Learn By Doing from Using the Career Compass To Find Your Work And Career [Video] (0:51)

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Douglas E. Welch

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Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen

The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide.

I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it”

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…and I know learning by doing these days is coming and going. We’ve got this whole “Maker Ethic” that’s coming out now about getting kids hands-on, STEM and STEAM programs and stuff like that. I personally think that the best way to learn is having some component of doing. Yes, there are certain things you just need to learn, but there’s also — if you can learn something and apply that learning immediately in some physical or useful or productive method. For me, I know that would lock in facts that I retain to this day from my high school botany class that I should, by no rights, need or want to remember, but they are burned into a groove in my brain because we talked about it in the classroom and we went down to the greenhouse and we did it and that has always been so effective for me. This is one form of your doing.

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Engage with Transition at EVERY Opportunity from Transition is the New Normal 2016 [Audio] (0:57)

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Douglas E. Welch

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To finish up today…kind of reiterate some of the things we talked about. Transition is normal down to using your opposite hand to write with. It’s normal and the feelings it generates are normal. That uncomfortableness. That fear. That clumsiness. That — the fact that sometimes you feel a little stupid with this hand, but it is normal. It’s with us in everything we do. It’s with us when we miss the turn on the freeway and go up an exit. It’s just there. You deal.   We need to keep — we need to engage in transition at every opportunity that we see it. We need — wee need to stop — if you’re doing this — avoiding it and pushing it away. We need to reach out and shake its hand and engage with it. Frankly, because transition is where so many opportunities will come in your life.

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Engage with Transition at EVERY Opportunity from Transition is the New Normal 2016 [Video] (0:57)

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Douglas E. Welch

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To finish up today…kind of reiterate some of the things we talked about. Transition is normal down to using your opposite hand to write with. It’s normal and the feelings it generates are normal. That uncomfortableness. That fear. That clumsiness. That — the fact that sometimes you feel a little stupid with this hand, but it is normal. It’s with us in everything we do. It’s with us when we miss the turn on the freeway and go up an exit. It’s just there. You deal.   We need to keep — we need to engage in transition at every opportunity that we see it. We need — wee need to stop — if you’re doing this — avoiding it and pushing it away. We need to reach out and shake its hand and engage with it. Frankly, because transition is where so many opportunities will come in your life.

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Quantity Can Develop Quality from Using the Career Compass To Find Your Work And Career [Audio] (1:12)

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Douglas E. Welch

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Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen

The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide.

I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it”

Transcript:

It’s your job to put that stuff out there. There’s a famous study from a creativity book many years ago — many decades ago — where they took 2 art classes and they said “Art Class A. Your job is to produce the perfect pot. You have all semester. Produce the perfect pot.” Ok? They went to the second class and said “Class. Your job is to produce as many pots as you can possibly do in the semester. Ok? Quality doesn’t matter just produce as many pots as you possibly can.” Then they had a little show at the end of the semester and they brought the pots together from the “quantity” class and the “quality” class. Guess which class was judged to have the highest quality of pot?These guys. Quantity is important if you’re learning from each one you do. Thet fact is, while this class was trying to perfect a pot, this class was throwing out tons and tons of pots and hopefully learning with every single pot they made. What did work, What didn’t work, so that by the end of the semester they were able to produce a high-quality pot because they simply learned by doing.

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Quantity Can Develop Quality from Using the Career Compass To Find Your Work And Career [Video] (1:12)

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Douglas E. Welch

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Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen

The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide.

I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it”

Transcript:

It’s your job to put that stuff out there. There’s a famous study from a creativity book many years ago — many decades ago — where they took 2 art classes and they said “Art Class A. Your job is to produce the perfect pot. You have all semester. Produce the perfect pot.” Ok? They went to the second class and said “Class. Your job is to produce as many pots as you can possibly do in the semester. Ok? Quality doesn’t matter just produce as many pots as you possibly can.” Then they had a little show at the end of the semester and they brought the pots together from the “quantity” class and the “quality” class. Guess which class was judged to have the highest quality of pot?These guys. Quantity is important if you’re learning from each one you do. Thet fact is, while this class was trying to perfect a pot, this class was throwing out tons and tons of pots and hopefully learning with every single pot they made. What did work, What didn’t work, so that by the end of the semester they were able to produce a high-quality pot because they simply learned by doing.

