Design Flexible And Customizable Career Opportunities · Design Flexible And Customizable Career Opportunities • Choose 10-20 words that resonate with you from the attached list

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Design Flexible And Customizable Career Opportunities

Working Mother Media2016 Leadership Summit for Women in National Security CareersMay 13, 2016

Design Flexible and Customizable Career Opportunities

• Defining Career Development and Opportunities• Creating the Foundation for Your Career Development

ValuesStrengthsCareer GoalsPersonal Development Plan

• Creating Your Employee Brand Communicating Your Value Communicating What You Want

• Being Your Own Best Career Manager

Agenda For Today


Understanding Career Opportunities

• A career is a progression of intentional learning, experience, and positions toward your personal, work, and life goals.

• Career development is an iterative plan to achieve your goals. It is an on-going process of planning and directed action. Development means growth, continuous acquisition, and application of

your skills.• A career opportunity is an experience or position that advances your goals.

Role Enhancement Promotion Lateral Move Changing Field or Function Changing Responsibilities Skill Building


• Values are traits or qualities that represent your highest priorities and deeply held driving forces.

• Once defined, values impact every aspect of your life.• Effective employees identify and develop a clear, concise, and meaningful set of

values, beliefs, and priorities. • When you are part of an organization, you bring your deeply held values and

beliefs to the organization. • You demonstrate and model your values in action in your personal and work

behaviors, leadership and team dynamics, decision-making, contributions, and interpersonal interactions.

• You use your values to make decisions about priorities in your daily work and home life.

• Your personal and professional goals are grounded in your values.

Be Your Own Best Career Manager: Making Your Values Explicit


• Choose 10-20 words that resonate with you from the attached list of value words. You may add any values that are not on the list.

• Narrow your selection by grouping the values according to the words that have similar meaning to you. Repeat the process until you have just five groupings.

• Choose one value or word that best encompasses the meaning of each of the groupings. These are your core values.

• Create a one sentence value statement about each one of the core values that you identified above. Make explicit what the value means to you and how it shows up in your professional life.

• Example Value Statement – What does this tell you about the person who wrote this?

“One of my favorite quotes that grounds me professionally is from Harry Truman: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

Be Your Own Best Career Manager: Determining Your Top Five Values


Ambition, Achievement, Accomplishment, Autonomy, Authenticity, Accountability, Belonging, Being Known, Competition, Competence, Communication, Challenge, Courage, Curiosity, Creativity, Compassion, Caring, Connection, Decisiveness, Dependability, Discipline, Duty, Discovery, Diversity, Effectiveness, Empathy, Equality, Economic Security, Empowerment, Excellence, Energy, Fun, Family, Flexibility, Friendship, Freedom, Focus, Growth, Happiness, Harmony, Health, Honesty/Integrity, Hope, Humor, Impact, Independence, Innovation, Intelligence, Involvement, Intelligence, Integration, Influence, Identity, Joy, Kindness, Love/Affection, Loyalty, Legacy, Learning, Logic, Leadership, Laughter, Meaning, Making a Difference, Mastery, New Challenges, Open-mindedness, Opportunity, Organization, Order, Outdoors, Patience, Power, Peace, Play, Preparation, Pursuit, Provider, Progress, Presence, Passion, Precision, Productivity, Prosperity/Wealth, Proficiency, Purpose, Quality, Quest, Risk Taking, Respect, Recognition, Relationships, Rationality, Resourcefulness, Reliability, Responsibility, Safety, Stability, Spontaneity, Support, Strength, Service, Simplicity, Stewardship, Security, Sincerity, Spirituality/Faith, Strength, Teamwork, Travel, Teaching, Thoughtfulness, Trust, Truth, Variety, Vision, Volunteering, Wholeness, Wisdom, Wealth, Winning.

Be Your Own Best Career Manager: Value Word Choices

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Design Flexible And Customizable Career OpportunitiesBe Your Own Best Career Manager: Identifying Your Strengths

I loved it when…

Think of 3-5 Examples for Each Question: Life, Work, Family, ChurchAlways Answer: What, When, Who, Why, Where, and How Look For: Patterns and Common Themes, Emotions, and Actions

I was on top of the world when. . .

I was at my best when…

My favorite job was when….My top three most impactful professional experiences were when…

My top three greatest professional experiences were when…

My three greatest accomplishments were…


Design Flexible And Customizable Career OpportunitiesBe Your Own Best Career Manager: Identifying Your Strengths Exercise

• For each question from the previous page: Think of at least three examples to answer each question from your life,

work, family, and/or church. Make explicit the who, what, where, when, how, and why.

• Identify patterns, common themes, emotions, and actions.• Answer the question:

What strengths did I use that made these examples impactful and memorable to me?

• List the strengths that recur in each example. These are your core strengths.



