Work Readiness Program

1. Work Readiness Program MOTIVATION

2. Objectives • Describe your personal definition of success. • Identify your personal “work values.” • Describe how your personal values and beliefs impact attitude and motivation.

3. What is success? • There are many definitions of success. • What is most important is what success means to you!

4. Success • Stephen Covey defines success as: “Success is the ongoing process of striving to become more. It is the opportunity to continually grow emotionally, spiritually, physiologically, intellectually and financially while contributing in some positive way to others. The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.”

5. Success • Anthony Robbins talks about success as: “If you want to succeed, if you want to achieve all your outcomes; you have to thinks of success as a process, a way of life, a habit of mind, a strategy of life, and not some final outcome.”

6. Success Does Not Happen In Isolation • It Requires the assistance and cooperation of others. • It impacts others around you.

7. How Do You Become Successful? • Know what you want • Take the action necessary to get what you want • In the words of Anthony Robbins: “The greatest gift extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.” • Abraham Lincoln said: “there is no such thing as failure, there are only results.”

8. How Do You Become Successful? • Jack Canfield talks about achieving success by saying “all you have to do is decide where you want to go by clarifying your vision, lock in the destination through goal setting, affirmations and visualization and start moving in the right direction.”

9. How Do You Become Successful? • Theodore Roosevelt said: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” • You have to practice doing what you can, when you can.

10. How Do You Become Successful? • Success must become a habit. • Jack Canfield says: “how you do something is how you do everything.” • You need to practice this model of success in all areas of your life, work, school, family, etc.

11. How Do You Become Successful? • Recognize and analyze your results • Be realistic • Be honest with yourself • Be able to identify the internal and external factors affecting your progress • Know and understand your results

12. How Do You Become Successful? • Was Abraham Lincoln successful?

13. Abraham Lincoln 1816 His family was forced out of their home. He had to work to support them. • 1818 His mother died. • 1831 Failed in business. • 1832 Ran for state legislature – lost. • 1832 Also lost his job. He wanted to go to law school but couldn’t get in. • 1833 Borrowed some money from a friend to begin a business and by the end of the • year, he was bankrupt. He spent the next 17 years of his life paying off this debt. • 1834 Ran for state legislature again – won! • 1835 Was engaged to be married, sweetheart died and his heart was broken. • 1836 Had a total nervous breakdown and was in bed for six months. • 1838 Sought to become speaker of the state legislature – defeated. • 1840 Sought to become elector – defeated. • 1843 Ran for Congress – lost. • 1846 Ran for Congress again. This time he won! Went to Washington and did well. • 1848 Ran for re-election to Congress – lost. • 1849 Sought the job of land officer in his home state – rejected. • 1854 Ran for Senate of the United State – lost. • 1856 Sought the Vice-Presidential nomination at his party’s national convention and • got less than 100 votes. • 1858 Ran for U.S. Senate again – lost again. • 1860 Elected President of the United States

14. How To Become Successful • Be flexible and willing to change • A common quotation in personal development programs is “if you keep doing what you are doing, you will keep getting what you are getting.” • If you want new results, change your actions.

15. Anthony Robbins Seven Character Traits of Success • Passion • Beliefs • Strategy • Clarity of values • Energy • Bonding Power • Mastery of Communications

16. Attitude • Attitude is a state of mind or feeling • What's a good Attitude? • What's a bad Attitude?

17. Attitude • Attitudes are positive or negative, not good or bad • Attitudes are based on a person’s beliefs and values • Other’s perceptions of your attitude are important to success on the job

18. Types of Motivation • Restrictive motivation - Based on fear of consequences. • Coercive motivation - Based on force. • Constructive motivation - Based on doing something because you want to. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc • Internal forces that cause us to move include challenge, competition, curiosity, cooperation, control, recognition, and comfort.

19. Constructive Motivation Challenge Curiosity Control Comfort Competition Cooperation Recognition

20. Why Do You Work? • The Proverbial question: Do you work to live or live to work? • Do you want a job or career? • Work Values are based on our personal values and beliefs.

21. Work Values • Money • Job satisfaction • Type of work • Work environment • Time off • Creativity • Opportunity • Anthony Robbins says: “values are your own private, personal and individual beliefs about what is important to you. Your values are your belief system about right, wrong, good and bad. They come from your environment and your past experiences.”

22. Beliefs • Based on what we know to be true. • Formed in much same way our values are formed. • Successful people think for themselves. They examine their values and beliefs and adapt the ones that work for them.

23. RE-CAP • Success at work is dependent on: • Your Performance • How others perceive you • Your values about work • What you believe