Trevor Manuel in his speech on the National Development Plan said that they will be taking a capabilities approach to economic capacity development. X2O and with Career Maker, Ebio and Pro. Japie Kroon from North West University delivers this capabilities approach in economic capacity development.
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Slide 1 (X²O Exposure to opportunities)
Careerdevelopmentplan.net offers a solution to economic capacity delivery with exposure to opportunities. We write this as X²O, it is a geometric growth model, thus to the power 2. We learn, work, invest and benefit together. Everybody gains, the top end keeps on growing faster and the bottom ends catches up because of the transfer process, which is in line with the speech made by Minister Trevor Manual as part of the national development plan.
You can find the whole speech on the web on info.gov; this is what we work from. The plan predicts that by 2030 we will live in a community that we have remade, and we would be proud to be part of this community. This will be a community where everyone will grow economically, personally, as a family, as a community, as a tribe and as a nation. Mr. Trevor said the leitmotif has been that we want to eliminate poverty and reduce inequality. Consistent with the diagnostics they found the highest priority is education, which is exactly what we aim for.
Slide 2 (The opportunity is in bridging gaps)
We have found over the last 15 years that there’s a tremendous opportunity in bridging the gaps. As people cross the gaps, cross the bridge, everybody gains, they most of all, but all of us still gain and grow, and the country grows as well. Everybody knows that the haves have all the health, wealth, happiness, choices etc. They also have an abundance of knowledge and experience. The not-haves are in short supply, they need education.
Through education health will come, poverty will reduce and safety will increase. They have a scarcity of knowledge, experience and resources. If you look at the opposite triangles the knowledge is on top, with few people. Little knowledge exist with the many, it’s simply a transfer process for everybody to gain. When you look at the flows: knowledge down, people up, then the whole pyramid grows upwards, we all get healthier, wealthier and happier. A fantastic vision should we achieve it.
Slide 3 (Economic Capacity Delivery – Trevor Manual’s speech)
Let’s look at economic capacity delivery, Minister Manual also state that three complementary enablers are required. The first is an active citizen, the second is a capable and effective state, where the state must become more effective but the citizenry must also use the state more effectively. The third enabler is strong and mature leadership.
Our program works with local leaders, supporting the elected and appointed leaders to grow faster. If we can get an active citizenry in harmony with government, academic institutions, business etc. it will set a new paradigm in development.
Slide 4 (I want a job, I want the right job, I want to grow in my job)
People say: “I want a job, I want the right job, I want to grow in my job.” The people at the top wants to grow faster in their jobs, the people in the middle just want the right job and the people at the bottom, the broad mass of South Africa, simply want any job. If we can address those three requests, which we believe we can, we believe that getting a job and earning more can be a very exciting experience. We believe this after many years in business and many years in pro bono work with universities and communities.
People using the Career Maker System often got 30% and more salary increases within 18 months. The secure, safe and certain way towards your ideal salary in the job you’ve chosen, the company you’ve chosen, the industry you’ve chosen and it lets you grow your career in a way that is best for you, aligned with your inner, natural talents. We like to say that people that are aligned like this never work a day in their lives. I’ve been privileged to be there for over 20 years, it’s a fun place to be.
Slide 5 (Insight, opportunity & knowledge spread)
Let’s look at the insight, opportunity and knowledge spread, what is the current situation? We like to look at it in six levels. People that currently sit with vast talents but they don’t have the knowledge, insights and access to resources to use those talents. Then people who are under- and unemployed in this area and then people who are safely employed but wants to grow, people that are great but wants to grow, people that are fantastic and want to grow.
If you look at the six natural levels of work competency, you can see that knowledge is up here and little knowledge is down here. That is what we believe drives the stratification, this ever increasing gap between rich and poor, which is no good for anybody and the more people that can become economically active the more big business, the government, everybody will grow.
Slide 6 (The three companion products)
Let’s briefly look at our three companion products; it is the Career Maker System, which makes an impact and a difference in increasing your productivity and your salary within a fairly short time with a high impact. This product is also offered within companies, within work teams, and we hope shortly within government institutions.
