The power of self management

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Strategic Career Self-Management

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The State University of New York

Strategic Career Self-Management

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Course 1 of 4 in the Specialization Career Brand Management

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the current economy, Americans shift jobs every 4-5 years, which translates into 8-10 job transitions, including several career changes, over one’s life time. With competition for jobs on the rise, a person’s continuing employability and career success are increasingly defined by his or her mastery of individual career development and the ability to effectively "manage oneself" (P. Drucker). In this course, you will learn how to think strategically and professionally about your career self-management. Through this course you'll develop an objective, external view of your marketable skills as a solid foundation for building a strong career brand. In particular, you'll be able to: - explain why developing a protean and boundaryless career perspective based on transferable (portable) skills is advantageous for continuing employability and career growth; - design your portable skills portfolio, identify and examine critically important competencies underpinning your transferable skills, and analyze your career self-management competency gaps; - increase self-awareness, pinpoint your career goals, and envision your future work self; - recognize the central role of self-management for developing transferable, marketable, skills and create a customized self-management information system (Career Development Lab) for ongoing personal development and professional growth; - conduct a thorough, competency-based job analysis in your area of interest and examine practices of evidence-based, data-driven competitive employee selection; -implement your newly developed skills for crafting effective selection criteria statements and refining your job applications.

From the lesson

Crafting career self-strategy

By completing Week 3, you will be able to apply the tools of career self-management such as mapping your skill base in the Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguous (VUCA) environment. You will be able to implement self-discovery skills and better define your career goals and Future work self! You instructor for this week is Kymn Rutigliano, CDL Workouts facilitators are Amy Giaculli and Val Chukhlomin.

Week 3 Overview0:36

The power of self discovery: Your personality (pdf attached)3:08

The power of self discovery: Your core values (pdf attached)5:35

Personal mission statement: Exercise (pdf attached)5:18

The power of self management6:50

The power of your career goals and future work self5:25

Core values and personal mission: An interview with Jason Collins4:47

Meet the Instructors

Dr. Valeri Chukhlomin
Professor
SUNY Empire State College
Dr. Michele Forte
Assistant Professor, SUNY Empire State College
Community and Human Services
Dr. Kymn Harvin Rutigliano
Assistant Professor
SUNY Empire State College
Dr. John M. Beckem II
Assistant Professor of Finance and Management Studies
State University of New York, Empire State College
Dr. Tonka Jokelova
Coordinator of Curriculum and Instructional Design
SUNY Empire State College
Amy Giaculli
Assessment Specialist
SUNY Empire State College

Now that we've taken the journey of self-discovery looking at our personality,

our values and our personal mission.

Let's look at self-management.

These are vital keys to success in the VUCA environment in our careers.

Now, what is self management?

Self-management is self-control,

self-regulation and self-directed learning.

Those three combined equals self-management, so

let's explore each one individually.

Self-control puts you in the driver seat.

It makes you, the CEO of your own career.

You determine the destination and you determine how you want to get there.

In this arena of self-control, it's you being active not passive.

Remember, this is very important in the VUCA environment,

you have to be the driver.

Otherwise, the circumstances take over and we don't want that to happen.

So as the CEO of your own career as I said,

you decide where you want to go and how you want to get there.

Self-regulation is the ability to change your behaviors and

actions as you need to, think about that.

To change your behaviors and actions as you need to,

like changing lanes in traffic.

Self-regulation is the ability to modify your behavior and

actions in your long-term best interest,

not just the short term your long term best interest and

importantly consistent with your values and consistent with your mission.

That's why we did the foundational work in the previous section.

In self-regulation, you are keenly aware of what is happening around you.

You've looked out for what is needed and how to best move forward.

Once again, you're in the driver's seat.

I'm going to keep stressing that, because remember in the traditional career,

the company was in the driver's seat.

You were a box signing on organizational chart and

got moved that the company's whim, but in the VUCA environment you're in charge.

Now, self-regulation requires you to be very self aware.

So you have to observe your own behavior, evaluate and

judge your own behavior and also self-correct when you need to.

So think about it.

Self-regulation requires that you observe your behavior,

you look to see is this working?

Or not working?

If it's not working, of course correct it.

So, it requires a heightened degree of self-awareness and self-observation.

Now also key is something called self-directed learning and

I like to think of it as Just in Time Learning.

Just in Time Learning allows you to grow your skills and competencies at your pace

not at the companies pace as in the traditional career environment.

Growing your skills and competencies expands your impact and

provides for a high level of career agility.

Now remember in the old environment in the traditional environment,

there was OJT, on the job training.

And on the job training was done in small groups, usually at the company location or

off site with an instructor and it was quite expensive.

In the VUCA world in contrast, we have Just in Time Learning,

which is not led by an instructor, it's led by you.

You're not in a classroom or in an off site location,

because learning is wherever your computer is and

it's as you need it in the moment and at little to no cost.

And fueling just in time learning is this competency

called learning how you learn, meta-cognition.

Meta and cognition.

Learning how you learn will better prepare you to pursue career choices that

align with your values, your personality,

your mission as well as your skills, talents and abilities.

So there's you, there's meta, which means along with and

cognition and that together is megacognition.

Notice that play on words?

Megacognition where you're powerful in the VUCA environment.

In self-directed Just in Time Learning, you become your own professor.

Your could put me out of a job.

Please don't do that.

Also, in self-directed Just in Time Learning, you become your own student.

So your in both the role of professor and student, because your teaching

yourself to learn and grow and develop new skills and competencies.

And also, you decide what you want to learn when you want to learn it.

How you want to learn it and the variety of ways that we have available to us.

Now there's something that I particularly love and

have experienced myself quite recently called stretch work.

I love this highway picture, don't you?

Stretch work is doing what you don't already know to do, know how to do.

Can you say that again?

Doing what you don't already know how to do.

It's building new competencies.

It's expanding your impact and gains you career agility.

Now stretch work has become so relevant to me personally, because taking

on being a professor with this Coursera project has been stretch work for me.

Because even though I've had a long career as a teacher and professor,

I've never done it in this kind of format and

I've had to do a lot of just in time learning to bring these lessons to you.

And frankly, sometimes I wanted to tear my hair out, I thought.

Oh, my, God.

I feel so incompetent even though I know myself to be a competent person.

So stretch work takes us really far outside our comfort zone, but

now look, I had the opportunity to interact with all of you.

I have new skills and competencies to offer my organization and

far more career choices, now that I know how to do this and interact with you.

So thanks for this opportunity.

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