Future Planning:
• Building
Meaningful
Career
exploration into
your guidance
programs.
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Part A: Theory
• Part B looks at specific programs
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•Agriculture Age (farmers)
•Industrial Age (factory workers)
•Information Age (knowledge workers)
•Conceptual Age* (creators)
*Murakami Teruyasu: “Age of Creation Intensification”
Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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Disconnected
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AT home
Can work
Do Work
Mom and dad working
Connected
Pragmatic
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Abroad
Do not work
Cannot work
Only one works
Disconnected
Unrealistic
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The Old Paradigm
in Career Development and Planning
From:
A linear, destination-oriented model of:
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Birth
Education/Training
Job Choice
Education/Training
Employment
Retirement
Source: Phil Jarvis, Vice President
National Life/Work Center
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Moving to a New Paradigm
in Career Development and Planning
Source: Phil Jarvis, Vice President
National Life/Work Center
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A shift in paradigm
Not
• what’s wrong, but
what’s right!
• what’s missing,
but what’s there!
• about a
destination, but a
journey!
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WoW
•Speiler
•Limnologist
•BellyBuilder
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Dr. Testum and Mr. Tellum
• Prescriptive
services rarely
work
• We are infinitely
more complex than
any one test could
show
• The Pace of
CHANGE
• Serendipity
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Job titles of the future
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Media based career development
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Your most important life events
• List the five most important events in
your life. They can be in any order. You
could change your mind tomorrow.
• There are no right or wrong answers. You
do not have to share the list; you can
change the list; you can list four or seven
events rather than
• 5 or as many you can quickly jot down. Go
with what is on the top of your mind.
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4C the future
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Contemplation-reflective seeing
Creativity-imaginative seeing
Connectedness—holistic seeing
Collaboration-inclusive seeing
• Welcome to the innernet revolution
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What a Career is:
• The sum total of
your experiences,
paid and unpaid,
formal and informal
• You are already in
career development
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A Career is not
• A job
• A straight line
•A prescription
•A profession
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Career development is not
• A one time
thing…
• The answer to a
test…
• One size fits all…
• Quick…
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What is Career Development?
Self
Hopes and Dreams
Work Dynamic
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Self
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Talents
Interests
Personality
Weaknesses
Strengths
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Work Dynamic
• Global Labour
Market information,
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US
Canada
UK
Australia
• For planning
purposes
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Hopes and Dreams
• Develop a plan,
but
live a process
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What is Career Development?
Self
Hopes and Dreams
Career!
Work Dynamic
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What is Career Development?
My World
The Ideal World
Career!
The World
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LMI
Match?
Talents
PI
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Keys to our program
• Self-exploration
• Keep doors open
• Global yet kids able to target
• Build a plan, but commit to a
process
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Every class and activity is
• A chance to explore a career
• An opportunity to develop
transferable skills
• Practice ground for developing
positive attitudes
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The High Five
Change is
constant
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“If you don’t like
change, you’re
going to like
irrelevance even
less.”
—General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
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Read these books
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The World Is Flat
Types of jobs that will be in demand for a long time to
come:
• the great corroborators
• the great leveragers
• the great synthesizers
• the passionate personalizers
• the great localizers
• the “green ones”
• the great explainers and
• the great adapters.
Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat, 2005
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“It is not the strongest
of the species that
survives, nor the most
intelligent, but the one
most responsive
to change.” —Charles Darwin
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successful
people are those
who are good at
plan B.”
James Yorke, mathematician,
on chaos theory in
The New Scientist
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Significant Shift in Leadership
• 90% of American businesses are family
owned
• ¾ family owned leaders will leave in 10
years
• 40% will leave in 5 years
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More Leadership Turnover
• CEO vacancies highest ever in 2005
• 113% increase from 2004 to 2005
• Significant turnover occurring in other key
leadership spots – Board Directors,
Officers, Junior Executives
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The “Itch” for Occupational
Adventure
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45% feel satisfied
20% feel passionate
33% feel dead ended
21% very eager to change jobs, companies
LT 15% feel energized
30% feel employer inspires the best in them
85% say definition of leader has changed
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Important Trends to Notice
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Small biz = fastest growing
Small firm employees more engaged
Satisfaction valued more than $
Change is biz constant
Professional women opting out
Professional service firms on the rise
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Trend Tracking Continued
• Technology is a given
• Automation is a result
• Global outsourcing – same quality, cheaper
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“80% of all white collar jobs as we
know them today will either
disappear entirely or be reconfigured…”
Tom Peters, 2004
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Itch + Trends = The New
Economy
The Next Business Turning Point Is
Here
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The Big Three Drivers of Change
Abundance
Asia
Automation
Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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“But abundance has also produced an
ironic result: The very triumph of LDirected Thinking has lessened its
significance. The prosperity it has
unleashed has placed a premium on
things that appeal to less rational, more
R-Directed sensibilities—beauty,
spirituality, emotion.” —Dan Pink,
A Whole New Mind
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India
350,000 engineering grads per year
>50% F500 outsource software work to
India
GE: 48% of software developed in India
(Sign in GE India office: “Trespassers will be recruited”)
Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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Software’s Enormous Inroads
Docs
Lawyers
Accountants
Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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Agriculture Age (farmers)
Industrial Age (factory workers)
Information Age (knowledge)workers)
Conceptual Age (creators and
empathizers)
Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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“The MFA
is the new
MBA.”
—Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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“What does this mean for you and me? How can
we prepare for the conceptual age? On one level,
the answer is straightforward. In a world tossed by
Abundance, Asia and Automation, in a which LDirected Thinking remains necessary but no longer
sufficient, we must become proficient in RDirected Thinking and master aptitudes that are
‘high concept’ and ‘high touch.’ But on another
level, that answer is inadequate. What exactly are
we supposed to do?” —Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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Design.
Story.
Symphony.
Empathy.
Play.
Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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Not just function, but also … DESIGN.
Not just argument, but also … STORY.
Not just focus, but also … SYMPHONY.
Not just logic, but also … EMPATHY.
Not just seriousness, but also … PLAY.
Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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Change is
constant
The High Five
Follow
your heart
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Kids have dreams
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Kids have dreams
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What is your north star?
• “…if you do follow your bliss you put
yourself on a kind of track that has been
there all the while, waiting for you, and the
life that you ought to be living is the one
you are living. When you can see that, you
begin to meet people who are in your field
of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say,
follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and
doors will open where you didn't know they
were going to be.”—Joseph Cambell
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Life Work
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Mission
Purpose
Bliss
Calling
“Work worth
doing”
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Planned happenstance
• Use goals to guide you, not govern you
• Treat goals as hypothesis
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Focus on
the
journey
Change is
constant
The High Five
Follow
your heart
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Career
Serendipity
Serendipity
"the faculty of
making happy
and unexpected
discoveries by
accident".
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Stay
learning
Focus on
the
journey
Change is
constant
The High Five
Follow
your heart
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half-life of knowledge
• the time span from when knowledge is
gained to when it becomes obsolete.
• Half of what is known today was not known
10 years ago.
• knowledge has doubled in the past 10 years
• and is doubling every 18 months
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Half life of knowledge
100.00
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Knowledge
Knowledge
now
100.00
1st
50.00
2nd
25.00
3rd
12.50
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Half life of…
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Engingeering
Marketing
programing
now
6 mos
18 mos
60 mos
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now
programing
Marketing
Engingeering
6 mos
18 mos
60 mos
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And college?
• Welcome to the 40 year degree
• Just in time learning
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Changing Face of Learners
“In this new interactive Web world, I have become a
nomadic learner; I graze on knowledge. I find what I
need when I need it.
There is no linear curriculum to my learning, no
formal structure other than the tools I use to connect
to the people and sources that point me to what I
need to know and learn, the same tools I use to then
give back what I have discovered. “
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Stay
learning
Follow
your heart
Change is
constant
The High Five
Be an
Ally
Focus on
the
journey
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Already connected
• Web
• Six degrees of …
• Who are your allies
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learning
Follow
your heart
Change is
constant
The High Five
Be an
Ally
Focus on
the
journey
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Four paradoxical principles
1. Be focused & flexible about what you want
2. Be aware & wary of what you know
3. Be realistic & optimistic about what you believe
4. Be practical & magical about what you do
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“You do not merely
want to be the best of
the best. You want to
be considered the
only ones who do
what you do.”
—Jerry Garcia
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And parent should?
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And parent should?
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…and parent should?
• Listen and encourage kids dreams and
passions
• Push for possibilities
• Provide opportunities
• Be the yin for the yang (paradoxical
parenting)
• Share their own stories
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The future?
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health care,
robotics,
computer graphics,
infotech,
biotechnology,
and lasers.
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The future?
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Counseling
Nursing
Designers
Entertainment
Meaning makers
Consultants
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“If there is nothing very
special about your work,
no matter how hard you
apply yourself you won’t
get noticed, and that
increasingly means you
won’t get paid much
either.”
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Dan Pink’s take
• Can someone overseas do it cheaper?
• Can a computer do it faster?
• Am I offering something that satisfies the
non-material, transcendent desires of an
abundant age?
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Design
Story
Symphony
Empathy
Play
Meaning
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Design
• Shape our environment beyond
functionality
• Now more accessible
• Means of differentiation in business
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Two Minute Drill - DESIGN
• Choose something at work that annoys you
• In two minutes, think about how to improve
the poorly designed item.
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Story
• In Information Age, red headed stepchild
• Facts now widespread & accessible
• Places facts in context with emotional
impact
• Today, most effective way to connect people
to vision
• Organizational storytelling
• Supplements analysis
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Two Minute Drill - STORY
• In two minutes, write the first sentence of a
mini saga about your life and/or work.
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Why Stories?
“Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom
and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases,
hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.”