Exposure to opportunity X²O that include work and study readiness and is meant for people that take a little longer and have a few more gaps to bridge. The people are fantastic, they just earn base competencies. With their families and community they can increase the support and increase their ability in the core five proficiencies: language, numeracy and so forth, to grow to where they can enter the big system of the economy and contribute as they want to. We use the learning methodology from ebio developed with Education and work place learning in mind. We have developed a sustainability model where the program becomes scalable with web support and local agents as companions. The web supplier is Tribe Centric.
Let’s briefly take a look at Career Maker. It’s on the web, web-supported and originally developed from our multi-million dollar businesses we developed as well as one of the largest incubators ever in South Africa. If you look at the process you can see the whole process of career change, just scroll through it, it’s all there on the web, and how people grow their salaries. X2O and its brochure are on the web and we’ll take a look at that just now.
X2O, also on careerdevelopmentplan.net, you will see all the areas of work proficiencies that get addressed. You can download the brochure from the website. You can also look at some companion products and services that go with it. There’s something at the bottom of the page about the core five proficiencies. You can read more about that on the web.
Lastly, if you look at ebio, it has similar processes, with individual growth in six steps and it’s also available on the web, you can read it when you have the time. Lastly, we found that with scalability it is very important that the community mobilise the people behind the leaders, for the leaders, by the leaders. Therefore, we have created the More South Africa space, where people can join up for activities like project management, forums, groups, and newsletters. There’s a store where the products and services plus the companion products and services are offered in and by the community, supported by a highly competent set of managers and management teams. Thus we believe we deliver exactly what Minister Manual recommended. We can thus play a role in the vision of the future of South Africa.
Slide 7 (Productivity in sync with formal education)
Productivity must be in sync with formal education, and to integrate the three products, if you look at the six levels, the mass at the bottom, the few people at the top, and ebio creating an army of learners, working with and through institutions, primary, secondary, tertiary education, as well as education within companies, supporting the gaps in core proficiencies, and growing from there.
Secondary, Secoza NPC offers the services where the learning curve is a bit longer because of the gaps being a little bit bigger and there being more gaps. Working with a solid measurement process that gives you solid feedback on the web, it’s like a dashboard of people’s development, community development, how many are engaged and so forth. Career Maker offer the same services at the top, where there’s a higher impact, the core proficiencies already exist, it’s a slightly higher level offer to people employed on the higher end. Just to integrate the three then, the focus is in the middle, but such that each one grow by itself bringing people up, growing people up. Each area grows by itself and thus the overlap grows. That’s a concept they often call a balance.
Slide 8 (Start with the purpose)
Look at every person, whether employed at the high end or at the very bottom end,, we deliver a model that is suitable to them to make their purpose clear. The purpose drives objectives and actions, and synchronizes with adapting your vision and mission very dynamically. We all know that a person with a clear vision, a clear purpose, is almost unstoppable. We found that to get recognition; we have to get people with clear visions and missions that are clearly aligned with their objectives and tasks.
Slide 9 (Earn more now thinking discussion)
Secondly what people have to understand very early on is that there is a game with rules, they must know the rules and play by them. So many people spend their energy fighting the rules, instead of spending their energy where they can make decisions, make a difference using and building on the rules. This creates people that are easy to govern, people that fit and drive and maintain the rules. They also understand that there’s unlimited space where they still have influence, but they can still explore and make it known, while growing their space of production. It’s very simple models and we have a whole lot of exercises underneath to make sure this is implemented.
Slide 10 (Get the job you want from any starting situation)
We are now going to look at how to break out of the box. This is like a glass plate, it is all perceived, none of it real, but where people are at the moment it is awesomely real to them, it is the absolute truth, you can’t argue that perception is reality. To change those perceptions they have to go through three simple steps, they must know what they currently do and are, and what they want to become and want to do. Then they have to prepare and communicate this clarity. In our full sets you will get all these activities in full. They grow what they currently do and what they want to do.
