TED Talks

INTERVIEW: TED Talks for You and Your Clients

April 27, 2020 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

Welcome to another Peak-Careers interview. My guests today are Joe Smith,
Principal Technical Recruiter for Thrasio and Jessica Campain,
Career Counselor for Maryland Department of Labor.

What we explore:

What are your favorite TED Talks for your own self improvement?
What are your favorite TED Talks for your clients?

I mention this Ted Talk in the interview and want to make sure people can find this talk. Kelly McGonigal’s TED Talk, “How to make stress your friend.” 14.28 minutes. It dovetails with her book, The Upside of Stress: Why stress is good for you and how to get good at it. The book title pretty much says what’s cool about the talk.

Jessica also mentions; Time bending — 365 ways to unlock creativity and innovation | Ken Hughes | TEDx University of Nicosia

Here is my most recent blog on this topic that refers to the Renee Brown TED Talks Jessica speaks about. READ MORE

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TED Talks for Professional Development

BIO’s

Joe Smith is a Principal Technical Recruiter for Thrasio, a fast-growing Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) eCommerce company headquartered in Walpole Massachusetts.

Joe started working in career services in 1998 for Salve Regina University doing employer relations. During this time he realized his passion for working with students on the transition from college senior to professional employment. He arrived at Northeastern University in 2000 to do employer relation and work with graduating seniors.

As Joe met with recruiters he began asking, “Where are my students failing in the interview?” These conversations lead him to focus more on a job’s skills for resume development and interview preparation, than the usual student type answer of …I am a hard worker, team player, good communicator and people person. What are you skills for this job? Joe has been recruiter since 2005 and since 2007 hiring new college graduates into various roles across the United States, APAC and Europe.

Jessica Campain is a veteran and a Nationally Certified Counselor. She enjoys working with youth, families and individuals focused on personal and spiritual development. Her passions include finding and sharing strategies for living the happiest and healthiest life possible. She delights in sharing shortcuts and insights with groups in an interactive and lively manner.

Jessica co-creates and facilitates the Mindfulness in the Workplace series for the Judicial College of Maryland. She is currently working with Maryland Department of Labor as a career counselor and facilitates a job seeking skills workshop called JumpStart for the Professional Outplacement Assistance Center. Concurrently, she has just started her own business, Living Intuition, where she offers experiential retreats and individual sessions for people seeking to create harmony between their outer and inner lives.

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a monthly newsletter for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

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TED Talks for Self Care and Perspective Change

April 13, 2020 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

Here are some TED Talks for self care in these difficult times. Recently I sent out a survey to my community and asked for TED Talk ideas, and more importantly, asked why they utilize TED Talks with their clients.

Thank you to the people who took the time to give your input here. Here are some nuggets from these folks on why they like TED Talks for their clients and for self care

Condensed and clarified messaging that helps educate them on something specific.
I hope they will see how changing your thinking and perspective can really give you an attitude boost.
I hope that they will hear a nugget of information in a different way then previously presented, so it resonates
Useful information about how humans operate. Invaluable insights backed by research (specific to Brene Brown’s talk)
The ones by Brene Brown are great for clients/students who have issues with perfectionism & difficulty letting their guard down.

Here are my 2020 TedTalks for self care and perspective change.

Most of you have the time now… check these out and please send me any other TedTalks that you discover, in particular ones you like to share with your clients to help them move forward in their career development.

Brene Brown was suggested by multiple people and was also on my list from last year. She is informative and funny and has a number of great messages.

The Power of Vulnerability

Listening to Shame

Why Your Critics Aren’t The Ones Who Count

Here are a couple that are really about challenging our perspective on ageism and one on millennial

Ageism is kind of an opiate for the masses, according to Howard Fishman (podcast: The Anxious Boomer). “We can challenge bias unless we’ are aware of it.” ~ Ashton Applewhite. Applewhite is today’s cultural face ofAgeism. Her book, The Cradle Rocks, takes us through every part of ageism and convincingly points out how pernicious ageism can be. From the workforce, inside our marriages, at the doctor’s office. It’s everywhere.

Here is Ashton’s TEDTalk on Ageism, which garnered over 1.5 million views. It’s 11 minutes, but highly watchable.

The following TED Talk goes against current thinking and attitudes about transitioning out of college and insight to millenials.

