Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Career and Professional
Development 2
A Virtual Personal Development Course
A Human Resource Management Approach to Personal
Asset Development
WC NLDI Online 2
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Welcome to the Woodson Center’s Neighborhood Leadership Development Institute On-Line (www.woodsoncenter.org).
• This time series training and development course is for community and faith based organizational leaders.
• The course is designed to provide development in three areas: individual, organizational, and community.
WC NLDI Online 3
Career and Professional
Development 2 • Each program curriculum track has 12 or more
workshops that are presented using social media to include GoToMeetings, YouTube and Black Board.
• Each program curriculum track will be recorded and placed on the WC’s web site for viewing in the convenience of your home or office. The address is www.woodsoncenter.org.
• Participants will be able to get Continuing Education Units for each program curriculum workshop upon completion of quizzes at the end of each module.
WC NLDI Online 4
Career and Professional
Development 2
• The first discussion is Personal Development. This track has three components: Habits to Live By, Career and Professional Development, and Financial Literacy.
• This is our second discussion in the personal development track.
• We will discuss Career and Professional Development through a Human Resource Management perspective.
• Today, we will examine your skills’ development and refinement.
WC NLDI Online 5
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Welcome
• Introductions
• 7 and a Half Things
• Purpose of the Career and Professional Development Course
• What to expect?
• Learning Agreements
WC NLDI Online 6
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Take a moment to introduce yourself to
the rest of the group on the call telling:
• Your Name?
• Your Purpose in life?
• How Do You See Yourself in 20 Years?
• How will you finance your 20 year career
and professional development goals?
WC NLDI Online 7
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Program Purpose
– Take A Closer Look At Yourself
– Learn about the world of work
– Prepare job search tools (resumes, applications, references, etc.)
– Make a job search plan
– Talk to employers and prepare for interviews
– Keep a wining attitude
– Keep the job once you have found one
WC NLDI Online 8
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Before looking for work, you must know yourself
well and what you have to offer employers.
• Your must be able to answer questions like:
– Who are you?
– What do you like to do?
– What are your skills and abilities?
– What type of work have you done in the past?
– What type of work would you like to do in the future?
WC NLDI Online 9
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Who Am I and What Have I Done?
• The answers to these questions will help
you sell yourself to employers.
• Preparation is the key to your selling job.
• Put your best effort up front.
• Your personal qualities show what kind of
worker you are and likely to be.
WC NLDI Online 10
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Your personal qualities show what kind of worker you are and likely to be.
• Do you like to work around and with people or do you prefer to work alone?
• Would you rather use your mind or your hands?
• Are you full of ideas, or do you prefer to follow instructions?
WC NLDI Online 11
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Employers do not just look at your skills.
• They want to know how you will behave on the job.
• For instance, a good cashier needs to know more than just how to run a cash register. A cashier must also enjoy working with people and providing good service.
• It is the person’s personal qualities that make the difference between an average and an excellent worker.
WC NLDI Online 12
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Activity: Your facilitator provided you with a
checklist for you to identify personal qualities
that you may possess. These qualities can be
very important to employers.
• The more you know about your qualities, the
better you can sell yourself to the right employer.
• Feel free to identify other qualities that you have,
but are not listed on the checklist.
• Does anyone care to share?
WC NLDI Online 13
Career and Professional
Development 2
• What are your most important qualities?
• Name three.
• Your facilitator will ask that each person to state
what their three qualities are and how these
personal qualities have been used or shown on
the job or while engaged in NLDI Online.
WC NLDI Online 14
Career and Professional
Development 2 • The main things we want to sell to employers
are our demonstrable skills.
• More than anything else, employers want to know that you have the skills to get the job done fast and well.
• We must know our skills inside and out.
• We have to sell our skills as well as possible.
• There are many different skills.
• Skills are learned at home, work, school, and experiences.
WC NLDI Online 15
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Believe it or not, most people know over 500
skills.
• Most of us are not even aware of them because
they seem natural.
• To find work, we must do three things with our
skills:
– Know what they are.
– Sell them to employers.
– Learn new skills whenever possible.
WC NLDI Online 16
Career and Professional
Development 2 Kiona’s Story
Kiona didn’t think that she had many skills. But, she sat down one night and wrote down some of the things she had learned to do in her life. Here is her list:
• Planning Inspecting Creating
• Arranging Teaching Budgeting
• Giving Advice Coaching Motivating
• Supervising Managing Designing
WC NLDI Online 17
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Can you guess what Kiona does?
• Kiona is a mother! Follow Kiona’s example when you complete the next few activities.
• Think of skills as things you have learned in all areas of your life.
• Not just at work!
WC NLDI Online 18
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Your facilitator sent you an employability
worksheet. Let’s take a look at it.
• Employability skills are what you get when
you combine basic workplace skills and
personal qualities.
• They are skills needed to keep a job.
• Employability skills are useful on any job.
WC NLDI Online 19
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Employable skills are also the skills needed to
move quickly from job to job during your working
years.
• Check the boxes that apply to you.
• Don’t worry if you need to work on some areas.
• Knowing where you need to try harder is a big
step in the right direction.
• Let’s summarize what you have learned.
WC NLDI Online 20
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Transferable skills can be used in many different
jobs.
• They are skills that can be learned through any
part of your life and used somewhere else.
• It is good to know your transferable skills
because they can open up new jobs to you.
• For example, someone who served the public at
a gas station could also use that skill to help
people in an auto parts store.
WC NLDI Online 21
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Small Group Activity
• Your facilitator provided you with a checklist that
will help you discover your transferable skills.
• Think hard about all the skills you have learned
from all of your experiences.
• Remember, knowing your transferable skills will
open new doors to you.
• Check all that apply to you.
WC NLDI Online 22
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Employers look for people who take pride in what they
do.
• What are some of the things that have made you feel
good about yourself?
• It doesn’t matter if you have thirty years of work
experience or if you have none.
• Everything you have done in your life - everything you
are-counts.
• Do not sell yourself short. Everyone has done something
they are proud of.
WC NLDI Online 23
Career and Professional
Development 2
Here are some examples of things that can make people
feel proud:
• Crafts -Awards
• Sports -Licenses
• Community Work -Volunteer Work
• Family -Personal Goals
• Friends -School
• Clubs -Work
• Hobbies -Certificates
WC NLDI Online 24
Career and Professional
Development 2
Journaling Activity (30 Minutes After Your
Session)
• Think about all of the things you have
done in your life and write a few of them
down in your journal.
• Give yourself a pat on the back.
• Share your writing entry with your peers at
work or with community leaders.
WC NLDI Online 25
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Summary
• It is important that you take an inventory of
your skills and know what are your
strongest sets of skills.
• Know your employable skills.
• Know your transferable skills.
• Document your skills.
WC NLDI Online 26
Career and Professional
Development 2
• End of the Day Review
• What did you Learn today?
• What do you wish you would have learned
today?
• What will you do differently by the next
session to ensure that you learn what you
need to know?
• Other comments and questions?
WC NLDI Online 27
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Next Steps
• We have placed an exit questionnaire on
survey monkey for you to complete to
assess how well you have retained this
module’s information.
• Complete the survey by going to
www.surveymonkey.com web link.
WC NLDI Online 28
Career and Professional
Development 2
• Thank you for engaging in this on line
presentation.
• Visit www.woodsoncenter.org for stories of
individual, organizational and community
leaders who are taking one step at a time
to make a difference in their community.
• Send us your stories and we will place
them on our virtual wall of iconic leaders.