Slide 11 (Get the job you want from any starting situation – 2)
They then clarify this to communicate it so they can break the glass plate, go beyond it, break out of the box and get to the great spaces. Again, these are simple actions, we just give some examples.
Slide 12 (Get the job you want from any starting point – 3)
Thirdly, still, breaking out of the box, getting the glass plate to disappear and get to the great space, they need to then engage and communicate with the people where they want to go, people that have the knowledge that they want. Go be useful to them, work with them in an apprentice, intern style. They will work for knowledge at this time, not so much to get paid. At some early stages pay tends to be survival, but we also coach people in the same technique that recently moved from well over a $100 000 in earnings to 1.3, 1.4 million dollars in earnings. So the process works right at the top, works right at the bottom, at the bottom it’s just slower, community, home, and resources must be integrated. Again, just some selected steps.
Slide 13 (www.careerdevelopmentplan.net)
People get recruited, go through a process, get the hard skills of their industry, and align the whole process with the National Qualification Framework Level 1 to 5, and through phases that we take them over a period of time. The bigger the gap the longer the time but the process is the same. It’s a clear process, I just want to show you briefly what is behind it. The process is designed to break the boxes and break the glass plate and move to the great spaces. This big migration is exactly what Minister Manual talks about.
Slide 14 (Physical infrastructure with local partners)
In your infrastructure there’s outbound values and inbound values, demand leading to supply, so everybody benefits, everybody gains, everybody earns as they learn and even learn to earn.
Slide 14 (Supporting the foolproof Career Maker System)
The infrastructure partners are always local or the big telecom providers with broadband and communication. Supporting the foolproof Career Maker System we have a business toolset and a personal toolset which I will just briefly click. The business toolset is available on careerdevelopmentplan.net as I’ve shown earlier and there is a whole set for social ventures, business ventures and most of the rest personal because personal growth grows social ventures and grow business ventures. The personal and the business toolset are available there. In conclusion, let’s look at how we hope to spread.
We attempted to explain these five years ago in an actual graphic set. What we hope to do is to grow from home to home, the process is designed to be passed on for free, in the family and from home to home, and supported at the formal qualification levels. We have proven that it can go from home to home, through communities, from community to community, we hope Africa wide and we hope from Africa to the world, proudly African and only from Africa.
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We’re looking at careerdevelopmentplan.net’s foolproof Career Maker System and specifically at ‘I must earn more money right now’. We believe that if people move from the boxes they perceive to be real and instead towards a different space everything becomes better and they will continuously earn more. Our more senior people increase their salaries by 20 to 30 plus percent a year by approaching the same work a little bit differently, by treating their environment differently.
How do they do it? How do they get to earn more is the question there. We have experience of over 40 years from building teams, then businesses, then doing professional coaching in a wide area, including students at universities and schools, the last being mostly pro bono. The processes are very similar. When people understand how to go implement it and they feel safe and secure they find it becomes very exciting. The foolproof Career Maker System is secure, safe and certain. We hope you find it the same.
Let’s look at moving from the boxes to great spaces and earning more right now. We all work and invest to everyone’s mutual benefit. You cannot lose if you follow this approach. We usually start with the words ‘they’, ‘them’, ‘always’ and ‘again’, feeling that control is external, when in reality the external view always lead to frustration because the people out there do not worry so much about you. They tend to worry about themselves and the things they are paid to worry about.
When people communicate clearly what they already do, they clearly understand what their value is, they deliver more value and they communicate that value, they get paid for what they do, because people know what they do. People can’t pay you if you don’t know, and most often people don’t know. Most people expect that somebody must notice how hard I work. People don’t really pay you for hard work, they pay you for effective work; they pay you for value. We’ll have more stories on that as we go forward. Once you’ve gained insight, you’ve prepared it and you’ve communicated it to the right influencing people, you cannot but lift your salary by 30%. At least you will pave the road towards a 30% increase. Let us look at the simple three steps to earn more right now:
Let’s take a look at your role as a cogwheel in the great machinery of industry, production and economic communities. If you drive the whole thing drives, you don’t have to wait for the engine to drive you. What we find is that most people never develop the ability to make their cogwheel fit to the engine, the engine is not going to adapt to us, we can only adapt to the engine. The board and executive is there to see that we do more with less capital, since that would generate a higher capital for shareholders, meaning all of us get more capital at a lower cost to produce even more. That will grow my career, it grows my job, and it grows what I earn.
