10. career SUCCESS TUTORIAL
CORE POSITIVE IMMERSION ABSTRACTS
The success you achieve in your professional library work will ultimately depend upon how well you can apply modern psychological principles about effective and efficient relationship and communication skills to your work role. In short, your success will depend upon how good your "people skills" are!
When your professional values and work product are fully respected by your library supervisors and administrators, you will be EMPOWERED TO PARTICIPATE in inventing an exciting new future based upon the leadership principles in this proposal to change the Performance Evaluation Management Policy and Appraisal of Promotability rating procedures of the County Library Department.
Successful leaders have 10 TRAITS that, when combined, can turn dreams into reality!
[1] THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SUCCESS
Definition of Success: Success is a result, not a goal!
Book Source: The Achievement Challenge)
[2] TEN SECRETS OF SUCCESS
1) How you THINK is everything! Always be POSITIVE! Think success, NOT failure! And beware of a NEGATIVE organizational environment!
2) Decide upon your true dreams and goals! Write down your specific goals and develop a plan to reach them.
3) Take action! Goals are nothing without action. Don't be afraid to get started now. Just do it!
4) Never stop learning! Go back to school or read books. Get training and acquire skills!
5) Be persistent and work hard! Success is a marathon, not a sprint. Never give up!
6) Learn to analyze details! Get all the facts, all the input. Learn from your mistakes!
7) Focus your time and money! Don't let other people or things distract you!
8) Don't be afraid to innovate! Be different! Following the herd is a sure way to mediocrity!
9) Deal and communicate with people effectively! No person is an island. Learn to understand and motivate others!
10) Be honest and dependable! Take responsibility! Otherwise, success secrets number one through nine won't matter!
Newspaper Source: Ten Secrets of Success)
[3] FREE TO FLY --- DARE TO BE A SUCCESS!
Book Source: Free to Fly --- Dare to be a Success!)
[4] DARE TO SUCCEED ---
HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN THE GAME OF LIFE
Book Source: (Dare to succeed)
[5] BECOME A "CAREER ACTIVIST"
1) Become a "Career Activist!"
Be a "Career Activist" --- becoming an "ACTIVIST" is the key to your future success since you are responsible for your own career and you are in control of your own future!
You have to plan and manage your own career! This means:
[1] Writing your own "script" rather than waiting for someone to write it for you!
2) Know Yourself! By developing a "personal work ID" that "liberates" opportunities, you can develop your SELF:
[2] Being vigilant on your own behalf, identifying and preparing for opportunities, rather than expecting anyone else to guide you along or do reconnaissance.
[3] Becoming an "independent agent", defining yourself in terms and concepts that are independent of your job title, your organization, or what other people think you should be.
[4] Being "entrepreneurial" --- looking for opportunity, undertaking enterprises that provide opportunities as well as risks! The only real security you can depend upon is knowing that YOUR OWN SKILLS are strong, current, and marketable. You must know that you have the "inner" resources to manage through the ups and downs of life.
[1] Separate your "work identity" from your job and job titles and exchange it for a "personal work ID" based on your skills, attributes, interests, values and personal preferences.
3) The 12 New Rules for Career Success!
[2] The more you know about yourself, the more options open up to you --- see yourself as the "owner" of a unique set of talents, skills, competencies, and experiences!
[1] Ensure your marketability
(1) Have a fallback position
[2] Think globally --- Cultural and linguistic versatility count
(2) Build broad networks
(3) Network etiquette
(4) Market, market, market
[3] Be able to communicate in powerful, persuasive, and unconventional ways
[4] Keep on learning --- on your own time
[5] Understand business trends --- take educated risks
[6] Prepare for areas of competence, not jobs
(1) Think roles not jobs
[7] Look to the future --- medicine, education, edutainment, recreation, the environment, personal "anything"
(2) New skills for the new workplace
[8] Build financial independence
(1) Think income streams, not salary
[9] Think career "lattice," not career "ladders!"
(2) Rethink your relationship to money
1. Do you find yourself surrounded by lots of stuff, yet unable to afford to do things that are important to you?
5. When re-evaluating your living, recognize that there are no quick and easy answers regarding your career choices! However, there are some "steps" you can take to bring your life back into greater harmony with your most important values.
2. Would you be willing to give up income in order to work less? Would you be able to?
3. Are you making significant personal sacrifices to maintain a particular standard of living?
4. Does all the stuff you buy contribute to your family's happiness, and if not, could you give up buying it?
You could take a lesson from the "voluntary simplicity" movement, in which people have active decided to pursue a life outside the continual invectives of "Buy, Spend, Consume!" Evaluate your purchases and "skinny down."
Ask yourself --- What do you really need? Will getting a different job really make your life better? Do you really need newer applainces or computer stuff?
