Workshop:  Planning for an Unpredictable Future:  How to Respond to a World of Constant Change

• Overview:

Today’s job seekers need to make decisions in a world of constant change.  Participants will understand what factors affect career decision-making, which factors are stable, and which factors are not.  Participants will understand which factors they can control, and which factors they can’t control, which will allow them to make effective decisions in a world of uncertainty and constant change. 

• Learning Outcomes:

Participants will understand:

• That the world is in a constant state of rapid change.

• These changes will directly impact their success at reaching their education and career goals.

• What factors are used to make education and career choices.

• Which of those factors are stable and which are not stable.

• Which of those factors should be the foundation of their education and career choices.

• How they can cope and respond to a world of constant change.

• What they can control in a changing world, and what they cannot control.

• Workshop Presenter:

  • Kathleen E. High, M.Ed., CCSP, FCD-I

• Downloads:One-Stop Center

  • PowerPoint file

  • Workshop Handout

  • Map A

  • Map B

  • Information Flyer

    • Garden Grove

    • Irvine

• Related In-house Handouts

  • Rapidly-Changing World

  • Understanding Labor Market Trends

  • Decision-Making Variables

  • Reaching Career Goals

  • Opportunity vs. Security

  • Generalist vs. Specialist

  • Life-Long Learning Options

  • Generational Values

  • Success (How do you define success?)

  • Delayed Response

  • Boundaries

  • Hidden Rules

  • When Skills are No Longer in Demand

  • Organizational Cultural Fit

  • Locus of Control

  • Different Types of Counselors

  • So How Do You Find and Get Your Dream Job?

  • Setting Effective Goals

  • Happenstance

  • Power of Expectation in Academics

• Related Video Links:

• ​The Internet in 1981

• Did You Know? (Shift Happens)

• Technology is replacing jobs. Are you ready? (Slope of the Curve)

• The Chaos Theory of Careers

  1. Rapidly Changing World

• Trends Come and Go

• Movie: “The Internship”

• Movie:  “Sully”

  1. Institutional Leader Navigating Changing World — (Eloy Ortiz – Calif. Comm. College Chancellor)

  2. “Success in the New Economy”

  3. “4 Skills and 4 Steps to a Successful Career”

  4. “The Insufficient Degree”

  5. Automation Eliminating Factory Labor Jobs

  6. The Evolution of Work

  7. Digital transformation: are you ready for exponential change?

  8. 5 Trends Shaping the Future of Work

  9. The jobs we’ll lose to machines — and the ones we won’t (TED Talk)

  10. Reminiscing on the ‘good old days’ – “Grandpa” by The Judds

  11. Elder Generation Lectures Younger Generation – “Dragnet”

  12. Empowerment of the Masses (oppressed populations) – Learn what life is like for them

  13. Positive use of technology: Non-profit founder uses own cell phone, social media for publicity, outreach, and donation solicitation. (playful tiger – 2:30min.) – She has almost 3 million followers.

  14. “Artificial Intelligence Can Write Better Than Humans”

  15. Media Bias Chart

• Websites & Databases​

• Tracktherecovery.org (A database to track economic recovery to the COVID pandemic)

• Search “Labor Market Trends”

• Dimensions of Cultural Differences

• “Diffusion of Innovation Theory” (People adopt new ideas at different rates)

• New World of Work

• Institute for the Future

• Working Nation

• Jobs for the Future

• Robot-Proof Jobs

• Metaphorical Images:

  • Wavy and Warped Road – Foundation under the road is warping at a rapid pace, making the road unusable (career pathways in rapidly-changing world)

  • Image: Metaphor- ‘Refusing to cooperate with a world that is changing around you.’

  • Picture: An elderly couple in China refuses to move out of their home so a highway can be built. 

  • Credit: ​http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/19/asia/gallery/china-nail-houses/index.html. Accessed 5/24/15

• Articles:

• Teach A Man To Fish: Training vs. Education 

• “Are We Educating Students for a Future That Doesn’t Exist?”

• “Humans are Underrated”

• “Everything You Need to Know About the ‘Gig Economy” (How Uber, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, etc. are redefining jobs)

• “5 Ways to Navigate Change in Turbulent Times”

• “Our everyday habits are changing the workforce”

• “Leadership Lessons From Sully” (Responding to the Unexpected)

• “The Future Of Work: It’s Already Here — And Not As Scary As You Think”

• “Why Trump — or any other politician — can’t do much to bring back manual labor jobs

• “This White Male Can’t Get Hired. What Should He Do Now?”

• “The Workforce’s Billion Dollar Problem: Unskilled Workers”

• “Ubertrends. The Forces That Will Govern Our Lives & Future”

• Carrier Layoffs Not Saved by President

• What Unites Us: Research on shared the values of Americans

• Is There Really a Skills Gap?

• The ‘Skills Gap’ was a lie

• Related External Books:

• Crisis Leadership: How to lead in times of crisis, threat and uncertainty

• Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times

• ​”Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community is Changing Our Economy (Our information-driven economy is moving towards a purpose-driven economy)

• Luck Is No Accident: Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life and Career​

• The New Geography of Jobs

• The Good Citizen; How a Younger Generation Is Reshaping American Politics; Second Edition

• Management Challenges for the 21st Century

• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

• Boundaries

• Introduction to Type and Change

• Books – Faith based

• The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why

• The Age of the Spirit: How the Ghost of an Ancient Controversy is Shaping the Church

• Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America (The Gospel and Our Culture Series (GOCS)

• From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology

• The Complete Wineskin Fourth Edition

• One Church, Four Generations: Understanding and Reaching All Ages in Your Church

• Unfinished Business: Returning The Ministry To The People Of God

• Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church

• Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures

• Nothins Gonna Stop It! The Storyline of the Bible