OCN 750 Class #8: March 4Work-Life (Im)Balance

Announcements

Activity 1: Choosing career for lifestyle/values

Break

Activity 1: Reports back

Activity 2: Time management

Upcoming Assignments & Classes

Announcements1) Welcome Dr. Beth Day-Miller!

2) Assignments Due today:

Progress ReportProposal revision (optional)

Late Policy & Grades

3) Mid-course evaluation please return to envelope (now) or

M’s inbox, HIG214 (by Fri, Mar 7)

4) Recommended reading Hansen et al. – L&O Bulletin, Feb 2014

Any questions or comments? Barb?

“Academia is the newalternative”

How choose a career in line with your lifestyle/values?

Getting What You Came For (Robert L. Peters), What Color is Your Parachute? (Richard N. Bolles), & others

Evaluate:skills, affinities, personal goals

Research: career possibilities

Talk with people in the field(s):Network (broadly)

Conduct informational interviews

Earn & market: your knowledge your experience

From What Color is Your Parachute? (WCIYP)

1. Evaluate your skills, affinities, personal goals

• Everything about yourself on 1 piece of paper

• Use a graphic

• Prioritize this info

Seven parts of diagram1. Favorite Knowledges / Fields of Interest2. Preferred Kinds of People to Work With3. What I Can Do & Love to Do4. Favorite Working Conditions5. Preferred Salary & Level of Responsibility6. Preferred Place(s) to Live7. My Goal, Purpose, or Mission in Life

Activity 1: Define career + personal goals

Start filling out your “flower diagram,” 1 petal at a time

7 stations for 7 petals, with more info on each one posted there

Rotate through as many as you can: complete diagram = due next week

Spend ~20-30 minutes … then we’ll take a break

Petal 1: Favorite Knowledges or Fields of Interest

Graphic design

Data analysis

Cooking

Music

Languages

Favorite Mediums Ideas

People

Music

Petal 2: Preferred Kinds of People to Work With

Which types of people do you enjoy most? (pick 3)

investigative

artistic

realistic

socialenterprising

conventional

http://tlc-kdu.blogspot.com/2010/01/holland-code-party.html

Petal 3: What I Can Do and Love to Do(Favorite Transferable Skills)

1. Data Synthesizing Analyzing Compiling, Computing

2. People Mentoring Negotiating Instructing

3. Things Setting Up Driving – Operating Handling

Part 4: Favorite Working Conditions

Supervision – a little or a lot?

Opportunities for creativity

Flexible vs fixed working hours

Work outside vs indoors

Work mostly alone vs with others

Part 5: Salary & Level of Responsibility

Head vs. member of a team

Supervise others?

Size of workplace

Salary Min/max

Need to support travel, expensive hobbies, family?

Part 6: Preferred Places to Live

Close to vs. far from family

New vs. familiar place

Climate

Ideal location for partner?

Big city vs. small town

Petal 7: My Goal, Purpose, or Mission in Life

“What kind of footprint do you want to leave on this earth, after your journey here is done?”

Knowledge, truth, clarity – about a subjectBeauty in the world – artwork, musicMore morality, justice, honesty in the worldMore wholeness, fitness, health in the world

Break

Seven parts of diagram1. Favorite Knowledges / Fields of Interest2. Preferred Kinds of People to Work With3. What I Can Do & Love to Do4. Favorite Working Conditions5. Preferred Salary & Level of Responsibility6. Preferred Place(s) to Live7. My Goal, Purpose, or Mission in Life

How choose a career in line with your lifestyle/values?

Getting What You Came For (Robert L. Peters), What Color is Your Parachute? (Richard N. Bolles), & others

Evaluate:skills, affinities, personal goals

Research: career possibilities

Talk with people in the field(s):Network (broadly)

Conduct informational interviews

Earn & market: your knowledge your experience

Activity 2: Time Management

http://chrisandlouisa.com/category/work-life-balance/

http://zengirlinthecity.tumblr.com/post/21912544864/how-to-focus-in-the-age-of-distraction

The 4Ds DO: Tasks (20%) that support your most valuable work– eg high priority emails – deal with ASAP to keep important projects moving

DUMP: Doesn’t pertain to your priorities Doesn’t require follow-up Doesn’t support your goals

DELEGATE: Requires attention or action Doesn’t end up on your “do” list Can be handled by someone else

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Time Management Tool: Evernote

Other tips & ideas?

Reflection

Over the next month:1. What’s one thing that you’ll do for your health?2. What’s one thing that you’ll do to support your

relationships with other people?

* Keep these notes for yourself as a reminder *

Assignment #3: Due Mar 11Work-Life Balance Reflection

Two parts:

1. Complete your “flower diagram” or similar version (this can be a hard copy or electronic, whichever is easiest).

2. In 400 words:• Considering the seven “flower diagram” petals, overall,

what are your top 1-2 priorities, in either your career or personal life (or both)? Include some of your reasoning in how you chose these priorities.

Upcoming classes & assignmentsMar 11:

Career Panel Carlie Wiener, Program Manager for COSEE Island Earth Myounghee Noh, CEO of Myounghee Noh & Associates (consulting)

Questions for the panelists?Email to Michele by tomorrow (end of the day)