In the production engine, in the teams I play, the contribution I make, I cannot but grow my salary 20 – 30% a year. if I fit and I’m clear, I’m always wanted, I’m always in demand. Lastly, and the most important, the client comes shopping, what does he buy from us? What do I contribute to what the client buys? If I grow my insight into our clients and their wants, the industry, our investors, our businesses and our competitors, my ability to contribute takes a leap. I also need know what to say no to, which is almost more important than knowing what to say yes to.
We found over the years in our companies, in our coaching and in our pro bono work with students and schools that saying no seem to come very hard to us. If people are confident to what they say yes to, they become very confident what they say no to. Once you know what you really want to do, you get loaded with what you want, and it’s easy to say no to what you don’t want. When the client comes shopping he must find what he wants. My contribution to the team must be clear, our contribution to the executive and the board must be clear so they can get more capital for us and keep the shareholders very happy. If everybody does well I cannot help but do well as well, provided I communicate. That is one more way to move from the perceived boxes to the great spaces.
Let us look at the first one: know what you currently do for whom. What we have found in our companies and recently with some people we coached, people don’t quite understand the value of their contribution, how they as a cogwheel fit in and what they do. Remember that you are much more than your work, we’ll come back to that one. In your work, understand your value. Understand and discuss the value of what you do and what you want with the influencers around you.
What should you do more of? Recently that was my first question to two senior people, Albert and Ken, what is it that they want more of? What is it they want less of? Clarifying that and writing it down, made them go back to their workplace and change the content of their work in less than a few weeks. Once you know and you are confident to communicate because you are prepared, you automatically move up the scale. You know what to say no to, you know what to say yes to.
Let’s move to the next one: prepare. If you look at preparation to communicate, we find it very useful if you use people around you, bounce it of them, and get their support. This can be colleagues, friends, family, and even selected recognized business and industry gurus. They would love it if you approach them with a plan, with respect and you recognize them. You will hear more about that. Identify those who have the insight, who can help you. Practise these communications like you practise for a speech and any situation in real life. Exercise in front of a mirror even, exercise in safe groups around you before you go to the outside world, the influences, the clients, the industry people, and the shareholders.
Elsewhere on the website we talk extensively about the power of stories and how to tell stories and why you tell stories. You’ve got to be clear and comfortable with stories, show your insights, show your research, and show your preparation. Thirdly, engage and communicate your current work list and add to it your wanted work list. Add to it what you don’t want and your plan to delegate. With the wanted list you will have a plan to volunteer. Keep doing what you are currently doing, because if you don’t get your job done you can’t do any of these things.
Ask and share with selected influencers. Use sharing and questioning skills very effectively. Elsewhere on the website we’ve put pages for asking and sharing skills and there’s a vast amount of information. If you’re already good with it ignore it. Many of us need to practice it and more of us have to use models to do it because it takes quite a long time to make it an ingrained habit. It takes a lot of exercise. You know it takes five years to learn golf, ask me, especially if your talent for golf is a bit low like mine. Respect and acknowledge those influencers. I’ve never seen anyone refused if they arrive with a clear plan and respect. They are able to say why they respect the person and why they approach them in absolute humbleness for their advice.
We find that close to 700 students at North-West University, South Africa, get holiday work that they have chosen using this technique. A third of them get jobs that were never advertised. They’ve hired themselves. Elsewhere on the website we will give you a video and the processes to hire yourself at the company of your choice, location of your choice, job of your choice. If we then look at earning more right now, which is our objective here, what stops us are those perceived boxes. The boxes are built out of many perceptions, and unless we move, explore and gather new insights, the box will remain the same.
