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“We Speak Your Language” Retained Executive Search RPO Leadership Consulting
Next Steps in your Estimating Career
Dan Ryan Principal
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Who is Dan Ryan
• Recovering Engineer and HR Professional
• Retained Executive Search
• Leadership Consulting • RO • Husband-Father • Rabid Fan!
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Today
• Game plan • Competencies • “Strengths” • Moving ahead
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How would you rate your career to this point?
• How did you end up in your present career?
• Are you taking any time to reflect upon your progress?
• Are you satisfied with your progress?
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Where are you now?
• If you looked at your life like a football game, where would you be? – First half? – Second half? – Halftime? – Have you considered any game plan
changes?
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The Halftime Concept
• In his book “Halftime”, Bob Buford view life like a football game – Many of us strive for success in the first
half – This success may leave many with an
empty feeling • Is this all there is? • What can I do to make a difference?
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A personal journey
• Manufacturing • Human Resources • Today
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Taking stock
• Halftime is a good time to pause and reflect – What am I passionate about? – What do I want to do in the next 10 years? – Am I using my talents & skills to the best of my
ability? – Which changes…
• Can I make? • Should I make? • Handout
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The Halftime Drill 1.What do I want to be remembered for? 2.What about money-how much is
enough? 3.How am I feeling about my career right
now? 4.Am I living a balanced life? 5.What is the primary loyalty in my life? 6.Where do I look for my inspiration,
mentors and working models? 7.What do I want for my children/family?
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The Halftime Drill
8. How am I doing on self-realization and community? (Drucker’s needs)
9. Review your life line(s)-where are the ups and downs?
10.Potential transitions – Keep doing what I am doing, but change
the environment – Change the work, but stay in the
environment – Turn an avocation into a new career
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How will you transition to the Second Half?
• 180 degree turn • Slight adjustment • Still not sure…..
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Core Competencies, Expectations and Career Path for an Estimating Professional Mr. John K. Hollmann PE, CCE and Mr. Bruce G. Elliott, CCC
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Estimating Competencies
Core Competencies, Expectations and Career Path for an Estimating Professional
Mr. John K. Hollmann PE, CCE and Mr. Bruce G. Elliott, CCC
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Skills & Knowledge of Cost Engineering
Core Competencies, Expectations and Career Path
for an Estimating Professional Mr. John K. Hollmann PE, CCE and
Mr. Bruce G. Elliott, CCC
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Estimating Career Paths
• Complete career
• Step toward operations
• Lateral development
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StrengthsFinder 2.0
• Measures talent (not strengths)
• Talent only an ingredient of a true strength – Knowledge, skills, practice are amplifiers for
natural talents – Without facts and skills, talent can go untapped
• Talent x Investment = Strength
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Background about StrengthsFinder
• Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. – Father of Strengths Based Psychology
• Culmination of more that 50 years of lifelong work
• Introduced by Gallup – Now Discover Your Strengths © 2001 – StrengthsFinder 2.0 © 2007 - New and
improved assessment
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Uses for StrengthsFinder
• Individual Development – Career choices – Life choices
• Leader Development – Informal Coaching – Classroom training
• Team Development – Improve communication – Maximize contributions
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34 Themes and 4 Leadership Domains
Executing Influencing Relationship Building
Strategic Thinking
Achiever Activator Adaptability Analytical
Arranger Command Connectedness Context
Belief Communication Developer Futuristic
Consistency Competition Empathy Ideation
Deliberative Maximizer Harmony Input
Discipline Self-Assurance Includer Intellection
Focus Significance Individualization Learner
Responsibility Woo Positivity Strategic
Restorative Relator
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Barriers to moving forward
• There will be barriers • Consider how you can
overcome them • Many shapes and sizes
– Financial – Personal – Family – Work
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Your unique role
• Peter Drucker suggests two important questions to discover your unique role – What have you achieved (competence)? – What do you deeply care about (passion)?
– You also need to define your life mission
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Now what?
• The ball is in your hands
• Which path will you take?
• How will you get started!
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Dan Ryan Ryan Search & Consulting
615 656 3535 http://ryansearch.net
@Ryansearch
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