PLANNING FOR PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CAREERS, EDUCATIONAL & AWARENESS EVENT

WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2015 - ST GEORGE’S COLLEGE, HARARE

Presentation by Cynthia Hakutangwi (Communications and Personal Development Consultant)

Presenter’s Profile – Cynthia Hakutangwi A Communications and Personal Development

Consultant, Transformation Activist, Author, and Strategist.

Holds qualifications in Marketing Communications, and Transformational Leadership

Has worked extensively in human resource development, marketing, research, strategy design, and organisational structuring.

Has developed and facilitated various programmes in business skills, personal and transformational leadership development.

A contributing writer for lifestyle, wellness and leadership related publications.

Film productions include THE EXTRA MILE and Intelligent Conversations TV series

Her published book titles include “The Whole You – Vital Keys for Balanced Living,” “Intelligent Conversations: A mindset shift towards a developed Africa” and Success Within Reach

Cynthia is married with four children.

PLANNING AND BEING ORGANIZED, KEY TO SUCCESS

CAREER AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT

What is a career?Def. (Oxford English Dictionary)A person’s course or progress through life. It also pertains to their occupation or profession

that usually involves special training or formal education and is considered to be a person’s lifework.What is career development?

Career development is an ongoing process of gaining knowledge and improving skills that will help an individual to establish a career plan.

WHY CAREER DEVELOPMENT? Today’s Generation Students……. Fail to plan for the future. Follow the crowd Choose by influence of others. Accept the parent’s verdict(decision) by force Get tempted by current trends Jump into any career Lack motivation Fail to ‘’discover their lives’’ Live in a fantasy world

So what do you want to do with the rest of your life ????

Why Select a Career?

We have been created unique. (Eg. Fingerprint).

We are born only once. We spend almost 40 years on our work. A total over 80,000 hours , we work. Now ask yourself how you will spend these

80,000 hours before you die??????

THE CAREER DECISION-MAKING PROCESS

STEP 1 Discovering Yourself What are my interests? Values? Skills?

Personality preferences? Strengths? What are three careers that interest me? What are three college majors that I

want to explore?

STEP 2 Exploring Options What information or individuals can help me

to explore my college or career options? What classes or activities can help me to

develop my strengths? How can I learn more about informational

interviews, job shadowing, exploratory internships, service learning, civic honors, or student organizations to gain firsthand experience?

STEP 3 Making a Decision How much time and energy am I willing

to invest to make a career decision? Who is part of my support system to

help me evaluate the pros and cons? What are my top priorities to consider for

this decision?

STEP 4 Taking Action How can I strengthen my readiness for

success in a college major? What is one goal that I have? How can I

reach it? What action can I take now? Which one of my talents can I develop

through classes or outside activities?

STEP 5Evaluating the Decision Is my decision a realistic option? Is there anything preventing me from

achieving this goal? What would it mean if I didn’t have any barriers?

Who in my support system can assist me with achieving this goal?

     Goal Setting• To start managing time effectively, you need to set goals. When you know where you're going, you can then figure out what exactly needs to be done, in what order.

• People tend to neglect goal setting because it requires time and effort.

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     Goal Setting• What is the difference between a dream and a goal?

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Writing Goals • Goals give us direction. • A goal is clear and meaningful to the person who has defined it and can be communicated to others when the need arises.

• Well defined goals can be your greatest motivator for action.

• The goal you identify must be personally meaningful to you and be consistent with your values.

• It must be worth every minute you put into it and the benefits you have clearly determined to achieve.

• When you know where you are going, you will do your utmost to make sure you get there. And when you are there develop the habit of documenting and celebrating your success.

     Goal Setting• Goal setting is the process of deciding what you want to accomplish and devising a plan to achieve the result you desire.

• Goal setting is a two part process. For effective goal setting, you need to do more than just decide what you want to do; you also have to work at accomplishing whatever goal you have set for yourself.

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     Goal Setting• Most people know what they want to do but have trouble creating a plan to get there. Goals without action plans are just words.

• One way to get over this hurdle is to use a goal setting formula that incorporates a strategy for accomplishing the goal

• Goal setting involves establishing specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-targeted (SMART ) goals

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Criteria for Writing A Goal-SMARTS• For goals to be successfully achieved, they have to be in a form that is • Specific – detailed and precise understanding of where you are

going. Ask Who, What, Where, Why, Which, When• Measurable – You must be able to see step by step progress. Clarify

amount or progress in quantifiable terms – How much, How many….• Attainable – Is this within your capacity to make come true?• Realistic – Is this possible within the resources, ability and challenge

available. Eg. Can you fly to the moon in a spacecraft today? No. This is not realistic. Realistic represents the goal you are willing to work towards.

• Time Bound – When do you hope to accomplish it? When do you hope to have a result?. Always linked to realistic measures of achievement give you the feelings of success when you accomplish it.

• Stretches you. – Does this goal offer the challenge of reaching new heights, doing something that proves you have what it takes for the next level? Does the goal offer challenge to the resources or thinking processes you had in place?

     Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:

1. Something you really want, versus something that sounds good.

Remember that your goals must be consistent with your values

2. A goal can not contradict any of your other goals

Continually strive to eliminate contradictory ideas from your thinking

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     Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:3. Develop goals in the 6 areas of life:• Family and Home• Financial and Career• Spiritual and Ethical• Physical and Health• Social and Cultural• Mental and Educational

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     Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:

Develop goals in the 6 areas of life:• Setting goals in each area of life will ensure a more balanced life as you begin to examine and change the fundamentals of everyday living.

• Setting goals in each area of live also helps in eliminating the non-integrated thinking we talked about in the 2nd step

• Choose a goal that will help you personally and professionally.

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     Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:

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Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:

4. Write your goal in the positive instead of the negative.

• Part of the reason why we write down and examine our goals is to create a set of instructions for our subconscious mind to carry out.

• The subconscious mind can not determine right from wrong and it does not judge. It carries out instructions.

• The more positive instructions you give it, the more positive results you will get.

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     Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:5. Write your goal out in complete detail.• The more detailed information we give our subconscious mind, the more clearer the final outcome becomes. The more precise the outcome, the more efficient the subconscious mind can become

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     Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:6. Ensure your goal is high enough.• Shoot for the moon, if you miss you’ll still be in the stars

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Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:

7. Write down and review your goals• In addition to writing goals down, it is also extremely important to review your goals frequently.

• The more focused you are on your goals the more likely you are to accomplish them.

• We may need to revise a goal as circumstances and other goals change. If you need to change a goal do not consider it a failure, consider it a victory as you had the insight to realize something was different.

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Who Is Mentoring You?

Role Model, Coach or Mentor?• Making the right choice will determine your interaction with the individual.

• A role model is an individual in which the behaviour is observed from a distance.

• A mentor is someone that the individual works with on a fairly regular basis. It involves observing the mentor but also includes the opportunity for discussion, evaluation and progress through 2-way communication between the mentor and the mentee.

• The individual and their coach on the other hand have a task based relationship. A coach looks at you work and gives you advice on how to improve your results

Who is in your Social Circle?

Barriers to Personal Development• Believing you do not have time• Not understanding the value of development• Believing that experience is the only teacher• Fear of change• No curiosity or thirst for learning• Only respecting information that is immediately useable and believing leadership development is impractical

What are the Barriers to Your Success?• Personal Barriers – Barriers within yourself

• Your motivation, education, training, energy, personality characteristics, leadership skills, self-confidence, conflicting values, stress tolerance, etc

• Environmental Barriers – Barriers outside of your control• External forces that are out of your control, for example

the culture in which you live or the attitudes of leaders in your organization

• Conflict Barriers – when two goals compete with each other• Conflict barriers exist when you want to achieve two goals

that appear to be in competition or conflict with each other

     Prioritising • Prioritizing what needs to be done is important. Without it, you may work very hard, but you won’t be achieving the results you desire because what you are working on is not of strategic importance.

• The problem with many “to-do” lists is they are just a collection of things that need to get done.

• To work efficiently you need to work on the most important, highest value tasks

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     Prioritising Key Areas of Personal Priorities: • Spiritual life• Family life• Social life• Physical Wellness• Intellectual life• Vocational/Professional life• Financial life

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Sample of An Annual Plan• Use the answers you gave during the Self-Evaluation

Questions and everything you already knew about yourself to develop a list of Areas for Development.

• This process helps you identify the goals in this area of life that you want to give immediate attention to and that will bring you the most immediate benefits

• Goal setting is the most powerful force you can possess for achieving success in every area of life.

Area Goal 

Actions Output/Verifiable Indicator

Deadline and Review Dates Evaluation of Progress

Spiritual          

Financial          

Family     

       

Career      

       

Physical and Wellbeing

    

       

Personal Development 

      

       

Managing time thievesExamples of Time thieves• Telephone • E-mail, Internet and Social Media• Interruptions

• Your social circles• Self inflicted

• Procrastination• Being over-available

Conclusion• You should always have a plan that is broken down to yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily goals. There should be some room for flexibility, but it will help you stay focused.

• Time management is self management, so start by identifying your time wasters.

On which level of existence are you?

Survival, Success

or Significance?

What are you going to Stop, Start & Continue?

Reading Resources

1. Steve Covey – The 7 habits of Highly Effective People (Habit 2 –Principles of

Personal Leadership pages 106 to 129)

2. Cynthia Hakutangwi - The Whole You – Vital keys for Balanced Living

(Chapter 2 – The Multidimensional Being pages 4-12 and chapter 11-

Your Strategic Life Plan pages 83-86)

Thank You

CYNTHIA HAKUTANGWICommunications & Personal Development

Consultant

Mobile: 0772 438 068E-mail: chakutangwi@gmail.com

cynthia@wholenessincorporated.comWebsite: www.wholenessincorporated.com

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