Success Factors for Professional Achievement

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Success Factors for Professional Achievement
SLIS Information Specialist of the year
award 23rd October 2007
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Why this career?

• Why information?
• Working with people key to me.

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Where to settle?

• Academia?
• Small corporate?
• Big corporate?

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Success

• Achievement, arrival, attainment, breakthrough,
  celebrity, fame, fortune, happiness, hit,
  prosperity, reward, rise, triumph, victory. (Flip
  Dictionary)

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Success factors

• Job satisfaction/enjoyment.
• Passion.
• Assertive.
• Curious/keen observer of life.
• Intellectual stimulation grow.
• Going the extra mile.
• Enjoy helping people solve problems.
• Excellence no compromise.
• Goals.
• Anglo American great company to work for.
• Inner self knowledge.
• Work/private life balance.

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Factors cont.

• Being in the right place at the right time.
• Management support.
• Get involved.
• Honesty, tenacity and resilience.
• Reputation for delivering consistently.
• Team.
• Under promise and over deliver.
• Expand role.
• Continuous learning.
• Embrace Change it is an opportunity.
• Be true to yourself.

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What is next?

• New challenge.
• Demonstrate that librarians can change careers
  (because of our skills).
• Continue to use the skill set that I have
  acquired as a librarian to promote collaboration
  in Anglo American.

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In conclusion

• I am proud to be a librarian/information
  professional.
• The journey continues

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The end?

• Thank you for your time!
• Norma Roberts
• theSource Collaboration Leader
• Anglo American
• nroberts_at_angloamerican.co.za