Connecting Who You Are With What You Do

1. Connecting Who You Are With What You Do Doug Manning

2. Proactive Living • Introduction • Career and Educational Management • Life Off Purpose • Proactive Professionals • Summary

3. Proactive Living • Introduction • Career and Educational Management • Life Off Purpose • Proactive Professionals • Summary

4. Career and Educational Management The Career/Life Continuum Beginning Here End

5. Career and Educational Management Knowledge Economy Definition – Knowledge Economy: “When economic growth and wealth generation are driven by the accumulation and use of knowledge” What matters – “use of knowledge” - research skills, knowledge assessment skills, ability to innovate and implement, capacity to continuously learn The Knowledge Economy is different than the Industrial Economy

6. Career and Educational Management Oxymoronic Culture global villageconstant changelifelong learningold news home officeunemployed workerself-help group working vacation multiculturalnon-working mother political science student teacher original copy detailed summary commercial art real potential tight slacks permanent part-time genuine imitation pretty ugly Dodge Ram jumbo shrimp 12 oz pound cake red licorice freezer burn non-dairy creamer double solitaire metal woods even odds large dwarfs seriously funny taped live paid volunteers elementary calculus sure bet modern history now then liberal conservative tax return good grief!

7. Career and Educational Management “If you don’t happen to change, change will happen to you.”

8. Career and Educational Management Knowledge/Education Industrial Economy Knowledge Economy High School Focus: University Prep All Students Post Sec. Training: Some People Most People Professional Dev’t: Pre-Work Lifelong Ed. Management: Systems Individuals

9. Career and Educational Management Economy/Work Industrial Economy Knowledge Economy Work Opportunities: Local Global Workplace Focus: Products Services Work Time: Work Day Anytime Work Place: Work Site Anywhere Career Transitions: Few Many Career Management: Experts Individuals

10. Proactive Living • Introduction • Career and Educational Management • Life Off Purpose • Proactive Professionals • Summary

11. Life Off Purpose Why No Proactive? Tradition – leave life to chance/others Limited Practice – no opportunity to choose Fear of Failure/Wrong Choice - failphobia “If you want to make God laugh, make a plan.”

12. Life Off Purpose Living Life on Purpose Motivation – to bring purpose to our day Personal Fulfillment – connecting who we are to what we do Sustainability – financing the life we want “It is not our abilities that tell us what we truly are.… it is our choices.” (Dumbledore – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

13. Proactive Living • Introduction • Career and Educational Management • Life Off Purpose • Proactive Professionals • Summary

14. Proactive Professionals People Who Make A Difference • Believe you have it in you (high expectations) • Strong communicator • Positive/encouraging/quick to laugh • Focused/passionate about what they do • Confident in their ability to help

15. Proactive Professionals Proactive Programs • Focused – “More people with meaningful plans” • Common methodology for teaching CEM skills • Products that enable client self-management • Proactive staff/systems – continuously upgrading • Connected to local/global communities

16. Proactive Living • Introduction • Career and Educational Management • Life Off Purpose • Proactive Professionals • Summary

17. Proactive Living Summary • I’m A Player • The Whale

18. Proactive Living I’m A Player – Babe Gurr It’s hard for me to make a choice, If I listen to all, I can’t hear my voice, Caught in a fool’s reverie, If I’m only a dreamer, let my dreams be, Will I be lucky? Will you ever take my hand….

19. Proactive Living I’m A Player – Babe Gurr Chorus Don’t hold me back, don’t turn me down, Don’t think that I give up easily, Don’t kill my dream, don’t stop the game, I’m in for all that I have to give, ‘Cause I’m a player.

20. Proactive Living I’m A Player – Babe Gurr At times, I feel I’m up against the wall, But if you remove it, I just might fall, Chasing that so distant goal, And when I get there, will I trade my soul? Will I be lucky? Will you ever take my hand…

21. Proactive Living I’m A Player – Babe Gurr Chorus Don’t hold me back, don’t turn me down, Don’t think that I give up easily, Don’t kill my dream, don’t stop the game, I’m in for all that I have…

22. Proactive Living I’m A Player – Babe Gurr ‘Cause I’m a player, and I won’t be denied, I’m a dreamer, and I hold my dreams tight, I’m a believer, who will be satisfied, I’m on my way, I’m here to stay…..

23. Proactive Living I’m A Player – Babe Gurr Chorus Don’t hold me back, don’t turn me down, Don’t think that I give up easily, Don’t kill my dream, don’t stop the game, I’m in for all that I have to give… (repeat chorus) I’m a player.

24. Career and Educational Management “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” (Margaret Mead)

25. Connecting Who You Are With What You Do Doug Manning