1. Carefully review your personal values. Know what is really important to you. Ask yourself --- What do I really care about? Are my values being met?
2. For everything you do, ask yourself --- Why am I doing this? Is this meeting my need for "personhood?" Will it keep me in my chosen role?
3. Be ruthless in evaluating how your current lifestyle is contributing to satisfying your deeply held values. When making a purchase, ask yourself --- How much of my life energy is this really worth? How much have you been trained by your culture to solve your problems with products? Do you identify money with your emotional needs that money can never fulfill?
[10] Decide --- Are you more of a "specialist" or "generalist?"
[11] Be a ruthless "time manager"
[12] Be kind to yourself!
(1) Do you remind yourself of your successes or do you beat yourself up for things that did not work out?
Be flexible and be able to "multitask" five things simultaneously! Stay current! Be a great parent, staff member, manager! Be able to live with constant ambiguity!
(2) Can you live comfortably with "less than perfect" in some parts of you life, or are you constantly struggling for everything to be 100% ?
(3) Do you have a "community" or "village" of people you go to such as friends, colleagues, or family members, who appreciate you? (4) Do you take time for yourself?
(5) Do you recognize, much less celebrate, your own successes?
But remember to make time for yourself. Otherwise, you cannot carry out all the important roles in your life effectively!
And remember to set realistic expectations of what is doable. Learn to live the best you can do at the moment, to live with less-than-perfect. Congratulate yourself on your successes!
Book Source: Career Intelligence) 1) Paradigms and Principles --- The "The Seven Habits" --- An Overview
[6] SUCCESS STRATEGIES FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS
Book Source: Success strategies for African-Americans)
[7] SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL LIBRARIANS
2) Private Victory
HABIT 1 = Be Proactive (principles of personal vision)
Becoming a "Quadrant II Self-Manager" where people are more important than things!
HABIT 2 = Begin with the End in Mind (principles of personal leadership)
HABIT 3 = Put First Things First (principles of personal management)
It defines your unique mission including values and long-term goals. It helps you balance your life by identifying roles. It gives you greater context through weekly organizing. Quadrant II paradigm use 4th generation advances including being principle-centered and conscience-directed.
This concept can help you apply the key to self-management of others through delegation. The value is not in any extrinsic technique or tool, but in seeing through the intrinsic lens of importance rather than urgency!
PART THREE --- Paradigms of Interdependence
HABIT 4 = Think Win/Win (principles of interpersonal leadership; 4 dimensions of win/win = character, relationships, agreements, supportive systems & processes; win/win management training; win/win performance agreements, win/win systems, win/win processes)
PART FOUR --- Renewal
HABIT 5 = Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood (principles of empathic communication; character, empathic listening, diagnose before you prescribe, understanding and perception, seek first to understood...then to be understand)
HABIT 6 = Synergize (principles of creative cooperation; levels of communication--high and low trust & high and low cooperation; diagram page 270)
HABIT 7 = Sharpen the Saw (4 principles of balanced self-renewal; physical, social/emotional, spiritual, mental)
Book Source: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People) 1) Successful "life strategies" are based on the following "assumptions:"
[8] SUCCESSFUL LIFE STRATEGIES
You create your own experience. People do what works. You can't change what you don't acknowledge. Life rewards action. There is no reality, only perception. Life is managed, it is not cured. We teach people how to treat us. There is power in forgiveness. You have to name it to claim it.
2) The "seven-step" strategy:
[1] Express your goal in terms of specific events or behaviors
[2] Express your goal in terms that can be measured
[3] Assign a "timeline" to your goal
[4] Choose a goal you can control
[5] Plan and program a strategy that will get you to your goal
[6] Define your goal in terms of "steps"
[7] Create accountability for your progress toward your goal
Book Source: Life Strategy) What are your ten most defining moments?
[9] CREATING YOUR LIFE FROM THE INSIDE OUT
(1) List your defining moments --- then describe each defining moment in one brief paragraph.
Remember, you are in control. You are the manager of your own life!
(2) For each defining moment, identify the "before" and the "after" in your self-concept.
(3) Write a paragraph to describe the long-term residual effect of that defining moment.
(4) Write down how and why you think the defining moment either clarified or distorted your authentic self.
(5) Review your interpretation of and reaction to the defining moment. Decide whether or not you believe your interpretation was and is acurate or inaccurate.
(6) Write down whether this is something that you think you should keep or refect with regard to your concept of self. Include one paragraph as to why.
(7) Reviewing these defining moments as a whole, what has been the bottom-line effect on your concept of self, having lived through them?
Book Source: (Self-Matters) 1) Give yourself permission to fail!
[10] DOUBLE YOUR BRAIN POWER
THROUGH ANALYZING REPEATED FAILURES!
