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Personal Growth and Professional Development

• Knowing where you’re going• Calibrate your personal compass• Think and act like the President of Me, Inc.• Mobilize your loose ends• Celebrate attainment of milestones

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Current Opportunities

• Leading Edge Perspective• Visualize your future needs• Imagine a continuum of your life

• Unfreezing• Awareness and consciousness

• Re-purposing• How will you be remembered?• Clarify your Purpose/Scope

• Re-organizing• Make your plan

• Re-dedicating• Commit to new actions• Measurements

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Get in the Zone

• Decide to have Fun• Seek something that provides Excitement• Discover your true, natural Creative Genius• Use of PM Skills to:

• Problem Solve• Brainstorm• Analyze Resources

• Rule number 1 from Steve Jobs’ 12 rules of success• Do what you love to do.   Find your true passion.

Do what you love to do a make a difference! The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

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Assessment Resources

• What Type Am I?: The Myers-Briggs Type Indication Made Easy by Renee Baron Strengths Finder 2.0

• The Way We Work: What You Know about Working Styles Can Increase Your Efficiency, Productivity and Job Satisfaction by Cynthia Ulrich Tobias (Paperback - Mar. 15, 1999) Peak Performance

• Lifetypes by Sandra Krebs Hirsh and Jean M. Kummerow (Kindle Edition - Sept. 26, 2009) - Kindle Book

• Exploring Personality Type: Discovering My Best and Your Best by Elizabeth Murphy and Eleanor Sommer (Paperback - July 22, 2008)

• DiSC Profile Online/Paper Instant Tests/Results by Inscape Prices & Service 877-311-DISC www.OnlineDiscProfile.com

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Your Personal Compass

• Your Personal Dimensions1. Social2. Spiritual3. Physical4. Family5. Financial 6. Professional7. Community8. Mental

Dr. Denis Waitley’s Winner’s Edge Workshop

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Think like the Owner of Me, Inc.

• Choose your Executive Board• Identify your Stakeholders• Do a SWOT Analysis• Evaluate how you will handle Decision-Making?

• Research Associates• Fact Finding Resources

• Move between Growth Stages

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Gap Analysis (Ver. 1m.x)

• Notice that you are in a stuck state• Determine the stick point• Identify your desired future state• Manifest a solution state

• Intentional impact • Conscious energetics

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Your choices for an upgrade

• Public Universities and Colleges• Private Universities and Colleges• Associations and Certification Programs• Seminars and Workshops• Special Interest Groups• Volunteer Projects

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Mobilize the Loose Ends

• What about the committees inside your head?• Work effectively and efficiently as you organize them• Remember the cause and effect tools• Rededicate yourself to your life goals

• Esteem, Respect, Personal Pride• Engage your committees in your visioning process• Know that you are empowered to reshape your future

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Choose the direction you are spiraling

• Competence• Commitment• Courage• Communication

Status Quo

• Comparison• Criticism• Cynicism• Collusion

Good Ideas Fly

Feeling of Lightness

Relationship Building

Exploring and Discovering

Noticing Uncomfortable Differences

Dark Humor

Discouragement of Creativity

Good Ideas Die

Fear

Fun

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Awarded Global Accreditation Center by the PMI® Institute

• Elite Status: Only 14 U.S. Education Partners

• Covers Keller Graduate School of Management’s- MPM degree program- MBA, MISM and MNCM degree programs

(with concentrations in project management)

• Covers DeVry University’s- BSBA and BSTM with concentration in

project management degree programs

• GAC-accredited programs can provide up to 1,500 hours toward PMP® certification

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of the Project Management Institute, Inc.