Career Management in Turbulent Times

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Dame Rennie Fritchie
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Dame Rennie Fritchie

• Commissioner for Public Appointments
• Mainstream Development Consultant
• Vice-Chair Stroud Swindon Building Society
• Pro - chancellor Southampton University
• Hon visiting Professor York University
• Gloucestershire Ambassador
• Charities - Pier Piper, Winstons Wish
• Radio Producer/Presenter

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Session 1

• Share personal journey
• Analyse your interests/intentions
• Tools and techniques
• Biography Questions
• Decision Making Process
• Work Life Balance
• Dealing with Feedback

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Session 2

• Getting Started
• Power Bases
• Influencing Styles
• Assessing your Support
• Creative Thinking
• Partnership working

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My Personal Journey
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Biography Questions

• What kind of human being do you want to be?

2. What do you want to do with your life?
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• 1. Where are you?

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• 2. How did you get there?

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3. Where do you want to go?
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4. How will you get there?
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5. What will you do when you arrive?
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6. Where to next?
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7. How do you begin?
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Decision Making Processadapted from Ben Heirs

• Stage 1
• THE QUESTION
• Formulating (or reformulating) a question and
  gathering information.

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• Stage 2
• THE ALTERNATIVES
• Creating alternative answers to the question.

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• Stage 3
• THE CONSEQUENCES
• Predicting the future consequences of acting on
  each of the alternative answers and creating the
  necessary contingency and hedging plans to
  support each alternative.

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• Stage 4
• THE CRITERIA
• Having considered the implication and consequence
  list in order, the three or four main criteria
  which will guide the decision.

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• Stage 5
• THE DECISION
• Evaluating the alternatives developed in Stage 2
  that survived Stage 3 in order to make a decision
  to act (or not act) by selecting the best
  alternative answer, together with the best
  contingency plans, to the question posed in Stage
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Work Life Balance
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1.As soon as you get a new diary go through it
and put in all your important dates -
Birthdays, Anniversaries, holidays, special
events etc. This will prevent squeezing them
around your working life.
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2. Say NO early if it is something you dont
want or cant do. If you find this particularly
difficult then give an indication of your
direction of travel e.g. I think it is highly
unlikely, but I will come back and confirm or I
dont think it will be possible but Ill let you
know.
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3. Recognise that things always take longer than
you think, so build in buffer time.
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4. In times of stress or pressure, prioritise.
Only do, what only you can do.
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5. Separate out the important from the urgent.
Tackle the urgent in fast time but give slow time
to the important.
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6. Give yourself entry and re-entry time between
work and home. Leave baggage behind.
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7. Perfection is not always a healthy aim.
Remember, not everything worth doing is worth
doing well.
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8. Guilt can be a destructive and time consuming
emotion, let it go.
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9. Use speed-reading to churn through the paper
work. E.g. Articles - First Paragraph. Last
paragraph. First line in intervening paragraphs.
Books - First chapter as above. First and last
paragraphs in intervening chapters.
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10. Practice delegating and mandating. If you
dont have the resources and staff to do this
then negotiate for more or reduce your workload.
Some jobs are just too big. Dont agree to
mission impossible and then blame yourself when
you cant achieve it.
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11. Remember, being part-time doesnt mean your
contribution is limited. You can be
wholeheartedly and wholly present and in this way
add real value. It isnt necessary to expand your
time to almost full-time on part-time salary.
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12. Think about the things you do just for you
and make sure you have them plentifully scattered
throughout your diary.Remember nobody loves a
martyr!
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Feed Back4 questions
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• Is the feedback valid to any degree?

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• Do I rate or respect the person giving the
  feedback?

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• Is it important that I take notice?

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• What action can I take without compromising my
  integrity?

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Session 2Career Managementin Turbulent Times
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• Getting Selected

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• 60 Image
• 30 Exposure
• 10 Ability

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• Power Bases

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• 1. Formal Authority
• 2. Expertise
• 3. Resource Control
• 4. Personal/ Communication Skills

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Influencing Styles

• REWARDS PRESSURES
• Behaviours
• Evaluation. Prescribing goals and expectations.
  Using incentives

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• PARTICIPATION TRUST
• Behaviours
• Personal disclosure. Recognising and involving
  others. Testing and expressing understanding.

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• COMMON VISION
• Behaviours
• Articulating exciting possibilities. Creating
  word pictures and long term visions. Generating a
  shared identity.

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• LOGICAL PERSUASION
• Behaviours
• Proposing. Reasoning for and against. Using
  factual language.

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Assessing Your Support
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Allies
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Bedfellows
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Opponents
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Enemies
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Creative Thinking
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• Plus
• Minus
• Interesting

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Partnership Working

• 1. Consult
• 2. Co-operate
• 3. Collaborate
• 4. Co-create

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TRAVELLERbyANTHONY MACHADO

• Traveller, the only way is your footsteps, there
  is no other.
• Traveller, there is no way, you make the way as
  you go.
• As you go, you make the way,
• and stopping to look behind,
• you see the path that your feet will never travel
  again.
• Traveller. There is no way only foam trails in
  the sea.