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Be Your Own Best Career Manager: Identifying Your Career Goals

Short Term (1-5 years) Long Term (5+ years)

Be Honest About Your Professional Ego

Define What Success Means to You



Experience

Experience (70%)• New responsibilities• Improving processes • Cross-functional teams • Projects or task teams• Volunteerism

Exposure (20%)• Feedback from multiple stakeholders• Coaching/mentoring• Observing or interviewing those demonstrating

needed skills• Working on projects that provide exposure to a

broader set of people in the organization• Benchmarking best-practices• Personal “Board of Advisors”

Education (10%)• Self-development (reading, research, self-paced

training/exercises)• Courses, workshops, seminars, web-based classes, and

tools

Experience

70%Exposure

20%

Education

10%

Source: Lombardo, M. and Eichinger, R. (2004) The Leadership Machine. Lominger, Limited, Inc.

How We Develop


Current Duties Key Strengths/Skills Values/Goals

• Your current job description • Your Top Five • Your Top Five

Future Assignments Knowledge to be Gained from Assignments and Experiences

Alignment with Organizational Mission Needs

• Think 1-5 years out• Jobs or Positions

• The value added for your development • The value added for the organization

Professional Development Needs Professional Development Opportunities Training and Education

• What do you need to get you where you want to go

• Project-based assignment• Serving on Task Forces• TDYs• Shadowing opportunities

• Certifications• Training courses• External Education

Be Your Own Best Career Manager: Creating a Career Development Plan


• Focuses your managers (current and potential) on what you bring to the table AND what you can do for them.

• Makes explicit your intrinsic value, skills, and expertise as an employee.• Focuses on a few key attributes.• Explains, in three concise statements:

Who you are. What you are great at and passionate about.How your strengths contribute to value.

• Is short (and interesting) enough to hold someone’s attention.• Is designed to make an immediate connection, signaling it is worth investing

valuable time to hear what you have to say.• Is altered to different audiences and for different occasions.• Starts the conversation about your career development and the career

opportunities that you are looking for or open to.

Developing Your Employee Brand - “Tell Me About Yourself”

Source: Adapted from Amanda Augustine, TheLadders.com


Amanda Augustine and I am a Job Search Expert and Career Coach. For more than ten years, I’ve worked with Ladders to educate and prepare millions of professionals for the job-search process through the development of coaching programs, live recruiting events and online advice in my weekly column, Ask Amanda. I’ve dedicated almost 3 years to testing various techniques to identify the best ways to navigate the job search landscape in today’s marketplace. My passion is helping people find the right job, sooner.

Source: Amanda Augustine, TheLadders.com

Developing Your Employee Brand - Exemplar

http://www.theladders.com/askamanda


Write down as many things that you can think of:• Who are you?

Write down your name, job title and primary function.• What are you great at and passionate about?

Think of your values and strengths work and your career goals.• What previous experiences showcase what you are great at and passionate

about?Consider your different projects and assignments and the impact. What key skills or areas of expertise make you good at what you like to do?

• How do your key strengths bring value? What accomplishments are you proud of? Why?What were the impacts or the tangible results?

• What's the one thing you want people to remember you for?


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Developing Your Employee Brand - Exercise


Turn to the person next to you and each take 3 minutes to: • Review the highlights of what you’ve written down with them. • Ask them:

What information sticks out about you? What’s memorable and shows your passion? What was the one impression of you that they came away with**

** This is the beginning of identifying what is your hook – the one nugget you want people to remember you for..


Developing Your Employee Brand – Exercise

Design Flexible And Customizable Career OpportunitiesBeing Your Own Best Career Manager: Pulling It All Together

• Your career development is a partnership between you, your manager, and your organization.

• But, don’t wait for someone to do it for you. • As Dr. Weaver said: Don’t be led, LEAD.• You own your career development. • You are best suited to understand the alignment between what you need

to know, what you want to know, and where you want to go. • The recipe for success:

Take the initiative and proactively talk with your manager about what you are interested in and where you want to go.

Work with your manager to map your goals to the organization’s mission needs.

Commit to development goals and do the work to build your skills.

Design Flexible And Customizable Career OpportunitiesBeing Your Own Best Career Manager: Pulling It All Together

1. Self-assess values, strengths, and interests2. Identify career goals and how they meet organizational mission needs3. Analyze career options (network, review vacancies, talk to people)4. Determine development objectives and needs5. Create personal career development plan6. Define your employee brand7. Communicate brand, goals, and development preferences to your manager8. Work with your manager to map your goals to organizational mission

needs9. Revise development plan and goals as needed with your manager10. Commit to development goals11. Follow through on your development plan12. Seek feedback13. Repeat steps 1-13, as needed


• YOU own your career development.• Setting the foundation is key to your success.• Career development is an iterative process.• Update your personal development plan with every new position, new

experience, and milestone achieved.• When you have a career opportunity decision to make, review your top five

values and strengths. If the opportunity honors the majority of your values and provides you the

opportunity to use and leverage your strengths every day, it is probably a good opportunity for you.

• Understanding and monitoring your career development goals will help you:Recognize a career development opportunity, even if it is not on your list.Make the most of opportunities, even when you cannot choose your next

assignment. It is the basis of “grow where planted.”

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