Is it the end of the road for the job?
We really believe it's a good to start preparing for it.
In 1970, Alvin Toffler wrote the groundbreaking book, "Future Shock."
In it, he talked about how technology would so transform the workplace that one day, we'd look back a hundred years and feel badly for those poor people that felt jobs were the best way to work and make a living. He described how, "Future shock is also the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."
In the early 80's, I was selling temporary help to companies in Downtown Los Angeles. We were no longer selling the scenario of replacing the secretary on vacation. We were telling companies they were overstaffed. "Cut back to the bare bones. When your workload increases, bring in temps to help meet your targets."
In September, 1994, Fortune Magazine stunned the business world with the words, "The End of the Job as a way of organizing work, it is a social artifact that has outlived its usefulness. Its demise confronts everyone with unfamiliar risks -- and rich opportunities. We used to read predictions that by 2000 everyone would work 30-hour weeks and the rest would be leisure. But as we approached the mini-recession of 2000 more of us were working 60 hour weeks and the rest were unemployed. Now, in 2009, it is clear that as the economy improves jobs will continue to disappear. Many will look for someone to blame.
We can make it a little more simple if we place a very large "RIP" over the industrial revolution.
We've been crying over the broken employment agreement now for over twenty years.
Get over it! It's getting moldy!
Last year, a client asked me to give a final screening to a very senior executive. The CEO walked in as I asked the last question, "What is the biggest professional mistake you made and what did you learn from it?" The CEO asked me, "How would you have answered the question?" I said, "The biggest mistake I ever made was to take a job." "Expert" brings so much baggage with it, but after twenty years of facilitating thousands of people, I've accumulated a little knowledge. I believe we are headed back to becoming a "merchant & cobbler" society but this time we're armed with technology connecting us to work and to acquire sales opportunities - often in just minutes.
Today, one of the most often questions asked on Google is, "When will jobs return?" and the most common answer, "Never."
Are people like me to blame? No. Those of us that allow our fear to scare us away from learning the very skills that would give us options - - they are not to blame but they sure will be in trouble.
Want to become resilient?
Take a course that changes your conditioning and beliefs.
Want to make a living? Instead of sitting at home waiting for the phone to ring or working for that crummy job that you outgrew years ago, learn some important life skills:
1. Take as much as sales training as possible. Hours each week if you can swing it. Learn how to sell anything.
2. Join Toastmasters and learn how to speak to people rather than yelling at them about their quotas and to cut more expenses.
3. Become a sophisticated social networker capable of getting any information you need to become successful. We are proud of our presence at Facebook - brings us more business every month! It's DavidWilliamHarder and we have an Inspired Work Alumni Group. We are now designing a curriculum on how to build a multi-national company on Facebook without spending a cent.
4. Take something within that you love doing and find a way to make a living with it. Darn, it will always include selling.
5. Build a new community around you filled with skilled advisors, supporters and reliable sources of information. Jack Canfield said, "You are the average of the five people you share the most time with." When I head that I had to get an immediate massage.
5. Draw as much positive attention to you as possible. Take an acting class. Most people draw only enough attention to themselves so they won't starve. The highly successful get attention all the time and even better? They give it; Giving high quality attention is the very foundation of charisma.
Fifteen years after I left, my last boss was very hurt when I told her taking a job was a mistake. She is an extraordinary soul and I worked for the best. But I could already feel the writing on the wall and I didn't like taking orders.
In front of us is an opportunity. Those who get there first will win.
Take the months ahead and learn how to sell what you love and what you enjoy.
Take advantage of the opportunities in front of the changes, don't focus on running from the change itself. One of the best quotes from Alvin Toffler: "Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life."
All the best,
David Harder
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THE INSPIRED WORK PROGRAM
How much would your life improve if you loved your work? How would that happiness improve your personal life? If you have children, what kind of role model would you become?
Over 80% of American Workers don't like what they do for a living. Inspired Work participants, over the course of 19 years indicate the opposite: Over 80% of our graduates love their work.
