, whether it is in focus or not!

Either you plan

your career or it will

be decided for you.”

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Let’s answer these questions

Quick check around the room

• Name a career you wanted when you were a teen – like maybe junior or senior year in high school. What was the attraction?

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Let’s answer these questions

Quick check around the room

• Raise your hand if you are working in a job that you got specifically educated for – like an electrician

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Where you are today is a function of…

Reality check

• Decisions you have made at forks in the road

• Some of those paths that have closed out on you along the way; nothing you could control

• A little luck

• Some good people helping you

• A lot of preparedness

• A lot of concern for a paycheck to pay bills and manage a family

• You hated your prior boss/company

• Etc.

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Did you get to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

What you got may be different than what you expected!

Success in career?

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Didn’t get to the end of the rainbow?

Career Tug of War?

Your job, boss, organization and company want you to go one way.

You may want to go another.

The game feels rigged…who is going to win? Gotta ask yourself - Is the job a good fit?

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Somehow they make it look fun

People in their dream jobs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt8Fpgw2cqk

• Any of these jobs your pot of gold?

• Do you think any of them started out thinking this job was a Pot of Gold, or maybe a Tug of War?

• Why is it that they look so happy, so focused, so “alive”? What are the similarities you see in the way they approach their jobs?

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Let’s explore the DDI Success Profile Model – Part 1

What makes you good at a job?

What you need to know to be successful in the job – your technical knowledge, degrees

What you need to have already experienced to be successful –your resume

What you can do – which is different from what you know and what you have done.

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OWNING your job may be the pot of gold?

15 Minute TED Talk

TED TALK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9b0fi7p3Ts

• After video plays we will go around the room looking for examples in our lives where you

took ownership of a job.

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Perfect the job that you have!!!

Key Messages from Ted Talk

• Jobs come in all shapes and sizes

• Popular advice is misleading and dangerous. It makes you think that the perfect job is out there in some magic place and all you need to do is keep up the quest• “Follow your bliss…” (Joseph Campbell)• “Find what you love…” (Jobs)• “If you love what you do you’ll never have to work a day in your life”

(Confucius)• “Follow your passion”

• Only 13% of people are having a love affair with their job• People who love their jobs have GREAT LIVES – so loving your job is an antidote

to human suffering. (wow)• These people don’t have special degrees from special universities or perfect

resumes• These people did not land the jobs they love. They created and designed the

job into the one they love and the one that will uniquely fit their personality

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Anyone welcome to speak here

Stories of Ownership

• Joe • Story of The Big Pickle – a simple “dishwasher” closing the “drunk crowd”• Story of the Space Suit – scared out of my wits but hugely motivated

• Josh’s story – owning The USCGC Elm – scared and indentured!

• JD’s story

• Dreama’s story

• Others…please speak up

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Anyone welcome to speak here

Lessons from Stories of Ownership

• What are the COMMON DENOMINATORS in these stories of owning a job? How do you own your job?

• What are the BARRIERS to Job Ownership?

• Do you believe JD will help you bust down the barriers if they are in his control?

• What do you think he wants to see from you?

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Time in Job? Nope…Gotta ATTACK the Job!

Lessons from Stories of Ownership

• Time in Job is not the answer to advancement. You are not entitled.

• There were guys with 30 years on me who had worked Apollo rockets…but I was the go-to guy for Motor, DCM, RTDS, etc. Wasn’t about time in job…it was about attacking the role. I became a senior electro-mechanical manufacturing engineer in 3 years!

• Some guys were “dead on their___ after 30 years…no inspiration left.”

• I needed SME’s. I had to prove myself to them. I was the student who appeared so they could teach. They taught because I showed SPARK. Chic promoted me because I produced results.

I am forever indebted to Leon Blotnitski, Dominic Musso, Don Rethke (Dr. Flush), Phil Landis, Chic Maggioand several others.

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From Malcom Gladwell’s Book Outliers

10,000 Hour Rule

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjUwT8sx9TA

You Have

Interest

You Learn

You Enjoy

A ClassicReinforcingLoop

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Let’s finish the DDI Success Profile Model – Part 2

What makes you good at a job?

What you need to know to be successful in the job – your technical knowledge, degrees

What you need to have already experienced to be successful –your resume

What you can do – which is different from what you know and what you have done.

Who you are as a person• Fit• Motivation• Disposition

This gets you HIRED This gets you FIRED

THESE ATTRIBUTESDETERMINE IFYOU WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH JOB

OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS

IF THEY WANT TO!!!!

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Everyone does this

Private time exercise in this room

• Fill in the worksheet provided

• You should get 80% done on sheet 1 NOW. The 20% will come to you after you leave. Fill it in later. You should get 50% done on GOALS today and how you will develop. Let some time help you think.

• You need to schedule (2) 60 minute discussions with your boss soon after leaving here. The subject is “My Development” and you will go over the completed worksheet in that discussion in session 1. Session 2 is a 6 month progress check. • Leaders may start to feel their phones vibrating with

calendar invites here today!

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Make Your Job a Dream That Pays

Thank You For Attending!