Summiting your Career: A Kilimanjaro Love Story

Chantal Kading

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Young Professionals Conference 20 August 2018 Bytes Conference Centre

Jambo! Habari gani

Nzuri Ahsante

Invitation • Journey with inner child,

wise elder

• Find a Tanzanite in this story for you

Love Story: Killi and I

• Death, LOVE and a Firewalk

• Lost

• Summit

Career Summit

• A career is an individual's metaphorical "journey" through learning, work and other aspects of life.

• Summit, the highest point or part, of a hill, a line of travel. The highest point of attainment or aspiration: the summit of one's ambition.

• Summit Your Career, need to define your summit or success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_(disambiguation)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_life

5 Steps of a 19 358 Feet Journey

Vision

Strategy

Preparation Execution

Refresh

Vision

… that inspires You

Vision: Who am I?

• What matters to me?

• What gives me joy and meaning?

• Who do I INTENTIONALLY want to become?

• Being vs Doing

Career is an expression of you, your stamp on the world.

Vision: My Why? • What is my WHY?

• Grandest vision

• My Wishes, my hopes, my dreams, my passion, My legacy

• What is My Purpose?

My WHY

Vision: Career Mission Statement

• Why? And How?

• 1.0 Break the boundaries on the Mental Roadblocks, Physical Excuses and Emotional Shackles, to reach personal mastery and excellence.

• 2.0 I raise corporate and Social Consciousness by Forging and Nurturing Raw Talent.

• Vision 2040…

Strategy: Killi-Taxi

• Wheel of Life

• Work-life Balance & Alignment

• PIE

• Study the Rules of the Game

• Commit to To-Be List

• Dumb Goals

Career ACTION! System

• Assess - what you should do in the first place

• Control - take control of what you can influence

• Target - identify priorities and stay with that target (focus)

• Innovate - try new ideas and systems in work

• Organise - strategies that help accomplish goals better and faster

• NOW! - Address key priorities and concern now stop procrastinating, excuses, distracting self.

Personas: “Killi-Legs 11” • Being

• Dream board

The personas become

reality

Preparation 378

• Routine

• Discipline

• Sacrifice

• Mental, Physical, Emotional, Spiritual Readiness

Mental readiness • Victim victor

• React or create

Physical Readiness

• Practise, daily track record

• Diverse training & Simulations

• Killi -Water, Food and sleep

• Career - Knowledge, skills and competencies

Emotional Readiness

• EQ & Resilience

• Support team • Mentors

• Buddy system

Spiritual Readiness

Pole Pole • Silence

• Clarity

• Learnt love and devotion

The Climb

Day 1 - Shira camp (Poetry Lyrics) Nelson

Leadership Respect Humility

Day 2 Karanga camp (Nuts) Pole Pole

Present Patient Persevere

Day 3 Barranco Wall (Gorge, steep bank) Ohana

Human support, brick wall

Day 4 Me

Honesty Self love

Day 5 Barafu (Iceberg)

Mind like water readiness

Day 6 Summit

Stellar Point

Kilimanjaro - Career Uhuru Freedom Kibo Crater House of God Umoja Unity

Day 7 to 28 Mweka Gate

Success and endurance, Strength, reliability,

determination and professionalism

Refresh

Integration • Present – Celebrate, Acknowledge

and have fun

• Past – Learn, shed baggage, evolve, realign, new Grandest Vision

• Future – Create, serve, Reciprocity

I Claim and Serve Maa Africa for my grandchildren, for the world,

by raising Leadership consciousness through

Unconditional Love.

Greeting 2.0

• Shikamo – Literally “I hold your feet.””.

• Marahaba– The reply “I am delighted, I don’t get that every day.”

Reciprocity

• Amy Foundation

• Back-a-buddy

Nakupenda, Ahsante sana.

Chantal