• Building
Meaningful
Career
exploration into
your guidance
programs.
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Part A: Theory
• Part B looks at specific programs
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• Copyright Shaun
McElroy
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•Agriculture Age (farmers)
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Disconnected
• AT home • Abroad
• Can work • Do not work
• Do Work • Cannot work
• Mom and dad working • Only one works
• Connected • Disconnected
• Pragmatic • Unrealistic
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The Old Paradigm
in Career Development and Planning
From:
A linear, destination-oriented model of:
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Education/Training
Birth Job Choice Education/Training Employment
Retirement
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Moving to a New Paradigm
in Career Development and Planning
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A shift in paradigm
Not
• what’s wrong, but
what’s right!
• what’s missing, but
what’s there!
• about a destination,
but a journey!
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WoW
• Speiler
• Limnologist
• BellyBuilder
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Dr. Testum and Mr. Tellum
• Prescriptive
services rarely
work
• We are infinitely
more complex than
any one test could
show
• The Pace of
CHANGE
• Serendipity
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Job titles of the future
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Media based career development
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Your most important life events
• List the five most important events in your
life. They can be in any order. You could
change your mind tomorrow.
• There are no right or wrong answers. You
do not have to share the list; you can change
the list; you can list four or seven events
rather than
• 5 or as many you can quickly jot down. Go
with what is on the top of your mind.
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4C the future
• Contemplation-reflective seeing
• Creativity-imaginative seeing
• Connectedness—holistic seeing
• Collaboration-inclusive seeing
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What a Career is:
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A Career is not
• A job •A prescription
• A straight line •A profession
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Career development is not
• A one time
thing…
• The answer to a
test…
• One size fits all…
• Quick…
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What is Career Development?
Self
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Self
• Talents
• Interests
• Personality
• Weaknesses
• Strengths
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Work Dynamic
• Global Labour
Market information,
– US
– Canada
– UK
– Australia
• For planning
purposes
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Hopes and Dreams
• Develop a plan,
but
live a process
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What is Career Development?
Self
Career!
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What is Career Development?
My World
Career!
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LMI
Match?
Talents PI
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Keys to our program
• Self-exploration
• Keep doors open
• Global yet kids able to target
• Build a plan, but commit to a
process
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Every class and activity is
• A chance to explore a career
• An opportunity to develop
transferable skills
• Practice ground for developing
positive attitudes
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The High Five
Change is
constant
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“If you don’t like
change, you’re
going to like
irrelevance even
less.”—General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
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Read these books
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The World Is Flat
Types of jobs that will be in demand for a long time to
come:
• the great corroborators
• the great leveragers
• the great synthesizers
• the passionate personalizers
• the great localizers
• the “green ones”
• the great explainers and
• the great adapters.
Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat, 2005
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“It is not the
strongest of the
species that survives,
nor the most
intelligent, but the
one most responsive
to change.” —Charles Darwin
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successful
people are those
who are good at
plan B.”
James Yorke, mathematician,
on chaos theory in
The New Scientist
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Significant Shift in Leadership
• 90% of American businesses are family
owned
• ¾ family owned leaders will leave in 10
years
• 40% will leave in 5 years
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More Leadership Turnover
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The “Itch” for Occupational
Adventure
• 45% feel satisfied
• 20% feel passionate
• 33% feel dead ended
• 21% very eager to change jobs, companies
• LT 15% feel energized
• 30% feel employer inspires the best in them
• 85% say definition of leader has changed
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Important Trends to Notice
• Small biz = fastest growing
• Small firm employees more engaged
• Satisfaction valued more than $
• Change is biz constant
• Professional women opting out
• Professional service firms on the rise
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Trend Tracking Continued
• Technology is a given
• Automation is a result
• Global outsourcing – same quality, cheaper
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“80% of all white collar jobs as we
know them today will either
disappear entirely or be re-
configured…”
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Itch + Trends = The New
Economy
The Next Business Turning Point Is
Here
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The Big Three Drivers of Change
Abundance
Asia
Automation
Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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“But abundance has also produced an
ironic result: The very triumph of L-
Directed Thinking has lessened its
significance. The prosperity it has
unleashed has placed a premium on
things that appeal to less rational, more
R-Directed sensibilities—beauty,
spirituality, emotion.” —Dan Pink,
A Whole New Mind
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India
350,000 engineering grads per year
>50% F500 outsource software work to
India
GE: 48% of software developed in India
(Sign in GE India office: “Trespassers will be recruited”)
Docs
Lawyers
Accountants
Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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Agriculture Age (farmers)
Industrial Age (factory workers)
Information Age (knowledge)workers)
Conceptual Age (creators and
empathizers)
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Design.
Story.
Symphony.
Empathy.
Play.
Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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Not just function, but also … DESIGN.
Not just argument, but also … STORY.
Not just focus, but also … SYMPHONY.
Not just logic, but also … EMPATHY.
Not just seriousness, but also … PLAY.
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The High Five
Follow
your heart
Change is
constant
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Kids have dreams
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Kids have dreams
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What is your north star?
• “…if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a
kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting
for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the
one you are living. When you can see that, you begin
to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they
open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't
be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know
they were going to be.”—Joseph Cambell
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Life Work
• Mission
• Purpose
• Bliss
• Calling
• “Work worth
doing”
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Planned happenstance
Change is
constant
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Career
Serendipity
Serendipity
"the faculty of
making happy
and unexpected
discoveries by
accident".
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Stay Focus on
learning the
journey
Change is
constant
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half-life of knowledge
• the time span from when knowledge is
gained to when it becomes obsolete.
