These are the slides I use in teaching the 1 day course, "Finding Your Natural Gifts". Read insights derived from this course and my research related to it at www.wiseworking.com. Feel free to reach to me with further questions, insights or critiques.

1. Job & Career Management
Seminar
Track 1
Discovering your Natural Gifts
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2. Today’s Schedule
Hour Topic
9:00 Course Introduction
9:30 Introductions; Student Situations & Goals; Discussion of
Immediate Relevant Applications
10:45 Break
11:00 Continue Discussion of Relevant Applications & Survey on Focus
Topics for Afternoon
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Cover Topic #1
1:45 Cover Topic #2
2:30 Break
2:45 Cover Topic #3
3:30 Overview of day, offer of 13 week coaching, wrap up by 4
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3. Learning Goals & Outcomes
self understanding in context of God’s gifts

and plans
job market understanding for better

awareness of the trends affecting workers and
the world of work
application of self understanding to

determine strategy for 1) finding a job, 2)
progressing in present career or 3) transitioning
to new career
exploration of available options for work

and service
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4. What this course is not?
13 week coaching course, but only

introduction
the end, but only the beginning

for the lazy, this is work
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5. What is required to benefit
Open mind

Sharp ears

Each one, teach one

Connect around common vision and

interests
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6. Life Keys Process
Who I am?
Interests

Personality

Values

What I Think & Feel?
Passion

Priorities

What I Can & Like Doing?
Learning Styles

Life Narratives

Areas of Service

Barriers

Discover Who You Are, Kise: www.lifekeys.com
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7. Our 3 Foci: Your Unique Mission in Life
To exercise that talent you most

delight in
In the places and settings which

God has caused to appeal to you
For the purposes God most needs

to have done in the world
What Color Is Your Parachute, Bolles
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8. Barriers to Valuing Life Gifts
Thinking gifts insignificant

Being blind to gifts

Doubting & fearing gifts

Gifts hard to recognize

Thinking gifts mismatched

Thinking practicing wrong gift

Guidance from family & friends

Distorted self-concept

Fear of pride

Think gift wrong for area you work in

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9. Work Trends to Consider
Employability, not employment

Results, not activity

Skill and knowledge, not positions/jobs

Networks, not companies

You are always in school, just pick which

one
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10. Be Prepared With Your Vision
1 Pet 3:15
15 But sanctify the Lord God in your

hearts: and be ready always to
give an answer to every man that
asketh you a reason of the hope
that is in you with meekness and
fear:
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11. Be Diligent & Spread Eggs
Eccl 11:6
6 In the morning sow thy seed,

and in the evening withhold not
thine hand: for thou knowest not
whether shall prosper, either this
or that, or whether they both shall
be alike good.
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12. We Are Specially Made
Psalms 139:14
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully

and wonderfully made:
marvelous are thy works; and that
my soul knoweth right well.
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13. Class Introductions
Name

Occupation/Vocation/Gift/Purpose

Why taking course?

What must you get from course?

What is your dream/ideal scene?

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14. Who I Am?
Souls of Value

Instruments of God’s Love

Valuable Resource

Collections of skills, knowledge &

competence
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15. We Are His Workmanship
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship,

created in Christ Jesus unto good
works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in
them.
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16. Who I Am Is Manifest as:
Interests

Personality

Values

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17. Holland’s Interest
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18. Holland Interest Inventory
Realistics

Investigatives

Socials

Enterprisers

Conventionals

Artistics

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19. Holland Interest Types
Realistics Investigatives
 Inventing
 Mechanical
aptitude  Researching
 Manual dexterity  Conceptualizing
 Physical  Independent work
coordination  Computer aptitude
 Taking physical  Process
risks information
 Emotionally stable  Theorizing
 Organizing
supplies
 Building devices
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20. Holland Interest Types
Socials Enterprisers
 Public speaking
 Teaching
 Selling
 Listening
 Persuading
 Facilitating
 Leadership
 Counseling
 Management
 Serving
 Negotiating
 Evaluating others
 Adventurous
 Showing empathy
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21. Holland Interest Types
Conventionals Artistics
 Acting
 Organizing
 Writing
 Appraising
 Verbal skills
 Detail oriented
 Musical
 Managing time
expression
 Setting priorities
 Creative
 Calculating skills
expressers
 Persistent
 Fine artists
 Creative designers
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22. Personality
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23. Personality
the totality of one’s attitudes, interests,

behavioral patterns, emotional responses,
social roles, and other individual traits
that endure over long periods of time
God gives us certain preferences

