Welcome to Week 3!
Class, this week we extend our journey toward filling out our Career Portfolio by looking for role models. Role models can assist us in helping define what life and career success looks like, albeit from very unique perspectives. We may aspire to meet or exceed goals others have reached, whether in terms of satisfaction, career success, financial success, or personal success in life. There are also examples of individuals and organizations that we would never want to be compared to. Each analysis we do of success stories helps us in defining our own direction.
Therefore, the work for this week will include choosing some role model, either from the popular press, or historical novels, or your personal life experience, who is somehow important to you and your dreams. Once you assess the success story of your role model and draw conclusions from what you find, you will then try to move backwards and see what it was that helped your role model reach his or her goals and become successful. Was it strong academic success in school? Was it family connections or personal networks developed in the early parts of the individual’s career? Was it sheer luck or lucky breaks along the way? Was it superior determination and planning? Was it choosing one career and sticking with it? Was it changing careers and taking the acquired knowledge and skill sets into another realm of business? Was it seeking a new location in our ever leveling world?
What is it that we can learn and apply to our current situation from those success stories? Is it choosing another career and setting realistic and SMART goals as early as possible? Is it overcoming obstacles that we know will arise when we least expect them? By asking these types of questions and providing our own answers, we will add another component to our understanding of how success is achieved. We will make TCO C come alive as we tie our earlier work in the course into setting our personal benchmarks with realistic discussions about career directions.
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