Making the Most of Your Security Career

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Making the Most of Your Security Career

• Success Strategies that Work!
• deedee collins
• Executive Director
• National Security Training Institute
• www.nstii.org

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What is Success?

• How would you define success in your security
  career?
• What we do is a tremendous privilege
• It is also a tremendous responsibility
• A journey a present reality
• Destination disease
• Attain a certain job, goal then you are
  successful
• A brief exerciseprizes involved!

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Your Road Map to Success

• Each of us has
• a purpose
• for which we
• were created.
• Our responsibility
• and our greatest joy
• is to identify it.
• John Maxwell

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Why The Fish?

• You will leave here thinking differently
• Think Outside the Bowl
• Think Upstream

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Making the Most of Your Security Career

• Know It Own It
• Its about competence and attitude
• Grow It
• Cultivate your focus, opportunity and success
• Live It Share It
• Finding balance and living your legacy
• Happiness comes from following ones passion.
• Success comes from work you
• are passionate about.
• ---Anonymous

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Know It Own It

• Its About Competence and Attitude

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Competence

• The Security Professional of Today
• More strategic than tactical
• High business acumen
• Change agent
• Process management
• Critical thinking skills, detail focused
• Consensus builder
• Negotiation, facilitation
• Excellent communication skills
• Global perspective
• Credible, fair, politically astute
• Emotionally intelligent

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Learning Security

• Take advantage of the resources
• Government and industry training
• Accredited academic programs
• Professional organizations
• Ongoing professional development
• Find a good mentor
• Find your own path own what you do
• Hope springs internal
• Nine in ten people who believe
• they will one day achieve their career goals
• have strong feelings of competence.
• ---Velting

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Some Specifics

• Learn as you go
• Get experience wherever you can
• Take your blinders off
• Gain a seat at the table
• Work to balance your viewpoint
• Immediate vs. long term
• Force yourself to look at all sides
• Be decisive and known for solving problems
• Reflective thinking
• Turns experience into insight

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Competence is the Foundation

• Success in security requires a broad set of
  skills, education and experience today
• You can learn every security requirement and know
  all there is to know but your

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Attitude Determines Altitude!

• Some recent research
• Attitude is a better predictor of success than
  your I.Q.
• Fortune 500 study
• 94 of all executives attributed their success
  more to attitude than any other factor
• You are in charge of your destiny
• Successful security professionals go out and make
  good things happen
• If you spend your career waiting for something to
  happen, youll be waiting a very long time

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Work on Your Attitude

• Value your work
• Story of three construction workers
• Be flexible, available, teachable
• Give us more pioneers!
• Not everyone will like you, but work so they
  respect you
• If you think success is right around the corner,
  youll keep going
• Most of the things worth doing in the world
• had been declared impossible
• before they were done.
• ---Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice

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Attitude Matters

• Societies are renewed by people who
• Believe in something
• Care about something
• Are willing to take a stand for something
• Sounds like most of the security folks I know in
  this business!

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Grow It

• Cultivate Your Focus, Opportunity
• Success

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Focus

• Use focus time
• What can I be the best at?
• What am I passionate about?
• Dont be scattered be an expert at something
• But the job requires you do everything? Still
  find your one thing
• My focus Security Awareness and Training
• Growing your potential by being focused

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Opportunity Doesnt Knock

• Examine every single day
• Look for opportunities to learn
• Always be reading something
• Everything is a possible opportunity
• No task is too small to do well get noticed!
• Turn adversity into advantage
• Find a way to apply what you are learning
  volunteer!
• Life is a one-way street.
• No matter how many detours you take,
• none of them leads back.
• And once you accept that,
• life becomes much simpler.
• --- Isabel Moore

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Have A Plan

• Plan the time of your career life
• It isnt an accident, its planned
• People who are successful
• Learn their job
• Shadow the next job they want
• Maximize your productivity
• Always think about what is next, maybe two steps
  ahead
• Seek to be efficient
• He who does not look ahead remains behind.
• ---Spanish proverb

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Fail Forward

• To achieve success, you must learn how to fail
  forward John Maxwell
• Its not what happened to you, its what you do
  with it
• Learn from each mistake
• Dont dwell on the past, move on
• Failure will pave the way to success
• I have learned that success is to be measured not
  so much by the position that one has reached in
  life as by the obstacles which one has overcome
  while trying to succeed.
• ---Booker T. Washington

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Network

• Key on successful leaders in security and other
  professions
• Gain their insights
• Capitalize on their knowledge and success
• Step out of your comfort zone and be bold!
• Seek out a mentor in new areas you want to
  succeed in
• Its what you know who you know
• Both are important!
• Everyone is potential key contact
• An airplane ride to Huntsville

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Speak Security For Success

• Gaining a position of influence
• Listen more than you talk
• Be an advocate
• Viewed as a team player, business partner and
  leader
• Framing management perception about security
• We cannot make everyone or everything safe, make
  risk assessment business recommendations
• Communicating for results
• Tell your success story your way
• The right language at the right time
• Others will shape your message if you dont

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Live It Share It

• Finding Balance and Living Your Legacy

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Balance Priorities

• Joy in the journey
• Rejuvenate, rest and remember to breath!
• Define boundaries around your time
• Margin, Dr. Richard Swenson
• Tame technology that runs your life
• You will master it or it will master you
• Keep your goals where you can see them
• Successful people spend at least fifteen minutes
  every day thinking about what they are doing and
  can do to improve their lives.
• ---Sigmund

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• Counting time is not nearly
• as important as making time count.
• ---Anonymous

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Living Your Legacy

• Ask yourself
• Am I mentoring the next generation of security
  professionals?
• Did I do something today that will have a
  positive, lasting impact?
• Live your values
• We are what we do and how we do it
• Life in the mirror
• The level at which you live your life will be
  reflected back to you
• Its easy to make a buck.
• Its a lot tougher to make a difference.
• ---Tom Brokaw

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• All of us are born for a reason, but all of us
  dont discover why.
• Success in life has nothing to do with what you
  gain or accomplish for yourself.
• Its what you do for others.
• ---Danny Thomas

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Embrace The Journey

• Know It Own It
• Competence
• Attitude
• Grow It
• Focus
• Opportunity
• Plan ahead
• Fail forward
• Network
• Speak security for success
• Live It Share It
• Balance and priorities
• Living your legacy

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Yesterday is history Tomorrow is a mystery, Today
is a gift, That is why we call it the Present
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• Making the Most of Your Security Career?

Think Outside the Bowl and Upstream and Then You
Will !!
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Making the Most of Your Security Career

• Success Strategies that Work!
• deedee collins
• Executive Director
• National Security Training Institute
• www.nstii.org