Kaye Cook Consultants: Kaye's LIFELINE Exercise -- Career and Organizational Development in the Washington DC Metro Area

It is difficult to both write and read resumes. I originally develped this LIFELINE to get myself started on writing my source document. I then thought it would be a great way to introduce you to my life chronologically after you reviewed my life functionally through my bio. Which do you like best? Or in what situations would you use a Bio and in what situations would a LIFELINE be better? Why don't you try to do this for yourself?

1991—	President, Cook Consultants Trains, counsels, coaches, consults with individuals/organizations to help them find out who they are; where they are going and helps develop them a plan to get there. Strategic planner and team builder.
1998—	National Director, Navy Spouse Employment Program (SEAP) Wrote policy, troubleshot, trained program managers in 76 worldwide offices; Conference planning, marketing, wrote Desk Guide (SOP); National speaker and trainer
1988 — 1998	Established a neighborhood group, "The Working Women's Night Out" and a business association, "Independent Consultants Consortium"
1986 — 1988	Manager, Navy SEAP Program, Naval District Washington Designed and trained career and job search workshops; career counselor, program manager, admin and scheduling, marketing, established and ran job fairs, conferences, MSBPA, started-up a SEAP office at Dahlgren
1984—	Training Consultant, Omega, a Bank Consulting Firm, NY Trained bank managers and account executives in sales and negotiation skills
1982 — 1984	Toastmaster (1971-1971), (1975-1977)
1982 — 1984	Executive Recruiter, Pleasanton HRD Recruitment, NY Researched, recruited, interviewed and prepared HRD professionals for 50K to 200K positions. Rewrote resumes, ran events and wrote SOP. Conducted extensive telephone interviews and attended numerous networking events.
1978 — 1981	District Commissioner, USA Girl Scouting, Mainland Japan Service Unit Manager Camp Director Coordinated 8 Girl Scout Regions, trained personnel, mechanizing for Girl Scout Store, wrote and published newsletter, recruited, logistics, wrote SOP, events Planner
1978 — 1982	Masters Degree, Human Resource Management and Development, University of Maryland, Japan
1978 — 1980	Parent/Teachers Aid and Substitute Teacher, Kinnick High School, Sullivan Elementary School, Japan Taught, organized, counseled, coached and designed curriculum
1976 — 1978
1976 — 1978	Crisis Intervention Counselor, Montgomery County Schools, MD Academic and behavioral crisis counseling, Life-Space interviewing, Curriculum design, teaching, research, evaluation/assessment
1975 — 1977	Owner, Bread Baking Company Art teacher, Wood Acres School Designed curriculum, taught bread baking, baked, priced and sold bread, Catering Took College Credits in Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Astronomy and Art toward Teacher's Certificate
1973 — 1974	Youth Center Director, Keflavik, Iceland TV Host Toastmaster Program manager, project manager, program design, scheduling, wrote newsletter, designed and implemented needs assessment, supervised staff of 7, budgeting
1972 — 1973	Personal Services Center Director, Keflavik, Iceland Established center; Ran two fundraising events; recruited, trained, scheduled and supervised staff and wrote SOP
1969—	Navy Relief Volunteer, Tennis instructor, personal trainer
1967 — 1969	Group Counselor, Detention Center, Contra Costa County, CA Group Counseling, one-to-one coaching, teaching, conflict management Navy Relief volunteer, Tennis Teacher, Personal trainer (7 years)
1965 — 1967	Navy Relief (2000 hours), Counselor, Managed small branch Officers Wives Club - Event planner
1965—	Bachelor of Arts, Sociology/psychology, University of Maryland
1961—	Graduated from Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, MD
1959—	Assistant Apartment Manager, American Riggs, College Park, MD YMCA Camp Counselor (For three summers)

Now you know the whole story. After you do this for yourself on newsprint or the computer, underline all the skills that you have. If you want to find out some of the puzzle pieces to who you are, list all the skills above putting like ones together. You might want to use Richard Bolles categories in What Color is Your Parachute? using categories of “Interpersonal skills”, “Information/Data/Ideas skills” (Mental) or “Physical/Things Skills”.

Some other categories that might be interesting are: General Management (If you were the leader, manager), Operations, Marketing, Sales, Human Resources, Information Technology (IT), Public Relations, Legal, Administration, Engineer/Research & Development (R&D). Or choose your own system!!

More exercises like these will be in some products found on my web site in 2008/2009.