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Some Stability Gives Us Freedom To Be Adventurous from Transition is the New Normal 2016 [Audio] (0:39)

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Douglas E. Welch

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Another thing — back to what you were saying too — those stable parts of our life are important to us because it’s that stability that allows us the freedom to be a bit more adventurous. Having X number of dollars in the bank. You’re not going to go crazy, but you have the freedom to read that new book or do this or visit this museum or — it provides you a base platform to stand on and say, “Ok. at this point in my life, I’m stable. I understand that. Things are a little crazy up here, but I have this place to stand and now I can start to reach out — without fear — and say “What else is out there? What else can I investigate?”

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Some Stability Gives Us Freedom To Be Adventurous from Transition is the New Normal 2016 [Video] (0:39)

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Douglas E. Welch

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Another thing — back to what you were saying too — those stable parts of our life are important to us because it’s that stability that allows us the freedom to be a bit more adventurous. Having X number of dollars in the bank. You’re not going to go crazy, but you have the freedom to read that new book or do this or visit this museum or — it provides you a base platform to stand on and say, “Ok. at this point in my life, I’m stable. I understand that. Things are a little crazy up here, but I have this place to stand and now I can start to reach out — without fear — and say “What else is out there? What else can I investigate?”

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If no one cares about your work, why are you doing it? from the Career Opportunities Podcast

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Douglas E. Welch

If no one cares about your work, why are you doing it? from the Career Opportunities Podcast

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“Oh, no one will care” is a common refrain I often hear when someone isn’t doing their work, or only doing the bare minimum to get by. Some people have come to feel that the only reason they work at all is to take home a paycheck. It’s all busywork with no real purpose. I can tell you, though, that in most cases people do care how you do your work and you will eventually suffer the consequences of performing it badly. Secondly, if you truly believe that no one cares about your work, then you need to ask yourself an even more important question — why are you still doing it?

When we are in the depths of a bad job, it can feel like no one cares. Your boss doesn’t care about anything but the number of claims processed, the number of sales closed, the number of phone calls completed. There is no sense of quality at all. It is only quantity. A focus like this means that many people will do anything they can to keep their numbers up. They will even do things to others that they would be appalled to have done to themselves. When quality is no longer a concern, there is no level to which behavior can fall.

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A Place For Your Stuff from Using the Career Compass To Find Your Work And Career [Audio] (1:08)

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Douglas E. Welch

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A Place For Your Stuff from Using the Career Compass To Find Your Work And Career

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Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen

The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide.

I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it”

Transcript:

…and what I find is, the minute you have a place to put stuff like that you start to think about stuff that you want to put there and this can be in any job. This can be a plumber, a chemist, a doctor, a lawyer, a psychologist — it doesn’t matter. You need a place for these interesting ideas that you stumble across in your work and your life that you can share with other people that demonstrate clearly “What you do and how well you do it.” I have — again, I’m a tech guy — I have 5 blogs, because they’re all broken out by interest and my interest are so varied, but the fact is, you just need someplace because in our search engine based world, our Google, Googlized world, you don’t know who’s going to see that. Just like we don’t know who we’re going to sit next to at the coffee shop, we don’t know who is going to do a search on some obscure enzyme reaction with a protein or something and happen upon across your blog about your research into that area. You don’t know. You CAN’T know.

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A Place For Your Stuff from Using the Career Compass To Find Your Work And Career [Video] (1:08)

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Douglas E. Welch

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Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com) presents to the class Career Development – Theories and Techniques at Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology taught by fellow CareerCamp Co-Chair, Danielle Gruen

The two biggest challenges are deciding what you want to do as a career and then building the career you deserve once you decide.

I discuss the Career Compass method of discovering your career wants, needs and desires and then using various social media tools to show people “What you do and how well you do it”

Transcript:

…and what I find is, the minute you have a place to put stuff like that you start to think about stuff that you want to put there and this can be in any job. This can be a plumber, a chemist, a doctor, a lawyer, a psychologist — it doesn’t matter. You need a place for these interesting ideas that you stumble across in your work and your life that you can share with other people that demonstrate clearly “What you do and how well you do it.” I have — again, I’m a tech guy — I have 5 blogs, because they’re all broken out by interest and my interest are so varied, but the fact is, you just need someplace because in our search engine based world, our Google, Googlized world, you don’t know who’s going to see that. Just like we don’t know who we’re going to sit next to at the coffee shop, we don’t know who is going to do a search on some obscure enzyme reaction with a protein or something and happen upon across your blog about your research into that area. You don’t know. You CAN’T know.

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