career positioning: proactively managing your professional development august 14, 2014

Career Positioning: Proactively Managing Your Professional Development

August 14, 2014

Moderator: Joanne Schlosser, ACC, SPHR; Panelists: Michael Cylkowski; Richard Parker, FACHE; and Michael Mayer, FACHE

Arizona Healthcare Executives Career Positioning

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates

Reflection

“Know thyself.” inscribed in the pronaos (forecourt) of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.


“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,” Colossians 3:23 (Paul the Apostle) or “Greed is Good.” Gordon Gecko

What Are Your Motives?


“Chance favors the prepared mind.” Louis Pasteur

Are You Ready?


“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Look Before You Leap


“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.” Herodotus

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T. S. Elliott

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt

Risk


“He that lives upon hope will

die fasting.” Benjamin

Franklin

Plan

But Be In The Moment


“We keep you alive to serve this ship.” (Ben Hur)

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” Mark Twain

What are you here for?

Usefulness


Enthusiasm

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.” Vince Lombardi


“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.” Robert Frost

“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.” Demosthenes

Action


“If you want to rise,……, do the difficult.”Messala to Sextus, Ben Hur

Seek Challenges

“It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.” Sir Winston Churchill


“Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” Socrates

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.” Thomas Paine

“If you have to do wrong to be on the team, you’re on the wrong team.” Charles Swindoll

Integrity


Embracing Change

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.” Stephen Covey


Look for Unexpected Opportunities and

Unconventional Paths“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson


“It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.” Garrison Keillor

“Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.” Mike Ditka

Be Prepared for Setbacks


“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.” John Keats

Learn From Mistakes


“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Sir Winston Churchill

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas A. Edison

“Victory belongs to the most persevering.” Napoleon Bonaparte

Persevere


“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” Mark Twain

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” C. S. Lewis

Courage


“To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.” Thomas More

Friendship


“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.” Benjamin Disraeli

Affirmation


“We keep you alive to serve this ship.”

“It pays to be nice to the people you meet on the way up, for they are the same people you meet on the way down.” Walter Winchell

Treat Others Well


“A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.” Aristophanes

“He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.” Edmund Burke

Learn From Opposition


“If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.” Cicero

“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need.” Mick Jagger

Be Ambitious, Be Content


“The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.” Carl Sagan

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.” Rene Descartes

Let Go of What You Cannot Control


“Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.” Ecclesiastes (Solomon)

“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” Lord Byron

“Don’t Worry – Be Happy!” Bobby McFerrin

Keep Your Humor. Keep Your Joy.


“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.” Desiderius Erasmus

Find Your Bliss


Questions? Comments?

career positioning: proactively managing your professional development august 14, 2014

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