That brings us to the statement that more of the same equals less because we keep on expending effort and we don’t get the results we want. We must change; we must think differently and get rid of our perceptions, simply through gaining insight, knowledge and some awareness. You must know what you want to do, you must prepare and communicate, and you must engage the influencers and communicate with them. It’s very simple.
Who are you? You are much more than your work skills. You are a family person, a community person, and all kinds of things. But you’re also a person that works. Your store of assets in this case, your natural talents, your experience etc. brings you to the point that you currently do what’s on your to-do list. You can see where your strengths exceed your to-do list and where you need to build some strength. We’ll talk much more about that in another video. Your current list, knowing what you do, preparing and communicating, will be based on your current activities and your current store of assets.
It’s interesting that everything anyone of us can possibly need is available; we’ve proven that over and over, we’ve built 28 companies over time. I like to start companies and then pass them on. We’ve been running incubators for a long time and in those companies we have developed people. That is where all of this comes from, originally based on Hewlett-Packard processes as we knew Bill and Dave in the seventies. It’s all out there for you.
You make a staircase of your own and you climb it yourself. It can be a bit scary to make and climb the staircase; this process is discussed in more detail in another video. Let’s get started. Explore and identify what you contribute right now, re-frame it, refresh it, understand it, and match it to your natural strengths and your required strengths. Prepare with people around you. You will know who among your family, colleagues, and friends will help you. Also identify people you admire, remember how to approach them so they never say no. They will help you prepare, then you are ready to engage the influencers.
If you arrive at the influencers with a clear plan, clear insight, and a wide understanding, they cannot but notice you, notice what you do and compensate you properly because they will start competing for you. In this process you already grow your store, you grow your relationships, you grow your insights and you practise skills that naturally grow. In this process you already get double benefit by growing your store.
When you do this, even if you just want to earn more right now, it’s good to keep in mind that your job, industry and company need to align and you need to place your store where it suits you in the centre. Align yourself in your job, the work you do and the career you want. This will effect that you stay in charge of your own salary increases: how can they not pay you if they know what you contribute as a cogwheel in this great engine we call the economy, business etc.
You will end up with continuous possession of insight, knowing where you are and where you are going, gaining the confidence to communicate it clearly, and this will take you to the great space where your store grows and let you grow. Earn as much as you want, where you want and when you want to. While your clear purpose in this case is to earn more; we recommend that you keep your work, job, company and industry aligned. It will be like a vision and mission for your career, your objectives, tasks and goals are aligned, because your mission is clear, you can call that your strategy. There is much more of this model in our later detailed videos as we progress.
It’s good to identify what is known and recognize the way it is. The ? typically have no influence in this area. Again, if I can use Ken and Albert, we explained to them that in their businesses there are simple ground rules that are like laws in a country, obey the law while you work to change them. You can’t really spend your energy in this area, it is very negative. Rather understand the area where you have influence and synergy and it’s known. This is a very good area to play in. There is a third area that’s very exciting, where I would rather spend my time. There are new options, you look forward and there is a future vision, rather than fighting the rules. People so easily get into the trap of fighting the rules; avoid that negative at all cost.
This is the long term future which is unknown and has no immediate influence. We are not looking at that today. Now look at Career Maker; we really believe it’s the foolproof system to let you earn more. Let’s look at the business toolset, simply go to careerdevepmentplan.net, go to the table of contents and look at the entrepreneurial and business processes.
In the personal toolset, I specifically want to look at the one I think that people who want to increase their salaries need to look at most. That is interpersonal skills. You can see that a full list of skills is available to you at very low cost, if any. There’s a full index and different chapters and to make you aware we’ve sent an email soon. We’ll send you a list to help you establish your priorities and which one you should focus on first. We don’t want you to search when we can help you to quickly find exactly what you want. Stay with us and wait for the next email where we hope we’ll take you right through this process to get the increase you want as soon as practically possible. The next email should be in your box in a day. Thank you very much.