Alan Kay,
co-founder, Xerox
Hewlett-Packard Executive
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But, still… why stories?
“Today facts are ubiquitous, nearly free, and available at the speed of
light… so, each one becomes less valuable.
What begins to matter more is the ability to place these facts in
context and to deliver them with emotional impact.
And that is the essence of the aptitude of Story – context enriched by
emotion.”
Daniel Pink
Author, A Whole New Mind
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Who else is doing this?
• 3M executives get storytelling lessons
• NASA uses storytelling in its knowledge
management
• XEROX created Eureka (a story data bank
estimated worth $100 million)
• Columbia U teaching narrative medicine to ALL
2nd year medical students
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Symphony
• Ability to put together the pieces
• Seeing relationships the rest of us never
notice
• Derivative thinking – conceptual blending
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Two Minute Drill - SYMPHONY
• For two minutes, train your eye to find
things in the negative space of the Hershey
kiss picture. What do you now see?
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Empathy
• Ability to imagine yourself in another’s
position and to intuit what that person is
feeling
• Universal language that connects us
• Essential to life with meaning
• Involves active listening, intuition,
willingness to deviate from rules
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Two Minute Drill - EMPATHY
• In two minutes, imagine what it would be
like to be the owner of this purse.
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Play
• To “act out” and be willful, exultant, committed as
if one is assured of one’s prospects
• Emerging from work shadow
• Games – recruiting whole brained workers
• Humor – accurate marker for leadership
effectiveness
• Joyfulness – more productive, more fulfilled
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More Play
• Will be dominant way of knowing, doing
and creating value
• Cohesive force in organizations
• Cannot be replicated by computer
• Portal for creativity
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Two Minute Drill - PLAY
• In two minutes, write down your own
caption for the New Yorker cartoon.
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Name that cartoon…
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Name that cartoon….
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Meaning
• Know your signature strengths
• Using them in the service of something
bigger than you
• Spirituality – basic desire to find purpose &
meaning
• Take happiness seriously
• Assists in goal attainment
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Two Minute Drill - MEANING
• In two minutes, write down at least ten
things that you are grateful for in your life. I
call this “raging appreciation.”
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“Failure’s hard, but
success is far more
dangerous. If you’re
successful at the wrong
thing, the mix of praise
and money and
opportunity can lock
you in forever. It is so,
so much harder to
leave a good thing.”
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“The era of ‘left brain’
dominance—and the Information
Age it engendered—Is giving way
to a new world in which ‘right
brain’ qualities—inventiveness,
empathy, meaning—will govern.”
—Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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“The past few decades have belonged to a certain kind of
person with a certain kind of mind—computer
programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could
craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But
the keys to the kingdom are changing hands. The future
belongs to a very different kind of person with a very
different kind of mind—creators and empathizers, pattern
recognizers and meaning makers. These people—artists,
inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers,
big picture thinkers—will now reap society’s richest
rewards and share its greatest joys.” —Dan Pink, A Whole New
Mind
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L-Directed Thinking: sequential,
literal, functional, textual, analytic
to
R-Directed Thinking:
simultaneous, metaphorical,
aesthetic, contextual, synthetic
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“Left-brain style thinking used to be the
driver, and right-brain style thinking the
passenger. Now R-Directed Thinking is
suddenly grabbing the wheel, stepping on
the gas, and determining where we’re going
and how we’re going to get there. LDirected aptitudes—the kind measured by
the SAT and employed by CPAs—are still
necessary. But they’re no longer sufficient.”
—Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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Generations at Work
Retiring
from the
work force
Middle
to end
work force
Beginning
to mid
work force
In K-16
education
system
63-84
years old
46-62
years old
26-45
years old
6-25
years old
Veterans or
Traditionalists
Baby Boomers
Gen Xers
Nexters or
Millennials
1922-1943
1944-1960
1961-1980
1981-2000
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Veterans or Traditionalists
Core Values: Conformity, hard work, duty, dedication and
sacrifice, patience
Assets:
Loyal, stable, detail-oriented
Liabilities:
Uncomfortable with conflict,
inept with ambiguity and change
Motivational
Messages:
“Your experience is valued, and
perseverance will be rewarded.”
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Baby Boomers
Core Values: Optimism, team orientation, work
involvement, personal gratification
Assets:
Service-oriented, driven, team player
Liabilities:
Reluctant to go against peers,
overly sensitive to feedback
Motivational
Messages:
“Your contribution is unique and
important.”
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Gen Xers
Core Values: Diversity, thinking globally,
technoliteracy, fun, informality
Assets:
Adaptable, independent, creative
Liabilities:
Impatient, poor people skills,
cynical, inexperienced
Motivational
Messages:
“There are not a lot of rules
here. Do it your way.”
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Nexters or Millennials
Core Values: Civic duty, achievement, confidence,
sociability, morality
Assets:
Tenacity, multi-tasking, tenacity
Liabilities:
Need for supervision and
structure
Motivational
Messages:
“You’ll be working with other
bright, creative people.”
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