The path to success is littered with failure!
2) Consider each idea that does not work to be a step that carries you closer to the answer you are seeking.
Expect to fail, embrace failure, welcome failure!
This assumption will give you the FREEDOM to take a chance since you will not hold back for FEAR of FAILING!
Book Source: Double Your Brain Power) 1) The future is only a click away --- None of us can do business without the Internet
[11] CLICKABLE ORGANIZATION --- SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES
FOR CAPTURING THE INTERNET ADVANTAGE
2) Click with information --- Share your knowledge, reap the benefits
3) Click with choice --- Help customers make a choice, watch them choose you!
4) Click with convenience --- Make it convenient for your customer,
make it efficient for yourself
5) Click with customization --- Customize your product,
prersonalize your approach
6) Click with savings --- Share your savings, build your sales
7) Click with community --- Connect your customers, create a community
8) Click with entertainment --- Make it fun, make it pay
9) Click with trust --- build trust, boost profits
Book Source: Clickable Corporation)
[12] SUCCESS AND FAILURE THROUGH NEGOTIATION CHART
NEGOTIATION PROBLEM Positional Bargaining: Which Game Should You Play?
NEGOTIATION SOLUTION Change the Game: Negotiate on Merits
SOFT HARD PRINCIPLED Participants are friends. Participants are adversaries. Participants are problem-solvers. The goal is agreement. The goal is victory. The goal is a wise outcome reached efficiently and amicably. Make concessions to cultivate the relationship. Demand concessions as a condition of the relationship. Separate the people from the problem . Be soft on the people and the problem. Be hard on the problem and the people. Be soft on the people, hard on the problem. Trust others. Distrust others. Proceed independent of trust. Change your position easily. Dig in to your position. Focus on interests, not positions. Make offers. Make threats. Explore interests. Disclose your bottom line. Mislead as to your bottom line. Avoid having a bottom line. Accept one-sided losses to reach agreement. Demand one-sided gains as the price of agreement. Invent options for mutual gain. Search for the single answer: the one they will accept. Search for the single answer: the one you will accept. Develop multiple options to choose from: decide later. Insist on agreement. Insist on your position. Insist on using objective criteria. Try to avoid a contest of will. Try to win a contest of will. Try to reach a result based on standards independent of will. Yield to pressure. Apply pressure. Reason and be open to reasons; yield to principle, not pressure.
Book Source: Getting to Yes --- Negotiating Agreement)
[13] A MIND AT A TIME --- HOW EVERY LIBRARIAN CAN SUCCEED!
Book Source: A Mind at a Time
[14] ABOLISHING PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS ---
WHY THEY BACKFIRE AND WHAT TO DO INSTEAD
Book Source: (Abolishing Performance Appraisals)
[15] YOU CAN'T AFFORD THE LUXURY OF A NEGATIVE THOUGHT
Book Source: (You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought)
[16] STRATEGIC HEART --- USING THE NEW SCIENCE TO LEAD
GROWING ORGANIZATIONS
Book Source: (Strategic Heart)
[17] THE POWER OF ATTITUDE
Book Source: (The Power of Attitude)
[18] THE POWER OF NICE --- HOW TO NEGOTIATE SO EVERYONE WINS --- ESPECIALLY YOU
Book Source: (The Power of Nice)
[19] THE POWER OF NOW --- A GUIDE TO SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT
Book Source: (The Power of Now)
[20] SEVEN POWERS OF QUESTIONS --- SECRETS
TO SUCCESSFUL COMMUNICATION IN LIFE AND AT WORK
1) Power number ONE --- Questions demand answers!
2) Power number TWO --- Questions stimulate thinking!
3) Power number THREE --- Questions give us valuable information!
4) Power number FOUR --- Questions put you in control!
5) Power number FIVE --- Questions get people to open up!
[1] Emotional questions, revealing answers
6) Power number SIX --- Questions lead to quality listening!
[2] The "let's talk about me" factor
[3] Pursuing the reluctant talker
[4] Look for areas of comfort and confidence
[5] Why don't we open up more?
(1) We don't have a clear idea what the problem is!
[6] Questions show that you care --- listening to answers and building one question on another
(2) We have been hurt in the past
(3) We feel there is a penalty in telling the truth
(4) We are afraid of being judged
(5) We feel our ideas are not appreciated
[7] Put your body into it
[8] Opening up techniques
(1) Develop a good rapport
[9] Truth, lies, and opening up
(2) Start with broad, open questions
(3) Save the most difficult questions for late in the conversation
(4) Use nonverbal signals to indicate interest
7) Power number SEVEN --- Questions get people to pursuade themselves!
Book Source: (Seven Powers of Questions)
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