[MUSIC] Congratulations, welcome to the capstone for Professional IQ, Preventing and Solving Problems at Work. I'm CK Gunsalus, Director of the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics at the University of Illinois. We are absolutely delighted that you have come through the first three courses of this specialization and are embarking upon the Capstone project. The Capstone Project is designed to be useful to you in finding and securing the job that you want, to help advance who you are and what you stand for and what difference you want to make in the world. To help you become value added, recognized, and feel good about that job where you're making a contribution. And to become a leader through informal and formal means where you are one of those go-to people people turn to for insight, for guidance, for direction. The Capstone Project is specifically broken into pieces to help you at each stage of your career. We spend so much of our lives at work. The work that we have should be meaningful to us. It should do something that we find exciting, that we find, at least, rewarding and we feel is congruent with who we are and what we want to be. So it starts with and ends with putting together a personal leadership credo. As always, we're going to start with your values. Who are you? What do you stand for? What difference do you want to make? Being able to articulate your values in a non saccharine way, in a way that's direct, that's plain, that fits into everyday speech. We'll help you as you encounter all sorts of issues as you come through your career. The Capstone involves putting together a personal development plan where you assess your strengths and weaknesses. Think about the places you're already strong and how you'd like to grow even more on those areas. And the places that you're not as strong as you want to be, and exactly what you'll do to grow in each of those areas, with metrics with steps. Ways you'll assess am I making progress? Perhaps resources and people who can help you. Because one of the things that can derail success at work are the dilemmas that arise when you don't anticipate them. We'll go back to working through your personal dilemma. Applying the tragedies to it, working through the decision making framework. And help remind you of the steps that help build that muscle that makes it automatic, analytical habit that you can turn to when something pops up, when you at least expect it so that you're prepared. We will also help you revise and work through your personal script for those anticipatable problems, even when you need to buy just a little time to think. And make sure they're in your own voice, that they're constructive, that they're framed well, and that they'll work for you. Finally, the personal leadership credo will include a collection of quotes, tips, belief statements from you, that you can use as a touchstone throughout your career. So you can go back, revisit your personal leadership credo, revise it, let it evolve as you do, see if you're achieving and going in the direction and evolving to be the person you want to be. And each piece of the credo is designed to be useful to you. In interviews, in difficult situations at work, and complicated conversations, in situations that you encounter that might otherwise be problematic for your career after that problem is resolve. The purpose of a Capstone Project is to pull together pieces that are useful to you, and will be useful throughout your career. That you can go back and revisit, that you can update, and that you can use to guide you as you become the best you, and the best worker, and the best leader at work that you can be. We wish you all the best and we hope you'll stay in touch with us. We will be giving personal feedback to the very top Capstone projects and we look forward to seeing your spectacularly wonderful work. Thank you for being with us so far and we look forward to going with you through the last steps of this journey. [MUSIC] [SOUND]
