The Four Questions You Need to Answer to Find Your Way Jeff Saperstein HOW TO Navigate Your Career

My Mission: Help Others Be Successful Through Business, Education and Professional Relationships Saperstein HELLO!

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Who influences, mentors, and inspires you? Randy Pausch: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams Vision Matters

AutonomyHave agency to direct your life MasteryWhat do you know and can do PurposeWhy are you doing? Is it meaningful? ProgressDo you see results? SharingBuild your peer and mentor network How Important are these Values to You?

VISUAL get Goal: Self-Efficacy to Make it Happen for You

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The emergence of real, useful artificial intelligence (AI) and the connection of most of the people on the planet via a common digital network. Most significant future transformations in work The Second Machine Age, Brynjolfsson and McAfee

Don’t Confuse… Professional Development

The Predictability of Rules and Individual Progress in a University

No one will take care of you! The Turbulence of the Workplace

“Our CEO told us we were like One Big Family….I did not know he meant the Sopranos” ———Anonymous High level HR Executive after massive layoffs in Fortune 500 Company due to Missed Target of Quarterly Profits

Artificial intelligence will transform most jobs and transform the expertise and skills sets that were success factors Future Impact of Artificial Intelligence

To Navigate Your Career you will need continuous: learning systems and skills, building your own professional brand, expanding network of professional relationships

Cloud, Analytics, and Social Networking, supported by Artificial Intelligence, will mean that almost half the jobs today will be radically transformed within the next five years.

Service: Mass Customization based on Personal Co-Creation will drive the next innovation wave Google Driverless Car

Make a Job or Take A Job…Do both in your career.

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Four Questions to Help Navigate Your Career Where do I fit? How do I add value? Can I learn to compete to collaborate so I am a valued team member? Can I learn to both give and receive signals to be an intelligent communicator and listener?

Where do I fit? Best to build experience in broadening your comfort zone but start where you are now: Field/industry Regions Sectors Cultures Organizational structures Workplace styles

What discipline do I master: Marketing, Finance, Law, etc. Do I understand other disciplines so I can work on multi-disciplinary teams and with technology so I can contribute to dispersed work teams What do I know how to do: (create an App, work with platforms and Tools such as Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, Google Analytics, IBM Blue Mix, etc.) How do I Add Value?

Become a valued team member Lead project groups Follow directions Be able to pivot and be flexible Know Account Management Know Project Management Can I learn to compete to collaborate?

Being able to read and send (signal) non-verbal and verbal communication is life-long learning The one constant skill in demand in the turbulent, transforming workplace Good communication skills can be learned Monitor these attitudinal markers for personal/professional growth as you navigate your career Curiosity, Genuine interest in people Desire to serve and help others Can I be an intelligent 2-way communicator?

Check out this presentation to students at San Francisco State University on Navigating Your Career For more….

Careerbuilder.com LinkedIn.careers.com Mag Joy: Why 30 is not the new 20 (Ted Talk Dan Pink: The Puzzle of Motivation (Ted Talk) Erik Brynjolfsson: Race With the Machines (Ted Talk) Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action (Ted Talk) Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In…Now What? (Ted Talk) Jeff Saperstein: Vision Matters, Defining Identity Free Resources

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