Why 30 is not the new 20.

Here is one from Alison Ledgerwood on improving positive thinking. This person submitting this says “I hope they will see how changing your thinking and perspective can really give you an attitude boost.“

I met JP Michel at NCDA a couple years ago and was impressed with his vision.

Students need to look beyond the job title to working on challenges – this is a “challenge mindset” that JP Michel is taking on helping teens make career decisions. His card sort he’s created is awesome.

Check out last years Ted Talks blog here

Here is my interview with Marie Eddy and Karla Wynn on “why TED Talks and how they use them for professional development. Watch now.

Bite-sized professional development – TED Talks

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching. He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move

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INTERVIEW: TED Talks for Career Practitioners

April 1, 2019 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

TED Talks for Career Practitioners

My guests today to discuss TED talks for career practitioners are: Marie Eddy, MS, GCDF, CCSP and Karla Wynn, MA, GCDF, CWDP, CPRW, CCSP

What we will explore

– What is it that you like about TED Talks?

– How are you using them for your professional growth or with clients / students?

*See my blogs on this topic: https://peak-careers.com/tag/ted-talks/

Watch the interview now.

BIO’s

Marie Eddy, MS, GCDF, CCSP. Prior to starting her own career counseling business in 2018, she spent much of her career as a school counselor and guidance coordinator in Vermont. www.eddycareerservices.com

Karla Wynn, Student Development Specialist with Harford Community College. Career Coach, Recruiter, Workforce Development Professional, and Workshop Trainer with five industry certifications: GCDF; CWDP; CPRW; CCSP; and Certified Practitioner of MBTI Step I and Step II Instruments

Jim Peacock is the Principal of Peak-Careers Consulting offers:

– The Facilitating Career Development (FCD) class since 2001

– Online discussion based-seminars for career practitioners since 2010

– F2F workshops for career professionals

– Individual career coaching

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TED Talks for Career Practitioners

March 7, 2019 by Jim Peacock 2 Comments

TED Talks for Career Practitioners

Wouldn’t it be great if you could bring in a person who could articulate and inspire your clients through one of the following issues?

Creating confidence
Finding your passion / Being authentic
Introverts in an extroverted world
Conversation skills for networking
Perseverance in the job search
Fear or anxiety in the career change

Well, you can bring in experts by using TED Talks for career practitioners. I surveyed career coaches/practitioners recently and asked what their favorite TED Talks were and why. By utilizing these TED Talk outside experts, you can find another way to get your point across when you see something your client needs. One survey participant even sends TED Talks to some of her clients the night before an interview for motivation. Here are a few experts who can help you when you are working with your clients.

Creating Confidence

Hands down Amy Cuddy’s Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are is recommended to help students/clients who are feeling nervous before interviews and confidence building in general. The power poses can be very powerful before an interview and her suggestions for body positioning are important as well. Also, she refers to a study she performed regarding mock interviews and accentuates that the interviewers were impressed with eye contact, genuineness / authentic, presence, enthusiasm.
21 minutes. 51 million+ views. Watch now

Finding Your Passion / Being Authentic

What They Don’t Teach You About Career Fulfillment in School | Ryan Clements. He talks about the roundabout way one gets to their career(s). Ryan’s passion is empowering others to find fulfilling work, and living their “inner greatness”.
16:32 minutes. 135,000+ views Watch now

Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling | Emilie Wapnick. Have a client that tells you they have many passions and interests? Emilie talks about multipotentialites superpowers. Author, entrepreneur and artist, Wapnick was blessed with so many interests that she was unable to pick just one.
12:52 minutes 430,000+ views Watch now

“How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes“ | Adam Leipzig. At a class reunion, he talked with the 25% of the people who were actually happy in their work. They knew their life purpose because they knew (1) who they were (2) what they did (3) who they did it for (4) what those people wanted or needed, and (5) how they changed as a result of what you do. Make sure you watch to the end.
10:33 minutes. 13 million + views Watch now

Stop Searching For Your Passion | Terri Trespicio. She conveys in her TED Talk, “To live a life full of meaning and value you don’t follow your passion, your passion follows you.”
10:46 minutes 4 million + views Watch now

