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<div><strong><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';">STEPS TO MAKING YOUR CAREER WORK FOR YOU AS AN ASSET </span></strong></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';">If it feels alien to you to build a checklist about yourself, be aware that your own experiences are a large hidden asset you control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Writing down answers will be valuable. When the answer is “Yes”, please write full lists.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #660000;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';">1. RECOGNIZING THE ASSET</span></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"> *Write an outline of ALL subject areas you have learned</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"> -Go beyond your ‘Job Description’ (if you still refer to one!) </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"> -Note the subjects/skills you use most often</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #660000;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';">2. SHIFTING THE PATTERN</span></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"> *</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';">Do you keep personal notes, progress reports or other records?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> *</span>Do you use the calendar as a tool?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"> *Did you work with a team or in a team?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> -</span>What are (were) the rules?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"> -Apply them to yourself</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #660000;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';">3. ASSESSMENTS (Tool)</span></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"> *What worked best for you?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"> *What would you like to be certain never to do again?</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #660000;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';">4. FIND ADVICE / FEEDBACK</span></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"> *Write a short list of who to ask, starting with colleagues and supervisors</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"> *Considering that they will be doing you a favor, finding casual time (lunch that you buy) might be best.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"> *Collect in writing what they helped you remember. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #660000;"><strong><span style="text-transform: uppercase; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';">5. Learning to listen</span></strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"> *To your story told by others</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> -</span>Yes, this is a HUGE asset, as you capture OTHER people’s viewpoint, as well as your own.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>6. WRITE IT ALL DOWN</strong></span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';"> *Outline first, leading to a List of Lists and a plan of action.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #660000;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';">7. SCHEDULE YOUR STEPS</span></strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif';">In the next AGENDA we will be exploring the WEB as your hunting ground, how to both gather info and place yourself on it.</span></div>
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<div> *The steady shifting of demographics imply a need to potentially devalue the aggregated value of the group (now a troubling workplace and Social Security reality)</div>
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<div> *Assume new uses, applications and access to information in both directions on a daily basis</div>
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<div> *Storage – Expanded Array</div>
<div> *Security - Close to uncontrollable, calling for immediate and sequential policy and methods review</div>
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<div><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>COMMUNICATION DEVICES</strong></span></div>
<div> *Accelerated appearance of new hardware and application software</div>
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<div> *Shifting faster than any one central source can monitor</div>
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<div><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>EDUCATIONAL METHODS AND INSTITUTIONS</strong></span></div>
<div> *Explosive demand coupled with reduced financial resources</div>
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<div> *Rapidly growing competition for membership coupled with the hunt for significantly diversified revenue sources</div>
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<div><span style="color: #660000;"><strong>FINANCIAL RESOURCES</strong></span></div>
<div> *Driven by the Global Recession into unprecedented restructure</div>
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<strong>Other areas:</strong> The shifts driven by the above indicate the prospect of revised importance for several additional areas that still appear at the same relative level of consequence for planning as in the past. A prime area would be the need for understanding the implications of Global shifts on patterns of Insurance.<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><em>Guest Predictions is a regular feature in which we ask leaders in a number of professions a set of questions that affect us all. </em></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #84333d;"><strong>Q: What changes have been the most troubling to you?</strong></span><strong><br></strong> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">A: </span></strong></span>Regulatory changes in audit and changes in tax laws are happening so frequently and rapidly, that we are expending increasing amounts of time responding. We would rather have some of that time available for our key focus, which is helping our clients plan as they grow their business.</span> </div>
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<div>YOUR CAREER AS AN ASSET</div>
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<div>Over the past year we have been placing a steady stream of business tools <a rel="on our website" href="http://www.regisgroup.com/newfromRegis/leadershipToolsArchive.shtml">on our website</a>. They appear in a single directory in the order in which they were developed.</div>
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<div>Over the next several weeks we will be reorganizing them by category, and creating a descriptive index.</div>
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<div>We will also be focusing on those of our readers who are either contemplating retirement, or who find themselves involved with colleagues in that circumstance. This week’s far left article addresses how to focus on the totality of your career as a very real asset, with the first step being our recommendation to put down in words the specialized knowledge you have gained over the years.</div>
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<div>In future months we will be addressing Networking and Self Marketing.</div>
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<div>Along these lines we are asking you to help by identifying those subjects you might be interested in hearing AND if there are subjects you might like to share through <strong>The Agenda</strong> yourself.</div>
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<div>This should make for one of the more unusual rounds in the three year life of <strong>The Agenda</strong>.</div>
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Thanks for reading, from the Team at TRG, please have a peaceful holiday season and a joyous New Year</span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;"><em> </em></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="color: #0000cc;">Marc Paul Chinoy</span></em></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Deborah Cornwell, Facility Manager, Howard Vocational Center, Winchester VA</em></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #3300ff;"> </span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; color: #660000; font-size: 11pt;"><strong><strong>“The Big Bad Wolf At The Door”</strong> </strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;">When trouble abounds and the next set of actions will determine the depth of the difficulties and the prospect for resolution</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Brink of Disaster, Watch Your Back, Warning Lamps are Lit, Dangerous Shoals and Reefs Ahead</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><em>“Gerald just got finished telling us that ever since the recession we have been ONE STEP FROM A TRAIN WRECK with the <strong>“The Big Bad Wolf At The Door!</strong>” … and then the financials came in…”</em></span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3300ff;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Don't forget to send us your favorite BizSpeak to: <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></span></span></span></div>
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