No personality is better or worse, just

different
Our differences make life interesting

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24. Myers Briggs Type Indicator
Energy source – (E)xtravert or (I)ntravert

Info. Process – (S)ensing or I(n)tuitive

Decision Making – (T)hinking or (F)eeling

External Life – (J)udging or (P)erceiving

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25. MBTI Types – Energy Source
(E)xtravert (I)ntravert
 1 thing at a time
 Multi tasking
 Hates
 Likes interruptions
interruptions
 Outgoing
 Protective
 Speaks mind
 Keep thoughts to
 Acts, then think
self
 Live it first
 Reflects before
 Take over
action
 Understand it first
 Steps aside
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26. MBTI Types – Info. Processing
(S)ensing I(n)tuitive
 Insightful
 Practical
 Creative
 Accurate
 Uses inspiration
 Uses past
experience  Novel approach
 Methodical  Focus on future
approach  Idealistic
 Focus on present  Theoretical
 Real world  Identify
connections
 Real world
 Identify pieces Discover Who You Are, Kise: www.lifekeys.com
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27. MBTI Types – Decision Making
(T)hinking (F)eeling
 Harmonious
 Logical, analytic
 People oriented
 Data/ things
oriented  Empathetic
 Fair but firm  Camaraderie first
 Business first  Sympathize
 Analyze  Sugjective
 Impartial  Decide with heart
 Finds positive
 Decide with head
 Critical Discover Who You Are, Kise: www.lifekeys.com
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28. MBTI Types – External Lifestyle
(J)udging (P)erceiving
 Organized, efficient  Flexible
 Goes with flow
 Plans ahead
 Fly by seat of
 Settled
pants
 Work before play
 Work & play
 Steady worker
coexist
 Systematic
 Last minute worker
 Scheduled
 Spontaneous
 Enjoys finishing
 Spur of moment
 Enjoys starting
Discover Who You Are, Kise: www.lifekeys.com
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29. Values
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30. Identifying Values
What’s important to you?

What you would die for?

What is meaningful to you?

Big influence in your decision

making?
What you take a stand on?

What makes you most productive?

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31. What I Think & Feel Is Manifest as:
Passions

Priorities

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32. Identifying What I Think & Feel
Witnessing our thoughts and

feelings
Witness emotions as “energy” in the

body, and thoughts as “voice” in
mind
Share thoughts and feelings with

the Lord
Feelings are not facts

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33. Watching What We Think
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are

not carnal, but mighty through God to the
pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and

every high thing that exalteth itself
against the knowledge of God, and
bringing into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ;
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34. You Can’t Afford a Negative Thoughts
Phil 4:8
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things

are true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are
lovely, whatsoever things are of good
report; if there be any virtue, and if there
be any praise, think on these things.
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35. Don’t Worry, Pray
Phil 4:6
6 Be careful for nothing; but in

every thing by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let
your requests be made known unto
God.
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36. God Has Good Plans For Us
Jer 29:11
11 For I know the thoughts that I

think toward you, saith the LORD,
thoughts of peace, and not of evil,
to give you an expected end.
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37. Learn to Encourage Yourself
1 Sam 30:6
6 And David was greatly distressed;

for the people spake of stoning him,
because the soul of all the people
was grieved, every man for his sons
and for his daughters: but David
encouraged himself in the LORD
his God.
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38. Passions
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39. Passions
A desire or purpose that brings you

joy
en theos “with God” - enthusiasm

Carrying out God’s design

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40. Passion Types
1 Passion – Single passion, many settings

Make Me An Offer – Partner & Assist

Right Under My Nose – Already There

Dreamer – Where Next Lord?

