NCMA World Congress 2005

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How to Become What You Want to be When You Grow
Up
Breakout Session 1201 Joan Wysoske, CPCM,
Fellow, Director, Contract Administration, Humana
Military Healthcare Services Inc. April 25, 2005
1100 am - noon
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People Keep Asking -

• So What do you want to be when you grow up?
• Looking for ideas

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Goal Setting

• Professional
• What do you want to be when you grow up?
• What steps have you taken to get there?
• Personal
• What is important?
• What are you willing to exchange for it?

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• Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter
  of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for,
  it is a thing to be achieved.Williams Jennings
  Bryan

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Professional Goals

• Rule 1 -
• No one cares as much about your career as you
  do.
• Your career is more important to you than to
  anyone else.

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Have a plan

• Talk to people who are having fun
• Find out how they got there
• What Skills, Knowledge and Abilities got them
  there
• Conduct Gap Analysis

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How to get from here to there

• What do I want to be doing in five years?
• What would help me get there?
• What is stopping me?
• What do I want to be doing five years after that?
  And after that?
• What would help me get there?
• What is stopping me?

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If you need something

• Ask

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Putting it together

• Skills, knowledge, experience required.
• Performance at current job reflecting potential
• View to future decisions, options
• Exit strategy (no burnt bridges)

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To determine your current level of interview
expertise

• Do you know the toughest interview questions-and
  how to answer them?
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• Can you answer the salary question without
  compromising the level of starting salary at
  offer time?
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• Can you recognize the most common interview
  styles-and respond without showing stress?

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Motivation

• No one can motivate you, but you.
• I can only motivate myself.
• Do not let others dictate your mood.
• Some people are happy only when unhappy.
• Do not let others dictate your goals.

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Learn or be Left

• Education must have an end in view for it is not
  an end in itself.Marshall

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Take time to take courses

• Take 6 hours per year from an accredited school
  that count toward an advance degree.
• In 6 years, you are six years older and could
  have 36 hours toward a degree.
• If no classes taken, you are still 6 years older.

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Time Management

• We shall never have any more time. We have and
  always have had, all the time there is.Arnold
  Bennett

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What Role Does Attitude Play?

• You are what you think.
• You can make your outlook whatever you want.
• No one can change that without your permission or
  without you allowing it to happen.

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Understand why

• One who has a why to live for can bear almost any
  how.Nietzche

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What matters most?

• Discover
• what matters most to you
• personally, professionally, spiritually
• Plan
• in accordance with what matters most
• Act
• in accordance with what matters most

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Good Support System

• Toxic versus nurturing
• They are pleased when you do well.
• To have one you must provide one to others.
• Happiness for anothers success does not diminish
  your own.

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How to Have a 1,000,000

• Provide correct final answer without using up
  your lifelines.
• Win the lottery.
• Save and accumulate
• 1.00 doubled 20 times 1,000,000

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Stay the course

• Consider the postage stamp Its usefulness
  consists in the ability to stick to one thing
  until it gets there.Josh Billings

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How to be what you want to be

•         you have to know where you want to be
•         you have to know where you are
•         you have to plan a path that will take
  you there
•         you must begin the journey
•         you must re-evaluate and make
  adjustments
•         you must enjoy yourself along the way

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Conclusion

• I find the great thing in this world is not so
  much where we stand, as in what direction we are
  moving To reach the port of heaven, we must
  sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes
  against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor
  lie at anchor.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes

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• Joan Wysoske
• 502-580-3243
• jwysoske_at_humana.com