Successful Career & Life Planning (Revised Edition)
Course Specifications
Course Number: CCT–079_rev4.0
Course Length: 1 day
Course Objective: The objectives of this book are:
- To provide a systematic approach for determining what you want out of life
- To explain how to think backwards from your goals and plan how to achieve them
- To help couples and families form a mutual vision for personal and professional success
- To guide individuals and business partners through an annual process of reviewing and refining plans
Course Content
Part 1: What Is Strategic Career and Life Planning?
Getting Started with Backward Thinking
Common-Sense Premise 1: Planning Is Integral to Life
Common-Sense Premise 2: People Support What They Help Create
Common-Sense Premise 3: Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking Approach—A New Orientation to Life
Part 2: Getting Ready to Plan: Setting the Stage
The Environment: Revolutionary and Global Changes
Plan-to-Plan: The Organizing and Tailoring Step
Identify Stakeholders
Decision-Making by Consensus
Potential Barriers
Part 3: The ABC Phases
Phase A: Output— Creating Your Ideal Future
Phase B: Feedback—Measuring Success
Phase C: Input—Developing and Converting Strategies into Action
Strategy Development
Personal Annual Work Plan
Resource Allocation Plan
Part 4: Implementing Plans Successfully
Phase D: Throughput—Plan to Implement
Some Final Thoughts on Change
Two Keys to Success
Annual Strategic Reviews
Summary: A Challenge for the Future
Appendix
Our Career and Life Plan
Core Strategies
Actions: Strategy 1
Actions: Strategy 2
Actions: Strategy 3
Actions: Strategy 4
Actions: Strategy 5
Actions: Strategy 6
Actions: Strategy 7
Implementation Game Plan