How To Find & Do Work You Love | Scott Dinsmore. Scott’s mission is to change the world by helping people find what excites them and build a career around the work only they are capable of doing. He is a career change strategist whose demoralizing experience at a Fortune 500 job launched his quest to understand why 80% of adults hate the work they do, and more importantly, to identify what the other 20% were doing differently. He shares three surprisingly simple practices for finding and doing work you love.
17:56 minutes. 5 million + views Watch now

Helping Introverts

The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking | Susan Cain. This is a phenomenal talk that inspires both introverts and extroverts. She helps us understand that introverts are creative, reflective people who can be great leaders and applicable across industries and backgrounds.
19:04 minutes. 8 million + views Watch now

Communication skills (networking)

How to Speak So People Want to Listen | Julian Treasure provides tips on becoming a good conversationalist. The 7 deadly sins of speaking are introduced which keep us from being good conversationalists. And then introduces 4 foundations to stand on called HAIL (to greet or acclaim enthusiastically) H – Honesty A- Authenticity I- Integrity L- Love.
9:58. 20 million + views. Watch now

Intrigue – How to Create Interest and Connect with Anyone| Sam Horn

In this interactive TEDx talk, Intrigue Expert Sam Horn shows how to earn the favorable interest and respect of customers, investors and decision-makers by finding out what’s important to them …. and focusing on that FIRST. I particularly liked her point regarding elevator pitches at about the 10-minute mark.
17:44 minutes. 368,000+ views Watch now

Perseverance in the job search

How to get back to work after a career break | Carol Fishman Cohen offers inspiration and advice for returning to work after an extended career break.
12 minutes. 110,000+ views Watch now

I got 99 problems… palsy is just one | Maysoon Zayid. So funny and real! She tackles disability bias with such warmth but her points are clear and spot on.
14.13 minutes. 5 million + views Watch now

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance |Angela Duckworth talks about why IQ isn’t the only thing separating successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predictor of success.
6:09 minutes. 16 million + views Watch now

Fear or anxiety in the career change

Why Your Critics Aren’t The Ones Who Count | Brené Brown. This is a great talk for people who feel scared, anxious or vulnerable because of a career change. It often helps them understand that being vulnerable is part of growing and part of learning.
22 minutes. 2 million + views Watch now

Miscellaneous TED Talks for Career Practitioners

The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain | Sarah-Jayne Blakemore talks about the mysterious workings of the teenage brain. Useful for career coaches, career teachers etc to understand the need to engage the limbic system.
14:26 minutes. 377,000+ views Watch now

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay. Following is a quote from one of the survey responders. “As a 20-something, I listen to this talk a couple of times a year to remind myself of growth opportunities that I should take advantage of now. I’ve also recommended it to other 20-somethings who were feeling stuck in their career exploration process. It’s a very relatable talk with a lot of great takeaways.”
14:49 minutes. 2 million views Watch now

What Jobs Will Look Like in the Future | Andrew McAfee suggests that, yes, probably, droids will take our jobs — or at least the kinds of jobs we know now. In this far-seeing talk, he thinks through what future jobs might look like, and how to educate coming generations.
14:25 minutes. 851,000+ views Watch now

I hope you found these TED Talks for career practitioners helpful for your work with clients. If you have others you recommend, please share them here. It used to be that you could only see this caliber of professionals if you attended conferences. Now they are just a click away.

See last years TED Talks for career practitioners recommendations.

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Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a monthly newsletter for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

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Why Should You Consider Online Professional Development

October 8, 2018 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

Online professional development has become one of my “go to” ways to learn.

I can’t believe I have been teaching online for 17 years! I began with the Facilitating Career Development (FCD) class when Cathy Van Dyke and I combined the face-to-face class with a “home built” discussion board. This kind of hybrid course was very new then. I have since added online seminars using a learning management system called Haiku LMS. Providing online professional development has become a cornerstone of my business.

When I first started teaching online very few people had experience learning online. Now nearly everyone has some experience learning online is some format. A recent survey by the Babson Survey Research Group found that one-third of college students take at least one online class. The 2017 Training Industry Report found that nearly 30% of all training in business and government is done online. As a result, people are comfortable with the reading and writing involved in this learning format as nearly everyone is on some form of social media, uses email, and text messages.

Online professional development, elearning (all forms of electronic learning), and mlearning (learning on a mobile device) are all great ways to learn.