• Half of what is known today was not known
10 years ago.
• knowledge has doubled in the past 10 years
• and is doubling every 18 months
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Half life of knowledge
100.00
90.00
80.00
70.00
60.00
50.00 Knowledge
40.00
30.00
20.00
10.00
0.00
now 1st 2nd 3rd
Knowledge 100.00 50.00 25.00 12.50
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Half life of…
100
90
80
70
60 Engingeering
50 Marketing
40 programing
30
20
10
0
now 6 mos 18 mos 60 mos
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1000
900
800
700
600 programing
500 Marketing
400 Engingeering
300
200
100
0
now 6 mos 18 mos 60 mos
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And college?
• Welcome to the 40 year degree
• Just in time learning
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Changing Face of Learners
“In this new interactive Web world, I have become a
nomadic learner; I graze on knowledge. I find what I
need when I need it.
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learning the
journey
Change is
constant
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Already connected
• Web
• Six degrees of …
• Who are your allies
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learning the
journey
Change is
constant
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Four paradoxical principles
1. Be focused & flexible about what you want
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“You do not merely
want to be the best
of the best. You
want to be
considered the only
ones who do what
you do.”
—Jerry Garcia
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And parent should?
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And parent should?
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…and parent should?
• Listen and encourage kids dreams and
passions
• Push for possibilities
• Provide opportunities
• Be the yin for the yang (paradoxical
parenting)
• Share their own stories
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The future?
• health care,
• robotics,
• computer graphics,
• infotech,
• biotechnology,
• and lasers.
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The future?
• Counseling
• Nursing
• Designers
• Entertainment
• Meaning makers
• Consultants
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“If there is nothing very
special about your
work, no matter how
hard you apply yourself
you won’t get noticed,
and that increasingly
means you won’t get
paid much either.”
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Dan Pink’s take
• Can someone overseas do it cheaper?
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Dan Pink’s take
• Design
• Story
• Symphony
• Empathy
• Play
• Meaning
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Design
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Two Minute Drill - DESIGN
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Story
• In Information Age, red headed stepchild
• Facts now widespread & accessible
• Places facts in context with emotional
impact
• Today, most effective way to connect
people to vision
• Organizational storytelling
• Supplements analysis
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Two Minute Drill - STORY
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Why Stories?
Alan Kay,
co-founder, Xerox
Hewlett-Packard Executive
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But, still… why stories?
“Today facts are ubiquitous, nearly free, and available at the speed of
light… so, each one becomes less valuable.
Daniel Pink
Author, A Whole New Mind
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Who else is doing this?
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Symphony
• Ability to put together the pieces
• Seeing relationships the rest of us never
notice
• Derivative thinking – conceptual blending
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Two Minute Drill -
SYMPHONY
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Empathy
• Ability to imagine yourself in another’s
position and to intuit what that person is
feeling
• Universal language that connects us
• Essential to life with meaning
• Involves active listening, intuition,
willingness to deviate from rules
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Two Minute Drill - EMPATHY
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Play
• To “act out” and be willful, exultant, committed as
if one is assured of one’s prospects
• Emerging from work shadow
• Games – recruiting whole brained workers
• Humor – accurate marker for leadership
effectiveness
• Joyfulness – more productive, more fulfilled
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More Play
• Will be dominant way of knowing, doing
and creating value
• Cohesive force in organizations
• Cannot be replicated by computer
• Portal for creativity
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Two Minute Drill - PLAY
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Name that cartoon….
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Meaning
• Know your signature strengths
• Using them in the service of something
bigger than you
• Spirituality – basic desire to find purpose &
meaning
• Take happiness seriously
• Assists in goal attainment
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Two Minute Drill - MEANING
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“Failure’s hard, but
success is far more
dangerous. If you’re
successful at the wrong
thing, the mix of praise
and money and
opportunity can lock
you in forever. It is so,
so much harder to
leave a good thing.”
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“The era of ‘left brain’ dominance
—and the Information Age it
engendered—Is giving way to a
new world in which ‘right brain’
qualities—inventiveness,
empathy, meaning—will govern.”
—Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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“The past few decades have belonged to a certain kind of
person with a certain kind of mind—computer
programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could
craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But
the keys to the kingdom are changing hands. The future
belongs to a very different kind of person with a very
different kind of mind—creators and empathizers, pattern
recognizers and meaning makers. These people—artists,
inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers,
big picture thinkers—will now reap society’s richest
rewards and share its greatest joys.” —Dan Pink, A Whole New
Mind
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L-Directed Thinking: sequential,
literal, functional, textual, analytic
to
R-Directed Thinking:
simultaneous, metaphorical,
aesthetic, contextual, synthetic
Source: Dan Pink/A Whole New Mind
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“Left-brain style thinking used to be the
driver, and right-brain style thinking the
passenger. Now R-Directed Thinking is
suddenly grabbing the wheel, stepping on
the gas, and determining where we’re going
and how we’re going to get there. L-
Directed aptitudes—the kind measured by
the SAT and employed by CPAs—are still
necessary. But they’re no longer sufficient.”
—Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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Generations at Work
Retiring Middle Beginning In K-16
from the to end to mid education
work force work force work force system
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Veterans or Traditionalists
Core Values: Conformity, hard work, duty, dedication and
sacrifice, patience
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Baby Boomers
Core Values: Optimism, team orientation, work
involvement, personal gratification
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Gen Xers
Core Values: Diversity, thinking globally,
technoliteracy, fun, informality
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Nexters or Millennials
Core Values: Civic duty, achievement, confidence,
sociability, morality
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