2. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt

3. OBJECTIVES Describe the importance of goal setting
Identify the impact setting goals and objectives will have on your life-plan
Set realistic goals to help you reach your full potential in life
Define goal-setting techniques
Create short-term and long-term goals
Describe the importance of setting priorities
State the advantages of having a mentor

4. THE IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL GOAL SETTING
Goal: a long-term target
Think of it as a reward at the top of a ladder; you must climb the ladder before reaching the reward
Goals keep you focused, increase self-esteem, and help you overcome procrastination, fear, and failure
Setting goals will help you become more successful in your career

5. INFLUENCES OF GOALS
Goals help you keep focused on where you want to be in your future
As a goal is reached, you will be motivated and self-confident enough to set a higher goal
Set goals in the major areas of your life including personal, career, financial, educational, physical, social, and psychological

6. HOW TO SET GOALS
Achieving short-term and long-term goals is like climbing a ladder
Goals need to be put into writing

7. HOW TO SET GOALS Long-Term Goals
Long-term goals: reached within a time frame of five to ten years
Setting long-term goals starts with thinking of what you want to accomplish in your life
From your list of accomplishments, choose items you most value
Keep goals realistic, attainable, measurable, and important (have a reason for the goal)

8. HOW TO SET GOALS Short-Term Goals
Short-term goals: goals that can be reached within a year’s time
Also called objectives
Set to help reach long-term goals
Keep them realistic, achievable, measurable, and important to you

9. HOW TO SET GOALS Important Aspects of Goal Setting
Owning the goal
Controlling the goal
Setting a time frame for the goal

10. HOW TO SET GOALS Owning the Goal
Each goal must belong to you
YOU need to decide what your goals will be
Do not allow others to influence the goals you set

11. HOW TO SET GOALS Controlling the Goal
Have the right information when creating goals
Know what resources and constraints are involved
Be flexible and maintain realistic control

12. HOW TO SET GOALS Setting a Time Frame
Setting a time frame makes the goal measurable
You will know when you have reached your goal
Stay positive and use detail when writing goals

13. TALK IT OUT
Discuss one goal that can be set for this class

14. Educational life goals
CREATING A LIFE-PLAN
A life-plan includes:
Personal life goals
Career life goals
Educational life goals

15. CREATING A LIFE-PLAN Personal
Social and spiritual
Marriage
Family
Friends
Religion
What types of people do you want to be a part of your life in the future?

16. CREATING A LIFE-PLAN Personal (cont.)
Financial
Home
Car
Ownership
Where do you want to be financially? What amount of money will you be comfortable with?

17. CREATING A LIFE-PLAN Personal (cont.)
Activities
Hobbies
Life experiences
What do you want to be able to do in the future? Will you be happy with intrinsic (self-satisfaction) rewards or extrinsic (money, praise) rewards?

18. TALK IT OUT
Share common rewards that are important to you and identify those rewards as intrinsic or extrinsic

19. CREATING A LIFE-PLAN Career
Why is your selected career important?
How will you know if you achieve success?
What resources are needed?
Choosing the right career is important
Different reasons include
earning power,
status,
intellect, and
self-satisfaction

20. CREATING A LIFE-PLAN Educational
Degrees/certificates needed
Time frame
Financial resources
Support network
No one can take your knowledge
away from you!

21. PRIORITIES
Priorities: determine what needs to be done and in what order
You may need to adjust your priorities to reach your goals
Trade-off: giving up one thing to do something else
Be prepared to be flexible in all areas of your life-plan

22. TALK IT OUT
Identify priorities and trade-offs for successfully completing this course

23. MENTORING Mentor: someone who can help you learn more
Provides information about your present position
Provides support
Helps you develop your career
Teaches you about the corporate culture
Corporate culture: the values, expectations, and behaviors of people at work
Formal or informal mentoring

24. Future Planning:
Building Meaningful Career exploration into your guidance programs.

25. 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
Source: Phil Jarvis, Vice President
National Life/Work Center

26. Moving to a New Paradigm in Career Development and Planning
Source: Phil Jarvis, Vice President
National Life/Work Center

27. 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!

28. Job titles of the future
CEO of Love
Director of Vibe
Job titles of the future
C3PO
Animation Skeptic
Chief Lizard Wrangler
Director of Fun
Raging
Inexorable
Thunder-Lizard
Evangelist for
Change
Manager of Mischief
C3PO-Chief People, Progress, and Potential Officer (C3PO),
Chief Lizard Wrangler—netscape to Mozilla
Creatologist--polaroid
Director of Fun-sprint
Director of Vibe—hotel chain
Head Monster-monster cables
Knowledge Sorceress-consultant to
Manager of Mischief-law firm in Chiacgo with 200 plus lawyers
Raging Inexorable Thunder-Lizard Evangelist for Change--UTexas
Chief Energizing Officer
Creatologist
Knowledge Sorceress

31. What a Career is:
The sum total of your experiences, paid and unpaid, formal and informal
You are already in career development

32. A Career is not
A prescription
A profession
A job
A straight line

33. Career development is not
A one time thing…
The answer to a test…
One size fits all…
Quick…

34. What is Career Development?

35. Work Dynamic Global Labor Market information, US Canada UK Australia
For planning purposes

36. Hopes and Dreams
Develop a plan, but, live a process

37. The High Five
Change is constant

38. “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” —General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army

39. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin

40. “The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. ”
“The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.” James Yorke, mathematician, on chaos theory in The New Scientist

41. Significant Shift in Leadership
90% of American businesses are family owned
¾ of family owned leaders will leave in 10 years
40% will leave in 5 years

42. More Leadership Turnover
CEO vacancies were the highest ever in 2010
113% increase from 2004 to 2010
Significant turnover occurring in other key leadership spots – Board Directors, Officers, Junior Executives

43. The “Itch” for Occupational Adventure
45% feel satisfied
20% feel passionate
33% feel dead ended
21% very eager to change jobs, companies
30% feel employer inspires the best in them

44. Important Trends to Notice
Small biz = fastest growing
Small firm employees more engaged
Satisfaction valued more than $
Change is a biz constant

45. Trend Tracking Continued
Technology is a given
Automation is a result
Global outsourcing – same quality, cheaper

46. “80% of all white collar jobs as we know them today will either disappear entirely or be re-configured…”
Tom Peters, 2004

47. Itch + Trends = The New Economy
The Next Business Turning Point Is Here

48. The Three Big Drivers of Change Abundance Asia Automation Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind

49. 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”) Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind

50. Software’s Enormous Inroads Docs Lawyers Accountants Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind

51. Self
Talents
Interests
Personality
Weaknesses
Strengths