You can be passionate
in multiple ways simultaneously!!!
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41. Knowing What God Has In Mind
Be in relationship with God

Recognize God at work

Understand how God uses your gifts

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42. Priorities
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43. Procrastination
Not laziness

But perfectionism

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44. Making Life Choices
Put God’s Kingdom First

Know your mission

Plan ahead

Know your limits – Mark 6:45-46

Learn to say “NO” to unimportant

Simplify your life – Phil 4:11-13

Observe those who seem to have enough

time
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45. Even Jesus Said No
Mark 6:45-46
45 And straightway he constrained his

disciples to get into the ship, and to go to
the other side before unto Bethsaida,
while he sent away the people.
46 And when he had sent them away, he

departed into a mountain to pray.
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46. The “No” Formula
I can not / will not …

Because … (reason based on priorities)

However … (options otherwise)

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47. Be Content
Phil 4:11-12
 11 Not that I speak in respect of want:
for I have learned, in whatsoever state
I am, therewith to be content.
12 I know both how to be abased, and I

know how to abound: every where and in
all things I am instructed both to be full
and to be hungry, both to abound and to
suffer need.
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48. Time budget
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49. Time Budget Example
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50. Life Work Chart
Mission (Lifetime) Teach/Design/Research
Vision (5-20 yrs.) Coach Author DM Strategist Designer
WiseWorking Publish/ DM Ph.D. Design Ed.
Goals (1-5 yrs)
Consult.
Projects (<1yr.) WiseWorking eMarketer DM Teach. WiseTees
Activities • NN eMarketing • PhilaU Pilot • Self-educate
• Position /
(Today) market • Marketing • Drexel U. PrdDev • Research
Services Strategist designs
• Publish
• Sessions.edu
• Build clientele
• CSHBC -JCM
Getting Things Done, David Allen: http://www.davidco.com
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51. What I Do Is Manifest As:
Learning Style

Service Areas

Life Narrative

Barriers

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52. Learning Styles
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53. Learning Styles
Naturally Gifted, Jones
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54. Meaning & Theory Learning Styles
Naturally Gifted, Jones
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55. Solution & Activity Learning Styles
Naturally Gifted, Jones
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56. Plan Your Personal Development
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57. Service
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58. Principles of Biblical Servanthood
Serve from fullness not emptiness
1.
Care for self to care for others
2.
Use gift consciously.
3.
Be open to move to where He wants us
4.
Expect opposition
5.
God’s call may be near or far
6.
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59. Places & Settings
Physical or mental work Researching or
 
Implementing
Indoor or outdoor work

Focus on details or on

Climate: warm,

whole situation
temperate, cold
Science or art focus

Single or multi-culture

Lots of interruptions or

Variety & Change: a lot

few interruptions
or a little
Objective or subjective

Making things or people measure of success

Risk: hi or low Pace: fast or slow
 
Working alone or in Work & Play: the same
 
or different
groups
Likes starting or likes

maintaining (managing)
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60. Purposes
Healthcare Telecom
 
Law Enforcement
Malnutrition 

World Peace
Housing 

Finance
Helping Disabled 

Transportation
Spreading Gospel 

Government
Social Work 

Entertainment

Human Rights

Poverty/Hunger

Alternate Energy

???

Education

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61. Life Narrative
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62. Life Is A Story
Ps 90:9
9 For all our days are passed away

in thy wrath: we spend our years as
a tale that is told.
Look for positive &
cautionary life patterns!!!
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63. Typical Career Choice Pattern
Economics drive career choice

Diligence lead to success in choice

Early success leads to responsibility

Life changes lessen energy

Evaluation of original choice based

on life gifts identify mismatches and
possible better choices
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64. Barriers
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65. Barriers
Internal External
 Skills
 Attitude
 Education
 Self Perception
 Time
 Health
 Money
 Personal Discipline
 Reputation
 Emotional
Discipline  Network
 Fear / Doubt
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66. Basic Barrier Busters
Biblical Self-Talk = Better ATTITUDE,

DISCIPLINE & PERSEVERENCE
Training & practice = SKILLS

Volunteering = NETWORK & EXPERIENCE

Diet/Exercise/Thinking = HEALTH

$ & Time Budgeting = TIME & MONEY

Keeping Promises = REPUTATION

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67. We Can Overcome All Barriers
Phil 4:11-12
13 I can do all things through Christ

which strengthened me.
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68. Learn to Encourage Yourself
1 Sam 30:6
6 And David was greatly distressed;

for the people spake of stoning him,
because the soul of all the people
was grieved, every man for his sons
and for his daughters: but David
encouraged himself in the LORD
his God.
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69. Next Steps
Pray & Meditate on these things

Consider multi-week coaching track

Commit to continuing to pursue

God’s impossible dream
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