Career Development Strategies

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Career Development Strategies

• Joanne Kossuth and Colleen Wheeler
• Women and Technology
• April 30, 2007

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Welcome and goals for today

• Broaden awareness
• Create alignment around who I am and what I
  (can) do
• Map career goals
• Take action (The first thing Ill do is)
• Identify ongoing supports

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Agenda

• Where are you now?
• Understand yourself
• Understand your environment
• Where do you want to go?
• How can you get there?
• Make maps

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Understand yourself

• Reflect regularly
• Schedule time to check in with yourself
• Consider demands of work and life
• Whats going well? What isnt?

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Take inventory regularly

• Measure your strengths, learning styles,
  knowledge
• Keirsey, Myers-Briggs (MBTI), CST, 360, SWOT
• Government Federal Office of Personnel
  Management
• Professional organization websites
• NACUBO knowledge network for IT pros
• Fast Company
• EDUCAUSE
• Consider your support networks

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Understand your environment Now

• How does it manage you?
• How does the work really get done?
• Existing cultures, schedules, budget cycles
• How do you manage it?
• Building your team
• Setting expectations
• Supporting constituency expertise with tech

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Predict your environment Future

• Watch trends in
• Technology (convergence)
• Higher education (increased accountability,
  Spellings Report)
• Socio-economic (a flattening world)
• Other?

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Understand your goals

• Do you have goals for the next year, three years,
  five years? Why or why not?
• Do you revisit your goals regularly?
• Do you have support from
• Mentors or coaches
• Professional networks
• Perhaps the people in this room?

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Develop and share your goals

• Time to develop goals
• Share with partner
• Listen for themes and offer suggestions

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Group exercise

• Considering your future environment, generate a
  list of the most important skills and ways to
  acquire them.
• On your way in from lunch, check the post its and
  add to the list of skills and titles

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CST Survey
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Discussion
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Review of Factors

• Self
• Environment
• Future Trends
• Goals

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Getting there Make a map

• Make it practical and plan for change
• Define your timeframe
• Include
• Start and end points
• How boxes in-between
• Feedback loops and linkages

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Share and discuss maps
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Next steps

• A journey of a thousand miles
• begins with a single step.
• Confucius
• Please complete and pass in
• your form in a SASE.

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Thank you!

• Resources
• Bibliography
• Evaluation form
• Our contact information
• Joanne
• joanne.kossuth_at_olin.edu
• Colleen
• cwheeler_at_wheatonma.edu