Employment 101 Cheryl Rice November 2003 Work Placement Preparation
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What to know about the company
Number of employeesTypes of jobsNumber of customers servedAre customers asked for feedback?Does the Better Business Bureau have
complaintsWho are their suppliers?
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Where can you look to find out?
Internet searchLibrary searchChamber of commerceCall the companyAsk associates who might know…
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Work placement Exercise
Find out three things about next week’s company
Return in 45 minutes and share
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Work placement goals
Make a list of 3 things you want to accomplish during work week
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Perspective
Imagine you have been given $10 million/year, tax free
No one knows you have this moneyYou are free to do whatever you like for
the rest of your lifeHow would you live your life?
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Perspective…2
Imagine you have a year to live in good health, with no money problems.
How would you spend your time?
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Perspective…2
How does this list compared to your first list?
How does this list compare to how you spend your time NOW?
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Perspective…3
Write your epitaph. How would you want people to remember you after your death?
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Perspective…3
What would you have to change in your life in order to make that epitaph true?
What would it take? Are you willing to do it?
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Time Value
Brainstorming in groups:You have $5.00 to spendHow do you get maximum value for this
money?
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Time Value
Brainstorming in groups:You have 5 minutes of FREE timeHow do you get maximum value for this
time?
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Time Value: debrief
What if:You had MORE time for the assignmentYou had LESS time for the assignmentYou had more INFORMATION about the
assignment: why, winning criteria,that you would be evaluated
What did you put on BOTH lists?
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Goal Setting/Persistence
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.'Which road do I take?' she asked.'Where do you want to go?' was his response.'I don't know,' Alice answered.'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.’
Lewis Carroll, From Alice in Wonderland
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Goal Setting/Persistence
Yesterday's passions may not serve tomorrow's goals . Frederic Hudson
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Goal Setting/Persistence
Short-term goals are the stepping stones to the bigger ones. Beth Pugh
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Goal Setting/Persistence
We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short term obstacles.--Jim Rohn
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Goal Setting/Persistence
Within our dreams and aspirations, we find our opportunities. Sue Ebaugh
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I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it. Muhammad Ali
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
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It may be that those who dream most do most. Stephen Leacock
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother to just be better than our contemporaries and predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner.
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Since you can't predict the future, create it. Peter Drucker
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The most important thing about goals is having one.-- Geoffrey Albert
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting --Christopher Morley
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If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done -- Nido Qubein
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Goals
No GoalsTrivial GoalsImpossible GoalsIncomprehensible GoalsFlaky GoalsVerbose Goals