Connecting Who You Are With What You Do

Doug Manning

Proactive Living

•Introduction

•Career and Educational Management

•Life Off Purpose

•Proactive Professionals

•Summary

Proactive Living

•Introduction

•Career and Educational Management

•Life Off Purpose

•Proactive Professionals

•Summary

Career and Educational Management

Beginning

Here

End

The Career/Life Continuum

Career and Educational Management

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

Knowledge Economy

Career and Educational Management

global village constant change lifelong learningold news

home office unemployed worker self-help group working vacation

multicultural non-working mother political sciencestudent 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 betmodern history

now then liberal conservative tax returngood grief!

Oxymoronic Culture

Career and Educational Management

“If you don’t happen to change, change will happen to you.”

Career and Educational Management

Knowledge/Knowledge/EducationEducation

Industrial Industrial EconomyEconomy

Knowledge Knowledge EconomyEconomy

High School Focus: University Prep All Students

Post Sec. Training: Some People Most People

Professional Dev’t: Pre-Work Lifelong

Ed. Management: Systems Individuals

Career and Educational Management

Economy/WorkEconomy/Work Industrial Industrial EconomyEconomy

Knowledge Knowledge EconomyEconomy

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

Proactive Living

•Introduction

•Career and Educational Management

•Life Off Purpose

•Proactive Professionals

•Summary

Life Off Purpose

Tradition – leave life to chance/others

Limited Practice – no opportunity to choose

Fear of Failure/Wrong Choice - failphobia

Why No Proactive?

“If you want to make God laugh, make a plan.”

Life Off Purpose

Motivation – to bring purpose to our day

Personal Fulfillment – connecting who we are to what we do

Sustainability – financing the life we want

Living Life on Purpose

“It is not our abilities that tell us what we truly are.… it is our choices.” (Dumbledore – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

Proactive Living

•Introduction

•Career and Educational Management

•Life Off Purpose

•Proactive Professionals

•Summary

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

Proactive Professionals

•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

Proactive Programs

Proactive Living

•Introduction

•Career and Educational Management

•Life Off Purpose

•Proactive Professionals

•Summary

Proactive Living

•I’m A Player

•The Whale

Summary

Proactive Living

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….

I’m A Player – Babe Gurr

Proactive Living

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.

I’m A Player – Babe Gurr

Proactive Living

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…

I’m A Player – Babe Gurr

Proactive Living

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…

I’m A Player – Babe Gurr

Proactive Living

‘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…..

I’m A Player – Babe Gurr

Proactive Living

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.

I’m A Player – Babe Gurr

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)

Connecting Who You Are With What You Do

Doug Manning