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

1. 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

2. Announcements 1) Welcome Dr. Beth Day-Miller! 2) Assignments Due today: Progress Report Proposal 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 “Academia is the new alternative” Any questions or comments? Barb?

3. How choose a career in line with your lifestyle/values? Evaluate: skills, affinities, personal goals Earn & market: your knowledge your experience • Research: • career possibilities Talk with people in the field(s): Network (broadly) Conduct informational interviews Getting What You Came For (Robert L. Peters), What Color is Your Parachute? (Richard N. Bolles), & others

5. Evaluate your skills, affinities, personal goals • Everything about yourself on 1 piece of paper • Use a graphic • Prioritize this info From What Color is Your Parachute? (WCIYP)

6. Seven parts of diagram • Favorite Knowledges / Fields of Interest • Preferred Kinds of People to Work With • What I Can Do & Love to Do • Favorite Working Conditions • Preferred Salary & Level of Responsibility • Preferred Place(s) to Live • My Goal, Purpose, or Mission in Life

7. 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

9. Petal 1: Favorite Knowledges or Fields of Interest • Graphic design • Data analysis • Cooking • Music • Languages Favorite Mediums • Ideas • People • Music

10. Petal 2: Preferred Kinds of People to Work With Which types of people do you enjoy most? (pick 3) realistic investigative http://tlc-kdu.blogspot.com/2010/01/holland-code-party.html conventional artistic enterprising social

11. Petal 3: What I Can Do and Love to Do(Favorite Transferable Skills) • Data • Synthesizing • Analyzing • Compiling, Computing • People • Mentoring • Negotiating • Instructing • Things • Setting Up • Driving – Operating • Handling

12. 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

13. 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?

14. 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

15. 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 subject • Beauty in the world – artwork, music • More morality, justice, honesty in the world • More wholeness, fitness, health in the world

16. Break

17. Seven parts of diagram • Favorite Knowledges / Fields of Interest • Preferred Kinds of People to Work With • What I Can Do & Love to Do • Favorite Working Conditions • Preferred Salary & Level of Responsibility • Preferred Place(s) to Live • My Goal, Purpose, or Mission in Life

18. How choose a career in line with your lifestyle/values? Evaluate: skills, affinities, personal goals Earn & market: your knowledge your experience • Research: • career possibilities Talk with people in the field(s): Network (broadly) Conduct informational interviews Getting What You Came For (Robert L. Peters), What Color is Your Parachute? (Richard N. Bolles), & others

19. Activity 2: Time Management http://chrisandlouisa.com/category/work-life-balance/

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

21. 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 • DELAY: • Few things should fall into this category • File, print, or store for another time http://www.medicinethatspeaks.org/433/evpma-newsletter-may-2011/

22. Time Management Tool: Evernote

23. Other tips & ideas?

24. Reflection Over the next month: • What’s one thing that you’ll do for your health? • What’s one thing that you’ll do to support your relationships with other people? * Keep these notes for yourself as a reminder *

25. Assignment #3: Due Mar 11Work-Life Balance Reflection • Two parts: • 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.

26. Upcoming classes & assignments • Mar 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)