1. PLANNING FOR PERSONAL,
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CAREERS, EDUCATIONAL & AWARENESS EVENT
WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2015 - ST GEORGE’S COLLEGE,
HARARE
Presentation by Cynthia Hakutangwi
(Communications and Personal Development
Consultant)

2. Presenter’s Profile – Cynthia Hakutangwi
 A Communications and Personal Development
Consultant, Transformation Activist, Author, and
Strategist.
 Holds qualifications in Marketing
Communications, and Transformational
Leadership
 Has worked extensively in human resource
development, marketing, research, strategy
design, and organisational structuring.
 Has developed and facilitated various
programmes in business skills, personal and
transformational leadership development.
 A contributing writer for lifestyle, wellness and
leadership related publications.
 Film productions include THE EXTRA MILE and
Intelligent Conversations TV series
 Her published book titles include “The Whole
You – Vital Keys for Balanced Living,”
“Intelligent Conversations: A mindset shift
towards a developed Africa” and Success
Within Reach
 Cynthia is married with four children.

3. PLANNING AND BEING ORGANIZED, KEY TO SUCCESS

4. CAREER AND CAREER
DEVELOPMENT
What is a career?
Def. (Oxford English Dictionary)
A person’s course or progress through life.
It also pertains to their occupation or profession that
usually involves special training or formal education
and is considered to be a person’s lifework.
What is career development?
Career development is an ongoing process of gaining
knowledge and improving skills that will help an
individual to establish a career plan.

5. WHY CAREER DEVELOPMENT?
Today’s Generation Students…….
 Fail to plan for the future.
 Follow the crowd
 Choose by influence of others.
 Accept the parent’s verdict(decision) by force
 Get tempted by current trends
 Jump into any career
 Lack motivation
 Fail to ‘’discover their lives’’
 Live in a fantasy world

6. So what do you want to do with the rest of your life
????

7. Why Select a Career?
 We have been created unique. (Eg. Fingerprint).
 We are born only once.
 We spend almost 40 years on our work.
 A total over 80,000 hours , we work.
 Now ask yourself how you will spend these
80,000 hours before you die??????

8. THE CAREER DECISION-MAKING
PROCESS

9. STEP 1
Discovering Yourself
 What are my interests? Values? Skills?
Personality preferences? Strengths?
 What are three careers that interest me?
 What are three college majors that I want to
explore?

10. STEP 2
Exploring Options
 What information or individuals can help me to
explore my college or career options?
 What classes or activities can help me to
develop my strengths?
 How can I learn more about informational
interviews, job shadowing, exploratory
internships, service learning, civic honors, or
student organizations to gain firsthand
experience?

11. STEP 3
Making a Decision
 How much time and energy am I willing to
invest to make a career decision?
 Who is part of my support system to help me
evaluate the pros and cons?
 What are my top priorities to consider for this
decision?

12. STEP 4
Taking Action
 How can I strengthen my readiness for
success in a college major?
 What is one goal that I have? How can I reach
it? What action can I take now?
 Which one of my talents can I develop through
classes or outside activities?

13. STEP 5
Evaluating the Decision
 Is my decision a realistic option?
 Is there anything preventing me from achieving
this goal? What would it mean if I didn’t have
any barriers?
 Who in my support system can assist me with
achieving this goal?

14. Goal Setting
• To start managing time effectively, you need to
set goals. When you know where you're going,
you can then figure out what exactly needs to
be done, in what order.
• People tend to neglect goal setting because it
requires time and effort.
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15. Goal Setting
• What is the difference between a dream and a
goal?
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16. Writing Goals
• Goals give us direction.
• A goal is clear and meaningful to the person who has
defined it and can be communicated to others when the
need arises.
• Well defined goals can be your greatest motivator for
action.
• The goal you identify must be personally meaningful to
you and be consistent with your values.
• It must be worth every minute you put into it and the
benefits you have clearly determined to achieve.
• When you know where you are going, you will do your
utmost to make sure you get there. And when you are
there develop the habit of documenting and celebrating
your success.

17. Goal Setting
• Goal setting is the process of deciding what you
want to accomplish and devising a plan to
achieve the result you desire.
• Goal setting is a two part process. For effective
goal setting, you need to do more than just
decide what you want to do; you also have to
work at accomplishing whatever goal you have
set for yourself.
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18. Goal Setting
• Most people know what they want to do but have
trouble creating a plan to get there. Goals without
action plans are just words.
• One way to get over this hurdle is to use a goal
setting formula that incorporates a strategy for
accomplishing the goal
• Goal setting involves establishing specific,
measurable, achievable, realistic and time-
targeted (SMART ) goals
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19. Criteria for Writing A Goal-SMARTS
• For goals to be successfully achieved, they have to be in a form that
is
• Specific – detailed and precise understanding of where you are
going. Ask Who, What, Where, Why, Which, When
• Measurable – You must be able to see step by step progress. Clarify
amount or progress in quantifiable terms – How much, How many….
• Attainable – Is this within your capacity to make come true?
• Realistic – Is this possible within the resources, ability and challenge
available. Eg. Can you fly to the moon in a spacecraft today? No. This
is not realistic. Realistic represents the goal you are willing to work
towards.
• Time Bound – When do you hope to accomplish it? When do you
hope to have a result?. Always linked to realistic measures of
achievement give you the feelings of success when you accomplish it.
• Stretches you. – Does this goal offer the challenge of reaching new
heights, doing something that proves you have what it takes for the
next level? Does the goal offer challenge to the resources or thinking
processes you had in place?

20. Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:
1. Something you really want, versus something
that sounds good.
Remember that your goals must be consistent
with your values
2. A goal can not contradict any of your other
goals
Continually strive to eliminate contradictory ideas
from your thinking
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21. Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:
3. Develop goals in the 6 areas of life:
• Family and Home
• Financial and Career
• Spiritual and Ethical
• Physical and Health
• Social and Cultural
• Mental and Educational
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22. Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:
Develop goals in the 6 areas of life:
• Setting goals in each area of life will ensure a more
balanced life as you begin to examine and change
the fundamentals of everyday living.
• Setting goals in each area of live also helps in
eliminating the non-integrated thinking we talked
about in the 2nd step
• Choose a goal that will help you personally and
professionally.
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23. Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:
Social & Cultural
Intellectual & Educational
Physical & Health
Financial & Career
Family & Home
Spiritual & Ethical
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24. Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:
4. Write your goal in the positive instead of the
negative.
• Part of the reason why we write down and examine
our goals is to create a set of instructions for our
subconscious mind to carry out.
• The subconscious mind can not determine right
from wrong and it does not judge. It carries out
instructions.
• The more positive instructions you give it, the more
positive results you will get.
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25. Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:
5. Write your goal out in complete detail.
• The more detailed information we give our
subconscious mind, the more clearer the final
outcome becomes. The more precise the outcome,
the more efficient the subconscious mind can
become
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26. Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:
6. Ensure your goal is high enough.
• Shoot for the moon, if you miss you’ll still be in
the stars
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27. Goal Setting: How to build a road map to your goals:
7. Write down and review your goals
• In addition to writing goals down, it is also extremely
important to review your goals frequently.
• The more focused you are on your goals the more
likely you are to accomplish them.
• We may need to revise a goal as circumstances
and other goals change. If you need to change a
goal do not consider it a failure, consider it a victory
as you had the insight to realize something was
different.
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28. Who Is Mentoring You?

29. Role Model, Coach or Mentor?
• Making the right choice will determine your interaction
with the individual.
• A role model is an individual in which the behaviour is
observed from a distance.
• A mentor is someone that the individual works with on a
fairly regular basis. It involves observing the mentor but
also includes the opportunity for discussion, evaluation
and progress through 2-way communication between the
mentor and the mentee.
• The individual and their coach on the other hand have a
task based relationship. A coach looks at you work and
gives you advice on how to improve your results

30. Who is in your Social Circle?

31. Barriers to Personal Development
• Believing you do not have time
• Not understanding the value of development
• Believing that experience is the only teacher
• Fear of change
• No curiosity or thirst for learning
• Only respecting information that is immediately useable
and believing leadership development is impractical

32. What are the Barriers to Your Success?
• Personal Barriers – Barriers within yourself
• Your motivation, education, training, energy, personality
characteristics, leadership skills, self-confidence, conflicting values,
stress tolerance, etc
• Environmental Barriers – Barriers outside of your control
• External forces that are out of your control, for example the culture
in which you live or the attitudes of leaders in your organization
• Conflict Barriers – when two goals compete with each
other
• Conflict barriers exist when you want to achieve two goals that
appear to be in competition or conflict with each other

33. Prioritising
• Prioritizing what needs to be done is important.
Without it, you may work very hard, but you won’t
be achieving the results you desire because what
you are working on is not of strategic importance.
• The problem with many “to-do” lists is they are just
a collection of things that need to get done.
• To work efficiently you need to work on the most
important, highest value tasks
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34. Prioritising
Key Areas of Personal Priorities:
• Spiritual life
• Family life
• Social life
• Physical Wellness
• Intellectual life
• Vocational/Professional life
• Financial life
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35. Sample of An Annual Plan
• Use the answers you gave during the Self-Evaluation
Questions and everything you already knew about
yourself to develop a list of Areas for Development.
• This process helps you identify the goals in this area of
life that you want to give immediate attention to and that
will bring you the most immediate benefits
• Goal setting is the most powerful force you can
possess for achieving success in every area of life.
Area Goal Actions Output/Verifiable
Indicator
Deadline and Review Dates Evaluation of Progress
Spiritual
Financial
Family
Career
Physical and
Wellbeing
Personal
Development

36. Managing time thieves
Examples of Time thieves
• Telephone
• E-mail, Internet and Social Media
• Interruptions
• Your social circles
• Self inflicted
• Procrastination
• Being over-available

37. Conclusion
• You should always have a plan that is broken
down to yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily goals.
There should be some room for flexibility, but it
will help you stay focused.
• Time management is self management, so start
by identifying your time wasters.

38. On which level of existence are you?
Survival,
Success
or Significance?
What are you going to Stop, Start & Continue?

39. Reading Resources
1. Steve Covey – The 7 habits of Highly
Effective People (Habit 2 –Principles of
Personal Leadership pages 106 to 129)
2. Cynthia Hakutangwi - The Whole You –
Vital keys for Balanced Living (Chapter 2 –
The Multidimensional Being pages 4-12
and chapter 11- Your Strategic Life Plan
pages 83-86)

40. Thank You
CYNTHIA
HAKUTANGWI
Communications & Personal Development
Consultant
Mobile: 0772 438 068
E-mail: chakutangwi@gmail.com
cynthia@wholenessincorporated.com
Website: www.wholenessincorporated.com
Facebook: Wholeness Incorporated