Staff and Leadership Development

Career web sites

Achieve your dreams

• Century's GPS lifeplan
• iseek
• Gallup
• Quintessential Careers
• Minnesota Office of Higher Education
• Occupational Outlook Handbook

Recommended Books

Transform your life

• What Color Is Your Parachute 2011 by Richard Bolles, c. 2009
• What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Branson, c. 2005
• Whistle While You Work by Richard Leider and David Shapiro, c. 2001

Discover your passion

• Guide to Lifework by Leonard Lang, c. 2003
• How to Find the Work You Love by Laurence Boldt, c. 2004
• Making a Life, Making a Living by Mark Albion, c. 2000

Pursue excellence

• First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham, c. 1999
• Strengths Finder by Tom Rath, c. 2007
• StrengthsQuest by Donald O. Clifton and Edward “Chip" Anderson, c. 2002
• Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham, c. 2001

The Century College library also has career development resources.

Leadership Resources

Inspire others

• American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Future Leaders Institute
• American Council on Education (ACE) Fellows Program - American Council on Education
• Bush Foundation Fellowship
• Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching & Learning Summer Institute
• Harvard Graduate School of Education
• HERS Management Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration Education (HERS Wellesley Institute)
• League for Innovation in the Community College Executive Leadership Program (ELI)