For two days, we engage the heart, mind and soul of each participant in finding practical solutions for being happy with their work, financially successful, fulfilled and in leading lives of meaning. We have found the structure that leads any work, from any way of life, to full success.
Over 35,000 graduates have proven the program works. We promise you will walk out of the program with a renewed, reinvented, exciting and successful new journey with your work and hence, your life.
"I took your program in 2005. At that session, I decided to start a business focused on how to manage talent. I launched the company in June and with my business partner wrote the book that makes our case, "Enlightenment Incorporated - Creating Companies our Kids Would be Proud to Work For.
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THE DATES: Friday & Saturday, November 6 & 7 at the Luxe Summit (Los Angeles)
Friday & Saturday, December 4 & 5 at Media Training Worldwide's training facilities (Manhattan)
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THE INTERVIEW WITH DAVID HARDER:
Jess Todfeld interviews David Harder to discuss why this program is so effective, how it was developed and how it transforms workers.
Click Here: http://www.vimeo.com/6909887
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Watch David on "Million Dollar Listing" with Bravo TV - Monday at 10 p.m.
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INSPIRED PRESENTATIONS
The one common skill that is common amongst people who are wildly successful, is in their ability to move people and create action through the spoken word. Now you can quickly and easily learn the secrets of those who are leaders, those who know how to motivate, those who seem to rise up in their field. While doing it, you'll learn how to become more comfortable, confident, quick on your feet, free of "ums" and "ahs."
We have arranged to have Media Training Worldwide, the #1 media and presentation skills training company, offer their top of the line program to our clients in November. They will be coming to Los Angeles to deliver this one-day signature programs (back to back with their Media Training program.) This one day programs are vastly superior to most two-day events. This is accomplished through a revolutionary curriculum, skilled facilitators, continuous engagement, and 1 year of follow-up services (no extra charge) to keep your skills improving instead of diminishing.
During the course of the day, you will learn how to be completely comfortable speaking and presenting to others. This will not be a day-long lecture. You will be able to practice these techniques numerous times during the day. Through the use of video playback, you will be able to make the adjustments necessary to leave with a new set of skills. While the idea of being videotaped or practicing with others might provoke discomfort, consider what will happen to your life if you traded in that fear for confidence. This is confidence to make that presentation that could lead to your promotion, confidence to turn your new book into a bestseller, confidence to promote your business to hundreds at a time rather than one at a time.
The one day Inspired Presentations Program gives you the opportunity to learn a great deal with minimal time and economic investment.
THE DATE: Friday, November 20 at the beautiful Luxe Summit Hotel (Los Angeles)
Media Training – For TV, Print, Radio & the Web
Shine in your next media appearance and...
Get the quotes you want - in tomorrow's news!
Speaking to the media is a much different skill than public speaking. The media can slice and dice anything you say. How do you gain CONTROL during an interview and get the exact messages you want into the piece? Media Training Worldwide, has specific systems to teach proper body language, messaging, answer techniques, and sound bite creation.
This 1-day special program will go far beyond the traditional lecture. Everyone in the class will put the techniques into practice right away. Each participant will practice on-camera a minimum of 8 times. In this safe learning environment, you will have the chance to get better and better each time you practice. The average person may take a year or more to give 8 interviews. Imagine waiting a year to be able to build on what you learned? That would be disastrous. We don’t want that. We want you to leave this interactive workshop with a brand new set of skills.
This workshop has a long track record of improving confidence, helping people to look calmer, more comfortable, be in control of their words or messages. You’ll end this day being able to speak in sound bites but never have someone accuse you or spot that you’ve been trained.
This one day Media Training program gives you the opportunity to learn a great deal with minimal time and economic investment.
THE DATE: Saturday, November 21 at the beautiful Luxe Summit Hotel (Los Angeles)
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE IN NEW YORK BY MEDIA TRAINING WORLDWIDE:
November Six (Media Skills)
November Twelve & Thirteen (Advance Media Skills)
December Seven & Eight (Public Speaking)
December Ten & Eleven (Public Speaking)
December Twelve & Thirteen (Public Speaking
david@inspiredworkservices.com
http://www.inspiredworkservices.com/
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