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Bite-Sized Professional Development – TED Talks

November 13, 2017 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

As career practitioners it is our responsibility to continue to learn and grow in order to serve our clients best. I was talking with a client the other day and he said, “I can’t believe how much things have changed to find jobs!” Clearly he was frustrated that he could not just open the newspaper, find a job opening, and apply with a resume. It is my job to know the current practices in my profession. It is my job to stay “fresh.” It is my job to be inspired to do good work, so that I can provide the best services to my clients.

It is our responsibility to stay current and to challenge ourselves to learn. For people who have good size budgets for professional development, that may mean attending the National Career Development Association conferences, or taking classes or seminars. For those with little financial support for their professional development, you need to be more creative.

TED Talks are a great way to continue to learn and grow.

They are free
Often they are people you would see at national conferences
They are “bite-size” too, between 10-20 minutes
They are inspirational and often challenge us to do better
The diverse range of presentation styles from the speakers is always helpful to identify strategies for improving your own presentation skills

Take 15 minutes (Read my blog on “Take 15” here) each week and put in your earbuds and find a TED Talk that inspires you to be your best or gives you a different angle on a familiar topic. We can all find 15 minutes. Yeah, I know you are busy, but seriously, 15 – 20 minutes somewhere in your 40+ hour workweek. Find it. It’s there.

What about using a TED Talk for staff development? Why not take 20-30 minutes out of your staff meetings once / month to have the entire staff to watch and then discuss a TED Talk? This is where you can grow your team, get to know people better, and possibly provide better service to your students/clients as a result. Have each staff member take a turn at choosing a TED Talk.

No matter what you do…take the 15-20 minutes and keep yourself energized, learning, and growing.

Here are the results from a survey I sent out recently asking people for their favorite TED Talks.

Special thanks to all of you who took the time to fill this out.
I now have a few more “20 minute bite sized professional developments” to watch.

Angela Duckworth talking about GRIT, the power of passion and perseverance 6.12 minutes

Susan Cain, The Power of Introverts in a world that can’t stop talking. Very good talk on how introverts have an important effect on the world. 19.04 minutes

Amy Cuddy Body Language 21 minutes

Astro Teller. The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure 15.33 minutes

Kelly McGonigal’s TED Talk, “How to make stress your friend.” 14.28 minutes. It dovetails with her book, The Upside of Stress: Why stress is good for you and how to get good at it. The book title pretty much says what’s cool about the talk.

Shimon Schoken. What a bike can teach you 15.40 minutes. There are a lot of life lessons tied to athletics, he uses a real example, very touching, nice photos, and only 15 minutes long.

Graham Hill: Less stuff more happiness 5.43 minutes. Touches on minimalism in a short, direct way that reminds the audience that less = more, powerful message, well delivered.

Ruth Chang’s “How to Make Hard Choices.“14.38 minutes. I love to hear/read views on career development from professions outside of career counseling, and she’s a philosopher. I love her message that some decisions are tough because there is no “right” choice. I also like watching her reason out the problem step by step.

Jia Jang’s “What I learned from 100 Days of Rejection” First, because what he did was just amazing. So simple– to go out and look for ways to be rejected so you can desensitize yourself to it. Then, I love his whole manner. He’s funny, and humble. Two of my favorite qualities in a speaker.

Meg Jay, PhD, Why 30 is not the new 20. 14.49 minutes. She had real first hand experiences dealing with a variety of issues facing 20 somethings.

Simon Sinek, although not a TED Talk, Millennials in the Workplace. 15 minutes

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, Princeton Graduation speech. What Matters More Than Your Talents. 18.44 minutes. “Our character is reflected, not in the gifts we are endowed with at birth, but by the choices we make over the course of a lifetime.” I use this as a writing prompt for my students to reflect on what they want to have accomplished. The puzzle of motivation – my client base, high school juniors/seniors, keep me looking for solutions in this area. The happy secret to better work – Reminds me of the importance of setting boundaries between my work and personal life…a major challenge for me.

Mel Robbins, “How to stop screwing yourself over”. 21.39 minutes. Her message about not being complacent (our satisfaction with being “fine”) and her practical advice for a couple ways to kick-start ourselves is inspirational.

Brene Brown-–On vulnerability, which I fully endorse. 20 minutes

I’m a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow.
And I emphasize the word “grow.” Zig Ziglar

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