The Four Questions You Need to Answer to Find Your Way

Jeff Saperstein

jeff@groupcvc.com

HOW TO

Navigate Your Career

My Mission: Help Others Be Successful Through Business, Education and Professional Relationships

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HELLO!

{ }Who are you?

Values to guide you1

Who influences, mentors, and inspires you?

Randy Pausch: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Vision Matters

Autonomy Have agency to direct your life

Mastery What do you know and can do

Purpose Why are you doing? Is it meaningful?

Progress Do you see results?

Sharing Build your peer and mentor network

How Important are these Values to You?

VISUALget

Goal: Self-Efficacy to Make it Happen for You

{ }Emergent Work World:

What should you know?2

The emergence of real, useful artificial intelligence (AI) and the connection of most of the people on the planet via a

common digital network.

Most significant future transformations in work

The Second Machine Age, Brynjolfsson and McAfee

Don’t Confuse… Professional Development

The Predictability of Rules and Individual Progress in a University

No one will take care of you!

The Turbulence of the Workplace

“Our CEO told us we were like One Big Family….I did not know he meant

the Sopranos”

———Anonymous High level HR Executive after massive layoffs in Fortune 500 Company due to

Missed Target of Quarterly Profits

Artificial intelligence will transform most jobs and transform the

expertise and skills sets that were success factors

Future Impact of Artificial Intelligence

To Navigate Your Career you will need continuous: learning

systems and skills, building your own professional brand, expanding

network of professional relationships

Cloud, Analytics, and Social Networking, supported by Artificial Intelligence, will mean that almost half the jobs today will be radically

transformed within the next five years.

Service: Mass Customization based on Personal Co-Creation will drive

the next innovation wave

Google Driverless Car

Prepare yourself for the coming turbulent transformation in the

workplace so you can navigate a career to suit your purposes and not

just be tossed about rudderless. Be prepared, but do not rely on a

rigid plan

Make a Job or Take A Job…Do both in your career.

{ }Four Questions:

How to begin to answer3

Four Questions to Help Navigate Your Career

• Where do I fit?• How do I add value?

• Can I learn to compete to collaborate so I am a valued team member?

• Can I learn to both give and receive signals to be an intelligent

communicator and listener?

Where do I fit?Best to build experience in broadening your comfort zone but start where you are now:

• Field/industry• Regions• Sectors• Cultures• Organizational structures• Workplace styles

• What discipline do I master: Marketing, Finance, Law, etc.

• Do I understand other disciplines so I can work on multi-disciplinary teams and with technology so I can contribute to dispersed work teams

• What do I know how to do: (create an App, work with platforms and Tools such as Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, Google Analytics, IBM Blue Mix, etc.)

How do I Add Value?

Become a valued team member

• Lead project groups• Follow directions• Be able to pivot and be flexible• Know Account Management • Know Project Management

Can I learn to compete to collaborate?

• Being able to read and send (signal) non-verbal and verbal communication is life-long learning

• The one constant skill in demand in the turbulent, transforming workplace

• Good communication skills can be learned• Monitor these attitudinal markers for personal/professional

growth as you navigate your career• Curiosity, • Genuine interest in people• Desire to serve and help others

Can I be an intelligent 2-way communicator?

Check out this presentation to students at San Francisco State

University on Navigating Your Career

For more….

Careerbuilder.comLinkedIn.careers.comMag Joy: Why 30 is not the new 20 (Ted TalkDan Pink: The Puzzle of Motivation (Ted Talk)Erik Brynjolfsson: Race With the Machines (Ted Talk)Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action (Ted Talk)Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In…Now What? (Ted Talk)Jeff Saperstein: Vision Matters, Defining Identity

Free Resources

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